Fernando Sánchez Castillo was born in Madrid in 1970, he currently resides in Madrid. He studied fine arts at Complutense University of Madrid, philosophy at Autonomous University of Madrid, and also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After a residency at Rijksakadamie. He is part of Research Team of United Nations Geneve, PIMPA (Memory , Politics and Art Practices). Spending his childhood under the Franco regime, Castillo has a keen interest in social and historical events, analyzing factors related to authority and representation and reviewing historical discourse from different angles, and expressing this through sculpture, painting, and video.
"Architecture for Horses” (2002), in which a gentleman in a suit atop a white horse gracefully strutting about the university building, was part of the Astonishingly Real exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and even became the poster for the event, and shows how his university was designed under the Franco regime for riot squads to be able to enter on horseback to quell student demonstrations. "Pegasus Dance” (2007), in which water cannon trucks normally used to break up demonstrators perform a magnificent dance while spouting water, has also been shown at the museum as part of a group exhibition. A precision robot made for handling hazardous materials draws an abstract painting, like the marvelous images created in Marcel Duchamp’s “Ready Made”, expand playfully and artistically on machines and devices needed only in serious social situations to bring about a change in values and to expand the realm of art. He is working on the “Minor Hero” series, creating figures of a young man standing before tanks at Tiananmen Square in China using a 3D printer, another piece themed on revolution and resistance to oppression. Monuments, records, public places, and traditions serve as tools for revealing the recent past. Scrutinizing the relationship between art and authority calls to memory historical groups and examines the structure of powers and symbols that still dominate society.