Jake Santos is a Toronto-based artist, working primarily in Airbrush painting. He studies currently at OCAD University, in the DRPT program. He has shown locally in Toronto at galleries such as Blouin Division and Abbozzo Gallery, and participated in Artist Project Untapped 2025. Through image based references, Jake creates distance between the artist and the subject, providing an illusion by cropping and blurring the image. Through this process, Jake's work aims to look at parts of contemporary life which allure; abstracting the notion of intimacy, questioning what it means to be close.