Vanessa Castillo is an independent artist born and raised in the South Bronx of New York City.

Vanessa’s work is an intensely vibrant and eclectic mosh of deeply personal memorabilia and scenes from her life, sourced from her engagement with solitude, restlessness, and escapism. These pieces represent the desire to exist somewhere that is both nothing and everything like home, stemming from her ever evolving love-hate relationship with The Bronx, large cities, and the complex experience of a deeply interconnected world that feels difficult to belong to. Other common themes in her works include destruction, overgrowth of nature, and how both phenomena interlope in the physical and mental space.