Rafael Santiago (1980, NY) lives and works in New York City. Santiago's work encompasses various mediums including assemblage, collage, film and photography. Themes such as gender identity, sexuality and auto-biography are explored.
Exhibitions include:
Solo Exhibitions:
‘Like Paradise’; Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY (2018)
Group Exhibitions:
A Familiar Type of Magic; Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook, NY (2025)
A Homosexual Renaissance; ArtsUnited Gallery, Wilton Manors, FL (2025)
Futurephilia: Sex and Science Fiction in Contemporary Art; Main Street Gallery, Nashville, TN (2021)
Nudes & Blooms; WB gallery, (2021)
The Many Faces of Bill Arning; Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (2020)
‘What if Utopia?: Queer Biennial 3’; Navel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2018)
Press:
‘HE: Questioning & Queering Masculinity’; Last Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017)
Press:
‘Lost & Found: Queer Biennial Two’; Industry Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2016)
‘TOFF Arts & Culture Fair’; Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (2015)
‘A Collage Show’; (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI (2014)
‘BEAUTY & HELL’; Envoy Enterprises, NewYork, NY (2012)
‘In Like a Lion’; 443 Pas, New York, NY (2011)