Larry Santana

Larry Santana, born in Ramu Valley, Papua New Guinea, in 1962, is a Papua New Guinean painter. [ [http://www.niuginiarts.com/artists/ Niugini Arts] ]

Santana's paintings often depicts topics related to modernity, tradition and social alienation. His 1988 self-portrait was entitled "Struggle and Pain at the Six Mile Dump". [ [http://www.pmc.edu/news/1997_2000/png.html "Nation-Making and Cultural Tensions: Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea"] , Hess Gallery Exhibit, Pine Major College, 1998]

Among his other works, Santana was commissioned to embelish Port Moresby Airport. In 1996, he painted the murals of the ANZAC Memorial in Port Moresby, where he currently lives. [ [http://www.pmc.edu/news/1997_2000/png.html "Nation-Making and Cultural Tensions: Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea"] , Hess Gallery Exhibit, Pine Major College, 1998] His work has been displayed in international exhibitions in Belgium and the United States. [ [http://www.niuginiarts.com/artists/ Niugini Arts] ]

Santana's art was featured on the cover of the eighteenth edition of "The Contemporary Pacific", in autumn 2006.

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