Marco Montiel-Soto, as traveller and immigrant, constantly finds himself moving forward. During these expeditions, the route becomes imaginary and travel time elastic. His work and installations are a creolization of architectural structures, found objects, sounds compositions, videos, photographs, drawings, collages, texts and maps. His work explores the intersections between political and poetic territories, homeland, traditions, economy, archaeology, religion, myths, death, cosmos and chaos.
In 2013 Montiel-Soto participated in the Taller Bloc residency program in Santiago de Chile, and in 2015 participated in Lamosa Permanencias residency program in Cuenca, Ecuador. His work is part of public and private collections, including: Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Maczul (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia), Maracaibo; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas; Instituto Italo Latino Americano, Rome and Yarat, Baku.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Mal de mar hacia un triste trópico: Notas sobre la otra isla, CAAM, Centro Atlántico de arte moderno. Gran Canaria (2019); Arrivederci Maracaibo, Davide Gallo, Milan (2016); and Tod in die Tropische Erde, Maczul, Maracaibo (2015). Recent group exhibitions include: 1st Riga Bienal, Everything it was forever until it was no more. Riga (2018); 11ª Bienal de Mercosul, O triangulo Atlántico. Porto Alegre (2018); Documenta 14, Athens / Kassel (2017); Jeju Biennale, Jeju Museum of Art (2017)