Ruben ortiz torres biography of abraham
Ortiz-Torres was a peer of several of the artists who would go on to international recognition in the 90s like Gabriel Orozco, Abraham..
Rubén Ortiz Torres
Mexican artist
Rubén Ortiz Torres (born February 27, 1964) is a Mexican photographer, painter, sculptor, film and video producer.
Biography
He was the subject of the mid-career survey show Desmothernismo at the Huntington Beach Art Center, a show which toured to the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte in Mexico City. His low-rider/video installation "Alien Toy" was shown as part of the InSite show in San Diego in 1997 then in 1998 at Track 16 in Los Angeles.
He co-directed the feature-length experimental documentary Frontierland with Jesse Lerner in 1995.[1]
Ortiz has been a Faculty Member in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
This exhibition is about the contemporary monochrome in Latin America.
Ortiz publishes a blog entitled For The Record. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992.
"Customization characterizes the art of Rubén Ortiz Torres in almost all media and offers an alternative avenue for approaching the issues of globalizat