Jehisson Santacruz

I am a transdisciplinary artist whose work connects art, science, and community through radical participation. As a painter, musician, researcher, and performer, I build bridges between ancestry and contemporary inquiry. My practice spans from contributing to Marina Abramović’s Retrospective at Kunsthaus Zürich to releasing tropical electronic music with Papaya Tropical Music, supported by international labels and heard by more than 550,000 listeners worldwide.

With The Library for a Happy Future in Switzerland, I developed participatory research methodologies and created collective spaces for action and imagination in cities including Zurich, Vals, Neuchâtel, and Basel.

I have exhibited globally and performed across Europe and Latin America. Also published two books on community empowerment (2018) and the power of art as a resilience and community process (2023) and two articles about arts and sciences methodologies (2024-2025) My books explore singing and dancing as tools for collective healing; his research articles examine arts-science methodologies in participatory action research. Honored by the United Nations and Colombian Embassy, University of Geneva (2023).

My engagement with biodiversity informs an artistic practice that approaches diversity as a creative imperative, generating new artistic languages where distinct traditions coexist, interact, and mutually enrich one another.