• Installation view of artworks presented in ‘Espacio Común’ exhibition at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2019)

    “Installation view of artworks presented in ‘Espacio Común’ exhibition at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2019)”

    Date 2014-2019
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Installation
    Medium C Print mounted on acrylic, neon, acrylic cube and video
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Monuments (Terrirorial Landscapes Series)

    “Monuments (Terrirorial Landscapes Series)”

    Date 2017
    Dimensions 28" x 20"
    Category Photography
    Medium C Print
    Genre Urban landscape
    Period 21st Century
  • Monuments (Terrirorial Landscapes Series)

    “Monuments (Terrirorial Landscapes Series)”

    Date 2017
    Dimensions 28" x 20"
    Category Photography
    Medium C Print
    Genre Urban landscape
    Period 21st Century
  • Swimmer – Failure is inevitable

    “Swimmer – Failure is inevitable”

    Date 2009
    Dimensions 16" x 24"
    Category Photography
    Medium Tryptic: Cibachrome on light box
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Objects of Disconnection

    “Objects of Disconnection”

    Date 2011
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Installation
    Medium Tennis Balls, sound, racquet and drawings
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Waste of Paint

    “Waste of Paint”

    Date 2012
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Installation
    Medium Video, paintings and drawings
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Waste of Paint

    “Waste of Paint”

    Date 2014
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Installation
    Medium Video and 3 paintings
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Nothing Gets Crossed Out

    “Nothing Gets Crossed Out”

    Date 2009
    Dimensions 3.00 minutes
    Category Video
    Medium Format: NTSC Digital Ed. 2/5
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
    Collection Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Collection
    Acknowledgement Gift of the artist
  • The Impossible Replication of the Last Note

    “The Impossible Replication of the Last Note”

    Date 2008
    Dimensions 24" x 36"
    Category Photography
    Medium Lambda Print
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Aún queda algo

    “Aún queda algo*”

    Date 2007
    Dimensions 40" x 32"
    Category Photography
    Medium Lambda print on aluminum
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
    Collection *Title translation: There’s still something

Myritza Castillo

San Juan, PR, 1981

Biography Details

Photographer, video artist, painter and creator of site-specific installations and artistic interventions. Has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico in Bayamón (2004) and a Master’s degree in Theory and practice of contemporary art, Video Art and Photography from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (2006). Her works have been exhibited in Puerto Rico, United States, South America and Europe. She was one of 10 finalists in the Luces de America Competition from National Geographic in Spanish, August-2005 Edition. Won second place in the Certamen de Pintura Rápida de Alcalá de Henares, Spain. In 2008 won third prize in the First Edition of Oriental Group’s Certamen de Arte Joven - and was selected as one of the 20 finalists in the International Painting Prize of the Castellón County Council, Spain. In 2009 receives the Lexus Grant for her project Out of Oil which was exhibited in 2010 at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Her work has been reviewed in specialized art publications such as ArtNexus, Art Pulse, Arte al Día, amongst others. 

Artist Statement

"I did not want this work to be passive art, nothing to go look at and say, ' ok, now I saw the painting. The viewer is an active entity in the room, in order to work, both are needed. Something always depends on something, you can make that relationship”

Source: Tatiana Pérez Rivera: En solitario Myritza Castillo,  El Nuevo Día, Septiembre 17,  2010

Formation

Education

2006

  • Master of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art, Video Art and Photography. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2004-2005

  • Conservation and Preservation of Painting Internship. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 

2004

  • Bachelor of Biology. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Professional Experience

2014

  • Lecturer. Universos Paralelos, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

2012

  • Curator. 7 proposals, Infinite Objects, Galería Espacio 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico 

2009

  • Curator. Cycle of Video Art- Puerto Rican Artist Working Outside the Island, Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico 

2008

  • Lecturer. Diálogos de Video Arte, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Young Puerto Rican Video Artist Survey. Circa Labs, Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico 

2007

  • Curator. In Times of Video…, collective exhibition. ÁREA-lugar de proyectos, Caguas; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; 356 Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2006

  • Lecturer. La machine qui trottera, Área Lugar de Proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico

2005

  • Curator. Superheroes Exhibitions, ECCA Gallery, Madrid, Spain

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2017

  • Territorial Landscapes, Monuments, El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2012

  • Alter-Structures, 18 Castillos Project, Galería Espacio 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Waste of Paint, Metro Plataforma Organizada, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2011

  • Writing Stories, Galería Espacio 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010

  • Out of Oil, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2009

  • Not everything is what it seems to be, Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008

  • Post Industrial Dust, PhotoImagen, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Group Shows

2019

  • Anarquía y dialéctica en el deseo, Museo de Arte Contempóraneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • El espacio común, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Subasta de arte, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2018

  • Photo Imagen, transiciones, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  • Subasta de arte, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Entropía urbana, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2017

  • Línea dura, Universidad Interamericana, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • There is always a light to turn off, Rem Projects, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Línea dura, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

2016

  • 001 diagonal, San juan, Puerto Rico

2015

  • FRESCOS, Ciudadanos de Ninguna Parte 5 Años Después, Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón,  San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Un Verano en Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • De Madre, Galería Espacio 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Muestra Nacional, Arsenal de la Puntilla, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2014

  • Universos Paralelos, Galería Francisco Oller, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Resistance, Nod Art-Centre, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Renuncias y Adopciones, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • International Feminist Exhibition, Gallery of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia

2013

  • Puerto Rico: Ida y vuelta -Hybrida Video Festival, Las Naves de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
  • Impresiones, Relieves y Resonancias, Museo de Arte Dr. Pío López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, Cayey, Puerto Rico
  • Carry-On: Puerto Rico Inspected, Georgia College Museum, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States
  • Muestra Nacional 2013, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • FEMLINK SCREENINGS, Center For Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia

2012

  • Interconexiones: Lecturas Curatoriales de la Colección del MAPR, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, América Latina y el Caribe, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Fotorama, Galería 778, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Carry-On - Puerto Rico Inspected, Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Buenas señales, Galería Espacio 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, América Latina y el Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2011

  • Muestra Nacional de Arte 2011, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Colectiva, Metro Plataforma Organizada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Carry-On: Puerto Rico Inspected, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, United States
  • Photo MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Carry-On - Puerto Rico Inspected, Villa Victoria Center of Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Arte en el medio: 35 Años de Fotografía en Puerto Rico, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Group Show, Metro Plataforma Organizada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Fase I, Metro Plataforma Organizada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • De Bayamon a la 15, Cart Watch Space, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Spirit of The Epoch- A Decade of Painting, Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain
  • When a painting moves… something must be rotten, Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Pocket, Cart Watch Space, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010

  • Serie Regional de Jugadores Pampers, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Draw a Thon, Tapestry East Harlem, New York, United States
  • Loop Barcelona, Video Art Festival & Fair, Barcelona, Spain
  • Weaving In & Out, No Longer Empty Space, Tapestry East Harlem, New York, United States
  • Las veladas de Santa Lucía, Maracaibo, Venezuela

2009

  • When a painting moves… something must be rotten!-Moving Painting or the Dialects of Techno-Referentiality, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Centro Colombo Americano de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
  • Muestra Nacional, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • NADA Art Fair, Galería 356, Miami, Florida, United States
  • Memoria de las Américas Alex Burke Project- Collaboration, Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
  • Puerto Rico Geografía Humana: Imágenes del siglo XXI, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Out of Oil, International Short Film Festival 7th Edition CINEFIESTA, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Re/Acción: Ciclo de Acciones y Performance, La Nómada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Conboca Publication, Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, América Latina y el Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • CIRCA 09, Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008

  • El T -Shirt Show, Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • V Certamen Internacional de Pintura Diputación de Castellón, Museo de Bellas Artes, Castellón, Spain
  • Cataño D.C., 22 proposals for a Public Space Art Project, (Images of a Recent Past), Cataño, Puerto Rico
  • Artists in Residence Exhibition, Open Spaces Project, ÁREA-lugar de proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico
  • CIRCA 08, ÁREA-lugar de proyectos, Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Festival Loop, Barcelona, Spain
  • Certamen de Arte Joven de Oriental Group, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce,  Puerto Rico
  • 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 Estambul, Turkey

Awards, Distinctions and Achievements

2011

  • Artist in Residence. ÁREA – Lugar de Proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico

2009

  • Grant. Beca Lexus para Artistas, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008

  • Third Prize. Certamen de Arte Joven Oriental, Oriental Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Artist in Residence, ÁREA – Lugar de Proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico
  • Finalist. Certamen Internacional de Pintura de Castellón, Castellón, Spain

2005

  • Second place. Certamen de Pintura Rápida de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
  • Scholarship. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2004

  • Finalist. Luces de América Competition, National Geographic in Spanish, United States
  • Third place of photography category. University of Puerto Rico Centennial Competition, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collections

  • Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • Oriental Group Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Museum of Fine Arts Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Bibliography

Books 

Nogueras, Celina. FRESCOS: 50 Puerto Rican Artists Under 35 – Muuaaa, San Juan, Puerto Rico, p. 36-37, 2010

Frostig, Karen; Halamka, Kathy. Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2007. 

Catalogues

Testimonies and Iron Landscapes, INCUNA Industrial Archeology Association, Gijón, Spain.

The Dream, Primo Piano Art Living Gallery, Leece, Italy. 2007.

In times of Video…, Curator text, Gallery 356 San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.

Bravo, Laura & José Gómez Isla. “Universos Paralelos“. Universidad de Puerto Rico & Universidad de Salamanca, pp. 20-25, 2014.  

Barragán, Paco, Ofelia Martín & Nuñez, Javier. “Espíritu de una época – Una década de pintura“, MIAC Lanzarote, p. 49, 2011.

Newspapers

Toro, Ana Teresa. “Oda al objeto”.  El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 17 de marzo de 2011.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “En solitario Myritza Castillo”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 17 de septiembre de 2010.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Geografía Humana Imágenes del Siglo 21”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), agosto 2009.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Geografía Humana Imágenes del Siglo 21”. El Vocero (San Juan, PR), agosto 2009. 

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Geografía Humana Imágenes del Siglo 21”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), agosto 2009.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Beca Lexus”, El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), mayo 2009. 

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Beca Lexus”, El Vocero (San Juan, PR), mayo 2009. 

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Retrato del pasado (A Portrait of a Past)”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), octubre 2008.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Oriental Group Awards”. San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), abril, 2008. 

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Premios Oriental Group”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), abril 2008.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Premios Oriental Group”, Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), abril 2008. 

Magazines

Barragán, Paco. “Push to Flush, Painting After Painting”. ARTPULSE, No. 15, Volume 4, Year 2013, p. 24.

Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Solo Show Myritza Castillo”. ArtNexus Guide, Issue #81, Jun - Aug 2011.

Acevedo-Yates, Carla. “When a painting moves… something must be rotten!-Moving Painting or the Dialects of Techno-Referentiality”. ARTPULSE, December 2009 - February 2010, p. 68.

Acevedo-Yates, Carla. “The Dream, Primo Piano Art Living Gallery”. Exibart Magazine, Leece, Italy.

Acevedo Yates, Carla. “Out of Oil”. DaWire, September, 2010

Acevedo Yates, Carla. Review, DaWire, August, 2010

Weinstein, Joel. “In Times of Video, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico”. Rotund World Magazine (Internet), 2007.

Weinstein, Joel. “In Times of Video, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico”. ARTFOR Magazine, 2007.

Web

Román, Arnaldo. “Myritza Castillo: Out of Oil”. Trance Líquido. October 16, 2010. http://www.tranceliquido.com/out-of-oil-de-myritza-castillo/ 

Acevedo Yates, Carla. “When a painting moves… something must be rotten! Moving Painting or the Dialects of Techno Referentiality”. http://carlaacevedo.com/index.php?/publications/when-a-painting-moves-something-must-be-rotten/ 

“Puerto Rico ida y vuelta: Programa de video”. Hybrida Art Festival 2013. http://hybridaartfestival2013.blogspot.com/2013/06/arte-internacional.html 

Critical Reviews

Los teatros hacia la construcción del Yo y las relaciones de Poder en la obra de Quintín Rivera-Toro, Revista Difusión, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. (Noviembre, 2006)

La simbología pictórica de Caravaggio, Difusion Journal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. (Mayo, 2006)

Santiago Cubides, El diógenes tecnológico, para el catálogo,  “Sin título, técnica mixtas, dimensiones variables”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. (Febrero, 2006)

Virginia Ledesma, Quién limita a quién, para el catálogo,  “Sin título, técnica mixtas, dimensiones variables”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. (Febrero 2006)

Alberto Chinchón, Los trecientos veinticinco golpes, para el catálogo,  “Sin título, técnica mixtas, dimensiones variables Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. (Febrero 2006)