Charlie Castaneda (born 1970 San Diego) and Brody Reiman (born 1970 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) are two contemporary artists who work together to form castaneda/reiman.
Biographies The artists met each other while in college at Carnegie Mellon University where they earned their BFAs in 1992. They went on to the University of California, Davis to earn their MFAs in 1994. The artists are represented by DCKT Contemporary, where they have had four solo exhibitions. They have also had exhibitions at Oakland Museum of California, Seoul Museum of Art, and Sun Valley Museum of Art.
Solo exhibitions 2010 Oakscapes and land objects, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California DCKT Contemporary, San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, California
2009 Sculptures of places we’ve never been, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York Places we have never been, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2008 Untitled (Sketch for a Landscape), DCKT Contemporary, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, New York
2006 DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York
2003 Floorplan landscape, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York Floorplan/ New Work, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1999 Sandroni Rey, Venice, California
1998 Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, New York Four Walls Art Space, San Francisco, California John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1994 From Here to There. Onions Included., Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California Master Visions of Monochromatic Fields, Basement Gallery, Davis, California
Selected group exhibitions 2011 Beneath The Picture, Bear Ridgeway Exhibitions at Ambach & Rice, Seattle, Washington
2010 2010 Art Practice Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, California It's My World, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, California
2008 Make the Art You Need: The UC Berkeley Department of Art Faculty Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, California Summer ’08, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007–08 Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2007 CCA Centennial, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Eureka, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York
2003 Pleasure Factory, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 101 California Street, San Francisco, California
2002 House Broken, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California Manifest Destiny and the Contemporary American Landscape, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho
2001 Sandroni Rey, Venice, California In Through the Outdoors, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
2000 Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California It Can Change, Oakland, California
1999–2000 Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
1999 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Continuing California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Three Day Weekend, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California Structural Elements, Transamerica Building, San Francisco, California Material Perception, TrizecHahn Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1998 SAP, Lanai Hotel, San Francisco, California
1997 Structures: Buildings in American Art, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California The Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California Stirred not Shaken, Refusalon, San Francisco, California Show Five, Gallery Oboy, San Francisco, California
1996 Gleen, Four Walls Art Space, San Francisco, California Four Walls Art Space, San Francisco, California
1995 Obsessions, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California Melrose at Montavlo, Villa Montavlo Estate for the Arts, Saratoga, California
1994 Turning the Camera on Themselves, pARTS Alternative Arts Space, Minneapolis, Minnesota Davis Photo Expo 1993, Davis Art Center, Davis, California Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, California
1993 Photography Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NYC 1301 Pound Woman, Pence Gallery, Davis, California
1992 Progetto Cuspide 1992, Associazione Promozione Iniziative Socioculturli, Pirri, Sardegna, Italy
1991 A Time to Sing, The Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1990 Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Awards 2004 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship 2001–02 Affiliate Artists, Headlands Center for the Arts 2000 Artists in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts 1999 Art Council Grant 1998 Bay Guardian Goldie Award, San Francisco, California 1997 Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California 1995 Artists in Residence, Villa Montavlo, Saratoga, California 1994 Artists in Residence, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California 1993 National Graduate Fellows, American Photography Institute, New York University, New York, New York 1992 Artists in Residence, Associazione Promozione Iniziative Socioculturli, Pirri, Sardegna, Italy
Collections San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Teaching 2007–present University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of sculpture (Reiman) 2001–present San Francisco Art Institute, visiting artist (Castaneda) 2001–07 California College of Arts and Crafts, adjunct professors 2000 University of California, Berkeley, visiting lecturers 1999 Carnegie Mellon University, visiting artists
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