Milagros de la Torre is an artist based in New York.[1]
Her work is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art[2] in New York. De la Torre was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts - Photography in 2011 and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award in 2021.[3][4]
She is a part of the Advisory Board at the Penumbra Foundation in New York.[5]
Career
De la Torre is an artist who has been working since the 90s. She immigrated from Peru at an early age to follow her career in London, Paris, Mexico City, and finally settled in New York. [6][7][8] De la Torre was named the Wolf Chair in Photography at the Cooper Union (Fall 2023)
, where she gave an artist talk.[9]
De la Torre received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011,[3] the Dora Maar Fellowship from The Brown Foundation in 2014,[20] the Peter S. Reed Foundation Photography Award in 2016,[21] the "Merited Person of Culture Medal" from the Minister of Culture in Peru in 2016, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Residency Grant in 2020, Hundred Heroines in 2021,[22] and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award in 2021.[4]
Works
Under the Black Sun (1991-1993)
It All Stays in the Family (1994)
Folded Pages (1996)
Last Things (1996)
The Lost Steps (1996)
Blank (1998)
The Disappeared (1998)
Censored (2000)
Armored (2000)
Newborn (2001)
Nocturnal (2002)
Untitled (Vomiting) (2002)
Bleus (2002)
Fears (2004)
Fingerprints (2004)
Untitled (Poland) (2005)
Implanted (2007)
F.F (2007)
Bulletproof (2008)
The End (2008)
Helmets (2009)
Imrinted (2010-2011)
Systems and Constellations (2013)
Countermaneuver - and Elusive Messages (2012-2013)
An Inventory - of One (1989 - continuing)
Diary of the Cure for an Evil Eye (2018)
Intervals (2020)
Reollection (2021)
Collections
De la Torre's work is part of the following public collections:
Glasstire, December 27, 2021 “Ruby City Acquires Works by BIPOC Artists” by Jessica Fuentes[45]
Clarín, June 23, 2020 “Burlas al falo: la obra que el Malba compró en arteBA” by Verónica Abdala[46]
Glasstire, June 3, 2020 “Ramos, de la Torre, and Castro at Artpace San Antonio” by Neil Fauerso [47]
La Nación, April 27, 2020 “El Malba, pionero en la era digital: anunció por Zoom compras virtuales en arteBA” by Celina Chatruc[48]
MALBA Museum Diario, April 27, 2020 “Fotografías de Maris Bustamante y Milagros de la Torre ingresan a la Colección” by MALBA[49]
notiamérica, February 26, 2019 “Artistas peruanos de la colección Hochschild 'dialogan' con Goya o Alonso Cano en Madrid en el marco de ARCO” by notiamérica[50]
El Mundo, February 24, 2017 “El viejo y nuevo Perú se encuentran en la Colección Hochschild” at Sala Alcalá 31 by Alba Díaz[51]