Senayt Santoro is an American photographer born in Asmara, Eritrea raised in Ethiopia and America. She studied Art History and Fine Arts at Paier College of Art and Southern Connecticut State University. She has earned her MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster, in London.
She began her photography career as an intern photojournalist at the New Have Register in Connecticut. While in the United States, she worked in Connecticut and New York for clients such as The Source Magazine, Savoy Magazine, AmeriCares and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Prior to relocating to Geneva, Switzerland, Senayt Santoro lived in London, UK and worked as a freelance photographer and picture archivist at Autograph ABP. She has undertaken a number of photographic projects and exhibited widely, including in venues such as Tate Britain and Hayward Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
2024
The Power of Water | Espace_L- Art Contemporain | Geneva, Switzerland
2019
2014
2004
1999
Rooted & Uprooted | Fenêtre sur Cadre, Carouge, Switzerland
Nature | Heritage Gallery | Geneva, Switzerland
Between Worlds | Terry Duffy Gallery | London, UK
Faces and Places | Yale Afro American Center | New Haven, CT
Group exhibitions
2024
2016
2011 - 2013
Silent Motion | Ecolint Art Center | Geneva, Switzerland
Fall for Art | La Gallery | Geneva, Switzerland
Reflection on the self, Hayward Touring exhibition | Southbank Centre, UK
2010
2008
2005
2004
Between Worlds | Addis Foto Festival | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rooted, Imagine Art After | Tate Britain London, UK
Oh! | Art Center, Outskirts, Spit-Lit Festival | London, UK
Embedded, MA Final Exhibition | Studio 95, Truman Gallery | London, UK
Id | Sino-foreign Photographic Communication Fair | Nanjing, China
Id | University of Westminster | London Gallery West | Harrow, UK
2003
2001
2000
So Far | Century Gallery | London, UK
Faces and Places | Open Studios, Untitled Space | New Haven, CT
Images 2000 | Guilford, CT
Open Studios | Lo Rico Tower | New Haven, CT
