Marco Castaneda
T: 619 647 0984
E: marcodavid@marcodavid.co
I have begun to approach working with physical photographs no longer as precious objects, but as malleable forms with sculptural possibilities. I find comfort in cutting, folding and re-photographing the objects I make in hopes of manifesting a more solid foundation to build up from. I enjoy the tactility of sculpture and its haptic registers within the photographic. I often use found objects, usually pieces of fashion that represent a certain type of person, most of the time the type of person I used to be. I’m thinking about control and presented image; what is shown and what is concealed.
What intrigues me about fashion is how clothes act as a sort of armor but also as a focal point of vulnerability. The duality that comes along with presenting oneself, how each article of clothing affords one different privileges and access to particular circles. I’m validating the place-holder as the real thing, fighting the gentrification of myself and the aesthetics of combating an ever-creeping nostalgia for the comforts of heteronormativity. I am interested in the repetition and production of secrets, the way oral history can operate as a mechanism of exclusion but can be distorted during its proliferation.
Education
CV
San Francisco Art Institute
BFA in Photography
2015—2018
B 1994
Lives and works between San Francisco & Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
Boys in Polos Think its Funny, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017
Group Shows and Collaborations/Artist Talks
Distorted Perception, Today at Apple, Apple Store Union Square 2019
The Sweet Escape, Fort Mason's Gallery 308, San Francisco 2018
Way Bay Now Exhibition, Berkeley Art and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA 2018
Altered Landscapes, Southern Graphics Council, Las Vegas, Nevada 2018
The Love Below, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
The Radicals, The Real Old Paper Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
You Were Here, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
The Impracticals, Bass and Reiner, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 2017
Fort Mason Opening Spectacle, SFAI Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 2017
Playtime, Isaac Julien, (Collaborative Card Piece) Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2017
Many Rooms by Ebitenyefa Baralaye, (collaborative video piece) Museum of African Diaspora,
San Francisco, CA 2017
It's Complicated, 511 Pop Up Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017
Below the Threshold, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017
Inadequacy, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017
Awards & Residencies
Adidas Originals Window Activation 2018
Paul Sack Award 2018
Casa Na Ilha Artist in Residence, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018
San Francisco Art Institute Photography Program Honorable Mention 2017
Paul Sack Award Honorable Mention 2017
San Francisco Art Institute Merit Portfolio Scholarship in Photography 2015-2018
Experience
Content Producer at LightSource SF
Gallery and Installation Assistant, Walter and Mcbean Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2017-2018
Still Lights and Paul Sacks Galleries Co-Curator, San Francisco, CA 2018
PhotoAlliance Volunteer, San Francisco, CA 2016-2018
Digital Content Assistant (Arts Marketing) San Francisco Art Institute, 2016-2017
Digital Imaging Assistant, San Francisco Art Institute, 2016-2018
The Billboard Creative Contributor, Los Angeles, CA 2014-2017
Director of Photography at Black Entertainment Television, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY 2014-2015
Owner, Marco David Commercial Photography & Imaging, 2014-Present
Creative Intern at Paramount Pictures Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 2013-2014
Languages
Skills
- English
- Spanish
- Photography & Imaging
- Photoshop
- Lightroom
- Illustrator
- Premiere Pro
- Videography
- Print Media/Design
- Photo & Video Production
- Digital Content Production/Strategy Execution
- Art Consulting