LAURA CASTRO
1982, Santo Domingo
Laura Castro is an artist, researcher, and independent curator who lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Through her practice, she examines notions of identity and the relationship with the past produced by historical discourses from the Caribbean territory. Her work is rooted in an archival sensibility— one that mines both official records and inherited cultural memory together with her own experiences, to interrogate how dominant historical narratives are constructed, internalized, and performed.
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She was a co-founder and co-director of the curatorial platform Sindicato (2013–2020), a graduate of the De Appel Curatorial Program (2020–2021), and a recipient of the Young Curators Residency Program Madrid from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (2022).
Castro’s work is part of private and institutional collections in the Dominican Republic, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Madrid, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Her work has been included in major international exhibitions such as Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at MOLAA, Los Angeles, as part of the wider Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, and World Wide Storefront at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. Art fair participations include Untitled Miami, MecaRD, Zona Maco, Arco Madrid, ArtBo, and ArteBA.
Selected Artworks
Laura Castro - Río rojo
Laura Castro - Humedal
Laura Castro - Land as Self