6/15/2026/MONDAY/7:40AM
RICK CASTRO: HOLLYWOOD FOREVER 2026
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One of the most unique experiences in Los Angeles is located here at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Art photographer Rick Castro has created a visual memorial embedded within history, love and remembrance.
Photographer Rick Castro is known for his intimate, often provocative images that explore queer identity, memory, mortality, and Los Angeles subculture.
His ongoing exhibition, Columbarium Continuum by Rick Castro, @hwdforever presents a selection of photographs spanning four decades, from 1986 to 2025.
Installed within the cemetery’s historic columbarium, the show brings together portraits, death-mask imagery, photographs of Hollywood Forever itself, and personal images of Castro’s friends and loved ones. The exhibition reflects themes of love, melancholy, remembrance, and the passage of time, creating a powerful dialogue between art and the cemetery setting.
The exhibition is free and open to the public and includes works featuring cultural figures such as The Goddess Bunny and Holly Woodlawn, alongside Castro’s own reflections on legacy and mortality.
By placing his photographs among memorial spaces, Castro transforms the columbarium into a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to be remembered.
RICK CASTRO
American photographer, filmmaker and writer known for his work focusing on queer culture.
A third generation Los Angeleno, he was born in 1958 and began his career as a wardrobe stylist and clothing designer.
His clients over the years included Tina Turner, David Bowie, Herb Ritts, Joel-Peter Witkin, George Hurrell, and Michele Lamy. He styled editorials for magazines Interview, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.
Castro became a freelance photographer at age 29, working for The Advocate magazine. His first solo exhibition was at the original, Different Light Bookstore in Silverlake, CA.
Rick Castro has created photographic portraits for producer Alan Poul, actor Guillermo Diaz, writer Gore Vidal, director Kenneth Anger, musician Alice Bag, performance artist, Ron Athey, model Tony Ward, fashion diva Michele Lamy, and the 14th Dalai Lama. Rick has created editorial photos for Christian Dior Homme, Cartier, Bottega Venta, Versace, and Rick Owens.
Rick collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce as co-directors/writers to create Hustler White, (1996). The film was a great success internationally. Film critic Manolo Dargis listed Hustler White on her Los Angeles Times top 100 underground films of the 20th century.
Rick also directed a documentary about the furry culture organized online and now mainstream for MTV called, Plushies & Furries, (2001) produced by World of Wonder. Scoring #2 in the ratings on continuous rotation for six months.
Rick was the West Coast editor/photographer for Studio Publications based in Sydney, Australia from 2000 to 2007. He was a contributing photographer & writer for Another Magazine UK, 2019- 2021, and Document Journal, NYC, 2020- 2022.
Rick Castro’s films are archived at UCLA Legacy Projects. Castro's books are archived at Liberia El Insulto, Mexico City, Kriterion Theatre, Amsterdam, Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode, Paris, and Los Angeles Central Library. His books and photographs are archived by the Alfred Kinsey Institute, Ind, UCLA library, Westwood, One Institute, USC, Leslie/Lohman Museum, NYC, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Rick’s photography is included in museum exhibition catalogs for-
Rick Owens: Temple of Love, Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode, Rizzoli publishing.
Queering the Lens: A History of Photography, Getty Museum, Rizzoli publishing.
Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY, Phaidon publishing. AllTogether: Archives from Tom of Finland Foundation, Venice Biennale, Donlon publishing, Queer Communion: Ron Athey, catalog, ICA, Intellect publishing.
Rick Owens: Subhuman, Inhuman, Superhuman catalog, La Triennale di Milano, Electa publishing.
Rick is the creator and curator of Columbarium Continuum by Rick Castro; a unique museum in the historic Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Hours- 9am~ 4pm daily.
Rick photography is featured issue of Gruppe Magazine, Berlin. He was one of 11 artists featured in the historic first queer issue of Los Angeles Magazine, June 2019.
From 2005 through 2017 Rick founded and ran Antebellum Gallery Hollywood.
SELECTED GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
All of Us, PhilipsX, group exhibition West Hollywood June 4th- July 14th 2026
Fast Forward: Analog Photography as a Third Space Los Angeles Center of Photography, group exhibition Los Angeles April 10th- May 1st 2026
Psyops & Photo Ops, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, photography group exhibition, March 6-29th, 2026
Rick Castro: Stills from Hustler White, Los Angeles, 1996, Kriterion Theatre, Amsterdam, January 19- 24th, 2026
Evidence of Existence, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, January 5-February 28th, 2026
2025
Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism, selected photography, Box gallery, Los Angeles, November 15th~ January 15th, 2026. (Former factory of Michele Lamy)
Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product, selected photography & ephemera~ MoMA PS1, NYC, October 9th~ March 2nd, 2026.
Rick Owens: Temple of Love, selected photography & ephemera, Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de Paris, June, 28th, 2025, through January, 4th, 2026.
RICK CASTRO: BAAL. Retrospective. 1986~2025, solo exhibition, Semjon Contemporary Galerie, Berlin, September 4th~ October 4th, 2025
Queer Lens: A History of Photography, Getty Center, Los Angeles, June 16th through September, 28th, 2025.
Braver New World- solo exhibition in Mexico City, CDMX February 7th~ March, 10th, 2025.
Rick Castro’s photography presented by Galeria HGZ at ZonaMaco, CDMX February 4th~ 9th,2025,
2024
Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY, thru 31, March, 2024 and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, 11, May through 22, September, 2024.
Trece Vidas de Rick Castro, Galeria HGZ, Queretaro, MX, 8th~ 11th, August, 20024.
First solo exhibition in Mexico.
The Photographers Eye- slide show and lecture, Los Angeles Central Library-LA, 2/21/2024
2023
Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY,
11/15, 2023 thru 2/15/ 2024.
Queerish- Ruth Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, 10/28 thru 12/15/2023
Queering the Lens, Getty Center, lecture and photographic slide presentation June 7th, 2023
Collective Memory Installation, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Grand Park, 3/4 thru 3/18/2023.
2018
Rick Owens: Subhuman, Inhuman, Superhuman-- La Triennale di Milano- 1/1/2018
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