Eric del Castillo

Eric del Castillo, 1962 Mexico City. Visual remixer / visual artist. Lives and works in Split.  In 1986 he began his artistic career using collage, appropriation and remix techniques. Collage runs through his artistic work not only as the most important artistic technique, but as a way of thinking and acting in general. In 1995, he received a fellowship from the National Fund for the Arts and Culture (FONCA), Mexico and the National Fund for the Arts (NEA), United States. In 1996, he was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Since 1987 he has participated in 18 individual exhibitions and more than 100 collective exhibitions in Mexico, Croatia, the United States, Germany, Spain and Canada. In 2018 he donated a documentary collection to the Arkheia MUAC Documentation Center, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UNAM: El Sindicatoe del Terror / Eric del Castillo. (Performance Archive of the 80s and 90s in Mexico) on the performance groups El Sindicato del Terror, Los Escombros de la Ruptura and La Sociedad Mexicana Protectora del Espectador de Performance, as well as different groups and artists from the Mexican scenic scene. His work belongs in the collections of MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, UNAM. Mexico, Galerija Umjietnina (Museum of Fine Arts) Split, Croatia. As well as numerous private collections.