Milagros de la Torre
Born
Lima, Peru
EducationUniversity of the Arts London
Known forPhotography, Art
Websitehttp://www.milagrosdelatorre.com

Milagros de la Torre is a New York-based artist working with a conceptual approach to the photographic medium since 1991. Her images involve critical research on the history and technical procedures of the photographic, and examine representations of trauma, its residual effect on the individual, and the structures of remembrance.

She studied Communications Sciences at the University of Lima and received a B.A. (Hons) in Photographic Arts from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is currently the Co-Chair for the Photography Department at the Bard College MFA program and is also named the Wolf Chair for Photography at Cooper Union. De la Torre is also a member of the visiting faculty at the Pratt Institute MFA Photography Program.

Career

Since 1991, de la Torre has worked with photographic media.[1] Her first solo exhibition, curated by Robert Delpire, was presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She received the Rockefeller Foundation Artist Grant and was awarded the Romeo Martinez Photography Prize and the Young Iberoamerican Creators Prize. In 2003, her artist book Trouble de la Vue was published by Toluca Editions, Paris. De la Torre received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, the Dora Maar Fellowship from The Brown Foundation in 2014, The Peter S. Reed Foundation Photography Award and was the recipient of a "Merited Person of Culture Award" from the Minister of Culture in Peru in 2016. She has also received the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award in 2021.


Her work has been exhibited broadly and is part of permanent museum collections in America and Europe. In 2012, the Americas Society, N.Y. presented ‘Observed’, a solo show curated by Edward J. Sullivan, and the Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI honored her with a mid-career retrospective exhibition.

Awards and honors

Rockefeller Foundation, Romeo Martinez Photography Prize, Young Ibero-American Creators Prize (Photography), Guggenheim Fellowship, Dora Maar Fellowship, The Brown Foundation, The Peter S Reed Foundation Photography Award (2016), and was the recipient of a "Merited Person of Culture Award" from the Minister of Culture in Peru (2016).[2][3][4][5][6][7] She serves on the board of the Penumbra Foundation, New York, a non-profit organization that brings together the art and science of photography through education, research, as well as public and residency programs.

References

  1. ↑ "Milagros de la Torre". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Milagros de la Torre". Milagros de la Torre.
  3. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Behind the Lens with Milagros de la Torre".
  4. ↑ "Milagros de la Torre | TOLUCA FINE ART".
  5. ↑ "Editorial RM - Milagros de la Torre". www.editorialrm.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
  6. ↑ Milagros de la Torre ARTBOOK | D.A.P. 2012 Catalog RM/Larivière Books Exhibition Catalogues 9788492480739.
  7. ↑ http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/85002-milagros-de-la-torre
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