Carlos Castro
Bio
MFA San Francisco Art Institute USA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture USA
BFA Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Bogota Colombia
UGP San Diego State University USA
Distinctions
Cisneros Foundation Grants and Commissions
Artist nominated to the Luis Caballero Prize. Bogota Colombia
Art Omi Residence
Skowhegan Residence
Winner National Juried Exhibition. Juror Robert Storr, Phoenix Gallery NY
Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Art commission
Fulbright scholarship
Selected Artist, New Horizons, French Alliance, Colombia
Multiplication Project Prize, Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo
Prize, Freedom Guiding People contest, French Alliance, Bogotá
Honors at Salón Regional de Artistas, Bogotá, Colombia
Winner for an individual exhibition at Santa Fé Gallery, Bogotá
Statement
In his work Carlos Castro explores elements that are part of the collective and individual identity, and the notion of the body as a social and personal entity. Through the formal and symbolic re- contextualization of objects and images, Castro points out narratives and perspectives ignored in history. Castro lives and works in Tijuana, San Diego and Bogota
