Dr. Santamarina, is a designer and food art historian. Her work represented by Rossana Orlandi gallery in Milan and Mint gallery in London explores the limits of drawing into different formats rescuing craft mediterranean traditions. She is a Ph.D. Doctor of Audiovisual Communication and her thesis reflects on how the visual arts influence contemporary cuisine. She is the head of the food cultural lab a IE University, a product design professor of Complutense University of Madrid and has presented papers and communications in different universities and centers such as Royal College of Arts (London), Basque Culinary Center (San Sebastián), UNAM (México), NYU or Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Rome). She has previously worked for the Design Department of FABRICA, The Benetton Communication Research Center (Italy), for Empty in Madrid coordinating the design of large-scale installations and the interior design for museums and exhibitions or for Radio Television Hong Kong in a series of documentaries. She presented her first solo exhibition at La Llotgeta exhibition space sponsored by La CAM in Valencia (Spain,2007). Since then she has been exhibited in Milan (Italy), Brisbane (Australia),Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), London(Uk), Barcelona, San Sebastian, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao or Madrid, in centers like The GeorgePompidou Center, BilbaoArte Foundation, MATADERO (Design Center) or Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum.