Giancarlo Montes Santangelo

Giancarlo Montes Santangelo (b.1996) makes photographs and collages that map structures of mythology, coloniality, and belonging to describe a world of becoming between the concrete and the speculative. His work is informed by his experience with catholic school and theology, decolonial and queer studies, and archival practices.

In 2019, Giancarlo was invited to exhibit his photographs alongside Paul Mpagi Sepuya as part of the Whitney Biennial. In 2020, he published his first monograph, "Improvising Sight Lines" with Monolith Editions – a book that weaves together images and writing and is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA. In 2023, He published "each one with their own drawing of the past" with New Poetics Publishing, an independent publishing house based between Bogotá and New York. 

Giancarlo has completed programs with Tangent Projects, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, Google, Washington Project for the Arts, the Fire Island Artist Residency, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Brooklyn Museum.