Ruben Castillo Assistant Professor in Art

Area of Expertise: Printmaking

Ruben Bryan Castillo is a visual artist and educator investigating themes of intimacy, queerness, archival history, and the body using a range of media including print, drawing, sculpture/installation, and video. Castillo’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is included in collections such as the Mulvane Art Museum (Topeka, KS), Crossroads Hotel (Kansas City, MO), Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, TX), National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, IL), the Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), the Turner Print Museum (Chico, CA), Queer.Archive.Work (Providence, RI), and The University of Colorado Special Collections (Boulder, CO). In 2023 he was a recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award and was a finalist for the 21C Kansas City Artadia Award. He has been awarded a Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency (Kansas City, MO) and has been invited to In Cahoots Residency (Petaluma, CA), the Lawrence Arts Center Project Residency (Lawrence, KS), the 2022 Summer Pentaculum at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN), and has attended Penland School of Craft as a Studio Assistant (Penland, NC). Ruben was born in Dallas, TX and received his MFA in Visual Art from the University of Kansas and a BFA in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute. Prior to joining Skidmore College, he taught printmaking and drawing at the Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO) and Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS).He is currently a Co-managing Editor of the Mid America Print Council Journal.