NU welcomes artist Castillo

Nipissing University is please to welcome artist Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo to campus for an Artist Talk on Friday February 27, 2015 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at Monastery Hall (M106). 
This Artist Talk coincides with the opening of Castillo's work at North Bay’s Line Gallery. His exhibition,My tyrant, My protest, My myth, opens Friday February 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Line Gallery. The artist will be in attendance.  The exhibition continues until April 3, 2015.

Bound by issues of migration, identity, memory and violence, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo’s work depicts a critical narrative of historical, cultural and personal experience. As a native of El Salvador his practice is engaged with collective and personal stories rooted in the experiences of loss and violence that marked El Salvador during the 12 years of civil war. Castillo’s work exemplifies the construction of personal memory as an alternative form of resistance, political commentary and healing.

Castillo’s work has been exhibited in such venues as: the International Print Center in NY, A Space gallery in Toronto, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, The Bronx Museum, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, USA and MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) among others. He is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2010, and the winner of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in visual arts in Canada for 2011. He is now based in Vancouver.

This event is organized by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the Department of History, the Cultural Affairs Committee and Line Gallery.

Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.