Monte Marin (they/he) is a genderless, genreless vocalist, composer, multi-media performance artist and cultural worker born and raised in Queens, NY to Colombian immigrants.
Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical minimalism with queer maximalist aesthetics, Monte builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits, the displaced, and future generations of radical artists of the diaspora.
Their artistic practice explores concepts of home, identity, gender, borders, erased ancestry and trans & queer futures through music, theater, performance, poetry, installation, and video.
Monte has shared his work, spirit and song with Lincoln Center, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, The Kitchen, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, Nublu, BAAD!, NUEVOFest, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Tulsa Artist Residency, Cine Las Americas, The Vienna Festival, Body Hack, Fierce Futures and more.
They studied euro-centric classical voice at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and concentrated in acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. They were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2019), Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow (2019-2020), Artist In Residence at The Kitchen (2021) and Visiting Artist at Beloit College (2024).
Their experimental ritual performance film, Born With An Extra Rib, won the Queer|Art Prize for Recent Work (2022), Jury Award for Best TransGenre Short/Mid Length, TRANSlations Seattle Film Festival (2023), and QueerCine International Film Festival Best Experimental Film, 2025. Their debut EP Sepalina was released on Figure & Ground Records in 2018. Their multi-media album Born With An Extra Rib was digitally released in 2024 with a limited vinyl release in partnership with Trans Music Archive in 2025.
He is a co-organizer of the trans music and art festival, TRANSMISSION held yearly at the historic Marsha P. Johnson State Park and founded by the late artist and activist Cecilia Gentili.
They are a current MFA Art Practice candidate at Stanford University.
