Carolyn Castaño CV
b. 1971, Los Angeles, CA
Education
2001 - University of California, Los Angeles, CA, MFA
1996 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1995 - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, BFA
1996 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1995 - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, BFA
Awards
2013 - Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters & Sculptors
2011 - California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow Mid-Career Grant
2011 - COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
2011 - California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow Mid-Career Grant
2011 - COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Garden, Ladies Room LA, Los Angeles, CA, Virtual exhibition
Se(h)er Seer Gallery, Virtual exhibition
Women Art Now, VMA- Faculty Art Exhibition, Long Beach City College, Virtual exhibition
2020
Cali es Cali, OCMA Expand, Orange County Museum of Art
Visual Imaginairies: Grappling with Identity, Claremont Graduate University, Online exhibition
2019
Valley of the Sun, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Carolyn Castaño - A Female Topography 2001-2017; Curated by Karen Rapp, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University; Los Angeles, CA
2015
Mujeres Que Crean / Women Who Create; New Americans Museum; San Diego, CA
2014
Narco Venus and Other Stories, Carolyn Castaño; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco, CA
2012
El Jardin Femenil; Walter Maciel Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2009
It’s Complicated; Walter Maciel Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
VideoWorks by Carolyn Castaño; SB London; Los Angeles, CA
2007
Carolyn Castaño; 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, Carolyn Castaño & Tom Ellis; Kontainer Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
2019
QIPO 01, Curated by Claudia Huiza Presents, CDMX, Mexico
Plus One, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
Plant Life, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
B.A.T. State II, Women Artists of El Nopal Press, South Bay Contemporary, SOLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Superfine Art Fair, Claudia Huiza Presents, Miami, Florida
Pretty Big Things, Curated by Brenda G. Williams at Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach City College Visual Media Arts Faculty at Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Long Beach, CA
The Art of Protest, at the Church of the Epiphany; Curated by Ravi GuneWardena, Sophia Gutierrez, Rosilo Muñoz, and Ricardo Reyes; Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Tankah: Desde Las Tinieblas Hacia El Sol / From the Underground to the Sun; curated by Claudia Huiza; McNish Gallery, Oxnard College; Oxnard, CA
Kamikaze Exhibition: Superbloom; Curated by Hadley Holliday; PØST; Los Angeles, CA
Association of Hysteric Curators: FAR Bazaar; Cerritos College; Cerritos, CA
2016
Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes From LA Youth Culture, 1943-2016; Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College; Los Angeles, CA
This Wicked Tongue: The Subversive Feminine Voice; Charlie James Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
Association of Hysteric Curators: Coming to the Table; Angel's Gate Cultural Center; San Pedro, CA
Estudio Las Nieves; Art BO, Bogota International Art Fair; Bogota, Colombia
Ventanas; Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Southwest Terminal 1, LAX; Los Angeles, CA
Poster and video bumper design, Los Angeles Film Festival; Los Angeles, CA
Consort with Gary Dauphin; ART SHARE LA; Los Angeles, CA
2015
Over and Back; Surplus Space; Portland, OR
Sur Biennial; Manhattan Beach Art Center; Manhattan Beach, CA
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists From Los Angeles; Magazzino Del Sale, 56th Biennale Di Venezia; Venice, Italy
Suggestive Role Play; Walter Maciel Galleryl; Los Angeles, CA
Outside The Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists; edited by Souris Hong; Tarcher-Perigee; New York, NY
2014
Futbol:The Beautiful Game; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA
B.A.T. (Bat a Tirer/Good to Go): Prints by Women Artists and El Nopal Press; Offramp Gallery; Altadena, CA
2013
Out the Window Series; LA Freewaves; Los Angeles, CA
Head Strong; MiraCosta College; Kruglak Gallery; Oceanside, CA
MAS Attack; LA Mart; Los Angeles, CA
MexiCali Biennial; Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, East Los Angeles, CA
2012
Find Art Festival; ThirtyNineHotel; Honolulu, HI
Go Tell It On the Mountain, curated by Nery Gabriel Lemus; Charlie James Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2011
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2010
Collection Exhibition, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Asesinados United; PØST; Los Angeles, CA
SHADOWSHOP; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
12 Gauge Series, Eros/Thanatos; organized by Tricia Lawless Murray; Torrance Art Museum; Torrance, CA
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; El Museo Del Barrio; New York, NY
2009
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Museo de Arte Zapopan; Guadalajara, Mexico
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The Beauty Doll Salon; Center for the Arts at Eagle Rock and Outpost for Contemporary Art Intersection; Los Angeles, CA
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Museo Alameda; San Antonio, TX
2008
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Museo Rufino Tamayo; Mexico D.F., Mexico
The Art of Style; MACLA; San Jose, CA
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA
This Fever I Can’t Resist: Carolyn Castaño and Megan Wilson; ThirtyNineHotel; Honolulu, HI
2006
Hysteria Deluxe with the LA Art Girls; Angles Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
LA: Now; Dominique Fiat Galerie; Paris, France
2005
Liquid Los Angeles: Currents in Contemporary Watercolor, Curated by Leslie Jones; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Semi-Precious, curated by Miki Garcia; Public Art Fund; New York , New York
2004
Material Faith; Kontainer Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
Against Nature; Lombard-Freid Fine Art; New York, NY
2003
International Paper; Hammer Museum; Los Angeles, CA
2001
Marked: Bay Area Drawings; curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson; Hunter College, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY
Marked: Bay Area Drawings; curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson; Sonoma Art Museum; Sonoma, CA
1999
Piecing It Together: A Visual Diary; San Jose Museum of Art; San Jose, CA
Nine Lives; Rethinking Identity; Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1998
Three Great Walls: Carolyn Castaño, Margaret Kilgallen, Shazia Sikander; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; San Francisco, CA
Four Walls/Scene Escena (Amy Berk & Carolyn Castano), Sap, at the Motel Lanai; San Francisco, CA
All of Me; New Langton Arts; San Francisco, CA
The Shape of Her Thoughts; Traywick Gallery; Berkeley, CA
1997
Bay Area Now; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; San Francisco, CA
1996
Sweet like Sugar, Sticky like Bubble Gum; The Luggage Store; San Francisco, CA
Individualism; The Lab; San Francisco, CA
Snacks; Acme Gallery; San Francisco, CA
Swell; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco, CA
1995
About Drawing; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco, CA
Another Life Up Inside Her Head; Galeria de La Raza; San Francisco, CA
Lagrimas Y Sonrisas; Galeria de La Raza; San Francisco, CA
QIPO 01, Curated by Claudia Huiza Presents, CDMX, Mexico
Plus One, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
Plant Life, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
B.A.T. State II, Women Artists of El Nopal Press, South Bay Contemporary, SOLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Superfine Art Fair, Claudia Huiza Presents, Miami, Florida
Pretty Big Things, Curated by Brenda G. Williams at Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach City College Visual Media Arts Faculty at Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Long Beach, CA
The Art of Protest, at the Church of the Epiphany; Curated by Ravi GuneWardena, Sophia Gutierrez, Rosilo Muñoz, and Ricardo Reyes; Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Tankah: Desde Las Tinieblas Hacia El Sol / From the Underground to the Sun; curated by Claudia Huiza; McNish Gallery, Oxnard College; Oxnard, CA
Kamikaze Exhibition: Superbloom; Curated by Hadley Holliday; PØST; Los Angeles, CA
Association of Hysteric Curators: FAR Bazaar; Cerritos College; Cerritos, CA
2016
Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes From LA Youth Culture, 1943-2016; Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College; Los Angeles, CA
This Wicked Tongue: The Subversive Feminine Voice; Charlie James Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
Association of Hysteric Curators: Coming to the Table; Angel's Gate Cultural Center; San Pedro, CA
Estudio Las Nieves; Art BO, Bogota International Art Fair; Bogota, Colombia
Ventanas; Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Southwest Terminal 1, LAX; Los Angeles, CA
Poster and video bumper design, Los Angeles Film Festival; Los Angeles, CA
Consort with Gary Dauphin; ART SHARE LA; Los Angeles, CA
2015
Over and Back; Surplus Space; Portland, OR
Sur Biennial; Manhattan Beach Art Center; Manhattan Beach, CA
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists From Los Angeles; Magazzino Del Sale, 56th Biennale Di Venezia; Venice, Italy
Suggestive Role Play; Walter Maciel Galleryl; Los Angeles, CA
Outside The Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists; edited by Souris Hong; Tarcher-Perigee; New York, NY
2014
Futbol:The Beautiful Game; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA
B.A.T. (Bat a Tirer/Good to Go): Prints by Women Artists and El Nopal Press; Offramp Gallery; Altadena, CA
2013
Out the Window Series; LA Freewaves; Los Angeles, CA
Head Strong; MiraCosta College; Kruglak Gallery; Oceanside, CA
MAS Attack; LA Mart; Los Angeles, CA
MexiCali Biennial; Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, East Los Angeles, CA
2012
Find Art Festival; ThirtyNineHotel; Honolulu, HI
Go Tell It On the Mountain, curated by Nery Gabriel Lemus; Charlie James Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2011
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2010
Collection Exhibition, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Asesinados United; PØST; Los Angeles, CA
SHADOWSHOP; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
12 Gauge Series, Eros/Thanatos; organized by Tricia Lawless Murray; Torrance Art Museum; Torrance, CA
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; El Museo Del Barrio; New York, NY
2009
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Museo de Arte Zapopan; Guadalajara, Mexico
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The Beauty Doll Salon; Center for the Arts at Eagle Rock and Outpost for Contemporary Art Intersection; Los Angeles, CA
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Museo Alameda; San Antonio, TX
2008
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Museo Rufino Tamayo; Mexico D.F., Mexico
The Art of Style; MACLA; San Jose, CA
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard N. Fox, Chon Noriega; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA
This Fever I Can’t Resist: Carolyn Castaño and Megan Wilson; ThirtyNineHotel; Honolulu, HI
2006
Hysteria Deluxe with the LA Art Girls; Angles Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
LA: Now; Dominique Fiat Galerie; Paris, France
2005
Liquid Los Angeles: Currents in Contemporary Watercolor, Curated by Leslie Jones; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Semi-Precious, curated by Miki Garcia; Public Art Fund; New York , New York
2004
Material Faith; Kontainer Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
Against Nature; Lombard-Freid Fine Art; New York, NY
2003
International Paper; Hammer Museum; Los Angeles, CA
2001
Marked: Bay Area Drawings; curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson; Hunter College, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY
Marked: Bay Area Drawings; curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson; Sonoma Art Museum; Sonoma, CA
1999
Piecing It Together: A Visual Diary; San Jose Museum of Art; San Jose, CA
Nine Lives; Rethinking Identity; Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1998
Three Great Walls: Carolyn Castaño, Margaret Kilgallen, Shazia Sikander; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; San Francisco, CA
Four Walls/Scene Escena (Amy Berk & Carolyn Castano), Sap, at the Motel Lanai; San Francisco, CA
All of Me; New Langton Arts; San Francisco, CA
The Shape of Her Thoughts; Traywick Gallery; Berkeley, CA
1997
Bay Area Now; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; San Francisco, CA
1996
Sweet like Sugar, Sticky like Bubble Gum; The Luggage Store; San Francisco, CA
Individualism; The Lab; San Francisco, CA
Snacks; Acme Gallery; San Francisco, CA
Swell; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco, CA
1995
About Drawing; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco, CA
Another Life Up Inside Her Head; Galeria de La Raza; San Francisco, CA
Lagrimas Y Sonrisas; Galeria de La Raza; San Francisco, CA
Curatorial Projects
2013
Garden Party, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA September
2011
Curator, Filmic: Jordan Biren & Ursula Brookbank; film screening and performance, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
2011
T-shirt Revival Night, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Highland Park, CA
2009
Curator, Favorite This!, selection of video artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
The Guiterrez House/Watts House Project (2008- 2011); Organized by Edgar Arceneaux; mural and virtual redevelopment proposal, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Wagon Station (2006- 2011), collaboration with Andrea Zittel; AZ West, Joshua Tree, CA
Garden Party, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA September
2011
Curator, Filmic: Jordan Biren & Ursula Brookbank; film screening and performance, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
2011
T-shirt Revival Night, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Highland Park, CA
2009
Curator, Favorite This!, selection of video artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
The Guiterrez House/Watts House Project (2008- 2011); Organized by Edgar Arceneaux; mural and virtual redevelopment proposal, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Wagon Station (2006- 2011), collaboration with Andrea Zittel; AZ West, Joshua Tree, CA
Lectures and Presentations
2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, Artists In Their Own Words, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2018
Points of Access: Curators in Conversation, Art and Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Walkthrough, Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Long Beach, CA
Artist Panel, Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Long Beach, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Mary Anna Pomonis’s Art 300, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2017
Conversation with Bill Kelley Jr. on Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography; Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA
Curator walkthrough, Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography; Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA
Artist lecture, Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography; Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Tarrah Krajnak Seminar class, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2015
Artist Workshop, SUR: Biennial, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
Artist talk with Adriana Martinez Noriega, New Americans Museum, San Diego, CA
1 Image / 1 Minute with Xtra Magazine, Project X & Contemporary Artists Books Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Decolonizing the White Cube, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Narco Venus & Other Stories: A Conversation with Renny Pritikin, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Artist Lecture and Seminar, Contemporary Art Practices, San Francisco Art Institute, San Franciso, CA
Artist Talk with Liliana Correa, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin, Colombia
2011
We’re Just Artists, panel discussion with Juan Capistran, Fay Ray, moderated by Cesar Garcia: Art Platform Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Artist Lecture, Cal State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Artist Lecture, Painting Symposium, USC Roski School of Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Featured Artist, International Paper, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Visiting Artist, Senior Seminar with Professor Enrique Chagoya, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1997
Visiting Artist, Contemporary Practices Seminar with Kevin Radley, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Artists In Their Own Words, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2018
Points of Access: Curators in Conversation, Art and Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Walkthrough, Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Long Beach, CA
Artist Panel, Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Long Beach, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Mary Anna Pomonis’s Art 300, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2017
Conversation with Bill Kelley Jr. on Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography; Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA
Curator walkthrough, Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography; Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA
Artist lecture, Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography; Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Tarrah Krajnak Seminar class, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2015
Artist Workshop, SUR: Biennial, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
Artist talk with Adriana Martinez Noriega, New Americans Museum, San Diego, CA
1 Image / 1 Minute with Xtra Magazine, Project X & Contemporary Artists Books Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Decolonizing the White Cube, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Narco Venus & Other Stories: A Conversation with Renny Pritikin, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Artist Lecture and Seminar, Contemporary Art Practices, San Francisco Art Institute, San Franciso, CA
Artist Talk with Liliana Correa, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin, Colombia
2011
We’re Just Artists, panel discussion with Juan Capistran, Fay Ray, moderated by Cesar Garcia: Art Platform Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Artist Lecture, Cal State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Artist Lecture, Painting Symposium, USC Roski School of Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Featured Artist, International Paper, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Visiting Artist, Senior Seminar with Professor Enrique Chagoya, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1997
Visiting Artist, Contemporary Practices Seminar with Kevin Radley, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Collections
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Artist Pension Trust
Eliane Ganz
Eileen Norton, Santa Monica
J.P. Morgan Chase
Deutsche Bank
Progressive Collection
Sam Schwartz Collection
Michael Lynne, New Line Cinema
Artist Pension Trust
Eliane Ganz
Eileen Norton, Santa Monica
J.P. Morgan Chase
Deutsche Bank
Progressive Collection
Sam Schwartz Collection
Michael Lynne, New Line Cinema