Carlos Garrido Castellano
In Granada Dr Carlos Garrido Castellano completed a BA in Art History (2007) another in History (2010) and two Masters Degrees, one specialized in Art History and Heritage and another on History and Archaeology. In 2013 Castellano completed an international Ph.D. on contemporary Art History for which he was awarded the distinction Cum Laude and an excellence award in 2017. This dissertation summarized the results of five years of research that included long term residencies in the United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom. After completing his Ph.D. in June 2014, Castellano joined the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas and the Instituto de História de Arte of the Universidade de Lisboa as FCT-funded Postdoctoral researcher. The research developed since then, without forgetting the Caribbean and Latin America, has focused on exploring how collaborative and curatorial creative practices deal with difference and reproduce and/or challenge coloniality.
Dr Castellano joined the University College Cork in 2018 where he spent his first year coordinating the research events of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department.