Giancarlo Montes Santangelo ’18

Giancarlo Montes Santangelo is an artist and photographer from the Washington, DC, metropolitan area whose practice combines photographs and writing to examine embodiment, place, and ways of seeing. His photographs were included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial alongside Paul Mpagi Sepuya. In 2020, Monolith Editions published his first monograph, Improvising Sight Lines, now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. He has received support from the Aperture x Google Creator Labs Photo Fund and completed residencies with Tangent Projects and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image.

Awards / Residencies

Nikon / Gordon Parks Photography Scholarship, 2016 and 2017
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Fire Island Artist Residency
TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image

Exhibitions / Performances

2019 Whitney Biennial, photographs exhibited alongside Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Publications

Improvising Sight Lines (Monolith Editions, 2020).