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JOTA CASTRO IS A PERUVIAN ARTIST, LIVING IN BRUSSELS.

HE USES PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE, VIDEO AND INSTALLATIONS TO TALK ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES.

HE IS CONSULTING EDITOR FOR JANUS MAGAZINE IN BELGIUM AND NOLENS VOLENS IN SPAIN.
HE IS A TEACHER AT THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID.

HIS WORK HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY SHOWN AROUND THE WORLD. HE HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE VENICE, TIRANA, PRAGUE AND KWANGJU BIENNALES. HE WON THE GWANDJU BIENNALE PRIZE IN 2004 IN KOREA.





Solo Exhibitions:

2015 ‘Sacrosanctum’, Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo, Italy
2014‘ Working Together’, Canal O5, Brussels, Belgium
____ ‘De vida no se puede vivir’, MAC, Santiago de Chile
2013/14 "Gemütlichkeit", Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli, Italy
2012 "Jota Castro", Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
____ "Austerity Über Alles!", Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2011 "Memento mori", Umberto di Marino, Napoli, Italy
2010 "Low Cost Tour - Second Stop", Y3K, Melbourne, Australia
____ "Low Cost Tour", Gonzalez y Gonzalez Gallery", Santiago, Chile
2009 Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
____ Low Cost, Gallery Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
2008 La Palabra de los Mudos, Playa Redondo, Miraflores City, Lima, Peru
____ Volta Show, New York, USA
____ Sleep tight, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Enjoy your travel, Umberto Di Marino Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Naples, Italy
2006 No More No less, Gallery Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
____ Rear Window, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
____ Jota Castro, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
____ Born to be alive, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Exposition Universelle 2, B.P.S 22, Charleroi, Belgium
____Exposition universelle 1, Palais de Tokyo. Paris, France
____Taking part, Sterdelijk Museum's Hertegenosch, Netherlands
____Introduction to Jota Castro, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Bouc-émissaire, Gallery Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2003 Motherfuckers never die, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
____ Love Hotel, Maisonneuve Gallery, Paris
2002 Et si c'était à refaire, Palais de Tokyo, Tokyorama, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions:

2017 'Idiosyncracy: Anchovies Dream of an Olive Mausoleum',Visual Art Center
____ Centro Helga de Alvear Foundation, Caceres, Spain
2016 'The soul of money', DOX, Prague, Czech Republic
____ 'Total Chaos', Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
2015 ‘Sportsmanship under Surveillance’, Sur Gallery, Toronto, Canada
____ ‘Fire and Forget. On Violence’, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
____ ‘Sleepless – The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Haus Museum
____ Belvedere, Wien, Austria
____ ‘Icon(s), Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium.
2014 "Zeichen gegen den Krieg. Antikriegsplastik von Lehmbruck bis heute",
____ Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
____ "Summerstage", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
____ "Slow Future", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland
2013 "Emergency Pavillion: Rebuilding Utopia"
____ 55th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
____ Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, Italy
____ "Tell Me Wohm You Haunt. Marcel Duchamp And the Contemporary Readymade"
____ Blain|Southern, London, UK
____ ‘Sex, Money and Power’, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
____ "Order, Chaos and the Space Between", Phoenix Art Museum, Pheonix, USA
____ "Economics In Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland


2012 "Radici – Memoria, identità e cambiamenti nell'arte di oggi"
____ curated by Eugenio Viola, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (Teramo), Italy
____ "More to Tell", Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
____ "Copa América", Projeto 5x5, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 "Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance"
____ Dublin Contemporary 2011
____ curated by Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné, Dublin, Ireland
____ "West End?", Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 "Trasparenze", MARCO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma.
____ "Optimismo Radical", Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Pabellón de la Urgencia, Murcia. "The Fear Society", curated by Jota Castro,
____ Biennale Venezia 53rd International Art Exhibition El Dorado
____"Menschenrechte zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit", Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
____"Second Biennial of the Canary Islands", Architecture, Art and Landscape
____ All ?s fair in Art and War, 21c Museum, Kentucky, USA
2008 U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Nicolaj CCAC, Copenhagen, Denmark
____ Latinolatino, Castle of Barletta, Bari, Italy
____ Madrid Abierto 2008 - Artists Interventions in Madrid 5th Edition, Madrid, Spain
____ Gravity, Museo Artium, Vitoria, Spain
____ Black-Paris, Black-Bruxelles, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
____ Art in the life World, Dublin, Ireland
____ Arte e Omosessualità, Firenze, Italy
____ Fate Presto, Salerno, Italy


2007 First Anniversary Group Show, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
____ Emergency Biennale in Chechnya world tour
____ stop 9: 10th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
____ ArteDove - cultural platform, Fosdinovo, Massa Carrara, Italy
____ Arte e Omosessualità, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
____ Young Talent, Art Brussels 2007, Brussels, Belgium
____ We are your future, 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
____ Atlante latinoamericano, Monterrey, Mexico
____ Informacion Contra Informacion, CGAC, Spain
____ Construyendo el mundo, Marco Museo de arte contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
____ Confine, MAN - Museo di arte di Nuoro, Sardeigna, Italy
2006 Ars 06 Sense of the real, Kiasma Museum, Helsinky, Finland
____ Being in Brussels, Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels, Belgium
____ Uscita Pistoia, Spazio A Contemporanearte, Pistoia, Italy
____ Black Paris, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
____ People, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
____ Team show, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Travel, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
____ 3rd Tirana Biennale, Albania Prague Biennale2, Prague, Czech Republic
____ Brussels South Airport, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien, Austria
____ Interessi Zero, performance, Trento, Italy

____ Risk, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK
____ Disobedience, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany
____ On Mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
____ Posture... Say Again, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Point Break, bnd TomasoRenoldiBracco ContemporaryArtVision, Milan, Italy
____ Pour Amiel, La Criée, Rennes, France
____ Z.O.U.- Zone of Urgency, Reggio Calabria, Italy
____ Storage, B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, Belgium
____ Public Art Project, De Pijp-Skor, Amsterdam, Holland
____ 4th Kwangju Biennale, Korea, Biennale Price
____ Troubled Times, Gruppo 78, Trieste, Italy
____ Produciendo realidad, Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, Italy
____ Seven Sins, Museiom, Bolzano, Italy
____ Shake II, Villa Arson, Nice, France
____ Shake, OK Centrum, Linz, Germany
____ Perspective 04 - attualità dell'arte contemporanea



____ Protagonisti dell'arte 2004, Molfetta, Italy
____ Quick Sand, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003U-Topos, 2nd Tirana Biennial, Albania
____ Z.O.U., Survival Guide for Demonstrators, 50th Venice Biennial, Italy
____ Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2002 Lines and Mobility, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany
2000 Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany


Prizes:


Winner of the European Festival of Visual Arts in Hospitals 2009
Gwandju Biennale Prize ( Korea) 2004
Young Peruvian Poet Prize, 1983

Teaching:

2008 at the European University of Madrid