Paula Castillo
Paula Castillo, an Indo-Hispanic artist based in her hometown of Belén, NM, is well known for her intricate welding and adaptive reuse of steel industrial by-products.
Paula Castillo
Belén
2023 Recipient, Visual Artist
Paula Castillo, an Indo-Hispanic artist based in her hometown of Belén, NM, is well known for her intricate welding and adaptive reuse of steel industrial by-products. Castillo attended Yale University and then worked in an electronics factory, where she began to forge her early career in contemporary art. She utilizes both the literal and symbolic aspects of home places to experiment with ideas related to the broader American Southwest to create allegorical narratives that highlight causes and solutions and reveal the strangeness of the world. An acclaimed contemporary artist, she has produced a range of work from Avant Garde anonymous interventions to large-scale public work and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.