Santiago Mostyn

Santiago Mostyn is an artist whose practice foregrounds narrative entanglements in pursuit of new understandings of place, both in a cultural and psychic sense. Mostyn has long been interested in the interplay of music, narrative, and the embodied self, with works manifesting as films, exhibitions, and curatorial projects.

At Radcliffe, Mostyn is developing an expanded film script that reimagines the events of the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983) from the perspective of three revolutionary educators, building a narrative from this historical moment of Black radicalism that presages contemporary struggles for political self-determination.

Mostyn received a BA from Yale University and an MA from the Royal Institute of Art, in Stockholm. His recent exhibitions include After the Sun—Forecasts from the North at Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2024); The Threshold Is a Prism (2023) at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, in Stockholm; Mare Amoris | Sea of Love (2023) at UQ Art Museum, in Meanjin/Brisbane; Dream One (2022) at Södertälje Konsthall, in Sweden; The Show Is Over (2022) at the South London Gallery; 08-18 (Past Perfect) (2022) at Gerðarsafn Art Museum, in Kópavogur, Iceland; and The Real Show (2022) at CAC Brétigny, in France. Mostyn cocurated The Moderna Exhibition 2018: With the Future Behind Us, a survey of contemporary Swedish art, and was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2021) and a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2022, 2024).