David Castillo Gallery

History

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, Tate Liverpool, 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, The Armory Show, and Frieze New York.

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

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

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.

Artists

Exhibited artists include:

Exhibitions

DCG Summer Show
June 10 - August 31, 2015

Lyle Ashton Harris
Ektachrome Archive 1986-96: Part I - Recovering Identity and Desire
April 10 - May 30, 2015

Wendy White
12th Man
February 13 - March 31, 2015

José Lerma
Guaynabichean Odyssey
December 1, 2014 - January 31, 2015

David Castillo Gallery Pop-up
December 2014

Amerika
September 26 - November 14, 2014

Sanford Biggers
3 Dollars & 6 Dimes
May 15 - July 5, 2014

Metabolic Bodies
April 5 - May 10, 2014

Luis Gispert
Tender Game
February 6 - March 29, 2014

Xaviera Simmons
Open
December 2, 2013 - January 31, 2014

Melvin Martinez
All Inclusive!
October 10 - November 20, 2013

TM Sisters
Prismavolt
September 12 - October 5, 2013

Doğan Arslanoğlu & Johnny Laderer
Lost Boys
July 13 - August 17, 2013

Shinique Smith
Kaleidoscopic May 17 - July 6, 2013

Francie Bishop Good
Far From Apple Hill
April 11 - May 4, 2013

Pepe Mar
The Eye, The Vessel, and The Spell
March 2 - April 6, 2013

Rafael Ferrer
Recent Work
January 10 - February 23, 2013

Dark Flow Lurking
November 16 - December 31, 2012

Quisqueya Henriquez
After Some Twisted Lines
October 11 - November 10, 2012

Adler Guerrier
Here, Place the Lever.
September 8 - October 5, 2012

Kate Gilmore
Rock, Hard, Place
April 14- May 31, 2012

Picaresque
February 11- March 31, 2012

Don't Get High On Your Own Supply
November 12- December 31, 2011

Fabian Peña
Subliminal
October 6- November 5, 2011

Crushed Candy
September 8- October 6, 2011

Sum of the Parts
May 14- June 25, 2011

Jillian Mayer
Family Matters
April 9- May 7, 2011

Sebastian Silva
Look, Mom!
March 12- April 2, 2011

Francie Bishop Good
Lost/Found
February 12- March 5, 2011

The Maginot Line
Curated by Dennis Scholl
December 1, 2010- January 29, 2011

Secondary Market Work

Working with important international private collectors, David Castillo has marketed and sold works by artists including Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, Marc Chagall, Joan Mitchell, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Andy Warhol, Claudio Bravo, and Manolo Valdes among many others. Among the notable works sold by Castillo are Lam's Femme Peignant Ses Cheveux (1939) and Tamayo's Matrimonial Couple (1969) which belonged to the Stanley Marcus Collection.