BIO

Born in Lima, Peru, Milagros de la Torre is one of the foremost  conceptual photographers active today. Her images often project an  eerie beauty and visual seduction that precedes their thoughtful, and at times haunting, proposal. Her research is focused on an analysis of human actions in severe situations and the evidence and signs left by  them, all done in conjunction with a subtle questioning of the medium of photography. She studied at the University of Lima and received a B.A. (Hons) in photography at the London College of Printing.

An influential Latin American contemporary artist working with photography since 1991, her first solo exhibition, curated by Robert Delpire, was presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, as part of the 'Under the Black Sun' project. She was awarded the Romeo Martinez Photography Prize and the Young Iberoamerican Creators Prize for her series 'The Lost Steps', 1996. In 2003, she published the artist's book Troubles de la Vue (Paris: Ed. Toluca), with text by José Manuel Prieto (Guggenheim Fellow, 2002) and design by Pierre Charpin. Her work is featured in some of the most important reference art books dealing with contemporary Latin American art.

She has given artist lectures at New York University, El Museo del Barrio, Hunter College, New York City; The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Itau Cultural, São Paulo; and the Cultural Center for Contemporary Studies, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Her work has been exhibited extensively and is part of major museums collections.A solo exhibition will be co-presented in 2012 at The Americas Society in New York and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Peru. It will feature a hardcover catalogue with texts by  Edward J. Sullivan (Guggenheim Fellow, 2003) and Miguel Lopez and an interview between the artist and curator Anne Wilkes Tucker (Guggenheim Fellow, 1983), The Gus and Lyndell Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In addition, an important monograph, which will gather some of her most striking and compelling work, designed by Toluca Editions, will be published by RM Editorial, Mexico/Barcelona, in 2012, with text by Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris.

Follow this link to view David Ebony's review of "Observed," a recent exhibition of work by Milagros de la Torre, in the current issue of Art in America.

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