David Castillo Gallery


The David Castillo Gallery is an art gallery in Miami Beach, Florida. The gallery was opened by David Castillo in 2005 to show mid-career and emerging artists.

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, 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: