Carolyn Castaño is a Los Angeles-based artist who uses eco-feminist frameworks in painting, installation, video, and artist books to explore the landscape, migration, female and family identities in works that juxtapose drawing, photography, performance with patterns found in textiles, design, and geometric abstraction. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship 2025 in Fine Arts, the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in Painting and Drawing, the 2011 California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow, Mid-Career Grant, and the 2011 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA.
Carolyn’s work has been featured in Cumanday: Beautiful Mountain, at the Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, Cumbi, Tucson Art Museum, Cali es Cali, OCMA Expand (Orange County Museum of Art), Carolyn Castaño: A Female Topography 2001-2017, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, We Must Risk Delight-Twenty Artists
from Los Angeles at the Magazzino Di Sale, 56th Venice Biennial collateral exhibition, Phantom Sightings at LACMA and International Paper at the Hammer Museum. Carolyn has had solo exhibitions with Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, Oolong Gallery, Solana Beach, and Lombard-Freid Gallery, New York.
Carolyn is a Professor of Drawing & Painting at Long Beach City College. Ms. Castaño received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA’s School of Art & Architecture in 2001.
