Santiago Tamayo Soler
Santiago Tamayo Soler’s practice is grounded in world-building, imagining speculative futures for Latin America - with a particular focus on Colombia - through diasporic and queer perspectives. Using digital tools, he constructs environments from archival materials, video, photography, and found imagery, weaving together personal and collective memory. These virtual spaces explore national identity through layered visual languages drawn from popular media, digital culture, cinematic forms, and vernacular image traditions, including but not limited to video games, telenovelas, and cartographic aesthetics. Collaboration is central to his process, as other Latinx artists and performers help shape these speculative worlds into spaces for emotional inquiry, survival, and new mythology.
Biography
Santiago Tamayo Soler (he) is a Colombian-Canadian with a background in performance art and film. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from Concordia University. His work has been exhibited and screened across Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe. He is a recipient of the 2023 EDAA Emerging Digital Artists Award, presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video, and a laureate of the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award 2025. He has participated in residencies in Virreina, Colombia; at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts; at Dazibao; and at the PHI Foundation, both in Montreal.
Recent exhibitions
| 2026 | Algo tan irreal que se siente real, group exhibition, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, CO Designing the Infinite, group exhibition, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, US |
| 2025 | Veneno en la Sangre, solo exhibition, Centre Clark, Montréal, CA 6th edition MNBAQ Contemporary Award Exhibition, group exhibition, MNBAQ, CA Seeds of R/Evolution, group exhibition, Sonolux, Montréal, CA L'être en résistance, group exhibition, Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montréal, CA |
| 2023 | EQ Bank's EDAA: Emerging Digital Artists Award Exhibition, group exhibition, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, CA Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance?, group exhibition, ISEA x Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, FR Performing Time: In Vivo/Ex Situ/In Situ, 4th-WALL Video Art Network, group exhibition, Null Video Art Space, Lisbon, PT Sunrise, Sunset, group exhibition, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, CA |