MARA CASTILHO is a London based, award winner artist with a background in Fine Arts and Performance. She embraces a wide range of media including Video, Installation, Photography and Performance.

She was nominated for the BECK’S FUTURES’05, her film ‘Process 5703/2000’ was Winner of Best Film & Best Sound Track at the ‘Premio Europeu Massimo Troisi’03 (Florence/Italy), her video-installation “Ausencia II” was nominate for the Best Young work of FreshArt’03 (UK) and nominated for the ‘Stephen Arlen Memorial Award for Choreography’98 at the National English Opera (London/UK)
She has been working in London as an independent artist as well as directing the Arts collective MO.TIV - movement towards Theatre, Dance, Installation and Video work. Castilho has been creating video and photographic works, installations, site-specific projects and performances, had presented her works in Exhibitions, Venues and Festivals around Europe, America and South America, as well as published her photographs in magazines, newspapers and catalogues.

Her works had been presented in International Venues and Festivals such as; Prague Triennale'08 (Czech Republic), KAIKU and FAFA Galleries -National Academy of Fine Arts (Helsinki/Finland), Royal Academy of Arts-Hornsey Gallery (London/UK),MOCA/Museum of Contemporary Art London (UK), Kalhama & Piippo Gallery (Helsiki/Finland), Galeria Civica (Italy), Stavanger Capital of Culture'08 (Norway), Belas Artes de Lisboa -National Fine Arts Gallery (Portugal), Sarajevo National Fine Arts Gallery (Bosnia & Herzegovia), Oi Cultural (RJ/Brazil), Cinemed/Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier/International Video Art (France), IMZ/Dance Screen (Monaco), Portobello Film Festival (UK), Hype Gallery (UK), Danca Brasil Video (Brazil),Video Lisboa (Portugal), FRAME/Mostra Internacional de Video Danca (Portugal), International Festival/Video Portugues (Portugal), Ler Devagar Art Gallery (Portugal), The Place/Dance On Screen(UK), MTV Brazil (Brazil), VideoChannel (Berlin), International Festival for New forms of Performance (Germany), Laban Theatre (UK), ZDB Art Space (Portugal), Art Non Stop International Festival (Portugal), Vo.Arte/International Festival of Urban Spaces (Portugal), Resolution Festival (UK), Festival “Cour de Capucin/International Competition of Choreography (Luxembourg), Almada Dance Festival/International Platform of Choreograph (Portugal), Gronningem International Competition for Choreographers (Holland), among others.