David Castillo Gallery

David Castillo holds degrees in history and art history from Yale University and the Angelicum and has been an art dealer of secondary-market work on an ongoing basis since 2000, having worked on research and sales of European, American, and Latin American paintings. He worked for various museums in both registration and curatorial, specifically at the Yale University Art Gallery in the American Decorative Arts Department and later the Miami Art Museum in registration. He opened the David Castillo Gallery in 2005.

Represented artists at the gallery have been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum,[1] Tate Liverpool,[2] Socrates Sculpture Park, Sculpture Center, Museum of Modern Art, MCA Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Guggenheim, ICA Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Harvard Art Museums, Studio Museum Harlem, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Havana Biennial, Kiev Biennial (Ukraine), and many museum exhibitions worldwide. Gallery artists' work can be found in many catalogues of contemporary art. The David Castillo Gallery has participated in art fairs in New York, Chicago, Berlin, Miami, and Basel, including Art Basel Miami Beach,[3] The Armory Show,[4] and Frieze New York.[5]

Miami New Times voted David Castillo as "Best Art Dealer" of 2010 in their annual "Best Of" issue.[6]

TIME Magazine named David Castillo Gallery as one of the "10 things to do in 24 hours" in Miami.[7] In 2008, the Miami New Times voted David Castillo Gallery "Best Gallery".[8] In 2009, David Castillo was named one of Florida's "Top 100 Power Players" by Florida International Magazine.[9] as well as one of the" Top 23 under 40" who are influential in shaping South Florida's cultural landscape.[10]

David Castillo has lectured and served on various panels on fine art. These include Art Center/ South Florida; Charles Deering Estate at Cutler; Florida Gulf Coast University; Funding Arts Broward; LegalArt, Miami; Locust Projects, Miami; Miami Art Museum; Florida International University; University of Miami; and New World School of the Arts.

Exhibited artists include:[11][12]

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  David Castillo Gallery Pop-up, 2014
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  Sanford Biggers solo exhibition, David Castillo Gallery
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  Shinique Smith solo exhibition, David Castillo Gallery
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  Metabolic Bodies installation view, David Castillo Gallery
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  Dark Flow Lurking installation view, David Castillo Gallery
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  Pepe Mar solo exhibition, David Castillo Gallery
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  Kate Gilmore solo exhibition, David Castillo Gallery

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• O’Brien, Conor. "Lyle Ashton Harris, Ektachrome Archive 1986-96: Part I – Recovering Identity and Desire," Musee Magazine, April 23, 2015.
• Miller, M.H. "Here is the lineup for Frieze New York’s Sound Program," Artnews, March 20, 2015.
• Levin, Jordan, "Cannonball Miami awards its Wavemaker grants," The Miami Herald, February 19, 2015
• Smith, Albert, "Artist Spotlight: Lyle Ashton Harris," Out Magazine, February 10, 2015
• "Xaviera Simmons," Site 95, February 2015
• Suede, "Picasso Who? AfroPop + Afropunk Blow Up Black Modern Art," Ebony, February 5, 2015
• "The Off the Deep End Issue," Vice Magazine, February 2015
• Duran, Jose D., "MasterMind 2015 Finalist: TM Sisters," Miami New Times, February 25, 2015
• Salisbury, Stephen, "Mural Arts names artists for 2015 citywide project," The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 2015
• "2015 Joyce Award Recipients Announced," Artforum, January 27, 2015
• "5 Most Inspiring Art Shows to See in Miami This Weekend," Blackbook, January 2015
• Cascone, Sarah, "Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg Award Winners Announced," ArtNet News, January 9, 2015
• Herrera, Natacha, "’Arts Encounters Lincoln Road’ recorre el arte, arquitectura e historia del famoso bulevar," el Nuevo Herald, January 26, 2015
• Pinkerton, Nick, "Borscht Belt," Artforum, January 24, 2015
• Viveros-Fauné, Christian, "The 50 Most Exciting Artists of 2014," ArtNet News, December 29, 2014
• Hodara, Susan, "At Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Conversation Between Works and Over Decades," The New York Times, December 19, 2014
• Kleinman, Rebecca, "Basel Basics: The Real Miami Art Scene," Women's Wear Daily, December 1, 2014
• Rodriguez Tarditi, Santiago, "Meet the stars of South Florida’s new creative class," New York Post, December 3, 2014
• Thorson, Alice, "Kate Gilmore’s videos bring humorous approach to female struggle." The Kansas City Star, November 23, 2014
• Lawrence, Christina, "Beach Bound: Gallerist David Castillo Brings His Brand of Forward-Thinking Art to Lincoln Road," Miami Magazine, December 2014
• Beth, Shana, "5 Must-See Exhibitions in Miami During Art Basel," Fodor's, November 13, 2014
• Turner, Elisa, "Adler Guerrier at Perez Art Museum Miami," ARTnews, November 3, 2014
• Munro, Cait, "At Montreal Biennial Artists Tackle Sexual Politics in the 21st Century," ArtNet News, November 3, 2014
• Levere, Jane L., "Local Art Showcased at Global Museums," The New York Times, October 23, 2014
• Gotthardt, Alexxa, "A Group Show Considers Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ and Otherness in Art," Artsy, October 2014
• Kleinman, Rebecca, "The Corporation of Wynwood," Departures Magazine, October 2014
• Patel, Alpesh Kantilal, "Adler Guerrier: Perez Art Museum Miami," Artforum, October 2014
• Sproull, Lisa, "Understanding Montreal’s Biggest Art Event," Cult Montreal, October 28, 2014
• Glentzer, Molly, "Pepe Mar brings his Wunderkrammer to DiverseWorks," Houston Chronicle, September 12, 2014
• Brooks, Katherine, "Shinique Smith Crafts A Celestial Universe From Ink, Textiles And Other ‘Bright Matter’," The Huffington Post, September 18, 2014
• Russeth, Andrew, "A Tour of Expo Chicago 2014," ARTnews, September 18, 2014
• Dluzen, Robin, "Palpable Momentum Felt at EXPO Chicago," Art F City, September 21, 2014
• Tommaney, Jim J., "Pepe Mar: Parco dei Mostri (Park of Monsters) – a Trip Down Memory Lane," HoustonPress, September 25, 2014
• Tschida, Anne, "At Perez Art Museum Miami, Adler Guerrier’s singular view of the city," The Miami Herald, September 12, 2014
• Edgers, Geoff, "Bringing joy to Smith’s ‘Bright Matter’ works," The Boston Globe, August 16, 2014
• Cotter, Holland, "Arriving Late to the Party, but Dancing on All the Clichés," The New York Times, June 12, 2014
• Viveros-Fauné, Christian, "At the Guggenheim, Flashes of the Latin American Renaissance," ArtNet News, June 25, 2014
• Tschida, Anne, "Miami galleries are jammed with noteworthy exhibitions," The Miami Herald, June 2014
• "Sacred Geometry: Cultural Semiotics in the work of Sanford Biggers," Artsy, June 2014
• Schwendener, Martha, "Gathering of Far-Flung Friends, and Trends," The New York Times, May 8, 2014
• Kirsch, Corinna, & Kimball, Whitney, "NADA New York in Images," Art F City, May 10, 2014
• Quiles, Daniel, "Beyond the Supersquare," Artforum, May 2014
• Matos, Dennys, "Metabolic Bodies una reflexión en torno a practices artísticas," el Nuevo Herald, May 3, 2014
• "Metabolic Bodies," The Miami Rail, May 2014
• Tschida, Anne, "Wynwood gallerist Castillo taking his art shows to Miami Beach," The Miami Herald, April 5, 2014
• Fullerton, Elizabeth, "Playing a Different Tune," ARTnews, April 2014, p. 82-89
• Kurcfeld, Michael, & Tan, Dion, "Video: 60 Works in 60 Seconds, Paris Photo LA 2014," Artinfo, April 2014
• "Hybrid Bodies and Charged Narratives at David Castillo Gallery," Artsy Editorial, April 2014
• Sutton, Benjamin, "Silicon Valley Contemporary Fair Launches With Bitcoin Sales and New Media Art Aplenty," Artnet News, April 11, 2014
• Sutton, Benjamin, "Who’s Bringing What? How Dealers Will Tempt Techies at Silicon Valley Contemporary," Artnet News, April 9, 2014
• Picard, Caroline, "Untitled: an interview with Xaviera Simmons," ArtSlant, April 2014
• Sutton, Benjamin, "Pictures from an Exhibition: Luis Gispert at David Castillo Gallery in Miami," Artnet News, March 30, 2014
• Braithwaite, Hunter, "Luis Gispert, Tender Game," The Miami Rail, March 2014
• "Lunch with Lydia: Artist Luis Gispert," The Miami Herald, March 9, 2014
• Rogers, Katie, "Beyond Basquiat: ‘We shouldn’t use ‘black artist’ as code for ‘other," The Guardian, February 29, 2014
• Elder, Adam, "Lacma Celebrates Soccer’s World Cup," The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2014
• Mason, Shana Beth, "Xaviera Simmons, Open," The Miami Rail, February 2014
• Johnson, Reed, "Soccer ball as globe in ‘Futból: The Beautiful Game’ at LACMA," Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2014
• Mason, Shana Beth, "Xaviera Simmons: Open," Contemporary Art Magazine, January 7, 2014
• Hirsch, Faye, "Sanford Biggers: Floating World," Art in Print, January–February 2014
• Moody, Frances, "Mayer explores online identity, control at UMFA," The Daily Utah Chronicle, January 15, 2014
• Gordon, Margery, "A Conversation with Francie Bishop Good," Art Districts, January 2014
• Young, Paul David, "Hammers and Crickets: A Little Night Music in Miami," Art in America, December 5, 2013
• Cembalest, Robin, "Miami Finally Has the Art Museum It Deserves," ARTnews, Dec 5 2013
• McDermott, Emily, "Xaviera Simmons, All Over the Place," Interview Magazine, November 2013
• Rosenberg, Karen, "The Future Is African," The New York Times, November 8, 2013
• Brooks, Katherine, "10 Women Artists Of The New Millennium You Should Know," The Huffington Post, November 4, 2013
• Barnes, Steve, "On exhibit: Work by Kate Gilmore and Suzanne McClelland at UAlbany," Times Union, November 20, 2013
• Tschida, Anne, "Adler Guerrier: Miami artist and advocate," The Miami Herald, November 2013
• Kozinn, Allan, "Visual Artists, Choosing to Play by Ear ‘Music,’ at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum," The New York Times, September 26, 2013
• "Exhibition Features 30 of the Most Influential Contemporary Black Artists," The Huffington Post, September 27, 2013
• Henriette, Hadley, "Top 5 Art Galleries in Miami," Haute Living, September 24, 2013
• Adler, Tony, "What I saw at Expo Chicago (and suggest you see, too)," Chicago Reader, September 21, 2013
• Sentenac, Hannah, "TM Sisters’ "Prismavolt" Solo Show: Muscle Testing, Prisms, and Letting Go," Miami New Times, September 9, 2013
• Morris, Melissa C., "Art in Transit: A Conversation with Shinique Smith," Art in America, August 20, 2013
• Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, "The Ten Best Art Galleries in Miami," Miami New Times, July 24, 2013
• Carter, Jordan, & Exel, Hanna, "Embodying the Archive: Xaviera Simmons on Archive as Impetus," Inside/Out:MoMA, July 2013
• Scwabsky, Barry, "Rafael Ferrer with Barry Schwabsky," The Brooklyn Rail, July 15, 2013
• Lord, Jo, "At VCU, 2 artists interpret story of Harriet Tubman," Richmond Times Dispatch, July 25, 2013
• Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, "Wynwood Art Walk: Forgotten Florida to "Violets Violence"," Miami New Times, July 11, 2013
• Patel, Alpesh Kantilal, "Critic’s Picks: Shinique Smith at David Castillo Gallery," Art Forum, June 2013
• "50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists," Art + Auction, June 2013
• Zevitas, Steven, "Must-See Painting Shows: June 2013," The Huffington Post, June 2013
• "Artist Project: Xaviera Simmons," Art Papers, June 2013
• Bly, Lyz, "Love, Terror, and Happy Accidents: Kate Gilmore at MOCA Cleveland," Collective Arts Network Journal, June 2013
• Newton, Karen, "Codes and Clouds: Artist Sanford Biggers deciphers a secret language at Anderson Gallery," Style Weekly, June 11, 2013
• Sentenac, Hannah, "TM Sisters’ Art to Grace Beck's Beer Bottles," Miami New Times, June 24, 2013
• Cembalest, Robin, "Chasing Unicorns in Art Across the Ages," ARTnews, May 23, 2013
• Pollack, Barbara, "The Civil War in Art, Then and Now," ARTnews, May 15, 2013
• Mor, Ricardo, "Local artist makes interactive art, on display at Locust Projects in Miami," The Miami Herald, May 19, 2013
• Albritton, Laura, "Dressing Up Sculpture: A Conversation with Pepe Mar," Sculpture Magazine, April 2013, p. 52-57
• Cotter, Holland, "’Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: ‘Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978’," The New York Times, April 25, 2013
• Huebner, Jeff, "Sanford Biggers manifests a new destiny with Ago," Chicago Reader, April 26, 2013
• Tschida, Anne, "Pepe Mar’s cabinets of wonder," Knight Arts, April 2, 2013
• Valys, Phillip, "Somber Snapshots from Pennsylvania to Cuba," Sun-Sentinel, April 12, 2013
• Matos, Dennys, "Pepe Mar: reapropiación de la iconografía mexicana," el Nuevo Herald, March 23, 2013
• Sheets, Hilarie M., "Giving Castoffs a Second Life," The New York Times, March 7, 2013
• McQuaid, Cate, "What’s up at the Boston-area art galleries," The Boston Globe, March 26, 2013
• Garden Castro, Jan, "In the Studio with MoMA," Sculpture Magazine, March 27, 2013
• "Female Artists 2013: Celebrate International Women’s Day With 10 to Watch This Year," The Huffington Post, March 8, 2013
• Hirsch, Faye, "The Clintons," Art in America, March 8, 2013
• Berry, Sydney, "Creative Commons: David Castillo," Delta Sky Magazine, March 2013
• Graeme, Judy, "Artist Shinique Smith visits Charles White Elementary," LA Observed, March 24, 2013
• Bergeron, Chris, "Lincoln’s deCordova exhibits art that busts a move," Norwood Observed, March 24, 2013
• "Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know," The Huffington Post, February 26, 2013
• McQuaid, Cate, "’PAINT THINGS’ is off the wall," The Boston Globe, February 7, 2013
• Zeiger, Christine, "Shinque Smith exhibit in Los Angeles offers students more than a glimpse of art," Examiner, February 7, 2013
• "Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens Shinique Smith exhibition at elementary school," Art Daily, February 8, 2013
• "American artist Shinique Smith opens first exhibition with James Cohan Gallery," Art Daily, February 27, 2013
• Mori, Ahmed, "Profile: Jillian Meyer," The Miami Rail, February 2013
• Whitney, Kathleen, "Anonymous Exchanges: A Conversation with Shinique Smith," Sculpture Magazine, January–February 2014
• Mohseni, Yasmine, "Shinique Smith Preparing Exhibition at Los Angeles Elementary School," Artinfo, January 29, 2013

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