Giancarlo Montes Santangelo
Giancarlo Montes Santangelo was born and raised in Maryland. He photographs and collages in an effort to map histories of colonialism, violence, queerness and fabulation. Collaged photographs bring together the artist’s own body and staged scenes against archival images. In 2019, Giancarlo was invited to exhibit his photographs alongside Paul Mpagi Sepuya and other collaborators as part of the Whitney Biennial. In 2020 he published his first monograph “Improvising Sight Lines” with Monolith Editions. This book includes images, collages and writing and is held in the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Recently, he was awarded the Aperture x Google Creator Labs Photo Fund and completed a residency with Tangent Projects.
