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First Name	Diogo
Last Name	Montes
Username	diogo-montes
Bio	Diogo Montes is a Brazilian multidisciplinary visual artist and creative director based in Brooklyn, NY. By harmonizing order and chaos, his work explores the transformational effect of cultural change, and exchange. The complexities of one’s identity, through the lenses of cultural perceptions, are expressed both as a theme and as a practice, by using diverse mediums like collage, painting, coffee art, photography, and on-site installation. As art director and designer, Diogo worked for communications companies and cultural institutions. His work was exhibited in Brazil, Mexico and China, and was recognized by various industry awards and publications.
Website	diogomontes.com
Country of residence	United States (US)

Statement

As an artist, I am interested in the complexities of people’s personalities, in what constitutes their identities, mostly from a cultural standpoint.

I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1979, and I moved to New York in 2010.

In my multidisciplinary practice, I investigate the transformational effect that cultural dislocations can cause in individual identities. This exploration is profoundly influenced by my personal experience as an immigrant.

Elements like repetition, cadence, and control, are obsessively recurrent in my art. Order and chaos, opposites at first, beautifully coexist under a tense harmony, almost unanimously, in my body of work.

Interests	Collage, Illustration, Mixed media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking
Painting medias	Acrylic, Watercolor
Printmaking medias	Computer printing, Linocut
Collage medias	Photomontage
Photography	Digital image

Diogo Montes