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.

selected solo exhibitions:

Jota Castro, Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany 2009
Low Cost, Gallery Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain 2009
La Palabra de los Mudos, Lima, Peru 2008
Sleep tight, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium 2008
Enjoy your travel, Gallery Umberto Di Marino, Napoli, Italy 2007
No More No less, Gallery Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain, 2006
Row window, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland.2006
Born to be alive, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium 2006
Exposition universelle 1, Palais de Tokyo. Paris, France 2005
Taking part, Sterdelijk Museum's – Hertegenosch, Netherlands 2005
Introduction to Jota Castro, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2005


 

selected Groups exhibitions:

All’s fair in Art and War, 21c Museum, Kentucky, USA 2009
SOS48, Murcia, Spain 2009
53rd Venice Biennal, The Fear Society, Venice, Italy 2009
2nd Canary Islands Biennal, Tenerife, Spain 2009
Madrid Abierto,Madrid, Spain 2008
Gravity, Museo Artium, Vitoria, Spain 2008
Black-Paris, Black-Bruxelles, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium 2008
Art in the life World, Dublin, Ireland, 2008
Arte e Omosessualità, Firenze, Italy 2008
Fate Presto, Salerno, Italy, 2008
Atlante latinoamericano, Monterrey, Mexico 2007/2008
Informacion Contra Informacion, CGAC, Spain, 2007-2008
We are your future, Moscow Biennale, 2007

 

Construyendo el mundo, Marco Museo de arte contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, 2007
Confine, MAN - Museo di arte di Nuoro, Sardeigna, Italy 2007
Ars06, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland 2006
Tirana Biennale, Albania, 2006
Kwangju Biennale, Korea, 2004
50th Venice Biennale, 2003

Prize:

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

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