Rosana Castrillo Díaz

Rosana Castrillo Diaz (born 1971) is a Spanish artist.

Early life and education

Rosana Castrillo Diaz was born in Sama de Langreo, Asturias, Spain. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the Complutense University of Madrid and an additional BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Rosana has a Post Bac degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College.

Work Castrillo won the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2004 and Artadia Art Award in 2005. She is represented by Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco.

Themes Diaz produces graphite-on-paper drawings, wall relief sculptures, and installations primarily in monochromatic all-white. In her work, she investigates invisibility, the everyday, solidity and immateriality.

According to Janet Bishop, a curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Castrillo Diaz saw a 2000 SFMOMA retrospective of the art of Sol LeWitt, which had an impact on her work: for example, her large ephemeral drawings using Scotch tape. These works hang from the wall and move with the air, so that only their shadows remain constant; the work can appear invisible at one angle or look three-dimensional at another angle. Speaking of her tape drawings and white-on-white pieces, Castrillo Diaz has said, “My interest is in quiet, in simplicity, and in the kind of space that is in the periphery and is not quite there, or you don’t know whether it’s there or not." The work has also been described as “an attempt to redefine drawing in a three-dimensional… form.”

Exhibitions and collections Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibits, including at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and The Drawing Center. New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; University of California, San Francisco, CA; and Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA.