Santiago Mostyn

Overview

Santiago Mortyn, Language Against Identity (Prologue), 2024. Color and sound, 11'33"

Santiago Mostyn makes films, installations and performances that test the divide between disparate cultural and political spheres, employing an intuitive process to engage with a knowledge and history grounded equally in the body and the rational mind. Through layering and collage, whether in video or installation, he works fluidly with imagery ranging from the artist’s own personal archive to footage of historical events, political and cultural figures, and racial injustice. His work may be viewed as an ongoing visual research framework which reconsider how broad histories and personal memory might intersect.

Santiago Mostyn (b. 1981, San Francisco, USA) is based in Sweden but maintains strong ties to Zimbabwe and Trinidad & Tobago, the countries of his upbringing. He received his BA in from Yale University and after attending Städelschule from 2006-2007, he received an MA in 2013 from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Mostyn was a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2022, and is a 2024-2025 fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Recent exhibitions include The Threshold is a Prism at Kulturhuset, Stockholm (2023), Mare Amoris / Sea of Love at Queensland Art Museum, Meanjin / Brisbane (2023), Dream One at Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje (2022), The Show is Over at South London Gallery, London (2022), 08-18 (Past Perfect) at Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Reykjavik (2022); The Real Show at CAC Brétigny (2022); Swimming Pool-Troubled Waters at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2021); Deep Listening for Longing at the 2021 Borås Art Biennial, Sweden (2021), With New Eyes at Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg (2021), and Grass Widows at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2020).

View artist's cv

View artist's portfolio

Exhibitions