Antonio Castro
533 North 17th Street, San Jose, CA 95112-1735,
Phone: 408/294-4978
Email: n/a

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2007 - Day of the DEad, Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA Oct. 20 - Nov. 10,2007
  • 2006 - Fields of Deliverance: The Farmworkers Experience, Woodside Library, Woodside Ca. Sept.15-Oct.14
  • 2005 - Day of the Dead, at Primer Pueblo Bookstore, San Jose, CA (Oct-Nov.2005)
  • Latino Heritage at Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA - (Sept - Oct 2004)
  • 2003 Monotype Prints Exhibition, Mission College Gallery, Santa Clara,CA
  • 2002 Mano Mono Prints, Inca Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • 2001-01 Mural of Cesar Chavez, Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose, CA
  • 1999 Mano Mono Prints, Grand Oak Gallery, Oakland, CA
  • 1988 Nuestra Tierra, Foothill College, Stuart Library, Los Altos, CA
  • 1997 Mano Mono Prints, Café Zucco, San Jose, CA
  •  Hodgepodge: Skeletons in a Hubbub, South First Billiards, San Jose, CA 
  • 1996 -Deliverance From the Soil, Ohlone Com College, The Gary Sorne Smith Gallery, Fremont, CA
  • 1995 Temple of Conception, MFA Thesis Exhibition, San Jose State Univ, Herbert Sanders Gallery, SJ, CA
  •  Contemporary Chicano Artist, San Jose City College, City Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • 1994 Deliverance of the Soil, San Jose State University, Gallery 8, San Jose, CA
  • 1993 All That Jazz, Café Borrone, Menlo park, CA
  • 1992 Hodgepodge: Skeletons in a Hubbub, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS & JURIED COMPETITIONS

  • 2008
    • MACLA'S 10th Anual Latino Art Auction, MACLA, San Jose CA. April 17- May 17
    • "Collage Art Competition" Limner Gallery, New York N.Y. Mar. 7-31
    • "About Face: Portrait Exhibtion" ARTworksSF Gallery, San Francisco CA Feb.9-Mar. 22
    • "Beaus & Eros: Art about Love and Romance" Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont CA.Feb. 1-24
    • "Abstract Art Competion" Gallery #9 Los Altos,CA Jan.4-Feb.2
  • 2007
    • "Shifting Dreams, Migrating Realities" MACLA, San Jose CA. Nov. 30, 2007- Jan.19, 2008
    • "Angel & Demons" INCA GALLERY, Los Angeles CA. Nov.18-Dec.28
    • "Remembrance: Day of the Dead" Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA. Oct.12-Nov.24
    • "Body of Works": ebay online auction WORKS/San Jose Oct.5-26
    • "Tolerance in America" Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles CA. Aug.28-Nov.4
    • "Figura Humana" Oak Gallery, Oakland Ca. Aug 10-Sept.8
    • "Corazon en Fiesta" Art Exhibtion, Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts, San Francisco CA. July 20-Aug.25
    • HomeComing:Members Show, WORKS/SanJose Gallery, San Jose,CA.May29-July19.
    • Shifting Dreams, Migrating Realities, MACLA, 510 S 1st St San Jose, CA Nov 30, 2007 - Jan 19, 2008
  • Monotype Auction Exhibition, San Jose Instiute of Contemporary Art; June 8-23, San Jose CA.
  • Home Coming: Members Show, WORKS/SanJose Gallery, San Jose,CA.May29-July19.
  • Pastel Jury Art Competition, Sacramento Art Center, Sacramento Ca. May 8-June2
  • New Gallery Space, KALEID Gallery, San Jose,CA. May 4 thru July 28
  • MACLA 9th Annual Latino Art Auction, May 2 to June 2, San Jose CA.
  • BODY OF WORKS: Fundraiser Auction at WORKS NEW GALLERY SPACE, San Jose, CA. Apr. 13-May 10
  • Mixied Meassages, ARTWORKSF Gallery, San Francisco CA. MAR.16-Apr.21
  • Recycle Art Exhibition, The Firehouse Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, March 31, 2007 - April 29, 2007
  • 25th Latino Art Auction for the Culturales de Latino America, TEMELUKA Art Gallery, PENN STATE University Philadelphia PA March 2-31
  • 2007 Pro Arts' Juried Annual Art Competition, Pro Art Gallery, Oakland Ca. Feb.2-Mar11
  • ART with HEART, Aegis Gallery of Fine Art Saratoga CA., January 30-February 25,
  • CULTURE CLASH OF DIVERSITY, Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., The San Francisco Main Library,
    San Francisco CA. Jan 15-Feb. 25
  • 2006 "Beyond Heritage," Riverside art Museum, Riverside, Ca. Oct. 28-Dec.3
  • WORKS SILENTNIGHT AUCTION, WORKS Gallery San Jose CA. Nov21-Dec. 2
  • nbsp;"We are Family," San Jose Museum of Art. Oct. 22 2006 through Jan.7 2007
  • What's New in Art? Juried Membership Show, October 12-November 11 Los Gatos Art Museum,Los Gatos Ca.
  • Terror: 5-year Anniversary of 9/11, Intersection for the Arts Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. Sept. 11 - Nov. 11
  • Beyond the Likeness: Self Portraits by California Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA. Aug. 8th- Oct.15
  • Play Around:Toys Designed by Artists, Onsix Gallery, San Francisco CA. Aug.11-Sept.23
  • Works on Paper 06, Juried Exhibiton, Infusion Gallery, Los Angles Ca. Aug 17-Oct.16
  • Curating a Better World, A. Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles Ca. July 9-August 25
  • 666 Onsix Gallery, San Francisco CA.June6-July 8
  • 10th Aniversary Exhibition, A. Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July - August
  • Latino Art Auction, MACLA Gallery, San Jose, CA. May 12 - June 3, 2006
  • 38th Anunal Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA. April 13 - May 20
  • FLUX, Works Membership Exhibit, WORKS Gallery San Jose CA, March - April
  • Cupid, Valentine Auction, De Novo Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Jan - Feb.
  • Ray's World, The Raymond Ashley Rare Art Collection Exhibit, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA January
  • Small is the New Big, Gallery EXIT Art Gallery, New York City, N.Y, January           
  • 2005 WORKS SILENT NIGHT AUCTION, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA (Nov 22-Dec 3)
  • Honoring Workers of the World, Arbeter Ring Educational Community Center, Los Angeles, CA (Nov - Dec)
  • Art Auction For Katrina Relief, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA (Oct-Nov)
  • Tribute to Hispanic Heritage, Artescape Studios, San Ramon, CA (Oct-Nov)
  • 400 Women of Ciudad Juarez Auction, Wright Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (April-May)
  • Monotype Art Auction, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (June-July)
  • Latino Art Auction, MACLA Gallery, San Jose, CA (May-June)
  • 2004 Box Art, Pro Art Gallery, Oakland, CA - On Exhibit from Oct - Nov 2004
  • War, Peace & Civil Liberties, Berkeley, CA - On Exhibit from Oct - Nov 2004
  • Monotype Marathon Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.<
  • Latino Art Auction, MACLA Gallery, San Jose, CA.
  • Re-mix: Contemporary Mexican-American Bay Area Artists Exhibition, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
  • Community School of Music & Arts Auction, Mountain View, CA.
  • 2003 Pastel Art Survey Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA.
  • Monotype Marathon Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
  • 2002 Latino Art Auction, MACLA Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • 2001 WORKS Membership Exhibition, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • 2000 Day of the Dead Exhibition, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
  • 1999 Fantasy and Humor, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
  • 1998 Day of the Dead, San Francisco State Univ, Cesar Chavez Student Art Center, San Francisco, CA
  • West Coast Painting & Sculpture Survey of Contemporary Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
  • 1997 Land Values, Euphrat Museum, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA
  • 1996 La Voz: A Contemporary Visual Dialogue, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  • 1995 Artists Respond to Proposition 187, MALCLA, San Jose Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA
  • 1994 Tribute to Cezar Chavez, Hayward Library, Hayward, CA
  • 1993 Contemporary Survey of Mexican-American Artists, Santa Maria Museum Art Center, Santa Maria, CA
  • 1992 Journey of the Spirit, San Jose Art League Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • Fresh Art, Members Exhibition, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA

EDUCATION

  • 1995     MFA Pictorial Arts Graduate Program, San Jose State University School of Art and Design, San Jose, CA
  • 1986     BA, Art Education, San Jose State University School of Art and Design, San Jose, CA

COLLECTIONS

  • 2000     Smithsonian Institute Museum, Mural on Canvas: Cezar Chavez

CITATIONS

  • Contemporary Chicana & Chicano Art, Bilingual Press, Arizona State University, AZ

PROJECTS

  • San Jose School District and Community Centers Mural Projects
  • Intel Latino Network-Santa Clara: Embracing the Diversity of Latinos, in celebration of Cinco de Mayo

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