Johanna Castillo is an integrative textile artist, born and raised in the “Mother of all Lands”, programmed by the Dominican Republic, in the process of deconstructing her inner worlds to weave herself back in the entanglement of all living systems. Her work explores human connections, multiplicity, localness, the act of listening, (re) integration, and the circularity of things. Her practice is informed by her embodied experiences as a response to imposed and self-imposed ways of relating, linear notions of time, power dynamics, climate crisis, and hyper-consumption in the form of reclaimed textiles, social weaving, transformed garments, digital based tapestries, collaborative installations, knots, integrative looms, questions, prints, social activations and workshops.

Her project, Trepelito, is an experimental space that focuses on generating other ways of relating through textiles, repair and questions.

Castillo received her BFA in Fashion Design from Altos de Chavón in 2015 and Parsons the New School for Design in 2017, focusing on textiles as a discursive element to question current means of production and create community, from the individual to the collective.

Her work has been exhibited and activated in public, private and online spaces in the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Jamaica, the U.S., and México. Her work is part of the collection of Jorge M. Pérez (a promise gift to the PAMM) and several private collections.

She has been invited to facilitate the workshop “Reclaiming Your Old Clothes” by Caribbean Art Initiative, Rubis Mecenat, Project Vesta, University of Pennsylvania and Centro Cultural de España.