María José Castaño
Burgos, 1966.
Graduate in Fine Arts, specialising in Painting. Complutense University of Madrid, 1991. Her childhood and youth was spent between Cascajares de la Sierra and Bilbao. After her studies in Madrid, she returned to Burgos, where she set up her workshop in one of the former industrial buildings of her father's company.
A constant feature of his work from the beginning of his career are the landscapes, especially those of the Arlanza Valley, with recurrent locations such as the Guijarrón peak, the Pedroso river or the monasteries of San Pedro de Arlanza and Santo Domingo de Silos. He has also painted landscapes of the different places he has visited or where he has lived, such as China (where he used supports and pigments typical of that country's tradition), Italy, Cuba, New York, the Cantabrian Sea, the Atacama desert or the Canary Island of La Graciosa. The Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos commissioned him to create an altarpiece with the Benedictine martyrs belonging to the monastery who were shot during the Spanish Civil War.
Teaching.
2006
Landscape Course. May 2006. Provincial Academy of Drawing. Consulate of the sea. Burgos.
Courses.
2005
Free Landscape Workshop. Art and Territory Forum. Tangent Space. Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia).
Scholarships.
2004
The Art and the Dream" Scholarship. Almedinilla (Córdoba), organised by ECUME. Seville.
1995
Manuel López Villaseñor landscape grant. Ciudad Real.
1993/94
Encontros na paisaxe scholarship. Valdearte'94. Council of O Barco de Valdeorras (Ourense).
1991
Landscape grant in Ayllon (Segovia). Landscape Chair. Complutense University of Madrid.
Awards
2011
1st Mention in the ACOR painting competition (Valladolid).
2010
III Edition of the Women and Business Award, province of Burgos. Professional career.
2002
First Prize, 10th Ciudad de Tudela Painting Competition. Navarra.
1998
First Prize XII City of Burgos Painting Competition.
1997
First Prize II Painting Competition Ciudad de León
1996
Honourable Mention XXIV Cajamadrid National Painting Competition
Finalist in the XIV Carlos Haes Painting Competition (Madrid)
First Prize in the IV Stock Market Expansion Fast Painting Competition (Madrid)
1995
Honourable Mention XXIII Cajamadrid National Painting Competition
Third Prize in the Third Stock Market Expansion Painting Competition (Madrid)
Second Prize, III Ciudad de Tudela Painting Competition. Navarra
Honourable Mention III Manuel López Villaseñor Award (Ciudad Real).
1994
Mention of Honour XVI Autumn Painting Exhibition. Plasencia (Cáceres)
1992
First Prize for Painting Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca)
1991
First Prize for painting. City Hall of Ayllon (Segovia).
First Prize Young Painters of Castilla y León (Burgos).
Individual exhibitions (until 2011).
2010
"It's still happening." European Commission. Foyer Van Maerlant. Brussels, Belgium.
2009
Palazzo delle Contesse. Mel (Italy). - Espacio-36 Gallery (Zamora).
2009-2010
"Where it happens". Arch of Santa Maria (Burgos).
2008, 2005, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1995
Bay-Sala Gallery (Bilbao)
2007
Vía 2 Gallery (Ibiza). 2005. Amparo Gamir Gallery (Madrid).
2004, 2005
Constellation Art. Travelling Exhibition of the Junta de Castilla y León
2001
Val i 30 Gallery (Valencia). 1998. Art Point Gallery (Bottega di Cimabue), Florence. Italy.
1996
Parc Gallery (Principality of Andorra). Pedro Torres Gallery (Logroño).
1995
Milan Gallery (Madrid). 1994. Arles Gallery (Madrid). 1993. Orfila Gallery (Madrid)
1992
Volks-Bank Hall (Eisenberg). Germany. 1992
Group Exhibitions (until 2011).
2010
"Del Rio, Cristino, Castaño and the Sea". Circulo Central Room. Circle Box. Burgos. 2011..Forlì Fair 2010 (Italy)". Image2 Gallery. (Brussels).
2007
Estampa-09. Tangent Space. (Burgos). 2008. Marita Segovia Gallery, (Madrid). "Portmany, Calvet and Castaño". Via 2 Gallery (Ibiza).
"Collective exhibition summer 2007". Amparo Gamir Gallery (Madrid). Arcale X, IX. Castilla y León International Art Fair. (Valladolid). Art- Madrid.
Crystal Pavilion (Madrid). V National Painting Prize Parliament of La Rioja (Logroño). Holland Art Fair, The Hague (Holland).
"Focus-Abengoa Painting Prize. Hospital de los Venerables (Seville).
2005
Fair "Art Seville.
"Caja Burgos Collection". Casa del Cordón Cultural Centre, (Burgos)
2002
Arc'02.
2001
Val i 30 Gallery. Madrid. Interart Fair' (Valencia).
La Gallery, (Hossegor), Ateliergemeinschaff Exhibition (Schulstrasse Münster). Germany.
2000
Pierogi Gallery 2.000. (New York). Arteroma Fair (Rome). Italy. Docal-Art Gallery (Santander). Nolde Gallery (Navacerrada).
1996
Madrid. Interart'96 Fair (Valencia).
Eloy Gonzalo Hall (Caja Madrid). Madrid.
Bay-Sala Gallery. Hundredth anniversary of the Hanging Bridge (Bilbao).
Fauna's Gallery (Madrid).
Balboa 13 Gallery (Madrid).
Milan Gallery (Madrid).
Recoletos Gallery (Madrid).
Museums and collections
Vellosillo Museum (Ayllon. Segovia).
Pedralba Museum 2000 (Valencia).
Complutense University of Madrid Foundation.
Circle Box.
Social Headquarters (Burgos).
City council of Burgos.
City Council of O Barco de Valdeorras (Ourense).
Ciudad Rodrigo City Council (Salamanca).
Volks-Bank (Eisenberg), Germany.
City Council of Tudela (Navarra).
The Madrid Stock Exchange.
Leon City Council.
Regional Government of Castilla y León.
Main Theatre (Burgos).
Caja Burgos- Civic Banking (Burgos).
Contemporary Art Museum (Salamanca).
Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery.
Parliament of the Regional Courts (Valladolid).
Focus Abengoa Foundation (Seville).
Consulate of the Sea.
Provincial Academy of Drawing (Burgos).
National Paradors. (Madrid).
Historical Museum of the Merindades. (Medina de Pomar). Burgos.
