Rubén Torres Llorca
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Rubén Torres Llorca is a Cuba
n-American artist
specializing in painting
, drawing
, sculpture
, collages, and photography
. He studied from 1972 to 1976 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana
and from 1976 to 1981, studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte
(ISA), also in Havana. Torres from 1990 to 1993 resided in Mexico City
, Mexico
and since 1993 resides in Miami, Florida
.
2009 "Los Peores Hombres Cuentan las Mejores Historias" Praxis, New York, NY.
2008 "The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty" Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MARP),
San Juan, PR.
"Manual de Carpinteria China" Praxis, Wynwood, Miami, FL.
2007 "Una Historia Para Niños Basada en un Crimen Real", Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, FL.
2006 "Pagador de Promesas", Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil.
"Easy to Build/Modelo Para Armar" Frost Museum, Miami, Fl.
2005 "If They Pay You For It ", Praxis International, Coral Gables, Fl
2004 "Take This Waltz", Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
2002 "Si Pierdo la Memoria que Pureza", Locust Projects, Miami, Fl.
2001 "Secret Life", Gary Nader Fine Arts, Coral Gables, Fl.
2000 "Last News From Havana", Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
1999 "Better Death Than Alive", Freites Revilla Gallery, Coral Gables, Fl.
1998 "So Quiet in Here", Museo del Bario, New York, NY.
"Gotan", Der Brucke, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"Fill in the Blanks", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 "All my Lies are Wishes", Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY.
"The Pledge", Fred Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Fl.
1996 "Eight Visits to the Artist's Studio", Miami Art Museum, Fl.
1995 "The Anchor", Marta Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Fl.
1993 "Casa Tomada", Expositum, Mexico DF.
1992 "Ya No Te Espero", Ninart, Centro de Cultura, Mexico DF.
1990 "La Trampa", Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"La Soledad", Museo Benjamin Carrion, Quito, Ecuador.
1989 "Una Mirada Retrospectiva", Centro de Artes Platicas Luz y Oficios, La Habana, Cuba.
1988 "El Hombre Incompleto", Galeria Habana, Cuba.
1987 "A Semejansa Nuestra", Centro Cultural Capilla Britanica, Mexico DF.
"Estrictamente Personal", Fototeca de Cuba", La Habana, Cuba.
1985 "Tus Bacterias y las Mias", Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico DF.
"El lado de la Sombra", Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Mexico.
1983 "Cine del Hogar", Galeria Habana, Cuba.
1981 "Fumar Daña Tu Salud", Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, La Habana, Cuba.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Recent Acquisitions" Museo del Barrio, NY, NY.
"Cuba Avant-Garde" Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
“Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art.” Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
"PARALLEL CURRENTS Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana.
“Recent Acquisitions from the Latin American Art Collection” Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.
2009 "Cuba Avant-Garde" The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
"Arte TransCubano" Galeris Chico Zapote, Mexico DF.
"Irreversible" The Cisneros Fontanal Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL.
"Aesthetics & Values" The Gallery at Green Library, Florida International University (FIU), Mia. FL.
2008 "Visiones:20th Century Latin American Art" Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
"Cuban Avant-Garde" Harm Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL.
2007 "M4" Design Miami/ Buena Vista Building, Miami, Fl.
"Cuban Avant-Garde" Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.
"Witches, Bitches and Saints" Miami Dade College, Kendal Campus, FL.
2005 "Iturria-Torres LLorca", Praxis International, Coral Gables, FL.
"Go Figure!", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
"Beyond All That", World Arts Building, Miami, Fl.
2004 "Permanent Collection", Nassau County Museum, NY.
"Tres",GDS gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2003 "Visual Poetics" Miami Art Museum, FL.
"American Art Today", Frost Museum, Miami FL.
"Thinking Outside the Sphere", Museum of Science, Miami, FL.
"Inside the Paper", Centro Cultural Espanol, Coral Gables, FL.
2002 "Miami Currents", Miami Art Museum, Miami, Fl.
"Contemporanea", Coconut Convention Center, Miami, FL.
2001 "Drawing Conclusions" Design Miami/ Buena Vista Building.
2000 "En Casa", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1999 "The Present Absent" Museo Palacio Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"The Dream Collection", Miami Art Museum FL.
1998 "The Narrative Art", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
1997 "Breaking Barriers", The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
"Cultural Consortium Fellowship Exhibition", Miami Art Museum, FL.
1996 "Modernismo y Sincretismo", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias/
Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
"Defining the 90's" Museum of Contemporari Art (MOCA), Miami, FL.
1994 "Abril", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1992 "Von Dort Aus: Kuba., Ludwing Forum Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
"La Decada Prodigiosa", Museo del Chopo, Mexico DF.
1991 "El Collage Contemporaneo", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF.
1990 "Kuba OK", Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1989 "XX Bienal De Sao Paulo", São Paulo, Brazil.
"III Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
"No Por Mucho Madrugar Amanece Mas Temprano", Fototeca De Cuba, La Habana.
1988 "Signs of Transition", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA), New York, NY.
"Raices en Accion", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF.
1987 "XII Drawing Biennial" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1986 "II Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1984 "I Bienal de La Habana", Pabellon Cuba, La Habana.
1983 "Sano y Sabroso", Galeria L, La Habana, Cuba.
1982 "Retrospectiva de Arte Joven", Salon Lalo Carrasco, La Habana, Cuba.
1981 "Volumen I", Galeria de Arte Internacional, La Habana, Cuba.
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
Fototeca de Cuba, La Habana.
Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan.
Miami Art Museum (MAM), Miami, FL.
The Frost Museum, Miami, FL.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, FL.
The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL.
Miami Dade College, FL.
The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
The Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY.
MUAC Contemporary Art Museum, UNAM, Mexico DF.
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Michoacan, Mexico.
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n-American artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
specializing in painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, drawing
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
, sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, collages, and photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
. He studied from 1972 to 1976 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
and from 1976 to 1981, studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte
Instituto Superior de Arte
The University of Arts of Cuba - , Instituto Superior de Arte was established on September 1, 1976 by the Cuban government as a school for the arts. Its original structure had three schools: Music, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts....
(ISA), also in Havana. Torres from 1990 to 1993 resided in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Mexico
Mexico
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and since 1993 resides in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
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Selected solo exhibitions
2010 "Figure 1 to 20" Now Contemporary Art, Wynwood, Miami, FL.2009 "Los Peores Hombres Cuentan las Mejores Historias" Praxis, New York, NY.
2008 "The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty" Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MARP),
San Juan, PR.
"Manual de Carpinteria China" Praxis, Wynwood, Miami, FL.
2007 "Una Historia Para Niños Basada en un Crimen Real", Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, FL.
2006 "Pagador de Promesas", Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil.
"Easy to Build/Modelo Para Armar" Frost Museum, Miami, Fl.
2005 "If They Pay You For It ", Praxis International, Coral Gables, Fl
2004 "Take This Waltz", Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
2002 "Si Pierdo la Memoria que Pureza", Locust Projects, Miami, Fl.
2001 "Secret Life", Gary Nader Fine Arts, Coral Gables, Fl.
2000 "Last News From Havana", Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
1999 "Better Death Than Alive", Freites Revilla Gallery, Coral Gables, Fl.
1998 "So Quiet in Here", Museo del Bario, New York, NY.
"Gotan", Der Brucke, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"Fill in the Blanks", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 "All my Lies are Wishes", Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY.
"The Pledge", Fred Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Fl.
1996 "Eight Visits to the Artist's Studio", Miami Art Museum, Fl.
1995 "The Anchor", Marta Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Fl.
1993 "Casa Tomada", Expositum, Mexico DF.
1992 "Ya No Te Espero", Ninart, Centro de Cultura, Mexico DF.
1990 "La Trampa", Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"La Soledad", Museo Benjamin Carrion, Quito, Ecuador.
1989 "Una Mirada Retrospectiva", Centro de Artes Platicas Luz y Oficios, La Habana, Cuba.
1988 "El Hombre Incompleto", Galeria Habana, Cuba.
1987 "A Semejansa Nuestra", Centro Cultural Capilla Britanica, Mexico DF.
"Estrictamente Personal", Fototeca de Cuba", La Habana, Cuba.
1985 "Tus Bacterias y las Mias", Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico DF.
"El lado de la Sombra", Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Mexico.
1983 "Cine del Hogar", Galeria Habana, Cuba.
1981 "Fumar Daña Tu Salud", Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, La Habana, Cuba.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Recent Acquisitions" Museo del Barrio, NY, NY.
"Cuba Avant-Garde" Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
“Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art.” Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
"PARALLEL CURRENTS Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana.
“Recent Acquisitions from the Latin American Art Collection” Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.
2009 "Cuba Avant-Garde" The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
"Arte TransCubano" Galeris Chico Zapote, Mexico DF.
"Irreversible" The Cisneros Fontanal Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL.
"Aesthetics & Values" The Gallery at Green Library, Florida International University (FIU), Mia. FL.
2008 "Visiones:20th Century Latin American Art" Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
"Cuban Avant-Garde" Harm Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL.
2007 "M4" Design Miami/ Buena Vista Building, Miami, Fl.
"Cuban Avant-Garde" Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.
"Witches, Bitches and Saints" Miami Dade College, Kendal Campus, FL.
2005 "Iturria-Torres LLorca", Praxis International, Coral Gables, FL.
"Go Figure!", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
"Beyond All That", World Arts Building, Miami, Fl.
2004 "Permanent Collection", Nassau County Museum, NY.
"Tres",GDS gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2003 "Visual Poetics" Miami Art Museum, FL.
"American Art Today", Frost Museum, Miami FL.
"Thinking Outside the Sphere", Museum of Science, Miami, FL.
"Inside the Paper", Centro Cultural Espanol, Coral Gables, FL.
2002 "Miami Currents", Miami Art Museum, Miami, Fl.
"Contemporanea", Coconut Convention Center, Miami, FL.
2001 "Drawing Conclusions" Design Miami/ Buena Vista Building.
2000 "En Casa", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1999 "The Present Absent" Museo Palacio Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"The Dream Collection", Miami Art Museum FL.
1998 "The Narrative Art", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
1997 "Breaking Barriers", The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
"Cultural Consortium Fellowship Exhibition", Miami Art Museum, FL.
1996 "Modernismo y Sincretismo", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias/
Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
"Defining the 90's" Museum of Contemporari Art (MOCA), Miami, FL.
1994 "Abril", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1992 "Von Dort Aus: Kuba., Ludwing Forum Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
"La Decada Prodigiosa", Museo del Chopo, Mexico DF.
1991 "El Collage Contemporaneo", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF.
1990 "Kuba OK", Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1989 "XX Bienal De Sao Paulo", São Paulo, Brazil.
"III Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
"No Por Mucho Madrugar Amanece Mas Temprano", Fototeca De Cuba, La Habana.
1988 "Signs of Transition", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA), New York, NY.
"Raices en Accion", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF.
1987 "XII Drawing Biennial" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1986 "II Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1984 "I Bienal de La Habana", Pabellon Cuba, La Habana.
1983 "Sano y Sabroso", Galeria L, La Habana, Cuba.
1982 "Retrospectiva de Arte Joven", Salon Lalo Carrasco, La Habana, Cuba.
1981 "Volumen I", Galeria de Arte Internacional, La Habana, Cuba.
Awards
During his life he had obtained many awards and recognitions, among them we can quote in 1990 the Prize in Curatorship of the International association of Arts Critics (AICA) for Una Mirada Retrospectiva exhibited, in Havana. And in 1997 he was awarded with the Visual and Media Fellowship, for the South Florida Cultural Consortium, FloridaFlorida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
Fototeca de Cuba, La Habana.
Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan.
Miami Art Museum (MAM), Miami, FL.
The Frost Museum, Miami, FL.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, FL.
The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL.
Miami Dade College, FL.
The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
The Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY.
MUAC Contemporary Art Museum, UNAM, Mexico DF.
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Michoacan, Mexico.