Rosana Castrillo Díaz
10/26/23, 2023
Graphite on paper
Framed Dimensions:
19 7/8 x 18 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches
50.5 x 46.7 x 3.8 cm
Paper Dimensions:
17 x 15 inches
43.2 x 38.1 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled, 2013
Iridescent medium on paper
58 x 58 inches
147.3 x 147.3 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled, 2010
Mica, rice paper and Plexiglas tape
66 x 99 x 8 inches
167.6 x 251.5 x 20.3 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
12/28/22, 2022
Graphite on paper
Framed Dimensions:
19 7/8 x 18 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches
50.5 x 46.7 x 3.8 cm
Paper Dimensions:
16 1/2 x 15 inches
41.9 x 38.1 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Break this Heart, 2016
13 x 23.4 feet
Site-specific installation at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled (April 19, 2019), 2019
Silk on board
60 x 42 x 4 inches
152.4 x 106.7 x 10.2 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled, 6/26/17, 2017
Graphite on paper
17 x 20 3/4 inches
43.2 x 52.7 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled, 2014
Paper and iridescent medium on paper
In seven parts
Dimensions variable
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled (9/22/19), 2019
Ribbon on paper
9 x 9 x 1 1/2 inches
22.9 x 22.9 x 3.8 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled (9/16/19), 2019
Graphite on paper
Diptych
Each panel:
15 1/8 x 16 5/8 inches
38.4 x 42.2 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled, 2011
Mica, bark and rice paper
39 x 36 x 9 inches
99.1 x 91.4 x 22.9 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled RCD# 5/2/2009, 2009
Graphite on paper
17 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches
45.4 x 32.7 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled (RCD # Sept 12, 2007), 2007
Graphite on paper
14 1/2 x 14 inches
36.8 x 35.6 cm
Rosana Castrillo Díaz: Trust me. You are t/here
CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, 2019
Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Untitled, 2009
Mica acrylic on wall
93 x 13 1/2 feet
Site-specific installation at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
"The drawings are astonishingly detailed and precise. Castrillo Díaz is a self-described perfectionist. Every one of her drawings is a gift."
- Janet Bishop, SFMOMA Thomas Weisel Family Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Rosana Castrillo Díaz was born in 1971 in Asturias, in northwestern Spain, and currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Castrillo Díaz received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1993 from Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain; a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996 from Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; a Post-Baccalaureate degree in 1999 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 2003 from Mills College, Oakland, CA.
Since her arrival in the Bay Area nearly two decades ago, Rosana Castrillo Díaz has quietly built an artistic practice centered on an exploration of light. Her carefully considered, experimental body of work, most of which is abstract, consists primarily of sculpture and wall-oriented pieces that make use of a wide variety of materials and take many different forms, from veils of looped Scotch tape and balls of twisted paper to painted wall murals and, recently, works using text. She is concerned with perceptual issues—what and how we see—and the capacity to find beauty and inspiration in small moments or unexpected places. She has also consistently made drawings—not as preparatory sketches for works in other mediums but as a separate, sustained, truly exceptional strand of her creative output.
Rosana Castrillo Díaz is the recipient of the 2005 Artadia Art Award, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY; the 2004 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; the 2003 Jay DeFeo Merit Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA; the 2002 Trefethen Merit Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA; the 1999 Photographer’s Forum Magazine Excellence Award; the 1996 First C.I.A. Associates Award, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; the 1995 Bert Benkendorf Award in Graphic Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Cleveland, OH; the 1995 Nesnadny & Schwartz’s Graphic Design Award, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; and the 1995 Frohring Foundation Graphic Design Award, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Castrillo Diaz solo exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC; Ameringer|McEnery|Yohe, New York, NY; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA; Shasta College, Redding, CA. . Recent group exhibitions included an installation at the Governor’s Mansion, Sacramento, CA, 2020; Bright | Shiny, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 2019; Additive Measures, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 2018; Plate.Proof.Print, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), San Jose, CA, 2014; Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2011; Exonome, Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco, CA, 2008; Regarding Truth , An Exhibition of Work by Artadia Award Winners, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Hair Raising, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, 2006; 2004 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2005; Wall-to-Wall, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2005; In My Empire Life is Sweet, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY, 2005; Next New, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, 2005; and Commission ’04, San Francisco Arts Commission Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2004.
Selected public collections include Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; UCSF Mission Bay Campus, Community Center, San Francisco, CA (Permanent Installation); University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
An exceptionally gifted educator, Hung Liu (1948-2021) was a vibrant and vital part of the artist community in the Bay Area and beyond. Just before her untimely death in 2021, Liu began conversations with MCAM to organize an exhibition showcasing the work of an amazing group of women artists that she taught and mentored during her tenure as a professor in the Mills College Art Department.
Look Up to the Sky, Hung Liu's Legacy of Mentoring Women Artists is the realization of that idea and features the work of Hung Liu alongside former students Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Nicole Fein, Danielle Lawrence, Monica Lundy, Nancy Mintz, Sandra Ono, Susan Preston, Mel Prest, Rachelle Reichert, Yoshiko Shimano, Gina Tuzzi, Lien Truong, and Bambi Waterman.
During FOG Art + Design 2020, artist Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Chef Corey Lee, and store owner Sam Hamilton will participate in a conversation about the crossovers of art and how it blurs and blends in their respective arenas. The conversation will be moderated by Gallerist Anthony Meier.
The Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC is pleased present an exhibition of works by artist Rosana Castrillo Díaz. The exhibition will be on view from 4 October 2019 to 12 January 2020.
Slide Space 123 at Mills College is pleased to present Additive Measures, a group show with works by Rosana Castrillo Díaz. The exhibition will be open from 10 September - 12 October 2018. The artists in the exhibition are all Mills College MFA Studio Art Alumni who share an occupation withthe passage of time, and our iintrinsic human want to quantify and describe the vastness of this experience. The act of accumulation, be it a collection of personal notes or the progressive loss of information in a jpeg file, become a possible metric for this arduous task.
Rosana Castrillo Díaz's material studies revel in the subdued elegance of light and gesture. Linen, paper, and tape are layered and finely manipulated by hand, demonstrating the resilience of these unfussy materials. With a knot, tear, or dusting of mica powder, she constructs diaphanous forms that demand the careful, extended attention of their audience. The work derives its quiet strength from that which is underestimated or overlooked.
AMERINGER | McENERY | YOHE is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works from San Francisco based artist, Rosana Castrillo Díaz.
13 November - 13 December 2014
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