Beau Torres

Beau Torres (b. 1989, Powder Springs, GA) is a photo-based artist living and working in New York. He holds a BFA in Studio Art with Concentration in Photography from Georgia State University, and earned his MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography-Bard. His main interests lie in everyday life as well as apophenia, the tendency to find meaning or relationships in seemingly random data/phenomena. The work he makes is concerned with New New Photography, a dialect of photography situated at the intersection of still-life tradition, assemblage, and online culture. Within his studio practice he creates a visual language juxtaposing genuine sentiments with throwaway objects/phrases to both critique and embrace a societal mindset of cynicism and irony.

Current interests include:
art therapy, museum studies, and community-oriented practice

2021 MA Candidate: Museum Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, MD

2015 MFA: Advanced Photographic Studies, Bard College, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

2013 BFA: Studio Art with Concentration in Photography, Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 In Vogue, Ray Gallery, DUMBO, NY

2015 When Things Come Together, ICP-Bard MFA Studios, Long Island City, NY

2013 deviltown, The Window Project, Atlanta, GA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Everyone is Asleep But Me, Art Tank, Asbury Park, NJ

2017 Notas al Futuro CDMX, Galería Breve, Mexico City, Mexico
Unauthorized SFMOMA Show #547: Creationism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, https://sfmoma.show
Unauthorized SFMOMA Show #514: Idol Hands // Baldessari, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, https://sfmoma.show
Unauthorized SFMOMA Show #427: art world, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, https://sfmoma.show
QueerTech.io, http://queertech.io

2016 Abstract Mind: The International Exhibition on Abstract Art, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea
glitch, Peripheral Forms, http://glitch.peripheralforms.com
What Happens When..., curated by Zach Krall, POWRPLNT, Bushwick, NY
What Are You Trying to Say?, curated by Vera Petukhova, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Fall Line Projects presents: Dinner and a Screening, The LOW Museum of Contemporary Culture, Atlanta, GA

2015 Chrysalis Lens: A Brief Survey of Contemporary Video Art, Marym...