Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
Artist Details
Marco Castillo Valdes was born in 1971 in Camaguey, Cuba. He graduated in 1994 from The Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. He is a founding member of the artist collaborative Los Carpinteros. He has been the subject of various solo exhibitions, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2020); and Turun Taidemuseo, Turku, Finland (2021). He has also participated in many group exhibitions, including La posibilidad infinita: pensar la nación, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (2019); and From Havana with Love – Contemporary Cuban art in an international context, Museum Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany (2020). Castillo Valdes currently lives and works in Mérida, Mexico.
Bio updated as of 2023.