CUBA
LISET CASTILLO
PRESENTATION
Born in 1974 in Camagüey (Cuba). Educated herself in Cuban art schools, she moved to Amsterdam in 2000. After obtaining the Guggenheim scholarship in 2004, she went to New York for a year. Between 2005 and 2013, Castillo lived in Brooklyn. Since 2013, she has lived and worked between Amsterdam and Havana. Over the past 20 years, Liset Castillo has built sculptures, complex installations in sand, wood, plexiglass, powder pigments and other materials which she then photographed in her studio. The idea of the fleeting state of things, chaos, order, creation and destruction has always been a leitmotif in her work. Liset Castillo creates conceptual and metaphorical works that challenge the definition and the limits between sculpture, painting and photography. Since the start, she created works that defy categorization. She gives a new meaning to objects and materials reflecting antagonisms of subjects such as: order and disorder, the material and the ephemeral, disintegration and development.
The mural sculpture "Spectrum: Order and Disorder" presented in the CUBA : ¿Pa' Dónde Vamos? exhibition is made up of a set of 14 tubes filled with rare color pigments. This work dissipates the boundaries between painting, sculpture and installation. The symbiotic relationship between the subject and the material she uses plays an important role. Its spectrum is not limited to a set of specific values but becomes a spectrum of colors that can be modified or presented indefinitely. The question of determination, and of the unique ideology that reigns in Cuba, inspires most of her work. At the same time, her artworks offer the possibility and the freedom to change directions through the space they leave to choice and chance. The volatile state of pigments is analogous to contemporary ideologies. It is also a very personal way for the artist to approach Havana from the point of view of the diaspora, absence and distance.
Liset Castillo exhibited her work in the United States and in Europe. Among its most significant exhibitions is the 10th Havana Biennale; “The Edge of Intent” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, MoCP, Chicago; “Itinerarios” at the Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander - Spain; “Infinite Island. Antillean Contemporary Art ”at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York; “Pain is Universal, as Hope” at the Black & White Gallery, New York; the 8th Havana Biennale. She received numerous grants, including those from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Cintas Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Marcelino Botin Foundation. Her works can be found in important museums and private collections, including the National Gallery of Washington, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, MoCP, Chicago, the collection of the Marcelino Botin Foundation, the Frost Art Museum of Miami International University (Collection Cintas) ...
ARTWORK
SOLO & GROUP SHOW
SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)
2019
Studio 90. Duo-Show Liset Castillo-Inti Hernandez, 13th Havana Biennial, Habana, Cuba
2018
“Introduction”. Studio 90. Liset Castillo-Noel Leon, Havana, Cuba
2017
“Home” . Studio 90/Liset Castillo, Havana, Cuba
2010
“Human Studies” L-M-N-T Gallery, Miami
2008
Liset Castillo – Inti Hernandez. Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova, Italy
2007
“Pain is Universal but so is Hope”, Black & White Gallery, New York
“ELOI: Stumbling Towards Paradise” UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside
Liset Castillo: Associazione Contemporaneamente, Milano, Italy
2006
“Western Civilization”, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Miami
2004
“Departure Point”, Galerie Refugium, Berlin, Germany
2002
“Liquid City”, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Estampa es Tampa, Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, ( Collaborative project with Ludwig Foundation from Cuba and Graphicstudio (University South Florida, USF, USA)
Ibrahim Miranda – Liset Castillo. Presentation at Graphicstudio (Work in Progress and Art Lecture), University South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida, USA
1999
“Cosas del Querer”, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTIONS)
2019
A Gaze through the Cintas Fellowship Program: A Selection of Works from the Cintas Foundation and the Art Museum of the Americas Collection (AMA). Washington DC, USA.
HB. Arte Cubano Contemporaneo.13th Havana Biennial, Gran Teatro de La Habana, Habana, Cuba
ARCO. International Contemporary Art Fair. Galeria Acacia. Section “Dialogos”. Curated by Catalina Lozano and Agustin Perez Rubio. Madrid, Spain.
Lineas (Dis) Continuas. Curated by Chrislie Perez Perez. Galeria Habana. Cuba.
2018
ARTBO. Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogota. Galeria Acacia. Colombia.
La Noche Boca Arriba, Galeria Acacia, Habana, Cuba
2017
Pinta Art Fair – Miami 2017. Booth Galería Habana. Miami, USA
“Between the Real and the Imagined”. Coral Gables Museum-Miami. Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido
Contemporary Cuban Art Auction/ Art Cubain Contemporain. Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Paris-France
2016
(In) Mobiliario, Galeria Habana, Cuba. Curated by Diana Cuellar Ledesma
“Kuba Libre ”, Cuban Contemporary Positions since Peter Ludwig at Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany
2015
Corporalidades y Cronica(o), Fundación Casa Cortes, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico, Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates
Pulse Art Fair, Black and White Art Gallery, New York, US
Pabexpo. Collateral Exhibition 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Kunst Uit Huis: Collectie Wilploo. De Koerenbeurs- Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands
2014
“Almacen 2,5”, Galeria Habana, Habana, Cuba
2013
“For which it Stands”, The Lodge Gallery, New York
“Pulse Art Fair”, Galeria Habana Booth, New York
2012
VIP Art Fair, Luis Adelantado Gallery, New York, 2012
The Affordable Art Fair, ArtStart Online Gallery, New York, 2012
SHUTTER:Photography and film from the CINTAS Foundation Fellows Collection, Miami Dade College’s Iconic Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
“HB”, 11th Havana Biennial, Pabexpo, Cuba
“The Cuban Art Collection”, ArtStar Online Gallery, Curated by Liz Edimitt and Claudia Miyar
2011
“About the Right of Being Different: The Art of Diversity and Inclusion at Progressive Art Collection” .Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Beachwood, Ohio, USA
Storyboard-Bonelli Arte Contemporanea,Mantova-Italy
“The Latinomerican Evolution”, L-M-N-T Gallery, Miami
“Arte Americas”, L-M-N-T Gallery. Convention Center, Miami
“Human Studies”, L-M-N-T Gallery, Miami
2010
“The No Place”, BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn, New York, Rotunda Gallery Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer
2009
10th Havana Biennial, “Integration and Resistance in the Global Age”, Havana
The Edge of Intent, Museum of Contemporary Photography, MoCP, Chicago,USA
“LatinoLatino” Arte Contemporanea Latino Americano, Trip, Napoli, Lamarque Museum, Pallazo della Vicaria, San Francesco in Trapani. Italy. Curated by Raffaella Guidobono
Las Americas Latinas-Las Fatigas del Querer-Spazio Oberdan-Milan
Pulse Miami, Black and white Art Gallery, New York
2008
“Sand” Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, The Parrish Art Museum, The Hamptons
Paradiso Terrestre-Bonelli Lab, Canneto sull’Oglio, Mantova
“Via Simbolica ” , St. Mary’s College, Maryland. Curated by Sarah Tanguy. Bonelli Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Mantova
“De-Construct” Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam
“Itinerarios ” Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain
Arte Fiera Art Fair- Bologna. Gallery Bonelli Arte contemporanea
Art Rotterdam 2008, Rotterdam. Hof & Huyser Gallery, The Netherlands
MIART 2008, Milan, Italy. Gallery Bonelli Arte Contemporanea
Chicago Art Fair 2008, Black and white Art Gallery, Chicago, USA
Art Miami 2008, Black & White Art Gallery, Miami, USA
MACO Art Fair 2008 , Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico
2007
IKF Latin American Art Auction 2007. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, USA
“ELOI: Stumbling Towards Paradise” California Museum of Photography, UCR, CA
“Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
El Barrio Museum X-Files Biennial, New York
Poetry of the Commonplace-The Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, FL
2006
IKF Latin American Art Auction 2006. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, USA
West Palm Beach Art Fair, Remy Toledo Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Paris Photo 2006, Paris, France
The Sanctuary and the Scrum, Curated by David Hunt, Black & White Gallery, NY
Grand Oppening, “Presente Perfecto” Volitant Gallery, Austin, Texas
2005
“Territorial Strokes” Remy Toledo Gallery, New York
Black & White Gallery, New York, USA
Latinoamerican Artists at Graphicstudio, Prints and Multiples,Tampa Bay Art Festival, Tampa, USA
Omni Art Miami III, Miami, Florida
May Open Studios at the International Studio and Curatorial Program ( ISCP ), New York
L’Arte Il Torchio 2005. Art and the Printing Press.Cremona, Italy
Scope Art Fair. The Hamptons, Black & White Art Gallery, New York
2004
“Landings” 1st Edition, Conkal Arte Contemporaneo/ CAC. Ex Convent of Conkal, Conkal, Yucatan, Mexico
Poskort fra Cuba. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2003
8th Havana Biennial, Art and Life, Militar Park, La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba
Print it! Printmaking Tecniques and Artistic Solutions-Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
“Lost Territories”, Schröder Galerie, Den Haag, The Netherlands
“Havana Voorbij de Cliches”, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2002
Introducing the Contemporary Collection: The Artist as Guide, Mackey Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
2000
From the Negative. Part Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
From the Negative. Museum of North Dakota, North Dakota, USA
REWARDS
2010
Production Grant, The Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Production Grant, The Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Basissubsidies, The Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design
The Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
2006-2007
Marcelino Botin Fellowship, Santander, Spain
2005
International Studio and Curatorial Program ( ISCP ), New York, USA
2004
The Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, USA
2003
Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cintas Fellowship, Institute of International Education, New York
2000
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Graphicstudio, University South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
1999
Djerassi Resident Artist Programm, Woodside, San Francisco, California, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Progressive Art Collection, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, MoCP, Chicago, USA
Marcelino Botin Foundation Collection.
West Collection, Philadelfia,USA.
Lippes Collection, USA.
Frost Art Museum at Miami International University, ( Cintas Collection), Miami, Florida, USA
FMO Bank Kunst Collectie , Den Haag, The Netherlands
Polk Museum of Art. ( Permanent Collection). Lakeland, Florida, USA
Allen & Overy Collection, Apollo House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, Ca, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Graphicstudio Collection, University South Florida, Tampa, USA
PRESS
2019
Diaros de cuba : 'Líneas' en la calle Línea
ARCOmadrid 2019. Report da una fiera super established
For excellence Arte : Two Cuban artists in the Dialogues of ArcoMAdrid2019