Dec 22nd 2023

Jonathan Michael Castillo: Immigrant Owned: Walkthrough with the Artist

@ Chicago Art Department

1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608

Opening Friday, December 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8PM

On view through Friday, February 23rd

Please join us thi Friday, 6:30-8PM, when photographer and educator Jonathan Michael Castillo leads the gallery’s inaugural walkthrough of the exhibition ‘Immigrant Owned.’ This event is free.

Jonathan Michael Castillo is a visual artist, photographer and educator based in Chicago. He is the 2019-2021 recipient of the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues. Jonathan was included in the 2021 Hyde Park Art Center’s Ground Floor Biennial in Chicago and was a finalist for the WMA Commission in Hong Kong. His work has been featured with The New Yorker, Wired, CBS: Los Angeles, and Brazil’s G1 Globo. He has appeared on the radio to discuss his photography on the BBC’s “World Update” and local Los Angeles public radio programs KPCC and KCRW. Jonathan was recently commissioned to create a large-scale permanent installation of his work at O’Hare International Airport as part of the new Terminal 5 expansion project. Exhibitions include those at Photo LA 2020, the Center for Creative Photography, Aperture Gallery, House of Lucie, Filter Photo Gallery, Ralph Arnold Gallery and the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks. Jonathan is represented by Samuel Maenhoudt Gallery in Belgium. His education includes a BFA from California State University Long Beach and MFA from Columbia College Chicago.

December 22, 2023
6:30-8PM
Chicago Art Department
1926 S. Halsted St, Chicago IL, 60608

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