Offshoot Arts
London
United Kingdom
Mobile Ph: +44(0)7515 123453
Email : info@offshootarts.com
URL : www.offshootarts.com
Melissa Digby-Bell (Founder & Director)
About
Our commitment to discovering and nurturing artistic talent is shared via curatorial projects, pop-up exhibitions, collaborations, curated online presentations and private consultancy. We champion artists, connect with audiences and create engaging and accessible creative experiences that challenge and inspire.
Melissa Digby-Bell founded and launched Offshoot Arts in 2020. She has worked in the upper echelons of the contemporary art sector since 2002, following a degree in History of Art at the University of Bristol. Her career began at White Cube, going on to manage the studios of high-profile artists Marc Quinn and Anish Kapoor.
About the Artist
Born in 1974 in Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago Montoya now lives and works in Miami, USA.
Montoya’s practice has been dedicated to the exploration of notions of value, nationalism, commodities and the universal consequences and nuances of the production and distribution of wealth. Initially a painter, an inspired digression was to incorporate the actual raw materials in his work – global currencies, gold, silver, copper and other precious materials – exposing the gulf between official state ideologies and reality itself. Montoya captures the collective consciousness, questioning the systems of power and shining a light on the disparities, injustices, and the absurd. Montoya’s works combine a wry humour and acute insight on a global subject that affects us all, and the inherent systems and structures that we live by.
Recent exhibitions include 'Bitter Sweet' at the Somerville Museum in Massachusetts, USA; Solo presentations at Context 2021 & 2022 with Offshoot Arts, London, UK; ‘Elsewhere(s)’ at Untitled Art Fair, curated by José Luis Falconi and Estrellita Brodsky, Miami; ‘Seeds of Resistance’ at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, USA and Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. Montoya has an upcoming solo exhibition
'Against The Clock, at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington D.C, USA and Espacio El Dorado, Bogota, Colombia in 2024.
Montoya’s work is highly collected in both public and private collections, including MFA Boston, AMA Washington D.C, Dell Children's Medical Centre, Austin TX; Jill & Peter Kraus, and Estrellita & Daniel Brodsky, amongst others.
Born in 1974 in Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago Montoya now lives and works in Miami, USA.
Montoya’s practice has been dedicated to the exploration of notions of value, nationalism, commodities and the universal consequences and nuances of the production and distribution of wealth. Initially a painter, an inspired digression was to incorporate the actual raw materials in his work – global currencies, gold, silver, copper and other precious materials – exposing the gulf between official state ideologies and reality itself. Montoya captures the collective consciousness, questioning the systems of power and shining a light on the disparities, injustices, and the absurd. Montoya’s works combine a wry humour and acute insight on a global subject that affects us all, and the inherent systems and structures that we live by.
Recent exhibitions include 'Bitter Sweet' at the Somerville Museum in Massachusetts, USA; Solo presentations at Context 2021 & 2022 with Offshoot Arts, London, UK; ‘Elsewhere(s)’ at Untitled Art Fair, curated by José Luis Falconi and Estrellita Brodsky, Miami; ‘Seeds of Resistance’ at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, USA and Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. Montoya has an upcoming solo exhibition
'Against The Clock, at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington D.C, USA and Espacio El Dorado, Bogota, Colombia in 2024.
Montoya’s work is highly collected in both public and private collections, including MFA Boston, AMA Washington D.C, Dell Children's Medical Centre, Austin TX; Jill & Peter Kraus, and Estrellita & Daniel Brodsky, amongst others.
Exhibiting Artists