Mario Santamaría was born in Burgos, Spain, in 1985

He works across a wide range of media, using photography, video, performance, websites, and online interventions.

He is part of the Trama34 space in Hospitalet de Llobregat, regularly collaborates in the festival The Influencers of the CCCB in Barcelona and is also the curator of the Yami-Ichi Internet in Matadero Madrid.

His work has been published in national and international media such as Der Spiegel, Liberation, Zum, Telegraph, El País, Quartz, The Washington Post or Art in America.

He has been a finalist for the Post-Photography Prototyping Prize at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and included in Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography from the Hasselblad Foundation. His work has been exhibited at CaixaForum (Barcelona), MACBA (Barcelona), ZKM (Karlsruhe), WKV (Stuttgart), Edith-Russ-Haus (Oldenburg), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), CENART (Mexico), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Arebyte (London), Stadtmuseum (Munich), Or Gallery (Berlin) and in the Biennials of Lyon, Thessaloniki and Havana, among others