About



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)

Installation views     

Press Release

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:

Advocate Mag  |  LAWeekly

‘HE: Questioning & Queering Masculinity’; Last Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017)

Press:

KALTBLUT MAGAZINE

‘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)