Education
2019 - 2020 Master's degree on Teaching for Secondary and Vocational Education. University of Granada (Spain)
2015 - 2017 MFA Fiber. Cranbrook Academy of Art. (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA).
2011 – 2012 Master's degree on Art Practice and Research. University of Granada (Spain)
2006 – 2010 Bachelor's degree Fine Arts. University of Granada (Spain)

Solo exhibitions
2019 Mapa Tejido de la Interestatal 80 * - Sala de exposiciones del PTS. Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2018 (Th)Reading and Writing - Will Leather Goods (Detroit, MI. USA)

Group exhibitions
2023
WORTH Partnership Project (along with Kelly Begiazi). Milan Design Week. Milan (Italy)
2022
iAtelier (along with Kelly Begiazi). Dutch Design Week. Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Al hilo de Fortuny. Palacio del Almirante *. Universidad de Granada (Spain)
2021
JOYA Barcelona (along with Kelly Begiazi). Artesania Catalunya *. Barcelona (Spain)
2019
VersaTextil. Espacio Zonarte. Granada (Spain)
El Millor Disseny de l’Any. Disseny Hub. Barcelona (Spain)
2018
ORT and the City. Eastern Market. (Detroit, MI. USA).
2017
Future Tense. Student Juried Exhibition. Surface Design Association / Portland State University. (Portland, OR. USA).
Irene Davies Award for Small Tapestries *. Australian Tapestry Workshop. (South Melbourne, Australia)
Graduation exhibition - Cranbrook Museum of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA).
Jet Lag - Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA).
2016
Experiencing Perspectives * - Mercedes Benz Financial Services. (Farmington Hills, MI. USA).
International Students Exhibition - Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA).
Ambition / Nevermind. Curated by Stephanie Duglosz Acton - Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA).
Multilingual - Unlock Hause (Chicago, IL. USA).
2015
RAW, a live art night - Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA).
2014
Arroparte * - Sala de exposiciones de la Caja Rural - (Granada, Spain)
De un céfiro fecundo * - Crucero del Hospital Real - (Granada, Spain)
2013
Lo más Grotesco - La Casa Invisible - (Málaga, Spain)
Alonso Cano prize exhibition * - Palacio de la Madraza. (Granada, Spain)
The New Florence Biennale. 10th edition * - Fortezza da Basso (Florence, Italy)
2012
Siguiendo el Hilo * - Faculty of Fine Arts. University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2011
Reflejos Espaciales - Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (Mexico City, Mexico)
2009
Bauhaus trifft Bauhaus und baut sich ein Kino. - Bauhaus Museum (Weimar, Germany)
Rundgang - Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany)

(*) Catalogued exhibitions

Awards and grants
2022 - 2023 WORTH Partnership Project (along with Kelly Begiazi)
2020 - 2021 iAtelier - Crafting Europe grant to develop a project using craft and digital fabrication technologies
2019 Nominated to the ArtsFAD awards. FAD (Foment de les Arts i del Disseny) Barcelona (Spain)
2018 Grant for Artistic Production (Emerging Artist). University of Granada (Spain)
2018 Selected for the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Detroit. New York Foundation for the Arts.
2017 Surface Design Association. Student Award. 1st place.
2017 Nominated to the Irene Davies Award for Small Tapestries. Australian Tapestry Workshop.
2017 Nominated to the Cranbrook Art Museum Acquisition Award
2016 Larson award to pursue textile research in Japan
2014 La Caixa Fundation grant to pursue graduate studies in USA.
2013 Alonso Cano award. Category: Sculpture. University of Granada (Spain)

Residencies
2020 - 2021 iAtelier - Crafting Europe. Madrid (Spain)
2016 Unlock Hause (Chicago, IL. USA)

Artworks in public collections
Contemporary Art collection of the University of Granada (Spain)
Private collections in the USA.

Press
2022

Regarding the exhibition "La hilo de Fortuny" (x)

2021
About my participation at the congress "Únicos. Techné" (x) (x) (x)
2019
Seizing the moment: Three Emerging Millennial Artists. American Tapestry Alliance. (2)
Obras seleccionadas a los premios ArtsFAD
Entrevista La Madraza. Revista de Cultura Contemporánea. Marzo - Julio 2019. ISSN 2659-59
Entrevista (vídeo) La Madraza. Centro de Cultura Contemporánea.
2018
(Th)reading and Writing - Solo exhibition at Playground Detroit Gallery
Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Detroit. New York Foundation for the Arts.
2016
American Tapestry Alliance - Students Reflections on Tapestry
Cranbrook Academy of Arts news
2015
University of Granada press
2014
Granada Hoy press
2013
Xtrart magazine
Granada Hoy press

Bibliography
2020
"A Process Uncontained: Cranbrook Fiber 2008 - 2019" Cranbrook Academy of Art Fiber department compilation. ISBN: 9781714578740
2019
"Mapa Tejido de la Interestatal 80" exhibition catalog. ISBN: 9788433863942
2017
Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries. Exhibition catalog
2016
"Experiencing Perspectives" 2016-2017 Art Exhibition catalog. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. ASIN: B074N9X6WS (x)
2014
“De un Céfiro Fecundo” exhibition catalog. ISBN 978433856203
2013
“Siguiendo el Hilo” exhibition catalog. ISBN 978-84-338-5554-1
"Premios a la Creación Artística y Científica de la Universidad de Granada" exhibition catalog. ISBN 978-84-338-5545-9
“The New Florence Biennale” exhibition catalog. ISBN 9788895962290

Guest lecturer
November 2021 - Guest lecturer in the congress "Únicos. Techné" at the León Art School. Organized by FOACAL y CEARCAL.
March 2018 - Visiting Artist. Textile and Fiber department. College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI. USA)
April 2014 – Lecturer in the congress “CSO. Criadores Sobre outras Obras”. University of Lisboa (Portugal)
December 2013 – Invited lecturer in the seminar “Poeticas da Criaçao”. University of Espirito Santo. Vitoria (Brazil)


Published writing
2023

Piñar Castellano, Mariana. Al hilo del lenguaje. Papeles de Cultura Contemporánea. Nº25. ISSN: 2254-5646.

2017

Piñar Castellano, Mariana. Texto, tejido y bilingüismo. Revista Tercio Creciente. Nº 12. July 2017. ISSN: 2340-9096 (read here in Spanish)
2014
- Piñar Castellano, Mariana y García Gil, T. Fernanda. El hilo narrativo en la obra 'Bordadora' de Tania Candiani. Revista Croma, Estudos Artísticos. Vol. 2, nº 3, Jan – Jun 2014. p. 215 – 221. ISSN: 2182-8547 (read here in Spanish)
- García Gil, T. Fernanda y Piñar Castellano, Mariana. Instantes, intuición e Interpretación en la obra de Concha Romeu. Revista Estudio, Artistas sobre outras Obras. Vol. 5, nº 9, Jan – Jun 2014. p. 46 – 51. ISSN: 1647 – 6158 (read here in Spanish)
- Piñar Castellano, Mariana. “Prácticas colaborativas en el arte contemporáneo: artista, público e instituciones. El caso del arte textil” en Mediaçoes e enfrentamentos da arte. Sao Paulo: Editora Intermeios, 2014. pp. 89 – 104. ISBN 9788564586956 (buy here in Spanish)

Teaching Experience
2018 - Now
Estación Diseño (Granada, Spain)
2018
Paint Creek Center For the Arts (Rochester, MI. USA)
Precollege and Continuing Studies. College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI. USA)
2017
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI. USA)