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Jackie Castillo
MFA Fellowship 2025
Jackie Castillo (University of Southern California) is the recipient of a 2025 Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture.
Jackie Castillo is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Embracing the mediums of film photography, sculpture, and installation, her work is marked by an ongoing investigation into the relationship between city infrastructure, collective memory, and the isolation and anxiety felt by the working class. Castillo’s site-specific installations combine photographs of suburban landscapes and architectural remnants to explore the ways in which place, labor, and identity can become fractured, estranged, or made invisible, mirroring the violent shifts of a region plagued by increasing displacement and gentrification. At once the scaffold and the debris, the repair and the ruin, her works maintain a sense of impermanence and instability reflective of the historical and material changes in the built environment and the precarious and often invisible labor responsible for its making, unmaking, and rebuilding.
Turning No° 2, 2022, reclaimed bricks, laser print, varied x 6 x 8 ft.
Turning No° 3, 2023, concrete, laser print, varied x 5 x 7 ft.
Gutting, 2024, wood, front room architectural dimensions, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
Gutting, 2024, wood, front room architectural dimensions, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
With the intent to be lost, 2024, hand-bent rebar cast inside concrete, archival pigment ink, 27 x 17 x 4 in.
Between no space of mine and no space of yours, 2024, concrete, archival pigment ink, 17.5 x 57.5 x 40 in.
Everything I remember and before it before me, 2024, hand-bent rebar cast in eight 5”x7”x1” concrete slabs, black carbon pigmented concrete, archival pigment ink, 16 x 91 x 1.4 in.
Through the Descent, Like the Return, 2024, reclaimed Spanish roof tiles, rebar, cement, wood, 10 x 8 x 3 ft.
Turning No° 2, 2022, reclaimed bricks, laser print, varied x 6 x 8 ft.
Turning No° 3, 2023, concrete, laser print, varied x 5 x 7 ft.
Gutting, 2024, wood, front room architectural dimensions, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
Gutting, 2024, wood, front room architectural dimensions, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
With the intent to be lost, 2024, hand-bent rebar cast inside concrete, archival pigment ink, 27 x 17 x 4 in.
Between no space of mine and no space of yours, 2024, concrete, archival pigment ink, 17.5 x 57.5 x 40 in.
Everything I remember and before it before me, 2024, hand-bent rebar cast in eight 5”x7”x1” concrete slabs, black carbon pigmented concrete, archival pigment ink, 16 x 91 x 1.4 in.
Through the Descent, Like the Return, 2024, reclaimed Spanish roof tiles, rebar, cement, wood, 10 x 8 x 3 ft.
