OTHÓN CASTAÑEDA 

 

EDUCATION 

1999 BA Architecture, Habitat Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, SLP, México

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2013 Locked Rom Art Projects, Art San Diego Fair, San Diego, CA, USA – Solo Show

2013 Self-portrait (public installation), Art Center South Florida,  Miami Beach, FL, USA 

2012 Proto anatomies, Mexican Cultural Institute, Miami, FL, USA – Solo exhibition

2012 Lustrum, MACT, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Tamaulipas, Matamoros, México –         

2011 Lustrum, Museo Reyes Meza, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México 

2010 Recent works,  Axis Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada 

2009 The Doorman, Tower Theater, Miami Dade College, Miami, USA

2009 Graphics, Grattage & Constructions,  Museo  de Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico 

2009 Rare Self-Portraits – ArtVision Gallery, Miami, USA 

2006 Iconophilia, Mexican Cultural Institute. Miami, Florida, USA 

2006 Fluxes and Gravities, Mexican Cultural Institute, Belize City & George Price Centre,        Belmopan, Belize 

2006 Fluxes and Gravities, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, Quito, Guayaquil & Cuenca, Ecuador 

2006 Construction,  El Obispado Museo de Historia de Nuevo León, Monterrey, N.L., México (Site-specific intervention to the main chapel of a XVII century church).

2005 Profane Space, MA-3D, Museo de Arte Tridimensional, Mexico City, Mexico 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

 

2014 In his own likeness. The Richard Shack Gallery, ACSF, Miami Beach, FL, USA

2014 C-Arte, Art Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia

2013 Art Center South Florida,  Just Mad Art Fair, Madrid, Spain

2012 Prome Encuentro Bienal Contemporaneo di Caribe, Paradera, Aruba

2011 Giants in the City, Bayfront Park during ArtBasel,  Miami, USA 

2011 Giants in the City, FIART – Fine Arts Palace, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2010 Mexico Invited Country, Miami Book Fair, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, USA

2009 Giants in the City, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Miami Beach, USA

2009 Cultural Passenger, Canary Islands Foundation for Education and Culture – Cabildo de Tenerife, Spain 

2009 Museum of Contemporay Art, Ateneo de Yucatan, Mérida, México

2009 Mexican Pavilion, Arteamericas Art Fair, Miami Beach, USA

2008 Art Vision Gallery, Bridge Art Fair, Wynwood District, Miami, FL, USA.

2008 Small Format, Blink Fine Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008 Icons,  ArtVision Gallery, Miami, USA

2008 Surfaces,  Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, Mexico

2007 Arteamericas Art Fair. Miami Beach, USA                            

2007 Double Zero Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, Mexico   

2006 The Aesthetic of Mementos, Art Rouge Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

2006 No Borders, Northeast Regional Fund for the Culture and the Arts, México

2005 El Caliu, Juried Exhibition, El Caliu, Els Catolics, Girona, Spain

2004 Contemporary Ex-Votos,  Oscar Roman Gallery & Pinacoteca Diego Rivera Xalapa, Veracruz, México 

2004 Desire,  Oscar Román Gallery, Mexico City, México

2004 Nationalism, Oscar Román Gallery, Mexico City, México

2004 Two Lines: Figurative Abstract, Oscar Román Gallery, Mexico City, México

2002 Young Contemporary Art, Casa Las Monas, Festival   Internacional  Cervantino, León, Guanajuato, México

2001 Homage, Fifty Years of Visual Art, Instituto de Bellas Artes de San Luis Potosi. S.L.P., México

          

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & PUBLICATIONS

2013 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions -Miami Dade Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL, USA

2012 to present.  Artist in Residency. Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL, USA

2009 Othon Castaneda, An eclectic repertoire, ArtDistricts Magazine, Miami, FL, USA – Article

2007 Artistic Development Grant. PECDA-CONACULTA, México

Concept-Box (Mixed media art objects)             

2005 Juried Art Exhibition.  Caliu 2005, Girona, Spain 2 Art Works selected. (Etching)

2003 Visual Arts Production Grant. FONECAT-CONACULTA, México 

Twelve Diptychs (Drawing) 

1996 Young Artists.  FONECAT, Tamaulipas, México Three stage designs (Set Design)

1995 Habitat Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, SLP,  México

Architecture, Best in Class 1993 Generation 

 

COLLECTIONS 

Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador – One painting

Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador – One painting

Carlos Monsivais Collection, Museo del Estanquillo, Mexico -One etching, one painting

Els Catolics, Girona, Spain – 2 etchings

Centro Cultural Mexicano, Quito, Ecuador – One painting

Centro Cultural Tamaulipas, México – Two paintings

 

COMISSIONS

2009 Volatile Seed (Mural), Apogeo Foundation,  Calle Ocho, Little Havana, Miami, FL, USA 

 

AUCTIONS

2012 All About Art, The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

2008 Step by Step Foundation, Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, USA

AFILIATIONS

2012-2013 Arts & Entertainment Council, City of Miami, Miami, FL, USA