Santiago Galeas

Santiago Galeas, an artist born in Silver Spring, Maryland, weaves the realms of gender, sexuality, and nature in his paintings. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a Masters in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art, Galeas portrays queer Latinx Americans against the simultaneous backdrops of North American landscapes and a vibrant fantasy of Latin America. His work explores themes of gender, ecology, sexuality, immigration, and diaspora, celebrating the power of queer and trans individuals in portraiture.