Curtis Talwst Santiago

Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta) studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Santiago has exhibited internationally at venues such as National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; The Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; The New Museum, New York, NY; The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; among others. The artist was included in the inaugural 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art in Toronto, Canada, the SITE Santa Fe SITELines.2018 Biennial, Casa Tomada, in Santa Fe, NM, and was featured in the 2018 and 2022 Biennale de Dakar in Dakar, Senegal. Santiago has had recent solo exhibitions at Martina Simeti Gallery, Milan, IT; Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada in 2022 and Can't I Alter in 2020 at The Drawing Center, New York, NY. His work is in the permanent collections of Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Lebenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. Santiago considers himself decentralized and lives and works between Munich, Germany, New York, NY, Lisbon, Portugal, and Toronto, CA.