Enrique Castrejon
Castrejon works as a Senior Research Coordinator at the LA LGBT Center for a research study called mSTUDY that is looking at the affects of drug use on the immune system of HIV positive Black and Latino men who have sex with men. He enjoys working within the LGBTQ community while balancing an art career. He has shown throughout various galleries and museums in Los Angeles including the Armory Center of the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA); LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park and Highway’s Performance Space; nationally, at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in NY and the Mexican Institute, Washington, DC; internationally at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City and Preview Art Fair in Berlin, Germany; just to name a few. He is a recipient of a COLA 2019 Individual Artist Fellowship grant from the City of Los Angeles. He received his MFA from CalARTS and BFA from ArtCenter College of Art & Design and a B.A. in Chicano/a Studies from Cal State Northridge. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.