Fernando Sánchez Castillo

Born in Madrid, Spain in 1970, where he lives and works.

Fernando Sánchez Castillo is one of the most relevant Spanish artists working today. With his work – which encompasses a wide variety of media, from sculpture and painting to video and installations –, Sánchez Castillo addresses monumental discourses and the ambiguous relations between power and its propaganda. His work highlights the complexities and traces of historical events and shows that history is constructed from many positions of power.

Fernando Sánchez Castillo has had solo exhibitions in important museums such as CA2M, Madrid; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; MUSAC, León; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève, among others.

With public work in numerous cities, Sánchez Castillo has participated in festivals such as Manifesta 15, Barcelona Metropolitana; the Shanghai Biennial; the Riga Biennial; São Paulo International Biennial; and group exhibitions in museums such as MoMA PS1; New York; and Tate Modern, London. Dedicated to research and scholarship, Sánchez Castillo has been a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and part of the United Nations research group in Geneva PIMPA (Memory, Politics and Art Practices).

His work is part of collections and museums such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; MUDAM, Luxembourg; CA2M, Madrid; Utrecht Centraal Museum; Marta Herford; PAMM, Miami; Suzuki Collection; among others.