Ruben Castillo

Troy, NY

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Print by Ruben Castillo titled "Through & Through" $1,400.
Print by Ruben Castillo titled "In the Flowers" $1,400.
Print by Ruben Castillo titled "Flow With It" $1,400.
Print by Ruben Castillo titled "A Study on Morandi & Stillness" $1,400.
Print by Ruben Castillo titled "Your Cloud, My Cloud" Sold.
Print by Ruben Castillo titled "In the Blue (With You)" Sold.
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Ruben Castillo
Ruben Castillo's work explores the relationship between intimacy and identity, and how it manifests within everyday phenomena.
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Print by Ruben Castillo titled "Having a Cloud With You" Sold.
Print by Ruben Castillo titled "Glowing" Sold.

Regardless of my media, my background as a printmaker means I am inevitably obsessed with the impression and labor of a thing. This working method is speculative for me. The collective familiarity of the public gestures, objects, and spaces that I reference mediate ambiguous forms of emotional awareness within the domestic commons.

Ruben Castillo

About the Artist

Ruben Castillo (b. 1990) is a Troy, New York-based artist whose work reflects on the relationship between intimacy and queerness, and how that manifests within everyday phenomena. Working in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Ruben’s practice documents and preserves the ephemeral with imagery that builds an archive of sentimental feeling, quietness, and closeness as a means of acknowledging the past and proposing a future. His works, which depict images of places, rituals, or things shared between lovers, convey a hope to communicate and connect.

News and Notables

Spring Awakening: Recent Works 2018-2021, solo exhibition at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, 2022
Kansas City Artadia Award Finalist, 2022
Artist in Residence at Cahoots Residency, 2021

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Ruben Castillo

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In Conversation with Ruben Castillo

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