Premio Combat Prize

Artwork description-Myritza Castillo rebels, more violently than ever, against three paintings floating rack in the center of a projection on one of the works in the series of Waste of Paint video - performance paint. The violent character parts to destroy the three paintings and gives you the feeling of being an athlete in full training: shoes sneakers, shorts and a gray coat with a hood that prevents us identify it. She runs around them, hit with fists, attacks with saws release, torn fabrics jerks, and, finally, runs through the three paintings as in an obstacle course.Myritza painting faces against the moving image in a duel where paintings are inevitably helpless. The installation presents the remains of the three paintings or carcasses arranged similarly to the video. The parts are there, unable to overcome its object nature, it remains that the victims of market trends and fashions that reduce their speech to merchandise.
Myritza Castillo-Irizarry, San Juan, 1981
Visual Artist
Castillo holds a Bachelor Degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico in Bayamon [2004] and a Master in Photography and Video Art, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain [2006]. Her works have been exhibited in several group exhibitions in Puerto Rico, United States, South America and Europe. She has win several awards and recognitions among these are finalists of the Competition Luces de América National Geographic in Spanish, [August 2005 Issue], second place in the Contest of Rapid Painting of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, third prize in the inaugural Youth Art Contest Oriental Group 2008 and was selected one of the 20 finalists of the International Painting Competition Castellon Spain. In 2009 receives Lexus Grant for her project of Oil Out presented later on at Art Museum of Puerto Rico in 2010.
Her work has been reviewed in various art publications such as Art Nexus, Art Pulse, Arte Informado, Arte al Día between others. Some of her recent solo shows include Waste of Paint-Sucker, Metro Plataforma Organizada, San Juan, P.R., [2012] and Out of Oil at the Art Museum of Puerto Rico. Recent group shows are Parallel Universes, Francisco Oller Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Curated by Laura Bravo & José Gómez Isla, [2014], LA MUESTRA NACIONAL, Arsenal de la Marina Española ICP, P.R., [2013], Interconnections, Art Museum of Puerto Rico [2014], Spirit of The Epoch-A Decade of Painting, International Museum of Contemporary Art in Lanzarote, Spain [Curated by Paco Barragán] [2011] among others.
Some of her works are in public and private collections such as the Museum of Puerto Rico, Museum of Art Ponce, PR, National Gallery Czech Republic, Alberto & Maria de la Cruz, P.R., Ofelia Marin & Javier Núñez, Lanzarote Spain, Museum of Art of Alcalá deHenares, Spain among others. She is currently in Puerto Rico working on his upcoming projects.