Cruz Castillo

Cruz Castillo

b. 1992, Detroit, MI


Education

2020 MFA, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2015 BS, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR


Solo Exhibitions (*performance)

2021 Cruz Castillo, Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


Group Exhibitions (*performance)

2023 PLATFORM (artist showcase), Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL


2022 Sh0w three, Pfent, Detroit, MI


2021 The Factory Gallery Exhibition, The Factory St. Pete, St. Petersburg, FL
MFA Index, UCLA Department of Art, (Online)


2020 Sh0w two, Pfent, Detroit, MI


2019 Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SUR: Biennial, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA


2018 Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Homecoming, Godine Family Gallery, Boston, MA
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Red, White + Blue, BAC, Brookline, MA


2017 Open Studio, 59 Wareham, Boston, MA
*Homage to Detroit, Annex Gallery, Detroit, MI
Opening, The Forge, Detroit, MI
2nd Annual Pop-Up Art Show, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA


2016 Big Sculpture, 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI
Detroit Design Festival, The Forge, Detroit, MI
Evolving Spaces, The Forge, Detroit, MI
Influx: A Night of Performance Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Sh0w one, Pfent Gallery, Detroit, MI


2015 *Influx: A Night of Performance Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2nd Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
Bodies in the City: Otherness and Urbanism, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
Assemblage, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR


2014 Gradient, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
Best of 2014 Spring Storm, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
2014 Spring Storm, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
The Somethings, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR


Grants and Awards

2020 Graduate Art Department Scholarship, UCLA
UC Regents Grant, UCLA Arts Council
UCLA Regents Stipend Scholarship


2019 Graduate Art Department Scholarship, UCLA
UC Regents Grant, UCLA Arts Council
UCLA Regents Stipend Scholarship


2018 Juror’s Choice, National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA


2014 Best in Show, 2014 Spring Storm, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR


Artist Talks and Lectures

2022 Craft vs. Fine Art, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL


2016 Artist Talk, Big Sculpture, 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI


Press

Tess Thackara, ‘Class struggle: how a year of cancelled degree shows has left fine art graduates in the lurch', The Art Newspaper, March 26, 2021


Jordan Brown, ‘2014 Spring Storm takes over Lawrence Hall’, U of O Art & Design, May 8, 2014