Terry Castro (1972–2022)

Terry Castro was a jewelry designer and sculptor who spent thirty years making objects that refused to behave like jewelry. Born in Toledo, Ohio, he developed a practice rooted in Gothic intricacy, industrial material, and an unflinching preoccupation with mortality, metamorphosis, and the body's relationship to the natural world.

After establishing his practice in Toledo, Castro relocated to New York City in 2006, where his SoHo atelier on Prince Street became a destination for collectors who understood that what he made was not adornment, but argument. His work entered the hands of Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Michele Lamy, Steven Tyler, Whoopi Goldberg, and Woody Harrelson. He exhibited at Sotheby's Brilliant and Black and collaborated with De Beers and Muzo.

In 2016, Castro moved to Istanbul, deepening his technical practice through collaboration with master craftsmen in the Grand Bazaar. He died there in July 2022, at fifty, leaving behind an estate of singular objects and an uncompromising creative vision that had never once followed a trend.