deborah castillo 

CDMX

 www.deborahcastillo.com 

www.vimeo.com/deborahcastillo

profoundation.art

 

EDUCATION

2000-2003 – Experimental Photography I & II, Nelson Garrido Organization, Caracas, Venezuela

1997-2003 – MFA/BFA – Armando Reverón Higher Education School of Fine Arts

 

 

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITION

2023 – Demofagia, Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mx

2022 – Espectros del Discurso, Galeria Carmen Araujo, Caracas, VZLA 

2022 – Desafiando al 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

2023 – Salome, Franklyn Furnace Fund  commission piece, Washington Sq Park, NYC, USA 

2023 – Presentación performática del libro: Cuerpo de obra.Ex-Convento del Carmen y Museo del Chopo, Mx 

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 – 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

2022  – Gatopardo Magazine #223, Invierno 2022, Pages 9-10-11, Mexico 

2022  – Contemporary Art of Venezuela, VOL 2.Villanueva Editores, Pages 64-67.Madrid, Es 

2022  – Time Out Mexico,

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

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