Carolyn Castaño
Born Los Angeles, California, 1971
Website: www.carolyncastano.com
Video Portfolio: https://vimeo.com/user2091869
Education
2001 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
1996 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Current Position
Professor of Painting and Drawing, Visual Media Arts
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California
Awards and Fellowships
2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
2024 CCI Grant
2013 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters & Sculptors
2011 California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow, Mid-Career Grant
2011 C.O.L.A Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Otros Seres, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Cumanday: Beautiful Mountain, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Future Ruana, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Carolyn Castaño, Boone Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2020
Cali es Cali: Dad Archive, OCMA Expand, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
2019
Valley of the Sun/After América, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Delineando un Paisaje Femenino (Outlining a Female Landscape), College of the Canyons Art Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA
2017
A Female Topography 2001-2017, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Karen Rapp)
2015
Mujeres Que Crean/Women Who Create, New Americans Museum, San Diego, CA
2012
El Jardin Femenil, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
It's Complicated, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Solo Exhibition, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Beastly, Lombard-Freid Fine Art, New York, NY
Bombs & Restless Lovers, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Dead Hotel (with Tom Ellis), Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Bay Area Then, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Flirting with the Air, El Canto Gallery, Venice, CA
Life-A Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY
Smiling in Chaos, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Practice & Pedagogy II, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Manifest Destiny, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA (curated by Clarion Alley Mural Project)
2023
Manifest Destiny, ATA-Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Cumbi: Textiles, Society, and Memory in Andean South America, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Cali Es Cali-Home Here and There, ATA, San Francisco, CA
Pump Up the Volume, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
African American Composer Series, William Still Grant Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Future Patchwork, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Annie Seaton)
2021
We Are-Portraits of Metro Riders, Metro Art Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
Artists of the Americas: Art, Identity, Influence, Vilcek Foundation (online)
Garden, Ladies' Room, Los Angeles, CA
Persistence & Endurance, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Visual Imaginaries: Grappling with the Boundaries of Identity & Self, CGU School of Business and Management of Art (online)
AfroLAtinidad-Mi Casa, My City, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA
Collective Constellation, Art & Practice & Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Erin Cristovale)
Artists, Activists, and Dreamers, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount Saint Mary's, Brentwood, CA
What She Said, Ace/121Gallery, Glendale, CA (curated by Association of Hysterica Curators)
2019
The Vision Board, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Elizabeth Valdez)
Dreamhouse vs. Punkhouse, Special Projects, Inglewood, CA (curated by Kristen Calabrese & Joshua Aster)
2018
Pretty Big Things, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Brenda Williams)
Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach Museum of Art Exchange, Long Beach, CA
The Art of Protest, Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Tankah: Desde Las Tinieblas Hacia El Sol, McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA (curated by Claudia Huiza)
2016
Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes From LA Youth Culture, 1943-2016, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
This Wicked Tongue-The Subversive Feminine Voice, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Estudio Las Nieves, Art BO, Bogotá International Art Fair, Bogotá, Colombia
Ventanas, Los Angeles World Airports, Southwest Terminal 1, Los Angeles, CA
2015
SUR: Biennial, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA (curated by Esmeralda Montes)
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists From Los Angeles, Magazzino Del Sale, 56th Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy (curated by Bardo LA)
Suggestive Role Play, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Futbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Garden Party, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mexicali Biennial, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2011
C.O.L.A Exhibition, Barnsdall Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008-2010
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement (traveling exhibition):
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008); Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2008); Phoenix Art Museum (2009); Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara (2009); Museo Alameda, San Antonio (2009); El Museo Del Barrio, New York (2010)
2003
International Paper, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Three Great Walls: Carolyn Castaño, Margaret Kilgallen, Shazia Sikander, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1997
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Collections
21C Museum Hotel
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Deutsche Bank
Eileen Norton Collection, Santa Monica
J.P. Morgan Chase
Progressive Collection
Private collections
Selected Bibliography
2024
All These Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection
Artillery Magazine, "Gallery Rounds, Carolyn Castaño at the Walter Maciel Gallery," Bill Moreno, April 15
2023
CARLA, "Carolyn Castaño at the Craft Contemporary," Tina Barouti, December 23
2022
LA Times, "L.A. painter Carolyn Castaño Turns the Humble Poncho into a Portal to Lush Worlds," Carolina Miranda, September 21
2019
Artillery Magazine, "Dreamhouse vs. Punkhouse at Serious Projects," Shana Nys Dambrot, April 10
LA Weekly, "Art Pick Carolyn Castaño, Sketches for Valley of the Sun," Shana Nys Dambrot, June 23
2018
Art Papers, "Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography," Wendy Koenig, Winter
LA Times, "The Art of Protest at Church of the Epiphany," Jessica Gelt, January 20
2008-2010
ARTFORUM, "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement," Julia Bryan-Wilson, Summer 2008
NY Times, "They're Chicanos and Artists. But is their Art Chicano?" Ken Johnson, April 9, 2010
Village Voice, "Art After the Chicano Movement," Martha Schwendener, April 6, 2010
Selected Lectures and Presentations
2020
"Visual Imaginaries: Grappling with the Boundaries of Identity & Self," CGU School of Business and Management of Art
"Cali es Cali" Panel Discussion, OCMA
2019
"B.A.T. State II Women Artists and El Nopal Press," Kleefeld Contemporary, CSULB
"Delineando Un Paisaje Femenino," College of the Canyons Art Gallery
"Artists in Their Own Words" lecture series, Cal State University Long Beach
2017
Artist Lecture and Curator Walkthrough, "A Female Topography," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount
2015
"1 Image/1 Minute," Contemporary Artists Books Conference, Los Angeles
Artist talk, New Americans Museum, San Diego
Selected Projects and Collaborations
2019
Plaza for All, Music Center Banner Project, Los Angeles
Sketches for Valley of the Sun, The Lair Gallery at Fred Segal, Los Angeles
2015
Outside the Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists
2012
Find Art Festival, Forever Expanding Sunsets Mural Installation, ThirtyNineHotel, Honolulu
2008-2011
The Flower House Mural/Gutierrez House/Watts House Project (organized by Edgar Arceneaux)
2006-2011
Wagon Station Customization, collaboration with Andrea Zittel, AZ West, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree