EDUCATION
2000-2003 – Experimental Photography I & II, Nelson Garrido Organization, Caracas, Venezuela
1997-2003 – MFA/BFA – Armando Reverón Higher Education School of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 – Desafiando el coloso: tres actos, Museo del Chopo,, CDMX, MX
2022 – Bordes Profundos, VOL V, feria MACO y MATERIAL, CDMX, Mx
2020 – Gendering Protest, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, Rutgers University, NJ
2019-- Marx Palimpsest, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU, NY, USA
2018 – Parricidios, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 – Slapping Power, +/- Project Space, Soho20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 – Political Iconoclasm and other forms of civil disobedience, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 2016 –
--Marx Palimpsest, Carmen Araujo Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2015 – RAW, Mandragoras Art Space, New York City, USA
2013 – Action and Cult, Bolivian Biennial SIART 2013, Fine Arts Academy, La Paz, Bolivia
2013 – Action and Cult, Chacao Cultural Center, La Caja, Caracas, Venezuela
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2019 – Estrategias Sublevantes, Espacio Arte Actual FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador.
2019 – Moving Statues, Museo Nacional de Escultura , Valladolid, España
2019 – El beso Fraternal, Encuentro Hemispheric Institute, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, CDMX,Mx 2019 – Lamezuela/Lamebrasil , MITsp, 6a Muestra internacional de teatro de Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018 - Marx Palimpsest, Hemispheric Institute and Politics, NYU, New York
2018 – The Broad “New Latinx Feminist Performance Series”, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
2018 – Video SUR, Latin American video selection, Palais de Tokio, Paris, France
2018 – Callar la Protesta/Borramientos del poder, La Fortaleza, Mexico City, MX
2017 – Desplazamientos, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centro Historico, Mexico City, MX 2016 – Fall Benefit, SOHO20 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 – A Round About, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 – BLACKBURN 20|20 Gallery & El Museo den Barrio, Manhattan, New York City, USA 2015 – Feminist Arte III”, Centro Cibeles, Madrid, Spain and La Paz, Bolivia
2014 – New Territories, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York City , USA
2013 – XII Eugenio Mendoza Award, Sala Mendoza, Special Guest, Caracas, Venezuela
2009 – Re-creating/reinventing stories,Museum Rufino Tamayo, México, DF & New Museum, NYC,USA
2007 –London in Six Easy Steps, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Project by Pablo Leon de La Barra, London 2003 – XI Eugenio Mendoza Award, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
RESIDENCIES
2015 – The Banff Center. Artist in Residence Program in Visual Arts, Alberta, Canada 2014 – Atlantic Center for the Arts #151, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
2007 – London Print Studio, London, UK
AWARDS
2019-2020 – Franklyn Furnace Fund : Past, Present, and Future V award, NYC.
2015 – NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, NYC.
2013 – Armando Reverón Award: Venezuelan Association of Fine Artists (AVAP): “Young artist”, Caracas,Venezuela 2003 – XI Eugenio Mendoza Award. Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
2003 – Second Award. VI Salón CANTV jóvenes con FIA, Ateneo, Caracas, Venezuela
SELECTED PRESS
2014 – New Territories, Lab for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America, Pages 122-123 MAD Museum, NYC, USA
2014 – Panoramica Arte Emergente en Venezuela 2000-2012 by Félix Suazo, Fundación Telefonica, Venezuela
2013 – Deborah Castillo, by Susana Benko, Artnexus. Pages 105-106, N° 90, volume 12, Venezuela
2013 –Deborah Castillo, Interview, by Ana Maria Khan, Complot magazine, N° 123, pages 48-51, Venezuela
2013 – Déborah Castillo – Action and Cult” OJO magazine, N° 19, pages 32,33, 34, 35, Venezuela
2011 – Deborah Castillo untitled” by Ana Khan, Complot Magazine, September issue, Venezuela 2009 – Fashion kills, by Luis Cobelo, Platano Verde Magazine, N° 15, Venezuela
2006 – Pulgar Magazine by Gabriela Salgado, N° 21, Venezuela
2005 – Deborah Castillo” by Jaime Gili, Lapiz International Art Magazine, N° 216, page 84, Venezuela
SELECTED DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
2021 - Crafting Nationness: DIY Venezuela in Deborah Castillo’s RAW and Violette Bule’s REQUIEM200, Latin American Research Review, Cambridge University Press
2019 – Deborah Castillo: Radical Desobidence, edited by HemiPress
2013 - Lucidity is a Torment: A Conversation With Deborah Castillo, Backroom Caracas
SELECTED LECTURES
2016 – Artist’s Talk at Cornell University, 105 Stimson Hall, Ithaca, NYC, USA
2013 – A conversation with the curator Carmen Hernández ,ONG, Caracas, Venezuela
2012 – Conversations: “Three bodies, three registries” Oficina #1, Caracas, Venezuela
2008 – Lecture about Art Work 2003-08, Centro Cultural Seville. Spain
2006 – Tutorial and Art work talk at Wimbledon College of Art, London UK.
2005 – Art and artists in current society, Déborah Castillo & Antonieta Sosa. Centro de Estudios
Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos (CELARG), Caracas, Venezuela