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HERNÁN CASTILIAN GIRÓN
Writer, Poet, Actor, Filmmaker and Illustrator

born in Coquimbo, Chile, in 1937. studied at the Liceo de Aplicación, graduating in 1954, then studied Chemistry and Pharmacy in Santiago.

has been a writer, poet, actor, filmmaker and illustrator especially (or "Translator images") of the work of other poets as Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Rosamel del Valle, Vicente Huidobro and Federico García Lorca.

has participated in numerous exhibitions and has had solo exhibitions in Rome, Detroit, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. His artistic activities covering seven decades since the 40's to the present. There is an illustrated tale of Castilian Girón, dating from 1948.

has worked as a teacher and research scientist at the University of Chile in Santiago. After the 1973 coup, had to go into exile to Italy, where he lived until 1981, when he traveled to the United States to continue a doctorate in Modern Languages \u200b\u200bat Wayne State University in Detroit. There he studied under the guidance of teacher and scholar Ivan A. Schulman, received his doctorate in 1987.

has published ten books in the genres of novels, short stories, poetry and literary criticism. He has performed solo and group exhibitions in several European countries and the United States. He has published articles and essays in literary and academic journals as Hispamérica, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Cuadernos Americanos and National Culture.

In 1986 he was hired as full-time player at the California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). At Cal Poly, he made his race from reader to Associate Professor until his retirement in 2002, teaching English and Italian American literature and Latin American culture and Italian.

In November 2000 he was elected Poet Laureate of the City of San Luis Obispo, the community of local poets. It is the only English-language poet to receive this honor.

is currently Professor Emeritus of English and Latin American literature at Cal Poly.

EXHIBITIONS

• "Self Portraits" (Self Portraits), Art Lives Here Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California, June-July 2000.


• "Into the Mix", exhibition of art group "ARTernatives", Gallery Space 47, San Luis Obispo, California, December 1995.
  
• Hernan Giron Castilian, Chilean painter-poet: "Drawings" and Lillian Mulero, Puerto Rican artist: "Lolita: Silkskreen Series" 24th Annual International Literary Arts Festival, The Center Press Small, 20W. 44th St. New York City, May 1995.


• "Voices Behind the Mask", an exhibition of four poets, painters, Bettina Barrett, Castilian Hernan Giron, Marguerite Costigan and Jared Dawson, Guernica Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, April / May 1994.


• "Poetry as Art / Artists as Poets," Gallery "Green Dragon", Santa Barbara, California, May 1992.
  
• "Mythic Power Lines / The Poet and the Visual Artist, watercolors, texts and facts rayograms xerox-color, with Dona Ohno and Janice Lincoln, Pontiac Art Center, Pontiac, Michigan, October 1988.


• Several visual poetry are included in the exhibition "Art is a Prison", Amsterdam, Holland, summer 1977. The same exhibition was presented at The Bugade, Chartreuse Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, France, summer 1978.


• "Chilean Young Painters," Museum Contemporary Art, Santiago, two exhibited collages, Spring 1971.


• Art Fair, collage and visual poetry, Santiago, Chile, 1967.


• College Art Exhibition Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Santiago, Chile, Spring 1960. First Prize in watercolor.

• Student Hall, University of Chile, Santiago, September 1959.


• Student Hall, Liceo de Aplicación, second prize in painting, spring 1954.

SOLO

• "Dream Landscapes / The Snakes of Ahumada Street" Art Lives Here Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California, May-June 2000.


• Forbidden Landscapes (Landscapes Prohibited) recent watercolors and gouaches, ARTernatives / Gallery Space 47, San Luis Obispo, February-March 1996.


• "Orpheus' Eye / Brush" (The Eye / The Brush Orpheus), recent watercolors and gouaches, Contemporary Arts Forum, Partridge Gallery, Santa Barbara, November / December 1993.


• "Hernán Castilian-Girón", exhibition of books and watercolors, Public Library San Luis Obispo Public, June 1992.


• "Images / Visions / Metaphors", watercolors based on texts by American poets, American and European CuestaCollege Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, November 1989.


• "Poets of Three Worlds", watercolors based on the work English American poets, French, Italian and American, Detroit Gallery of the Arts Council / Front Room, January 1984.


• "Neruda and Lorca: due poeti della libertà" watercolors. Workers Union Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, December 1980.


• Neruda segreto, watercolors based on poems by Pablo Neruda. Segrete Carte Gallery, Rome, Italy, June 1980.
  

Literary Work

• God's Egg and Other Stories, stories (Santiago: LOM, 2002).


• A Orfeo Pacific Rosamel poetry anthology Valley, selection, introduction, notes and postscript of HCG (Santiago: LOM, 2000).


• Calderon street or snakes Ahumada, novel (Santiago: Planeta Chilena, 1998).


• The Unreadable: 'The clouds and the years' , Novella (Concepción: Notebooks Southern Fiction, 1988).


• Another sky, poetry (Concepción: Notebooks South, 1985).


• The twilight of Anthony Wayne Drive / Twilights of Anthony Wayne Drive, poetry (DOME Press, 1984). Bilingual edition translated by Emil Efthimidas with an afterword by Waldo Rojas and illustrations by the author.


• Theory poor circus, poetry (Ottawa: Cordillera Publishing, 1978).


• Auto Heavenly / L'automobile heaven, poetry (Bari, Italy: Editorial Gea, 1977). Bilingual Edition , With translation and foreword by Mario Lunetta.


• The forest of glass, stories and collages (Santiago: Ars Nova, 1969).


• Kraal, stories and drawings (Santiago, Chile: Collection "The wind called" 1965
  
  
  For more works and information about the author, visit his website: http : / / www.hernancastellanogiron.com