Mario Castillo

At the age of five, Enriquez Castillo begin drawing large chalk drawings on huge blackboards in his mother’s classroom in a little town in northern Mexico. He also loved coloring his mother’s world history textbooks. As an artist, he maintained this love for world cultures. He is credited with creating the first multicultural mural, “The Wall of Brotherhood”, in Chicago, Illinois. Castillo has stated that he would like to be known as a global artist. After receiving his BFA from SAIC, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Cal Arts, California Institute of the Arts,...