Born Los Angeles, CA
Education
2014 Lesley University College of Art and Design, MFA, Lesley University, Boston, MA
2011 Humboldt State University, BA, Studio Art, Arcata, CA
Selecte Exhibitions
Solo
2020 Watch Your Step, Hote Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Remote Wilderness, Black Faun Gallery, Eureka, CA
Group
2020 High Beams, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Hot Paper, GIFC (Got It For Cheap), Online Project
2020 LOIMBY, Other Places Art Fair, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2019 35 X 35 Self & Identity, CCCM, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Therefore I Am, OCCA, curated by Meghan Doherty Assistant Curator of LACMA, Santa Ana, CA
2019 ARTistas, Moon Gallery, Mt. Berry, GA
2019 Flagship Heritage, Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2019 What Climate!?, Hote Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Bemis Art Auction Exhibition, Omaha, NE
2018 Saunter Trek Escort Parade (S.T.E.P.), Queens Museum & Flux Factory, Queens and Brooklyn, NY 2018 Cancion del Inmigrante, Santora Building, Santa Ana, CA
2018 Tracing Boundaries, Slide Room Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018 Enclosed Beds, Outdoor Installation, Justice LA, Los Angeles,CA
2017 Sanctuary, Synapsis, Eureka, CA
2017 (dis)placement project, Jacaranda, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2017 REIMAGINE: The Art Behind Upcycling, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2017 (dis)placement project, Off Quay Ugly Duck, London, UK
2016 Night Light Multimedia Garden: Breaking the Code, SOMArts, San Francisco,CA
2016 Blue Marble, SLOMA, San Luis Obispo, CA
2016 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2016 Grayscale Wonderland II, bG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Family Portraits, Richmond Art Center, Oakland, CA
2015 Reclassified, LUCAD Alumni Biennial Exhibition, Warehouse XI, Boston, MA
2015 Labeled: Uprooting Social Identities, on view with All or Nothing, Ana Teresa Fernandez, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
2014 No. 20 Group Exhibit, The Vandernoot Gallery at University Hall, Cambridge, MA
Selected Awards & Residencies
2020 Public Art Commission, Destination Pico/ LA Commons, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Emergency Fund for Visual Artists, West Collection, Oaks, PA
2020 ArtMaze Magazine, Winter Edition Issue 16, Curated by Scott Ogden
2018 Artist in Residence, Collaborative Studio, CSUF at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2018 Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2017 Artist in Residence, Signal Fire, Portland, OR
2017 Average Art Magazine, February Edition no. 7, averageart.co.uk
2017 Artist in Residence, with artist grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Artslant 8th 2016 Artslant Prize Showcase Competition
2016 Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, studiovisitmagazine.com
2016 Juror’s Award of Merit, Lucia Sanroman, Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2015 Artist in Residence, Joya: arte+ecologia, Almeria, Spain
2012 Merit Scholarship, Lesley University College of Art and Design,Boston, MA
2009 President Purchase Award, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Selected Bibliography
2020 Young Space Interview, yngspc.com/artists/2020/02/andrea-castillo/ (February)
2019 VoyageLA Magazine, Interview Inspiring Stories (forthcoming)
2018 Los Angeles Times “Santa Ana Sites spotllights immigration stories in ‘Cancion del Inmigrante’ a multimedia opera” by Richard Chang (May 03)
2017 Los Angeles Times L.A. Now “Coalition merges art and activism for holiday message about mass incarceration” by Michael Livingston (December)
2017 PIPA “Multiple Possibilities of Displacement in New Group Show in Rio De Janeiro” http://www.pipaprize.com (July)
2017 Artwaves, Artist Interview, Wendy Butler KHSU, Arcata, CA
2017 Artist Talk, Black Faun Gallery, Eureka, CA
2017 Under the Radar, Artslant Pick (April)
2016 “The Latest Art Exhibitions From Santa Monica, Venice, & Culver City”, Westsidetoday.com, by Jennifer Eden. (February)
2015 Joya arte+ecologia, Artist in Residence, Almeria, Spain, November
2015 Trinidad Branch Library, Artist Talk, Trinidad, Ca, June
2015 North Coast Journal, “The Artist Vanishes” by Gabrielle Gopinath (April)
2014 Lesley University MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Thesis Artist Talk. Boston, MA. June
2014 Big Red and Shiny, “Go and See” BR&S (June)