A graduate in political science and a former student of the College of Europe in Bruges, Jota Castro has worked for the United Nations and the European Union. He has been dedicated to contemporary art since 1998. His work explores more particularly the theme of information and the power it confers on those who hold and manipulate it. He uses photography, sculpture, video and installations to talk about social subjects.
He is a founding member of the magazine Nolens Volens in Spain and the editorial committee of the magazine Janus in Belgium.
Jota Castro has shown his work in many international institutions. He has participated in the Venice, Tirana and Prague Biennales, as well as the one in Gwangju, Korea, where he won the Biennial Prize in 2004.
In 2005, the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and BPS22 (Charleroi) devoted a solo exhibition to him. In 2009, Jota Castro was curator of the Pavillon de l'Urgence at the Venice Biennale (Collateral events) with an exhibition entitled The fear Society.
