othón castañeda
EDUCATION / EDUACACIÓN (Selected)
2021 Curatorship and video/film design exhibitions (Gestión de la curaduría en movimiento, 35 hours) by Antoni Pinent,
Ph.D, Tec de Monterrey, México
2021 Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl, Ph.D (25 hours), EAAD, Tec de Monterrey, México
2020 Parametric Design, an introduction. Strategies and fundamentals by Diego Navarro, Ph.D (Introducción al diseño
paramétrico. Fundamentos y estrategias en Grasshopper, 25 hours), Tec de Monterrey - Universitat Internacional de
Catalunya, México - Spain
2020 Touchdesigner´s Fundamentals by Matthew Ragan & Zoe Sandoval - Sudomagic Studio(40 hours), Tec de Monterrey, México
2017 -18 Arte contemporáneo y actual (70 hours), Centro Nacional de las Artes, CENART, México
2012-14. MFA, Fine Arts, Miami International University of Art and Design, Miami, FL, USA
Thesis: "Constructing, Destroying and Deconstructing the Body"
2001 Diploma in Ancient and Classical Art, Universidad Anahuac, Mexico
1993-99 BA. Architecture, Facultad del Hábitat, U.A.S.L.P., San Luis Potosí, México
Thesis: "The image of the architectonic boundaries"
GRANTS, AKNOWLEDGEMENTS & PROGRAMS / BECAS, RECONOCIMIENTOS Y RESIDENCIAS ARTÍSTICAS
2021-22 Grant. The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2021 Selected artwork. Tijuana Triennial, Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT - Secretary of Culture, Baja California, Mexico.
2020-21 Selected artist. Fourth edition of Programa de Alto Rendimiento en Arte Contemporáneo (PARAC) supported by
Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (PAC) and, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), México
2019 Mid-Career Artist Grant (Artista con Trayectoria), PECDA CulturaTam - Secretaria de Cultura, México
2017 Artist-in-Residency Program, PANAL 361, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Participation Grant, 3rd General Assembly, International Biennial Association (IBA), Milan, Italy
2012-14 Artist-in-Residency Program, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2013 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions - Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL, USA
2007 Visual Arts, Artistic Development Grant (Beca Desarrollo Artístico Individual), PECDA-CONACULTA, México
2005 Selected Work, Juried Open Call, El Caliú, Els Catolics Collection, Girona, Spain
2003 Visual Arts, Artistic Production Grant (Estímulo a la Creación Artística, Artes Plásticas), FONECAT-CONACULTA, México
1996 Young Artists Grant, Stage Design (Beca Jóvenes Creadores, Diseño Escenográfico), ITCA-CONACULTA, México
1995 Architecture, Best in Class '93 (Arquitectura, Alumno Distinguido Generación '93) Facultad del Hábitat, Universidad
Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / EXHIBICIONES INDIVIDUALES (Selected)
2017-20 Introspective, Centro Cultural Tamaulipas (2017); Parque Cultural Reynosa (2018); Espacio Cultural Metropolitano,
Tampico (2020), CulturaTAM, México
2017 Studio's Study (site-specific installation), PANA 361, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Solo show, Locked Room Art Projects, Pinta London Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2013 Self-Portrait, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2012 Proto-anatomies, Mexican Cultural Institute, Miami, FL, USA
2012 Lustrum, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, (MACT), Matamoros, México
2011 Lustrum Reyes Meza Museo, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México
2010 Recent Work, Axis Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2009 Recent Work, Museo de Linares, Nuevo León, México
2009 The Doorman, Tower Theater, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, USA
2008 Rare Self-Portraits ArtVision Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2006 Iconophilia (Iconofilia) Mexican Cultural Institue, Miami, FL, USA
2006 Flujos y Gravedades, George Price Centre, Belmopán, Belize
2006 Constructed, site-specific installation. Constructos, cajas-concepto e instalación. (Primera intervención de arte contemporáneo en el sitio histórico del Oratorio) El Obispado, Museo Regional de Nuevo León, México
2005 Flujos y Gravedades, Instituto Cultural de México, Quito, Guayaquil & Cuenca, Ecuador
2000 Articulación de lo Distante, Galería Raúl Esparza (Torreón), Casa de la Cultura (Parras), Museo Coahuila-Texas (Monclova), Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura, Coahuila, México
2000 Ensayo, Galería José Jayme, Instituto de Cultura de San Luis Potosí, México
2000 La Delimitación de lo Continuo, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, México
1998 Real y Abstractiva, Centro Cultural Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EXHIBICIONES COLECTIVAS (Selected)
2021 -22 Tijuana Triennial, I Pictoric Art, curated by Carmen Hernández, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) - Secretaría de Cultura de Mexico, (Oct., 2021 - Feb., 22)
2021 Resaca Project, Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, Brownsville, TX, USA
2021 PARAC, Galería Educativa, curated by Marco Granados, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, México
2015 Tzompantli, a site-specific installation. Detrás del Muro Project, curated by Juan Delgado Calzadilla, 12 Havana Biennial (May 22, 2015). Detrás del Muro III, Havana, Cuba
2015 Affective Architectures, curated by Adriana Herrera & Willy Castellanos, Aluna Art Foundation Miami, FL, USA
2015 C-Arte, Art Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
2014 30 Years on the Road, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2014 Mexican representation at Utopias and Contrasts, IV Edition of the End of the World Biennial (Bienal del Fin del Mundo,
Contrastes &Utopías), Mar del Plata, Argentina
2014 C-Arte Gallery (e)merge art fair, Washington, D.C., USA
2014 In His Own Likeness, curated by Mariví Vélez, The Richard Shack Gallery, SFAC, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2014 C-Arte Gallery, Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2014 C-Arte Gallery, ArtCartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2013 ArtCenter South Florida, JustMad Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
2013 The pARTy, Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL, USA
2012 Prome Encuentro Bienal Arte Contemporáneo di Caribe, Paradera, Aruba
2012 All about Art, Frost Museum of Art, FIU, Miami, FL, USA
2011 Giants in the City, Bayfront Park, Art in Public Places, Miami, FL, USA
2011 Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
2010 Miami Book Fair, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL, USA
2010 Giants in the City, curated by Alejandro Mendoza, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2009 Pasajero Cultural, curated by Roc Laseca. Fundación de las Islas Canarias para la Educación y la Cultura, Cabildo
de Tenerife, Spain
2009 Estado de Tamaulipas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán, MACAY, Mérida, Yucatán, México
2009 Mexican Pavilion, Arteamericas Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2008 Bridge Art Fair, Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL, USA
2008 Pequeño Formato, Blink Fine Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2008 Icons , ArtVision Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2008 Superficies, Museo of Contemperar Art of Tamaulipas, México
2008 Step by Step Foundation, Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2007 Arteamericas Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2007 Doble Cero, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, MACT, Matamoros, México
2006 The Aesthetic of Mementos Art Rouge Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2006 NOborders, Galería del Centro Cultural Tamaulipas, Fondo Regional para la Cultura y las Artes del Noreste, Ciudad Victoria, México
2005 El Caliu, Els Catolics, Girona, Spain
2004 Exvotos Contemporáneos, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera - Galería Oscar Román Xalapa, Veracruz, México
2004 Deseo, Galería Oscar Román, México, D.F., México
2004 Nacionalismo, Oscar Román Gallería, México, D.F., México
2003 Dos Líneas: Figurativos – Abstractos, Galería Oscar Román, México, D.F., México
2002 Arte Joven Contemporáneo - Tamaulipas, Casa Las Monas, Festival Internacional Cervantino, León, Guanajuato, México
2001 Homenaje 50 Años de Plástica, Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes, San Luis Potosí. S.L.P., Mexico
1995 Arte de Tamaulipas, Rio Grande Valley Museum, Harlingen, Texas, USA
COLLECTIONS / COLECCIONES
Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador
Fundación Apogeo Arte Público, Miami FL, USA
Colecciones Carlos Monsiváis - Museo del Estanquillo, México, D.F., México
Els Catolics, Girona, Spain
Centro Cultural Mexicano, Quito, Ecuador
Centro Cultural Tamaulipas, México
Private collections
PUBLICATIONS / PUBLICACIONES
Othón Castañeda, Tzompantli. Detrás del Muro II, XII edition de la Bienal de La Habana (Cuba), LA FÁBRICA, Madrid, España, 2019.
Documental Limbo de Lester Hamlet, La Habana, Cuba, 2018.
PANAL 361 - ArtCenter/ South Florida, News, ArtNexus, 2017.
Affective Architectures, Aluna Art Foundation, News, (English & Spanish), ArtNexus, 2015.
In his own Likeness, Article, Arte al Dia International, 2014.
In his own likeness, Article, The Miami Herald & El Nuevo Herald, 2014.
Othón Castañeda, an artist with an eclectic repertoire by Yuleina barredo (Othón Castañeda, un artista con repertoire ecléctico), ArtDistricts Magazine, United States, 2009.
Constructos de Castañeda en el Obispado, Milenio Diario Monterrey, 2006
AFILIATIONS / AFILIACIONES
2014 - Present National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC), USA
2015-2017 International Biennial Association (IBA), EAU
2014-2017 The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Miami Chapter, USA
2012-2014 Arts and Entertainment Council, City of Miami, FL, USA