Carlos Castro: new represented artist
20 of February 2022
Carlos Castro Arias, is Colombian artist, professor and musician. His practice departs from the appropriation of historical images and the formal and symbolic re-contextualization of found objects. Castro’s work explores elements of the individual and collective identity and aims to bring to light muted histories and ignored points of view.
He received a BA from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogota, in 2002; in 2008 he attained a Fullbright Scholarship to go to San Francisco Art Institute, where he got an MFA in Painting in 2010.