Carmen Castillo Moriano (Murcia, Spain, 1960)
Artist and printmaker with extensive professional and academic experience. Holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, having completed her training in Italy with a three-year research scholarship from the Government of Navarra. She has carried out her educational and professional activity in prestigious institutions such as the Istituto Statale d’Arte “Academia Raffaello” in Urbino and Grafica Uno in Milan.
Her professional activity has been developed both nationally and internationally, starting with her printmaking studio C&C in Tarragona and continuing from 2001 with the launch of the Artistic Printing Center “Litografía Viña” in Gijón (Asturias). There, she has carried out intensive teaching and research work through Estampa Mágica, her artistic consulting company, with a presence in the XI and XII International Printmaking Exhibition Estampa, Madrid.
In addition, she has carried out extensive work transferring innovative techniques and procedures, as well as neo-technological materials for the creation of artistic works, to the artistic production sector. In this sense, she has provided advice and carried out serialized editions for artists, including collaborations with Sosabravo, Casas Hierro, Miguel Ángel Ríos, Todo, Pilar Perdices, Albert Gonzalo, Pere Español, Bustillo, Cuervo, Arranz Bravo, Rafa Bartolozzi, Galanda, Riera i Aragò, Ana Lentsch, Domingo Ortiz, Joanpere, Fornells-Pla, Victoria Climent, Lucrecia Pascual, Mahi Binebine, Maite Dobler, Beatriz Vicente, Rosa Vives, Roselló, Teresa Tomás, Joël Mestre, Alberto Gálvez, Mavi Escamilla, Paco de la Torre, Sicre, Juan Cruz-Plaza, Sebastián Miralles, Antonio Gadea, Joan Hernández Pijoan, Nil Bartolozzi, Enrique Mahojo, Menasanch, Irma Álvarez-Laviada, Miguel Ángel Menéndez, Alberto Ámez, Horacio Silva, Marie-France Bonmariage, Michel Barzin, Chantal Dejace, Hardy Chantal, Luigino de Zotti, Pablo García, Francisco Velasco, Guillermo Menéndez del Llano, Villalpando, Cuervo-Arango, Pitti Bartolozzi, Keiko Mataki, Lucia Marín, Federico G. Granell, Emilio Feito, Mirian Fernández Seiz, Veronica Garcia, Eduardo Guerra, Raúl Herrero, María Mallada, Cristina Moneo, Patricia Montero, María Moriyón, Laura Noval, María Riveiro, Edgar Plans, and María Garres. Additionally, she has carried out serialized editions for Contratalla and My Name’s Lolita Art galleries.
Regarding her academic activity, she has been associate lecturer in drawing at the University of Granada and currently holds the position of senior lecturer in drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Murcia. She is responsible for and coordinates the innovation projects Del Natural I and II, and has received various international awards for her production and publication of audiovisual material. In 2016, she won the award for Best Documentary and Best Original Script and Idea at Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards for her documentary Pedro Cano. Cuadernos de Viaje.
She is a member of the Research Group on Art, Public Space, and Landscape and the IBBAA Innovation Group at the University of Murcia, having generated, among other projects, Arte y Naturaleza Hoy. This latter project has resulted in a publication and a collective exhibition that has traveled to various museums in Alicante, Murcia, Almeria, Malaga, Granada, and Sao Paolo in Brazil.
In addition to the aforementioned projects, she maintains a select artistic activity that includes participation in sector fairs and international exhibitions. Her work is present in international collections and museums, which allows her to maintain a direct connection with professional activity outside the university.
Her work is permanently exhibited at the Dialogue Gallery in France, with which she has participated in fairs and exhibitions, including the 13 SAGA 99 Salon du Livre fair in Paris, the Salon PAGES 2000 fair at the Espace Charenton in Paris, an exhibition at the Espace Jean Legendre in Compiègne in France, the Art on Paper fair in London, an exhibition at La Péniche Arles in France, the 6ème Triennale mondiale del’Estampe petit format in Chamalières, Auvergne, France, and the Modern Collectibles Art Fair, Olympia, in London.
She also maintains a close relationship with the collective in Italy, with whom she carries out exhibitions and art editions, including the publication of LA LUNA (Pensiero 17) folder, with an original engraving and poetry by Enrico Testa; publication in the international literary magazine Istmi La voce secondaria, which leads to exhibitions at the Sala del Ridotto of the Teatro Comunale di Cagli and the Palazzo Ducale in Urbania; La luna e i suoi artisti, which leads to exhibitions at the Comune di Macerata, the Castellare in the Comune of Urbino, and the Casa Natale di Raffaello in Urbino; and Risorgente Luna, an exhibition at the Spacio multimedievale in Civitanova Marche Alta.
Among the collective exhibitions of note are those organized by the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona on the Arco de Bará, or by the National Library on Graphic Works, as well as those held at the University of Granada entitled La más elegante del invernadero. It is also worth highlighting the international exhibitions Segni di un passaggio a Urbino held at the Rampa di Francesco di Giorgio Martini in Urbino, Italy; Il tartufo tra mito e arte, whose work was located at the Palazzo Mercuri in SantAngelo in Vado, Italy; LOCKDOWN 2020. PATA uniting PEOPLE held at the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych in Łódź, Poland; and the publication and exhibition De Nova Amizitia, organized and held by the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels in Belgium.
Regarding individual exhibitions, special relevance is given to the one organized by the Artestudio Gallery in Verona, titled Ager Veronensis, or the one organized by the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona, called Felix Tarraco, which related Roman archaeology and engraving through an extraordinary museum presentation that incorporated archaeological pieces with contemporary artistic works that were being exhibited.
A special mention is required for the exhibition held in 2014 in Italy, at the birthplace of the Renaissance painter Rafael Sanzio in Urbino, organized by the prestigious Accademia Raffaello, titled Urbino 1986, which was a revision of his personal artistic trajectory, focused on the graphic work he created since his first stay in Urbino.