Myritza Castillo
San Juan, Puerto Rico 1981
Selection
EDUCATION
2006 University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (MFA)
Master Degree in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art, Video Art and Photography.
1999- 2004 University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon Campus (BS)
Bachelor Degree in Natural Sciences, Human Biology.
Minor in Humanities. (Magna Cum Laude)
SOLO SHOWS
2009
Not everything is what it seems to be, Galería 356 San Juan, P.R.
2008
Post Industrial Dust, Solo Show PhotoImagen Santo Domingo, Barna Business School, Dominican Republic.
GROUP SHOWS
2008
El T -Shirt Show, Galeria 356 San Juan, P.R.
V International Painting Contest Diputación de Castellón, Museum of Fine Arts Castellón, Spain.
Perspective, Bucharest-Romania, Anaid Art Gallery (Femlink)
International Film Fest, Multicultural Center Budapest, Hungary (Femlink)
Biennale of Contemporary Art Nimes, France (Femlink)
Franklin Pierce University, New Hampshire, USA (Femlink)
Fitchburg Art Museum in the CMWCA Show (Curator Professor Helen Obermeyer Simmons), MA (Femlink)
Auditorio Mar de Plata, Argentina (Femlink)
Ramaliah Fondation Al Qattan (with the Franco-German Cultural Center) Palestine
Scope Art Fair, Basel Edition, Perpetual Art Machine, Video Installation, Switzertland
Femlink, video collage, Resistance, Space of Projects Caguas, PR
Cataño D.C., 22 proposals for a Public Space Art Project, Cataño, PR (Images of a Recent Past)
AREA-space of Projects, Artist on Residence Exhibition, Open Spaces Project, Caguas, PR
CIRCA Fair, Booth AREA- Space of Projects, Puerto Rico Convention Center San Juan, PR
Festival Loop, Barcelona, Spain.
Directors Lounge, 58tth Berlin International Festival, Germany. (Femlink)
Perpetual Art Machine, Video Collage Installation, Scope Art Fair New York
Oriental Group Awards for Young and Emerging Artists, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Museum of Art Ponce PR, El comienzo de una nueva etapa, Video Under Construction, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Te quiero, Galería 356 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Kagart Video Festival, Canli Perfomastar Istanbul, Turkey
2007
Photo Miami Fair, Booth-Galería 356 San Juan, Miami, Florida.
Femlink,The Shed, Dublin, Ireland.
Video Art Screening, Curated by Irmak Arkman, Contemporary Art Fair Istanbul, Turkey.
Femlink Project, Les Instants Vidéo , Polygone Etoilé , Marseille, France.
Femlink Project, French Cultural Center, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Fermlink Project, Taller Multimedia 2007 and les Instants Vidéo (November 4), France Embassy, www.francia.org.ve Caracas, Venezuela.
Femlink Project, The Shed (November 15th), Dublin, Ireland.
Femlink Project, Lebanon, Beyrouth, les Instants Vidéo with Shams (October 12 – 14).
TAKING ACTION, Video Art Festival, The Hall Beyoglu Istanbul, Turkey.
Boston Latino Film Festival-Short Film Screening, El Dia Menos Pensado, Boston, M.A.
Fourth International Contest of Photography of Industrial Patrimony, Testimonies and Iron Landscapes, Sala Cultural Cajastur Monte de Piedad Gijón, Spain.
Stockartist project, Open-Gallerie Berlin, Germany.
Femlink project, Fragility and Resistance, Issy les Moulineaux, Le cube, Paris, France. (Video Exhibition)
Femlink project, Fragility and Resistance, Marie de Paris IX, Paris, France. (Video Exhibition)
Femlink project, Fragility and Resistance, 6 DF, Mexico. (Video Exhibition)
Femlink project, Pula, Pula Film Festival and Media Mediterranea Festival, Croatia. (Video Exhibition)
Video Art Festival, Art for Humans Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Subconscious Dream, Primo Art LivinGallery Lecce, Italy.
FemLink project, Barcelona Festival Loop, Spain. (Video Exhibition)
FemLink project, Cultura y Media, Centro Cultural San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Video Exhibition)
FemLink project, CyberArts Night Vision Festival, Porter Square, Cambrigde, MA. (Video Exhibition)
CIRCA PR 07, International Fair of Contemporary Art, Sugar Factory Project, Gallery 356, Convention Center San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Collective jury exhibition, Artists’ Books:Transgression/Excess, a collaboration with German artist Dirk Meinzer, Space Other Gallery Boston, MA.
LECTURES
2008
Diálogos de Video Arte, Museum of Contemporary Art San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006
La machine qui trottera, Area Lugar de Proyectos Caguas, Puerto Rico
ARTIST RESIDENCE
2008
AREA-Space of Projects Caguas, Puerto Rico.
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2008
One of the 21 finalists, V International Painting Contest Diputación de Castellón, Museum Fine Arts, Castellón, Spain.
Third Place, Young Artists Oriental Group Awards, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2005
Second place at the contest Fast Painting 2005 at Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Grant awarded by Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico for Master Degree Studies in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. (January 2005 to December 2005).
2004
Third place in the contest of the U.P.R. Centennial, 2004, photography category.
One of the ten finalists at the contest Luces de América 2004, National Geographic, Spanish.
Internship at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Puerto Rico as an apprentice of Conservation and Preservation of Painting. (May 2004 to January 2005).
