Fernando Sánchez Castillo was born in 1970 in Madrid.

Sánchez Castillo studied Fine Arts at the «Complutense University of Madrid» and philosophy in aesthetics at the «Autonomous University of Madrid. He received scholarships in Santander (Fundación Marcelino Botín Grant, 2000), Madrid (Caja Madrid Generation Grant, 2002) and Amsterdam (Rijksakademie 2005/06).

In 1999 he took part in the Abracadabra exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, in 2001 he exhibited at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and in 2003 at the MoMA PS1 in New York. Sánchez Castillo was represented in 2004 with his work at the São Paulo Biennial in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. At the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam had a retrospective of his work represented in 2006 and 2007 with the exhibition Every One His Own and was invited to participate in the Greatness exhibition at Sonsbeek 2008 in Arnhem, where he participated in the Sculpture Leaders exhibition.