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Ruben Bryan Castillo



Biography/CV
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Studio Work
Greatest Hits: Vol. 1 & 2 (2022)

One Week in Spring (2021)
One Week in Spring
One Week Before Spring
Having a Flower With You
Prints, Drawings, Sculptures (2018-2020)

Fluff (2018)
For One, In A Shared Room
(2017)
Our Pillows
Pillow Talk
Drawing Of Our Closet (Love Notes)
Can Dishwashing Be Queer?
Things I Want From IKEA
(2014-2018)
Make Room For Comfortable
Pink Couch Fantasy
Shopping List 
Domestic Views
(2012-2016)
Drawings
Prints
Sculpture
Pictures In Our Home
Body Vernacular (2012)

©Ruben Bryan Castillo 2023
Ruben Castillo
“Ruben Bryan Castillo creates archives of relationships, tracing queer intimacies and histories through a process of ambiguously built narratives—persistently pulling together everyday ephemera as documents for what often goes unspoken or unrecorded. Castillo’s queer archival practice does not record direct representations of couples; rather, impressions of contact in domestic contexts shows us how ordinary things around us can contain charged traces of love and loss. These wild juxtapositions pull together people, objects, and environments to suggest that queer worlds are built from small, everyday, minor gestures.”

-Lex Morgan Lancaster


Recent News:


2023 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award Recipient
Represented by Uprise Art NYC
Hello, Print Friend Podcast
2022 Artadia Award Finalist, 21C Kansas City


Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO (photo by EG Schempf) Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO (photo by EG Schempf) One Week in Spring, 2021, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS For One, In A Shared Room, 2017, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (photo by Brian Hawkins) For One, In A Shared Room, 2017, MFA thesis exhibition at Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (photo by Brian Hawkins) For One, In A Shared Room, 2017, MFA thesis exhibition at Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (photo by Brian Hawkins)