RUBÉN TORRES LLORCA
b. 1957
Havana, Cuba
EDUCATION
1981 Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba
1976 Escuela de Artes San Alejandro, La Habana, Cuba
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Ya casi no escucho el canto de las sirenas, Conde Contemporary, Miami, FL
2015 "Better Days Ahead" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Wynwood, FL
2012 "One Of Us Can Be Wrong And Other Essays" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Wynwood, FL
2011 "El Bosque no es lo Mismo sin el Lobo" Now Contemporary Art, Wynwood, FL
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 Ninos Basada en un Crimen Real", Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, FL
2006 "Pagador de Promesas", Galeria Thomas Cohn, Sao 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
"Remedio para el mal de ojo", Galería Collage, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
"El lado de la Sombra", Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Mexico
1983 "Cine del Hogar", Galeria Habana, Cuba
1980 "Fumar Daña Tu Salud", Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, La Habana, Cuba
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Por America", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
“Unlikely Assemblages” Annex Gallery, NCECA, Cincinnati Ohio
2022 "You Know Who You are" El Espacio 23 Museum, Miami, FL
"Dialogues Vol.1" Collegium, Madrid, Spain
"Los suenos de la mujer Arana" Fundación Larivière, Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Por America", Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2021 "Timelines in Cuban Art", JCC Feldenkrais/Hanono Cultural center, Ojus, Florida
Sydney and Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Mayers, Florida
2020 "Lucky 13", Conde Contemporary, Coral Gables, Florida
2019 Un largo recorrido Espacio Art Nexus – Estudios Las Nieves, Bogotá DC
2017 "Five Avangard Visions" Raw Space, Vero Beach, FL
2016 "Go Figure!" Fred Snitzer Gallery, Wynwood, FL
"ConTexto" Museo Universidad De Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
"Iconocracia" Centro Atlantico de Arte Contemporaneo, Espana
2015 "Un Ruso, Un Chino Y un Cubano Hicieron Una Exposición' Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, FL
"Up With Diversity" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Wynwood, FL
"A & V", The Frost Art Museum, Miami FL
"Making Circles In The Water", Juan Ruiz Gallery, Wynwood, FL
2014 “Playgrounds/ Reinventar la Plaza”,Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Espana
“Permanent Collection”, The Perez Art Museum, Miami FL
"22", Galeria La Acacia, Habana, Cuba
"440972 Miles". Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami FL
2013 “Short Stories” Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami FL
”It's Only a Paper Cut”, Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami FL
”Ways of Worldmaking”, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
”Cintas Foundation Fellowship”, Freedom Tower, Miami FL
2012 "Memorias del oikos: La casa re-presentada" Centro Cultural Espanol, Miami, FL
2011 "The 2011-2012 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship Award Winners, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
"Declaring Independence" Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona
2010 “Recent Acquisitions" Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
“Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art.” Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
" PARALLEL CURRENTS Snite Museun of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana
“Recent Acquisitions from the Latin American Art Collection” Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
2009 "Cuban 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 Green Library, Florida International University (FIU), Miami. 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
"Realidades Alteradas" Art Center SF, Miami Beach, 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" Desing Miami/ Buena Vista Building
"Robot" Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2000 "Departing Perspectives", Site-Specific Installations, Brickell Avenue, Miami
"En Casa", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
"Palmas Reales y Vitrales" Alonso Fine Arts, Miami, FL
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
"IX Muestra de Pintura Y Escultura Latinoamericana" Galeria Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador
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 "13 Artistas Cubanos Contemporáneos" Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela
"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
"Las Americas" Universidad Autonoma de Minas Gerais, Brazil
1991 "El Collage Contemporaneo", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF
"15 Artistas Cubanos" Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico DF
"Homenaje a Andy Warhol", La Agencia, Mexico DF
1990 "Kuba OK", Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Arte Contenporáneo en Cuba", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
1989 "XX Bienal De Sao Paulo", Sao Paulo, Brazil
"El Juego de Pelota", performance colectivo, La Habana, Cuba
"El Objeto Esculturado" La Habana, Cuba
"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
"Neofotografia-Postfotografia", La Agencia, Mexico DF
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
"Cuban:Magic Realism", Peatonville Gallery, London, England
1986 "II Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
"Maestros de Hoy", Galeria Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
1985 "Cuban Photography", The Regent Street Gallery, London, England
1984 "I Bienal de La Habana", Pabellon Cuba, La Habana
"Young Artist of Today" State Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"XV Muestra Internacional de Pintura" Cagnes Sur Mer, France
1983 "Sano y Sabroso", Galeria L, La Habana, Cuba
"III Bienal Ibero.Americana de Arte", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF
1982 "Retrospectiva de Arte Joven", Salon Lalo Carrasco, La Habana, Cuba
"Premio de Fotografia Cubana", Galeria 23 y M, Habana, Cuba
"Los Novisimos Cubanos", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Panama, Panama
1981 "Volumen I", Galeria de Arte Internacional, La Habana, Cuba
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
The Perez Museum, Miami, FL
The Frost Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, FL
The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, 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
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Latinoamericano, Managua, Nicaragua.
The Art Nexus Foundation, Bogota, Colombia and Miami, FL
The Estee Lauder Foundation, New York, NY
El Espacio 23 Museum, Miami, FL
Fundación Larivière, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museum Of Contemporary Art of the Americas, Miami, Florida
MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Spinning Tales, Creating Encounters" by K. Mitchell Snow, Américas, Set-Oct 2009, Volume 61, #5
"Cronica de un Articulo Anunciado" , by Francine Birbragher, Art Nexus # 66, 2007
"Miami Contemporary Artists" by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, forework by Elisa Turner, Shiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007
"Easy To Build/Modelo Para Armar", by Agustin Arteaga and Joel Weinstein, Published by The Frost Museum, 2006
"Time, Ambiguity and Symbol", by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Published by Praxis International, 2005
”Interview With the Artists", by Lilia Fontana, Arte al Dia Internacional, # 102, 2004
"New Art From Cuba" by Luis Camnizer, University of Texas press, 2003
"Gotan" by Ruben Torres Llorca, Der Bruke Editions, 1998
"Oral History Interview" by Juan Martinez, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, 1998
"So Quiet in Here" by Carolina Ponce De Leon, Published by El Museo del Bario, NY, 1998
”Ruben Torres Llorca" by Carlos Monsivais y Ivan de la Nuez, Published by Ninart, Mexico DF
"Kuba OK" by Jurguen Harten y Abdel Hernandez, Published by the Stadtische Kunsthalle