Marikit Santiago (born 1985) is a Filipina-Australian artist and winner of the 2020 Sir John Sulman Prize.
She studied at the University of New South Wales, initially graduating with a Bachelor of Medical Science.
[1] Santiago's work has been said to "collapse the categories of the personal and the political, exploring how experiences of motherhood and marriage sit within broader historical constructs, including colonialism and organised faith"[2] and "investigates a personal conflict of cultural plurality at the conjunction of Filipino ethnicity and Australian nationality.
"[1] Santiago was a 2016 Archibald Prize finalist for her work Blacklustre, a portrait of fellow artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran.
[3] Filipiniana (self-portrait in collaboration with Maella Santiago Pearl) was one of the 2021 Archibald Prize finalists.