miguel fernández de castro (b. 1986, sonora, mexico) is a visual artist based in the sonora-arizona borderlands. through photography, video, sculpture, and writing, his work examines how extractive and criminal economies materially transform a territory while looking at the historical ties between environmental catastrophe, smuggling routes, and forced disappearance. in mexico, his work has been shown at museo tamayo, museo jumex, casa del lago, museo de arte moderno, and museo marco, among others. internationally he’s presented work at museu de arte de são paulo (brazil); storefront for art & architecture (usa); ballroom marfa (usa); frac centre-val de loire (france); spazio veda (italy); wren library (uk); museo artium (spain); ashkal alwan (lebanon), among others. since 2018 he has collaborated with multiple search groups documenting mass graves on both sides of the mexico-us border. since 2022 he has been a member of mexico’s national system of art creators. he is co-founder of the altar centro de investigación. lives and works in altar, sonora.
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