andrecmcastro@gmail.com
(929) 266 0354


EXPERIENCE

GALE New York
Group Creative Director
Clients: Got Milk? and Hard Rock
1/2021 – Present

Pratt Institute Brooklyn
Visiting Professor
Class Coordinator for Branding & Messaging
8/2022 – Present

McCann New York
Clients: Mastercard, March For Our Lives and Microsoft
 9/2017 – 12/2020

Freelancer
McCann New York
Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics Games Rio de Janeiro
Geometry Global Rio de Janeiro

Saatchi & Saatchi New York
Clients: Tide and Miller
9/2013 – 5/2015

19 Design Rio de Janeiro
Graphic Designer
5/2009 – 5/2011


EDUCATION

Pratt Institute MFA Communication Design 2011-2013
Ibmec CBA Business 2010
RISD Printmaking Summer Program 2010
PUC-Rio BA Visual Communication 2005-2008
 




RECOGNITIONS / AWARDS

2023 | Adweek Creative 100
Rising Agency Talents Breaking Through
2021 | #4 CD in the world by ADC


CANNES LIONS (15)

2021 | GRAND PRIX Lion (Brand Experience & Activation)
+ 2 Gold Lions + 3 Silver Lions + 3 Bronze Lions
"True Name" Mastercard

2019 | Cannes Lions Bronze
(Entertainment Lions for Music - Excellence in Music Video)
"The Most Vicious Cycle" MFOL

2018 | 3 Gold Lions + 1 Silver Lion + 1 Bronze Lion
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL


ANDYs (6)

2024 | Gold: IDEA 
“Wood Milk” Got Milk?

2021 | Best in Show: BRAVEST
Gold: IDEA, RESET and CRAFT
"True Name" Mastercard

2019 | Gold: Social Good
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL


D&AD PENCILS (10)

2021 | BLACK PENCIL (Experiential - Community)
+ 3 Graffiti Pencils + 1 Wood Pencil  
"True Name" - Mastercard

2019 | Wood Pencil | Sound Design & Use of Music
"The Most Vicious Cycle" MFOL

2018 | Yellow Pencil (Creativity For Good: Non-Profit)
+ 2 White Pencils + 1 Wood Pencil
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL


ADC (14)
2021 | Best of Discipline - Product Design
"True Name" - Mastercard
+ 2x Gold Cube, 3x Silver Cube, 2x Bronze Cube

2019 | 4 Bronze
"The Most Vicious Cycle" MFOL

2018 | Gold Cube - Direct/Wildcard
+ 1 Silver Cube
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL

2017 | Merit  - Art Direction Motion
“Space Holiday” Microsoft


THE ONE SHOW (25)

2021 | Best of Discipline (IP & Products)
2021 | Best of Discipline (Public Relations)
+ 8 Gold + 3 Silver "True Name" - Mastercard

2020 | 2 Bronze
“Acceptance Street” Mastercard

2019 | 2 Silver + 1 Bronze
"The Most Vicious Cycle" MFOL

2018 | 6 Gold + 1 Silver
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL


Webby Awards (2)

2024 | Nominee - Comedy (Branded) Video
“Wood Milk” Got Milk?

2023 | Nominee - Advertising, Media & PR: Best Event Activation
“26.2 You’re Gonna Need Milk For That” Got Milk?

2018 | Winner - Advertising, Media & PR: Best Cause Related Campaign
"The Most Vicious Cycle" MFOL

2018 | Winner - Advertising, Media & PR: Public Service & Activism
"#ExcuseMe" National School Walkout

+ 6 nominee


EPICA AWARDS (3)

2018 | Grand Prix - Responsibility
+ 1 Gold + 1 Silver
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL


CLIO AWARDS (26)

2021 | Grand Clio (Integrated Campaign)
2021 | Grand Clio (Product Innovation)
+ 1 Gold + 2 Silver + 1 Bronze
"True Name" Mastercard

2019 | Gold (Clio Music Award - Music Marketing)
+ 8 Silver + 7 Bronze
"The Most Vicious Cycle" MFOL

2018 | Gold - OOH (Direct)
+ 2 Silver
"Price On Our Lives" MFOL


And
LIA | AICP | Shorty | NY Festival | Effie

JURY

2023 | The One Club for Creativity Young Ones Jury
2022 | The One Club Awards Miami 2022 
2014 | Hennessy US Never Stop Never Settle Art Competition 

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Permanent Collection
Lusophonies Collection, managed by Perve Galeria, Lisbon, PT.
It exhibits a wide range of artworks covering almost a century of creation made by artists from Portugal and from Portuguese-speaking countries and communities such as Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe. The LusoFonias | LusoPhonies Collection has been, over the years, subject of various exhibitions, with wide dissemination by the media.

2019 TomTom Kirmizi Building, Istambul and Bilkent University -
Fada art gallery, Ankara, Turkey

Solo Shows
2018 Abismo e Resistencia, Opus Project Space, NY. USA
2017 Artivismo, Espaço Espelho D`água, Lisbon. Portugal
2015 Movimentos, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro. BR
2015 Movimentos, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília. BR
2015 Movimentos, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte. BR
2014 Project Movements, Opus Project Space, NY. USA

Group Shows
2024 DiferEntre. Queerioca, Rio de Janeiro, BR.
Curadoria Daniel Toledo.
2018 Helping Boricuas. An Exhibition and Auction to Benefit Puerto Rico’s Recovery. presented by co.l.a at ArtHelix Gallery, Bushuwick, NY.
2017 Landscapes. ArtHelix Gallery, Bushuwick, NY.
2016 Opus Artists group show. Opus Gallery, NY
2016 #LiberdadeJá #FreedomNow, LX Factory, Lisbon, Portugal.

Art Fairs
2018 Aqua Art Miami, with ArtHelix Gallery.
2015 11th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial
2014 Bklyn Designs, Dumbo, New York.

Publications
Project Movements Exhibition Catalog.
CAIXA Cultural Rio de Janeiro. 2015

Funk que batida é essa.
Aeroplano Editora. Rio de Janeiro. 2009

Grants
2015 Federal grant for exhibition of Project Movements at Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil

Guest Speaker
2018 L'Opéra Underground in Lyon, France, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Human Rights Declaration.

2016 ARTE E POLÍTICA RELOADED? O DIREITO À CIDADE Organizado pela CRIA-Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia e Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia financiados pelo Ministério da Cultura/DGArtes. Lisbon, Portugal.