ARTISTIC EDUCATION
2000-2002 De Ateliers, Amsterdam. Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Amsterdam (NL)
1993-1998 Higher Institute of Art, (ISA) Havana. (CUB)
1989-1993 Professional Art School, Camaguey. (CUB)
1986-1989 Vocational Art School, Luis Casas Romero, Camaguey. (CUB)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2000-2002
2021-2022
Van der Valk Hotel Amsterdam Zuidas, Creative Studio, Amsterdam. (NL)
2005-2006
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York. (USA)
1999-2000
Graphicstudio, University South Florida, Tampa, Florida. (USA)
2000
Djerassi Resident Artist Programm, Woodside, San Francisco, California. (USA)
FELLOWSHIPS | AWARDS
2010
Production Grant, The Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam. (NL)
2009
Production Grant, The Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam. (NL)
Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam. (NL)
Project supported: 10th Havana Biennial, “Integration and Resistance in the Global Age”, Havana. (CUB)
2008
Basissubsidies, Fonds BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design and Architecture), Amsterdam. (NL)
The Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, New York. (USA)
2006-2007
Marcelino Botin Fellowship, Santander. (ES)
2004
The Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York. (USA)
2003
Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam. (NL)
Project supported: 8th Havana Biennial. (CUB)
Cintas Fellowship, Institute of International Education, New York. (USA)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022
“El Pasado Mio/ My Own Past: Afro descendant Contributions to Cuban Art) . The Cooper Gallery, Harvard University. CA. (USA)
“As the Sugar Cane”. Curator Concha Fontenla. Factoria Diseno. Habana ( CUB )
2020
Nature: Contemporary Art and Design. Curated by Maylin Perez Parrado. Prinsengracht 529. Amsterdam. (NL)
2019
ARTBO, International Art Fair. Acacia Gallery, Bogota. (COL)
AKA. Art & Design Art Fair. 193 Gallery, Paris. (FR)
“ Pa Donde Vamos ? ”. 193 Gallery. Paris. (FR)
A Gaze through the Cintas Fellowship Program: A Selection of Works from the Cintas Foundation and the
Art Museum of the Americas Collection. AMA. Organization of American States. Washington DC, (USA)
HB Arte Cubano Contemporaneo .13th Havana Biennial, Gran Teatro de La Habana, Habana. (CUB)
ARCO. International Contemporary Art Fair. (ESP)
Lineas (Dis) Continuas. Curated by Chrislie Perez Perez . Galeria Habana. (CUB)
2018
ARTBO, International Art Fair, Acacia Gallery, Bogota. (COL)
La Noche Boca Arriba, Galeria Acacia, Habana. (CUB)
Pinta Art Fair – Miami 2017. Gallery Habana. Miami. (USA)
“Between the Real and the Imagined”. Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido. Coral Gables Museum-Miami. (USA)
Contemporary Cuban Art Auction/ Art Cubain Contemporain. Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Paris. (FR)
2016
(In) Mobiliario, Gallery Habana, Curated by Diana Cuellar Ledesma, Havana. (CUB)
“Kuba Libre”, Cuban Contemporary Positions since Peter Ludwig at Ludwig Museum in Koblenz. (DE)
Corporalidades y Cronica(o), Fundación Casa Cortes, Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico. (USA)
Pulse Art Fair, Black and White Art Gallery, New York. (USA).
HB. Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Pabexpo. 12th Havana Biennial, Havana. (CUB)
2015
Kunst Uit Huis: Collectie Wilploo. De Koerenbeurs- Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL)
2014
“Almacen 2,5”, Galeria Habana, Havana. (CUB)
2013
“For which it Stands”, The Lodge Gallery, New York. (USA)
“Pulse Art Fair”, Galeria Habana Booth, New York.(USA)
2012
VIP Art Fair, Luis Adelantado Gallery, New York. (USA)
The Affordable Art Fair, Art Star Online Gallery, New York. (USA)
SHUTTER: Photography and Film from the CINTAS Foundation Fellows Collection, Miami Dade College’s, Iconic Freedom Tower, Miami, FL. (USA)
“HB”, 11th Havana Biennial, Pabexpo. Havana. (CUB)
“The Cuban Art Collection”, ArtStar Online Gallery, Curated by Liz Edimitt and Claudia Miyar. (USA)
“About the Right of Being Different: The Art of Diversity and Inclusion at Progressive Art Collection” Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, Ohio. (USA)
Storyboard-Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova. (IT )
“The Latinomerican Evolution”, L-M-N-T Gallery, Miami. (USA)
“Arte Americas Contemporary Art Fair”, L-M-N-T Gallery, Convention Center, Miami. (USA)
2010
“The No Place”, BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn, Rotunda Gallery, Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, New York. (USA)
2009
10th Havana Biennial, “Integration and Resistance in the Global Age”, Havana. (CUB)
The Edge of Intent, Museum of Contemporary Photography, MoCP, Chicago. ( USA)
“LatinoLatino” Arte Contemporanea Latinoamericano, Trip, Napoli. (IT)
Lamarque Museum, Pallazo della Vicaria, San Francesco in Trapani. Italy. Curated by Raffaella, Guidobono. (IT)
Las Americas Latinas-Las Fatigas del Querer. Spazio Oberdan. Milan. (IT)
Pulse Miami, Black and white Art Gallery, New York. (USA)
2008
Art Rotterdam, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Rotterdam. (NL)
“De-Construct” Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam. (NL)
“Sand” Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, The Parrish Art Museum, The Hamptons. (USA)
Paradiso Terrestre-Bonelli Lab, Canneto sull’Oglio, Mantova. (IT)
“Via Simbolica”, St. Mary’s College, Maryland, Curated by Sarah Tanguy. (USA)
Bonelli Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Mantova. (IT)
“Itinerarios”, Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander. (ES)
Arte Fiera Art Fair, Gallery Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Bologna. (IT)
MIART 2008, Gallery Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Milan. (IT)
Chicago Art Fair, Black & White Art Gallery, Chicago. (USA)
Art Miami, Black & White Art Gallery, Miami. (USA)
MACO Art Fair, Luis Adelantado Gallery. (MEX)
2007
IKF Latin American Art Auction 2007, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. (USA)
“Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. (USA)
X-Files Biennial, El Barrio Museum, New York. (USA)
Poetry of the Commonplace-The Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida. (USA)
2006
IKF Latin American Art Auction 2006. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. (USA)
West Palm Beach Art Fair, Remy Toledo Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida. (USA)
Paris Photo 2006. Luis Adelantado Gallery, Paris. (FR)
The Sanctuary and the Scrum, Curated by David Hunt, Black & White Gallery, New York. (USA)
Grand Oppening, “Presente Perfecto” Volitant Gallery, Austin, Texas. (USA)
2005
“Territorial Strokes” Remy Toledo Gallery, New York. (USA)
Black & White Gallery, New York. (USA)
Latinoamerican Artists at Graphicstudio, Prints and Multiples, Tampa Bay Art Festival, Tampa. (USA)
Omni Art Miami III, Miami, Florida. (USA)
May Open Studios at the International Studio and Curatorial Program ( ISCP ), New York. (USA)
L’Arte Il Torchio 2005, Art and the Printing Press. Cremona. (IT)
Scope Art Fair. The Hamptons, Black & White Art Gallery, New York. (USA)
2004
“Landings” 1st Edition, Conkal Arte Contemporaneo/ CAC. Ex Convent of Conkal, Yucatan. (MEX)
Poskort fra Cuba. Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo. (NOR)
2003
8th Havana Biennial, Art and Life, Militar Park, La Cabaña, Havana. (CUB)
Print it! Printmaking Tecniques and Artistic Solutions-Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida. (USA)
“Lost Territories”, Schröder Galerie, Den Haag. (NL)
“Havana Voorbij de Cliches”, Pictura, Dordrecht. (NL)
2002
Introducing the Contemporary Collection: The Artist as Guide, Mackey Gallery Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida. (USA)
2000
From the Negative, Part Arts Gallery, Minneapolis. (USA)
From the Negative, Museum of North Dakota, North Dakota. (USA)
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2022
“Adrift”, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
“Spectrum: Order/Disorder”, Thomas Gallery by Marianela, Maastricht. (NL)
2020
Liset Castillo “Sketches and renderings: Flowers in a Vase”. (In conversation with Curator and Art Historian Maylin Pérez Parrado), Kunsthuis Achttien, Westland. (NL)
2019
“The Triumph of Labor Series”, Open Studio Liset Castillo at New Amsterdam. (NL)
Duo-Show Liset Castillo-Inti Hernandez, 13th Havana Biennial, Studio 90, Havana. (CUB)
2018
“Introduction”, Studio 90, Liset Castillo, Noel Leon, Inti Hernandez, Havana. (CUB)
2010
“Human Studies” L-M-N-T Gallery, Miami. (USA)
2008
Liset Castillo – Inti Hernandez, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova. (IT)
2007
“Pain is Universal but so is Hope”, Black & White Gallery, New York. (USA)
“ELOI: Stumbling Towards Paradise” UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside. (USA)
Liset Castillo: Associazione Contemporaneamente, Milano. (IT)
2006
“Western Civilization”, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Miami. (USA)
2004
“Departure Point”, Galerie Refugium, Berlin, Germany. (USA)
2002
“Liquid City”, De Ateliers, Amsterdam. (NL)
2000
Estampa es Tampa, Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, (Collaborative project with Ludwig Foundation from Cuba and Graphicstudio, University South Florida, USF. (USA)
Ibrahim Miranda – Liset Castillo, Presentation at Graphicstudio (Work in Progress and Art Lecture), University South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida. (USA)
1999
“Cosas del Querer”, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art, Havana. (CUB)
PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS
Private Collection of Susie and Mitchel Rice, Tampa, Florida. (USA)
Collection Chocolate Cortes, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (USA)
The Progressive Art Collection. (USA)
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, MoCP, Chicago. (USA)
Marcelino Botin Foundation Collection. (ESP)
West Collection, Philadelfia. (USA)
Lippes Collection. (USA)
Frost Art Museum at Miami International University, (Cintas Collection), Miami, Florida. (USA)
FMO Bank Kunst Collectie, Den Haag. (NL)
Polk Museum of Art, (Permanent Collection), Lakeland, Florida. (USA)
Allen & Overy Collection, Apollo House, Amsterdam. (NL)
Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida. (USA)
Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, Ca. (USA)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. (USA)
Graphicstudio Collection, University South Florida, Tampa. (USA)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
-Arte por Excelencias. Acacia Gallery: Universal Art for ARTBO. 26-08-2019
-Catalogue ARTBO International Contemporary Art Fair Catalogue.
-Arte por Excelencias Madrid Art Week: five days for contemporary art. Yordanis Ricar 26-03-2019
-Architectural Digest. “ARCO Madrid: una question de genero”. 25/02/2019.
-Arte por Excelencias. Two Cuban Female Artists in the Dialogues of Arco Madrid 2019.
-Catalogue ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair. Madrid. Booth Acacia Gallery.
-Catalogue. Lineas (Dis) Continuas Catalogue. Text by Chrislie Perez Perez.
2018
-Catalogue ARTBO International Art Fair.
2017
-Catalogue: “Kuba Libre”, Cuban Contemporary Positions since Peter Ludwig.
2016
-Art on Cuba Magazine, December 2015-January 2016 issue # 09. “La ilusoria Fragilidad del Pais
Sentimental”. By Wendy Guerra. Pages 26,27,28,29,30,92; 2016.
-Catalogue: “ Corporalidades – Cronica(o) . Coleccion Chocolate Cortes Arte Contemporaneo del Caribe y America Latina.
2015
-Book “African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, The Caribbean and the United States”. Edited by Persephone Braham. Article by Colette Gaiter
2014
-Catalogue “HB”, 11th Havana Biennial, Pabexpo
2011
-Miami Art Guide, feb 9, 2011. Liset Castillo “Human Studies” by Matt Balmaseda; 2011 -Art Districts
2010
December 2010_January 2011. In His Element… By Bianca Decker, pages 34,35
-Arte Al Dia Internacional, by Julia Hertzberg . “Integration and Resistance in the Global Era: Personal Reflections, 10th Havana Biennial”
2009
-The New York Times, Friday, July 11, 2008. “Sand at The Parrish Art Museum” by Libby. July 15; 2008
-Catalogue: Sand: Memory Meaning and Metaphor. The Parrish Art Museum
– Catalogue Via Simbolica with texts by Sarah Tanguy
– Catalogue “Integration and Resistance in the Global Age”, 10th Havana Biennial
2008
-Catalogue “Infinite Island”. Catalogue, Brooklyn Museum of Art
-Catalogue X-Files Biennial, Catalogue, El Barrio Museum, New York
2007
-Interior Design Aug 2007.Edited By Meghan Edwards
-Art Nexus, December 2007. Liset Castillo by Mary Schneider Enriquez. Pages 175, 176
-The New York Times. Friday, September 21, 2007. Page E27. By Benjamin Genocchio
-Art News, November 2007. By Lamar Clarkson. Reviews, New York
-Art News, December 2006. National Reviews. Liset Castillo at Luis Adelantado Gallery, Miami. By Elisa Turner
-Arte al Dia. Review By Amalia Caputo. November
2006
-Art News, December 2005, Critic’s Pick, by Rachel Somerstein
-The New York Art World, December 2005, By Mary Hrbacek
-L’ Arte E IL Torchio -Art and the Printing Press, Cremona, Italy
2005
-Art and the Printing Press, Cremona, Italy
-Catalogue: Landings. By Conkal Arte Contemporaneo/CAC. Curator: Joan Duran and texts of Eugenia Montalvan
2004
-Art Nexus, March 2004. 8va Bienal de la Habana
-Art Forum, February issue, 2004. “8th Havana Biennial”. By Christian Crattemeyer
-Art Papers, February issue, 2004. By Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
-The Washington Post, Sunday, November 16, 2003; page N01. “In Havana, an Air of Possibility” By Blake Gopnik
2003
-Catalogue: Bienal De la Habana, “El Arte con la Vida” By Antonio Zaya and the Center for Contemporary Art “Wïfredo Lam”
-WeeklyPlanet NEWS, September 14-20, 2000, pages 15… The Joung Cubans By Susan Edwards
-NY ARTS Magazine, Vol.5 no.11, 2000. Ibrahim Miranda-Liset Castillo by William Jeffet
-Star Tribune, September 8, 2000, pages 23, 24. Embargo o no, 12 Cuban photographers converge on a Minneapolis Gallery. By Mary Abbe
-Art Cuba: the new generation / edited and with an introduction by Holly Block; essays by Gerardo Mosquera… [et al.]; translated from the spanish by Cola Franzen and Marguerite Feitlowitz
-Weekly Planet NEWS August, 2002, page 12.” Where I Come From” by Preston Whaley Jr
-St Petersburg Times, published on July 28, 2002
2002
-“A New Light Shines” By Lennie Bennett. WeeklyPlanet NEWS October 22. Best Multicultural Exibition
Graphicstudio. “Two Cuban Artists: Liset Castillo and Ibrahim Miranda”