Vanessa Gully Santiago

Vanessa Gully Santiago is an artist living and working in Queens, NY who has been teaching for eight years at various universities and colleges in the New York metro area. In her paintings and drawings she explores topics related to alienation, technology, sexuality, gender and power. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Allen and Eldridge, James Fuentes Online, Thierry Goldberg and American Medium. She has also participated in a number of group and two-person exhibitions at Europa, Microscope, Rachel Uffner, Mrs, JTT, Helena Anrather, Jack Barrett, Marinaro (all in New York), in lieu (CA), Embajada (PR) and Collaborations (DK), among other venues.

She earned her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art. Recipient of the Marlene and David Tepper Scholarship in 2013, she was also awarded the Paul Robeson Emerging Young Artist Award (2013) and the Michael S. Vivo Award for Excellence in Drawing (2006). Her work has been written about in Artforum and Forbes, and she has been a resident artist at Hudson House (2023), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (2014) and the Vermont Studio Center (2011).