Fermin Castro
Biography:
Fermin Castro was born and lived in Havana, Cuba where he graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in chemistry. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 to Miami and four years later moved to the Boston area. A self-taught emerging artist, he began his artistic career in 2019, pursuing his lifelong passion to sculpt and paint. Castro has exhibited in Boston, MA and Manchester, VT. He is a 2024 recipient of a Grant for Creative Individuals, Mass Cultural Council. He has created sculptures in two of Somerville, MA public parks, and exhibited in 2024 and 2025 Somerville Open Studios and First Look, Somerville Museum, Inside-Out Gallery, Somerville Arts Council, and Fair Weather Gallery, Salem, NY with local artists.
Statement:
Fermin Castro’s art extends from his Caribbean roots, influenced by contemporary master visual artists, connecting primitive African sculptors and modern Latin American artistic expression. His sculptures forge a unique dialogue between fantasy and reality. Sculpting in woods from a variety of sources and geographical areas, Castro creates a connection between texture, color, and form in his artistic creations, inviting the viewer to transcend the imagination and awaken fantasy, finding harmony between the forms and their significance. His works are inspired by his childhood in Cuba, in which he lived surrounded by the Caribbean Sea.
Complementary to his abstract sculptures, Castro’s paintings navigate an immense field of figurative fantasies, creating and re-creating his own style of polychromatic shapes with protuberances, insertions, curvilinear forms, and sharp elongations as sources of connections between his memories and a futuristic dream.