Lives and works in Mexico City.
Benjamín Torres trained in the field of sculpture and later directed his work towards experimentation, within a more open and post-conceptual concept of three-dimensional practice.
Benjamin finds his references in the collection, dismantling and analysis of certain devices of the consumer culture and of media information. The methods used in the artist’s production come from the post-avant-garde setting: appropriation, intervention, recontextualization and assembly, which he uses to re-signify cultural phenomena both globally and from his immediate environment.
STUDIES
• Bachelor of Visual Arts, National School of Plastic Arts, UNAM, Mexico City
• Drawing workshops at The Art Student’s League of New York, New York, USA
• Contemporary Art Seminar with Tadashi Uei Horibata from the University of Kyoto, Japan
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 Dislocaciones demarcadas, Estudio Marte, Mexico City
2016 Diario se cuela la luz, diario se fuga el color, Gallery
Hilario Galguera, Mexico City
2013 Los efectos a largo plazo son aún desconocidos, Art Museum
Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Luz obscura, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City
Polvo de un sol distante, Museum of Contemporary Art
from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 Diagramática, National Museum of San Carlos, Mexico City
Ediciones intervenidas, La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
2008 Skin Deep – Superficie, Hilario Galguera Gallery,
Mexico City
Elaborado por:, Studio Banana, Madrid, Spain
2007 Inventario, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
Contenido Neto y sus Derivados, Art & Idea Gallery,
New York, USA
2006 Contenido Neto, MACO, Art & Idea Gallery, Mexico City
Volantes, Casa Vecina, Mexico City
Derivados, MDF Gallery, Mexico City
2003 Parque de Construcciones, José María Velasco Gallery,
Mexico City
2002 Cielo Adentro, Rotación XVII, MUCA Roma, Mexico City
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
project, Chile, Brazil, Mexico
Museo del Instituto de Geología de la UNAM, Mexico City
2019 Approaching Abstraction, Blain|Southern, London, England
Dibujo, Acapulco 62 Gallery, Mexico City
Zona MACO, Mexico City
El segundo advenimiento. Intertextos. Centro Cultural Clavijero,
Morelia, Mexico
Presencia lúcida, ESPAC, Mexico City
Apuntes para una colección.10 años del MUSAS. Museo de Arte
de Sonora, Sonora
Nueva piel para una vieja ceremonia, Karen Huber Gallery,
Mexico City
2018 Murales temporales, Galería Karen Huber Gallery, Mexico City
El cordón umbilical retiniano, II Pictoconstrucciones, ESPAC,
Mexico City
Palettable Relations, Hilario Galguera Gallery in collaboration
with Gildar Gallery, Mexico City
Arte Careyes, Mexico
Zona MACO, Mexico City
Material Art Fair, Mexico City
2017 James hd Brown: Life and work in Mexico (in collaboration
with Carpe Diem Publications),
Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, USC Fischer Museum of Art,
Los Ángeles, EUA
Masters Salón,Mexico City
Zona MACO, Mexico City
2016 Una red de líneas que se intersecan, ESPAC, Mexico City
Tiempo compartido, Estudio Marte, Mexico City
Kozmic Blues. Entre control/descontrol, Complejo Cultural
Universitario, Puebla, Mexico
Zona MACO, Mexico City
2015 Los justos desconocidos (de todas formas cago),
Cuarto de máquinas, Mexico City
Zona MACO, Mexico City
EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, EUA
2014 Index 4: Propuestas en la era de la simulación,
Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City
En el umbral (y sólo a unos pasos de la dimensión
sublime de la belleza),
Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Zona MACO, Mexico City
EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA
2013 Rundgang, Spinnerei Gallerie, Hilario Galguera Gallery,
Leipzig, Germany
El vértigo de la abundancia, La Casa del Lago, Mexico City
2012 Tiempo de sospecha, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Art Cologne, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Colonia, Germany
Zona MACO, Mexico City
2010 Constante Babilonia, Museo de Arte de Zapopan,
Zapopan, Mexico
Broken – reflexiones intimas, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual,
Mexico City
Hecho en casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2009 Imperivm, Capítulo I: ¡Que Viva México!, Hilario Galguera Gallery,
Leipzig, Germany
ARCO, La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
2008 INDEX 2 – Pulsión, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City
La Llegada de los Bárbaros, Hilario Galguera Gallery,
Leipzig, Germany
Feria México Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Contenido Neto, Arco 08, Galería La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
2007 Half Mast, Galería Art & Idea, New York, USA
INDEX, Esperando a los Bárbaros, Hilario Galguera Gallery,
Mexico City
Bale Latina, Art & Idea Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2006 Das Phantastische Geheimnis Des Exotischen Universums,
Galerie Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin, Germany
2005 Project: Changarro, ARCO, Art & Idea Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2004 Mexican Report, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio,
Texas (itinerant)
Creación en Movimiento, FONCA, Centro Nacional de las Artes,
Mexico City
2ª Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales de Yucatán, Merida, Mexico
2003 Tiempo Presente, Art & Idea Gallery, Mexico City
Generación X Y Z, Díaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2018 Beneficiary of Sistema Nacional de Creadores
de ARTE program, FONCA 2018 – 2021
2002 Jóvenes Credores Scholarship, FONCA, 2002 – 2003
1999 Support of the programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones
Culturales of FONCA.
RESIDENCES
2017 Casa Nano, Tokio, Japan
2015 Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, EUA
2014 Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
2013 El Ganzo, Los Cabos, Mexico
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
• Colección JUMEX, Mexico City
• ESPAC, Mexico City
• Fundación RAC, Pontevedra, Spain
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
• Museo de Arte de Sonora, Sonora, Mexico
• Nassau County Museum of Art, Nueva York, EUA
• The Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, Nueva York, EUA
• USC Fischer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, EUA