PAULA CASTILLO

Sculptor with Education in Literature, Psychology, Critical Literacy and Contemporary Theory

2013 M.F.A. University of New Mexico, 3D Studio and Contemporary Theory, Albuquerque, NM 2008 M.A.E. B.S. College of Santa Fe, Critical Literacy, Distinction Honors, Santa Fe, NM
1985 University of New Mexico, Cognitive Psychology, Albuquerque, NM
1979-1981 Yale University, two-year focus on Religious Studies and English Literature, New Haven, CT

Acclaimed Gallery Artist Solo Exhibitions

2019 That Mountain Over There (Now I See Her), galleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM 2017 The night in thirds, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2015 Intimate Ideas in the bBright, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2014 In the Middle of Things, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM

2013 There is No Infinity, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2011 The Forest (and the Tunnel), SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque,NM

2010 Grey Heart/Green World, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2009 The Boat (Downstream), William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2008 Approaching Distance, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2007 The Jade Staircase, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2006 Sharing the Road Home, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005 Things You Can’t See Moving (Are Alive), Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2003

Hábito, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Flower Dream, St. John’s College, Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2001 Borrowed Tongues, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Artist as Leader in Community

• One of ten female contemporary metal artists working 2018 internationally selected to be honored in special exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

• Created in-house partnership with fabricators CRMC, Inc. in 2017 with goal to develop dynamic award winning large-scale community based public work

• Head of Visual Arts Department, Santa Fe Preparatory, 2012-2017 nationally ranked college preparatory school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Led school in bringing arts curriculum umbrella to larger humanities and science based college preparatory education. Specialty: community and land-based arts.

• Developed cutting-edge land art to resolve issues of erosion, 2007-current undercutting and interactions of humans and geography in New Mexico with planned siting of sculpture in local  arroyos. Funding from SITE Santa Fe, Los Alamos National Labs, and Northern New Mexico College for research, design and siting phase.

Community and Environmental Research Driven Projects

• Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) Equal Justice Residency 2018 Research Grant winner for primary and secondary research in both literal and symbolic aspects of arroyos in Rio Arriba County to experiment with ideas related to assets and access for residents of this region in the context of New Mexico and the larger Southwest region.

• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Research Grant 2018 winner for hydrology and materials science research to aid in final design phase for land art intervention.

• SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, SPREAD Community Grant 2017 winner for development of regional art interventions for environmental complications surrounding New Mexico Arroyos.

• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 2013 Organization (UNESCO), Seoul, Korea. Grant to develop, fabricate and install public sculpture commemorating U.S. and Korean citizens during Korean War.

• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research 2009 Fellowship. Grant to research contemporary public artists working with themes of community and environment

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship. 2008 Grant to research art’s ability to interface with hydrological environmental concerns.

Community and Environment Oriented Public Artist with Ten Years of Public Art Experience

• Agnus Dei, Private Commission, New York, NY. 2017
• the boat, Private Commission, Santa Fe, NM. 2016
• small lake, El Paseo, New Mexico Art in Public Places, Taos, 2015 NM.
• the forest Institute of Biodiversity, University of Wyoming, 2014 Laramie, WY.
• Meet Me Here, Barrio la Cañada, City of Santa Fe, Public Art 2013 Program, Santa Fe, NM.
• blue flower, UNESCO, Icheon, Korea. 2013
• 100 miles of numbered mountain, University of New Mexico, 2012 School of Engineering, New Mexico Arts in Public Places, Albuquerque, NM.
• the forest, City of Albuquerque, Public Art Program in 2012 collaboration with ISEA, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
• float, Silver Gardens, City of Albuquerque, Public Art 2011 Program, Albuquerque, NM. Finalist • fallen petals, Berndt Hall Reconstruction, Ft. Lewis College, 2010 Colorado Council on the Arts, Durango, CO
• My Home Over There, New Mexico Museum of History-Palace 2009 of the Governors, New Mexico Art in Public Places, Santa Fe, NM.
• Aquila, Eagle Park, New Mexico Art in Public Places, Belen, 2007 NM.