Benjamín Torres

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Benjamín Torres (Mexico City, 1969) Lives and works in Mexico City Benjamín Torres has a degree in Visual Arts, from the National School of Plastic Arts, UNAM, Mexico City. He also took Drawing workshops at The Art Student's League of New York, New York, United States. As well as a Contemporary Art Seminar with Tadashi Uei Horibata from Kyoto University, Mexico – Japan. He trained in the field of sculpture and subsequently oriented his work towards experimentation, within a more open and post-conceptual concept of three-dimensional practice. He finds his references in the compilation, disassembly and analysis of certain devices of consumer culture and media information. The methods used in the artist's production come from the post-avant-garde scene: appropriation, intervention, recontextualization and assembly, which he uses to give new meaning to both global cultural phenomena and those of his immediate environment. Within his most recent projects, Torres formally and conceptually explores the relationship between public space, sculpture, writing and graphics.

He has participated in multiple individual exhibitions, including Body Snatchers, SAENGER Gallery, 2023; Never work!, Pequod Co, Mexico City, 2021; The long-term effects are still unknown, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, 2013; Dust of a distant sun, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Diagrammatic, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, 2011. Collectively he has participated in Logs, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, Querétaro, México; Casa Wabi Foundation Collection, Mexico City, 2022; Hummingbirds / huitziltin / ts’unu’ob. A project by Casa Gallina at the Museum of the Institute of Geology of the UNAM, Mexico City, 2020; The retinal umbilical cord, II Pictoconstrucciones,ESPAC, Mexico City, 2018; On the threshold (and just a few steps from the sublime dimension of beauty), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, 2014, among many others.

His work is part of important public and private collections such as JUMEX Collection, Mexico City; EPAC, Mexico City; Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, New York, USA; RAC Foundation, Pontevedra, Spain; USC Fischer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; Sonora Art Museum, Sonora, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico among others. Torres is part of the SOMA tutoring team and has been a member of the FONCA National System of Art Creators since 2018.

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