Giancarlo Montes Santangelo, native to the DC Metropolitan area, photographs and collages in an effort to map out where he comes from and where he wants to go. His images bring together his own body and staged scenes against images pulled from public and private archives made in Argentina and Puerto Rico. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2019, Giancarlo exhibited 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.
Giancarlo has been awarded the Aperture x Google Creator Labs Photo Fund and completed residencies with Tangent Projects and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image. Recently he was an Image Equity Fellow with Google and an Artist Organizer with WPA. In 2023, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is currently the School and Public Programs Education Fellow at the Brooklyn Museum.