Rick Castro Resume

Film work

Director credits
Plushies & Furries- 2003 (Produced by World of Wonder)
Hustler White- 1996 (Produced by Jurgen Bruning)

Producer credits
The History of Swimming Pools Director- Tim Leinhard, Arte Channel
Plushies & Furries- Real Sex HBO; Channel 5 UK, 2003

Fine Art Photography
Solo exhibitions

Furotica: It Ain’t Exactly Bambi- Track 16, Santa Monica, September, 2003
13 Years of Bondage- 665 Gallery- W. Hollywood, CA- March, 2003
Rick Castro: retrospective- Gamma Space Melbourne, Australia- January 1998
Deep Gallery Tokyo, Japan- March 1997
Sebastian Café Copenhagen, Denmark- June, 97
Cafe Berg Vienna, Austria- April, 97
The Lofthouse Frankfurt, Germany- April, 97
Train Station Café Frieburg, Germany- May, 97
Freakzone Festival L'Aerof Lille, France- May, 97
Spiral Hall gay film festival Tokyo, Japan- March, 97
Gamos Bar Tokyo Japan, March, 97 1995
The Cost of Desire- Mark Chester Studio San Francisco, Ca- November, 1995
Beautifully Bound- Rita Dean Gallery San Diego, CA- June, 1995
!Comme! Granados 2 Gallery Glendale, Ca-October, 1994
The Photography of Rick Castro- Rob Gallery San Francisco, Ca- September, 1994
The Third Sex Rita Dean Gallery San Diego, Ca- March, 1994
Mass Murder and a Cute Boy- Different Light Bookstore, LA 1990

Group exhibitions

(Selected)

PinUp Men: Images of Desire

Leslie/Lohman Foundation- NYC- December, 2005

Erotic Pioneers

Antebellum Gallery- Hollywood- November, 2005
Queer Artists and Their Books- presented by Marc Arranaga & Bruno Gumunder- Los Angeles- March, 2005
18th Street Arts Complex- The Leopard Spot- Santa Monica- November, 2004
Here Bar- West Hollywood, CA, January, 2004
CrazySexyHollywood- New York, March, 2005 Phoenix, AZ, March, 2004; San Francisco, October 2003;
Los Angeles, November 2003
Group Show- Art@Large- NYC, NY- December, 2002
Group Show- 334 Bowery Gallery- NYC, NY- November, 2002
Furotica (Curated and exhibited), The Pound Gallery, Seattle, WA- October, 2002
The Advocate 30 year Anniversary- Advocate Gallery, Hollywood, CA September, 2002
Locker Room Highways Santa, Monica, CA- August, 2002
Furotica (Curated and exhibited) The Gallery At Les Deux, Hollywood, CA February, 2002
City of Angeles, Gates of Hell- The Advocate Gallery, Hollywood, CA January 2002
Night Behind Bars Highways Santa Monica, CA August, 2001
The Fart Show Dirt Gallery W. Hollywood, CA- September, 2000
Hallelujah! Highways Santa Monica, CA- July, 2000
The Hokey Pokey Show- Dirt Gallery West. Hollywood, CA July, 2000
Art Source Pacific Design Center West Hollywood, CA- June, 2000
Art Traffic The Advocate Gallery Los Angeles, CA- June, 2000
The Happiness Show Dirt Gallery W. Hollywood, CA May, 2000
[NU] Expositio Libereria Sotto Mondo Aregenta, (Ferrara) Italy- November 1999
Science Holiday Dirt Gallery Hollywood, CA- May 1999
Exotica The Village, Edmond Gould Plaza Hollywood, Ca December, 1998
Male Bonding II Venice, Ca- November, 1998
Uniforms David Aden Gallery Venice, Ca- June 1998
Beasts David Aden Gallery Venice, Ca- December, 1997
The Shooting Gallery LACE, February, 1997
Lions, Tigers & Hares, - Playboy Mansion, Beverly Hills, Ca. September, 1996
Homosexual Overkill (Exhibited & curated) Rita Dean Gallery San Diego, Ca February, 1996
Summer: An Erroneous Perception of Reality Wessel O'Connor Gallery N.Y.C- July 1995
Divine Design Pacific Design Center W. Hollywood, CA-April, 1995
4th photo Annual The Leslie-Lohman Gallery N.Y.C-May, 1995
Latino/Latina The Lucky Nun Gallery Silverlake, Ca- October, 1994
True Phallacy Clark & Co Gallery. Washington DC. February, 1994
Angel Art 93 Pacific Design Center Los Angeles, Ca- December, 1993
LA Center for Photographic Studies- G.Ray Hawkins Gallery Santa Monica- Nov., 1992
Group Exhibit-The Eye Gallery San Francisco, Ca-April, 1992
Fetish & Fantasy, Los Angeles, Ca September, 1991
Hard Times Jack Glenn Gallery Los Angeles, Ca- July, 1991
Viva's Mexico Beyond Baroque Gallery Venice, Ca- May 1991

Publications

(selected)
13 Years of Bondage: The Photography of Rick Castro- Fluxion Editions
Hidden Histories- UK. complied by Michael Petry
The Male Nude Index- Feierabend press
I Once Had a Master- John Preston- Cleis Press
The Male Nude- Taschen
Ars Erotic, Rizzoli
Celebration: The Autobiography of Graham David Smith, (UK)
Adonis- Thunder Mouth Press
Homme- Clarington Press, (UK)
Beasts - FotoFactory Press
Uniforms- FotoFactory Press
Male Bonding 11- FotoFactory Press
Castro- Tom Of Finland Co

Commercial Photography
(Selected magazine editorial)

Tetu- France
The Advocate
Blue
Attitude UK

AXM UK
sQueeze NL

DNA AUS
Manatomy
Bad
Beachboys
Dreamboys
Deep Blue
Men in Blue
Art In America
Art Forum
Frieze
LA Weekly
Flaunt
Tokyo Journal
Provocateur
Monk Magazine
Maximum Rock & Roll
RFD
HX
New York Native
The James White Review
S&M Sniper, (Japan)
Bil Bok, (Belgium)
Manneraktuell, (Germany)
NU, (Italy)
AK, (Switzerland

Photography in films & television

That Man: Peter Berlin, (interviewed), (2005)
Wired For Sex- Tech TV, (2003)
The History of Swimming Pools- Arte channel, (2003)
Plushies & Furries- (2002) Real Sex HBO
Plushies & Furries- (2001)
101 Rent Boys- (2000)
Sex TV- (Canada)- interview 1999)
Sex Life in LA - interview (1998)
Pride Divide- (1997)
Wild Cards- (HBO 1996)
Hustler White- (1996)
Super 8 1/2- (1993)

Lectures
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA- Sept. 2003
UCLA- May, 2003
Pound Gallery- Seattle- November, 2002
Midsumma Festival- Melbourne, Australia- 2001
Mardi Gras Festival- Sydney, Australia- 2001
Austin Film Festival- May, 2001
NYU- NYC- September, 1997

Awards
Lille Film Festival, 1997- Lille, France- best feature film- Hustler White

Film Festival screenings (Selected)
Sundance- January, 1996
Berlin- February, 1996
Toronto Film Festival- September, 1996
Cannes, France- March, 1997
ICA- London, March, 1997
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles- June, 1996 & 2002
American Cinematheque- Hollywood- November, 2002
Mardi Gras Film Festival- Australia- February, 2001
Tokyo Film Festival- Tokyo, Japan- June, 1996
Frameline Film Festival- San Francisco, June, 1996 & 2002
Mix Film Festival- NYC- June 1996 & 2002
Track 16, Santa Monica- November 2003
The Erotic Museum- Hollywood- May, 2004
18th Street Arts Complex- Santa Monica- November, 2004