Robert Castagna is a photographer based out of Boston. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Boston Public Library and Art Complex Museum. Exhibitions include solo exhibition at Rolly-Michaux Gallery and Art Complex Museum and group exhibitions at New England School of Photography, MFA Museum Council Gala, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Lichtenstein Center, and others. Publications include Harvard Square: An Illustrated History and Borderlands for which he received the MCC Fellowship and Artists Resource Grant.
Robert has taught street photography and was awarded the Cambridge Arts Council Grant.
To inquire about commissions email at info@robertcastagna.com
For more information about Robert as a professional event photographer visit Robert Castagna Photography
Robert is currently enrolled at UMass Boston studying creative writing.
2021
Artist’s Resource Trust Grant Recipient
Massachusetts Cultural Council Photography Fellowship
2020
Sept 1 – Nov 20 UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center group exhibition
July 8 Boston Voices WBZ CBS Boston photo feature on Black Lives Matter movement
July 2 An American Fault Line photo essay published in Analog Cafe
June 30 Medford Arts Center Photos at the Borderland presentation
June 15 Analog Forever Magazine Eye of the Beholder Group Exhibition
June 12 Borderlands Forum: Photography in the Borderlands
June – July F-Stop Magazine publication of Photographs from the Borderland in Group Exhibition
2019
Dec 3 – Dec 31 The Audacity of Hope at New England School of Photography
Nov 2 – Dec 22 Crossing the Line: In Search of Sanctuary at the Nave Gallery
October 3 – 31 Open Photo Exhibit at Cambridge Art Association curated by MFA Curator Karen E. Haas
July Photo Essay on Asylum Seekers appears in Nogales International news.
July Lowe House Project artist residency in Tubac AZ
March 26 – April 26 Stranger than Fiction: Street Photography – New England School of Photography
2018
July featured in The Diagram – A journal of text and art
May 1- 31 This American Landscape – New England School of Photography
2017
December – publication of art zine: Constant Carnival
May 25 Boston City Hall, Times of Our Times III with Mobius
2016
June 15 -24 The Bright Door Artists Residency in South Carolina
June 2 – Aug 12 Resnikoff Gallery Group Exhibition
April 15 – 21 Spark Gallery at Northeastern University
March 21 – April 15 Thesis/Antithesis Salon 2016 at Maud Morgan Arts Chandler Gallery
March 15 – April 5 Print, Paper and Graphic Arts Show at the School of Museum of Fine Arts
March 4 – April 14 Violence Transformed at Harriet Tubman House
2015
Sept 5 – Oct 10 Hallspace Drawing Project
Jan 21 – May Recent Drawings at Diesel Cafe in Davis Square
2014
Nov 1 – Dec 12 The Personal is Political is Personal group show at Tufts University
Aug 1 – Aug 29 New England Collective V at Galatea Fine Arts
May 18 – Sept 7 Art Complex Museum exhibition “Recently Acquired”
March 3 – April 17 Group Show “Landscape and Memory” Cambridge Adult Education under alias “John Mercy”
2013
June 8 Feature artist at MFA Museum Council Gala Celebration
April 27 – 28 West Medford Open Studios
2012
Nov 5 – Dec 29 Rolly-Michaux Gallery solo exhibition: Lost across America
July 14 – August 10 Attleboro Arts Museum: On the Threshold – A National Juried Exhibition
Jan 16 – Mar 6 Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts group show curated by Barbara Hitchcock
Jan 5 – Jan 31 Aviary Gallery group show
2011
Nov 22 – Dec 31 Cambridge Art Associations Group show curated by Howard Yezerski
July 24 – Oct 2 Art Complex Museum Solo Exhibition Kyoto: Art and Idea
2010
April West Medford Open Studios
2009
Oct 29 – Nov 28 Rolly-Michaux Gallery solo exhibition: L’Ombra dell’Italia – The Shadow of Italy
June 17 – July 19 Lichtenstein Center for the Arts Invitational group exhibition
June 4 – Aug 2 Tufts University Art Gallery Sixth Annual Juried Summer group exhibition
April West Medford Open Studios
2008
July Museum of Marino Moretti in Italy: solo exhibition in conjunction with International Poetry Conference
Apr 4 – May 15 Brookline Arts Center solo exhibition: Kyoto – select photographs by Robert Castagna
2007
Nov – Dec New Hampshire Institute of Art Biennial 2007 group exhibition
Mar 30 – May 5 Rolly-Michaux Gallery solo exhibition: The Art of Mystery, Kyoto in its Season
2003
Apr 3 – 25 Upstairs at Johnson’s Art Gallery group exhibition Street Shots
Mar Heritage State Park, North Adams solo exhibition: Images of the City
2002
May 3 -10 Pine Street Inn solo exhibition: Portraits of a Community
June 1 – 30 Throughout Harvard Square store windows and venues a solo exhibition: Harvard Square Document – a photographic essay on Harvard Square
2001
Sept Stebbins Gallery, Harvard Square solo exhibition
July 1 – 27 Gallery at the Piano Factory – two person show
Apr 5 – June 17 Danforth Museum of Art New England Photographers ‘01
2000
Apr 3 – 28 Boston Public Library solo exhibition: Just Outside – street photography just outside the BPL
Feb 1 – Mar 31 Hynes Convention Center solo exhibition: The Culture of Today
1999 – 2004
Taught photography to senior citizens, homeless individuals in shelter and inner-city youth as part of a project deemed Through their Eyes. Awarded Cambridge Arts Council Grant. Several publications documented the project including the Boston Globe and various other newspapers and magazines. All photography programs culminated in group exhibitions of student’s work.
Permanent Collections:
Art Complex Museum, Boston Public Library, NOT in the collection of the Mandarin Oriental of Boston
Publications:
Harvard Square The Book – An Illustrated History, Popular Photography Magazine, Artscope Magazine, Modern Haiku, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CBS News Boston, Improper Bostonian, Beat Magazine, BIGnews, Diagram