The Artist
Camila Castillo
Before words, there is feeling. That is where my art begins.
I make collage and mixed media art that expresses abstract emotions through a pop surrealist lens. I want to translate the emotions that resist language into images anyone can recognize — work that connects people across cultures through our main commonality: feeling. Each piece is built from recycled magazines and found materials, cut, layered and reassembled, because that is the human experience: fragments that only make sense once they are aligned. My process is intuitive and admittedly a little messy. I let the imperfect show, because sincerity is the point.
I’m Camila Castillo, a Venezuelan artist based in Miami. I came to visual art through a background in International Relations and intercultural communication, and that lens never left me. I think about how an image speaks across borders, not only how it looks. My influences are surrealism, a belief in everyday magic, and the artistic legacy of my grandfather, who taught me that making things is a way of thinking. Underneath all of it runs the value I care about most: global citizenship, the idea that empathy can cross any border, and that beauty built from many worlds can help us belong to each other.
Selected exhibitions
Recent work has been shown across Miami and South Florida, including Studio 18 Art Complex and the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.
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