Andrew Casto (b. USA, 1977) lives and works in Iowa City and has exhibited work internationally in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, New Zealand, China, Switzerland, France, England, and Japan. He was a recipient of the Emerging Artist award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, a long-term resident at The Archie Bray Foundation, as well as a finalist for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize in London. Casto has exhibited in over eighty group and solo exhibitions and is a professor and the director of The School of Art, Art History, and Design, as well as area head of ceramics at the University of Iowa. 

Casto's work has been featured in over one hundred exhibitions, and he is represented by the Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida, the Winston Wachter Gallery in New York and Seattle, and Galerie Daguet-Bresson in Paris. His work can be found online at @andrewcasto on Instagram and www.andrewcasto.com, and he can be reached at andrew-casto@uiowa.edu.