Mariana Castillo Deball

Mariana Castillo Deball (1975, Mexico) is a visual artist whose work has explored the history of cultural objects, their prevalence and the different ways in which these have been interpreted and understood throughout time. She has been awarded with internationally renowned prizes, including the Prize of the National Gallery, Berlin (2013), the Zurich Art Prize (2012) and the Ars Viva Award (2009). She has participated in numerous major exhibitions and biennials, including the Venice Biennale (2022, 2011), the Bienal de São Paulo (2016), Berlin Biennale (2014), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012). The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions include MUAC University Museum, Mexico City (2021), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2021), Modern Art Oxford, England (2020), Monash University Museum, Melbourne Australia, and New Museum, New York City (both 2019). She has been teaching as a professor of sculpture at Münster Academy of Art since 2015.