Carolyn is the recipient of the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in Painting and Drawing, the 2011 California Community Foundation Getty Fellow Mid-Career Grant, and the 2011 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles.
Recent Solo Exhibitions: Cumanday: Beautiful Mountain, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; Cali es Cali, OCMA Expand, Orange County Museum of Art; Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography 2001-2017, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University.
Carolyn has aslo had multiple solo exhibitions with Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles; Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles; Oolong Gallery, Solana Beach; and Lombard-Freid Gallery, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions: Cumbi, Tucson Art Museum; We Must Risk Delight—Twenty Artists from Los Angeles, Magazzino Di Sale, 56th Venice Biennial collateral exhibition; Phantom Sightings, LACMA; and International Paper, Hammer Museum.
Carolyn is a Professor of Drawing & Painting at Long Beach City College. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA's School of Art & Architecture in 2001.