Myritza Castillo
San Juan, PR, 1981
San Juan, PR, 1981
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.
"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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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)