Constanza. 

Director. Producer. Painter.  

Born in Mexico City. 

Grew up in Las Vegas. 

Splits her time between Los Angeles, Vegas, and CDMX.

ART

Constanza Castro is a Mexican visual artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of memory and reimagination. Her practice draws from personal archives, advertising, and both celluloid and digital images—reworking photographs from family collections and magazines into colorful, tactile compositions that blur the boundary between remembrance and reinvention.

She began painting in 2009, during a formative summer marked by the loss of her maternal grandfather. What emerged was a language of preservation: an intuitive process of holding onto fleeting moments while allowing them to evolve. Through layered color, texture, and gesture, her work evokes the fragility and persistence of memory, centering intimate histories and the quiet strength within them.

Castro’s paintings invite a closer gaze into the past—reimagining what already exists and immortalizing it in altered form through paint. Her work has been exhibited across Mexico, Las Vegas, Tokyo, and Switzerland.

Working fluidly across mediums, Castro is also an award-winning producer, director, and writer, and co-founder of 271 Films. She holds a BA in Film from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an MFA in Film Producing from the American Film Institute. Her film, commercial, and narrative work has been featured on platforms such as HBO, Hulu, Kanopy, and Amazon, and has premiered at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and AFI Fest. In 2021, she was named Nevada Female Filmmaker of the Year.

Based between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Mexico City, her work across disciplines is united by a singular impulse: to preserve, reinterpret, provoke and reimagine the images that shape us.

Exhibitions:

  • Presence of Mexican Art at the Embassy of Mexico in Japan, Tokyo, June 12, 2025.

  • Pocoapoco Artist Showcase, Oaxaca, Mexico, December 2022.

  • Presence of Mexican Art, Schadau Castle, Switzerland, October 2022.

  • Arts District Featured Month Artist, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2011.

  • Aria Hotel Lobby Artists, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2010.

Art Residencies:

  • Pocoapoco Art Residency, December 2022.

FILM

American Film Institute Producing Fellow, 2015.
**Recipient of the Jeffrey Katzenberg Fellowship Award  +  Fellowship Award
**Recipient of the AFI scholarship

UNLV graduate w/ BA in FILM, 2013.  
**Recipient of the Inaugural Johnny Brenden Filmmakers Award
**Recipient of the Millenium Scholarship

FUN FACTS

J'adore:  film. art. iced lattes. coconuts. polaroids. 35mm film.magazines. lipstick. frozen grapes. ranunculus flowers.  mes amis et ma famille. bubbles. coincidences. lounging in the element. laughing till my stomach hurts. lollipops. coffee table books. dancing to rad musique. bumping into friends i haven't seen in a while. anecdotes. smell of rain and fresh cut grass. random dance parties at ateliers. painting. my dog. meeting new people. 

C O N N E C T. P R O V O K E. I N S P I R E. E N G A G E. S H A R E. L O V E. A D M I R E. S U R R E N D E R. L I V E.