Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980. His artwork, mostly mixed media and installation works, have been exhibited internationally, most recently in the exhibition Holy Jolina, at Tropico de Nopal Gallery and Art-Space in Los Angeles, California. Romo-Santillano’s subject matter is diverse and eccentric, being influenced by conspiracy theory and alchemical texts, junkyards, sprawl architecture, terrorism and entheogenics. An overarching theme in his work is fluency and its folly; he sees his artwork as a companion multiplier to an already baffling, origamaic world. He also is a product of the natural/industrial duality of city of Los Angeles, and much of his work, from murals to trinkets, reflects this aesthetic. Not restricted to working in galleries and museums, Romo-Santillano has staged works on the streets with performances and street posters. Romo-Santillano's most recent exhibition, Holy Jolina, expanded on his work by further exploring the diluvial architecture of the urban mindscape through the form of the exploded codex. Romo-Santillano attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, from where he received his Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. He continues his studies on the streets of East Los Angeles, which feed into an ongoing series of fake radio shows called The Recent Rupture Radio Hour, created with writer Sesshu Foster.