santino dela ©️

"human experience, disguised as abstraction."

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”

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I make paintings, collages, and works on paper that explore memory, attention, and what it is to be human in our age.

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My work is not about abstraction for its own sake but human experience in an age of radical dissolution.

Layer by layer, I build surfaces that contain and subdue memory, absence, and the traces that we leave behind.

I hope my works—these paintings and writings—remain open enough for you to meet them in your own way.

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santino dela is a Canadian artist and writer whose work seeks to explore time, memory, fragility, impermanence, presence, absence and the sacred inside the ordinary.

Working across painting, collage, and mixed media, he creates layered surfaces that balance concealment and revelation, allowing images, gestures, and fragments of meaning to emerge. His practice is rooted in attention and devotion—to the quiet transformations that shape a life.

Born in Vancouver, BC (b. 1990) he now lives and works on a farm in the Fraser Valley with his wife and daughter.