Rolando Castellón

Rolando Castellón, also known as Rolando Dionisio Castellón-Alegria is a Nicaraguan American painter, author, art historian, and curator. He was a well-known contributor to the arts of San Francisco, California and he has lived in Costa Rica since 2013.

Biography

Rolando Castellón was born in 1937 in Managua, Nicaragua. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1983.
In 1966, he was a co-founder of the Casa Hispana de Bellas Artes in the Mission District of San Francisco. By 1970, Castellón was a co-founder of Galería de la Raza, alongside Ralph Maradiaga, Rupert García, Peter Rodríguez, Francisco X. Camplis, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Carlos Loarca, Manuel Villamor, Robert Gonzales, Luis Cervantes, Chuy Campusano, and René Yañez.
He served as a curator at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from 1972 to 1981; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, from 1994 to 1998.
His first retrospective art exhibition, Rolando Castellon: A Legacy of Mud, Post-Columbian Objects, 1981–1997 was held at the Art Institute of Chicago.