Victor Torres

Victor F M Torres is an interdisciplinary and intermedia artist born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He currently lives and works in New York, NY where he has been an LED specialist for advertising and retail installations. He’s currently an Associate Artist at Allied Productions Collective in Manhattan. Torres holds an M.F.A in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as well as a B.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, from the same university. He has taught Design and New Media courses in multiple institutions such as Stevenson University, George Mason University, and UMBC. Torres is the founder of Vector Voltage Publishing, curator of LIGHTHOLE Gallery, and editor of the LIGHTHOLE Journal - both in hiatus. Torres’ research on the parameters of foreignness yields work of the most varied forms and plays a central role in his artistic practice. He’s the author of Language Writes Myth Writes Reality: Or How Does the Acculturated Body Take the Role of Culture Maker? Victor Torres is currently working on a book with the working title of ON: an Ethnography of A Non-Existing Civilization.

M.F.A., 2015
Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Baltimore, MD.
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Baltimore, MD.
University of Maryland, College Park. College Park, MD

B.A., 2009
UMBC. Baltimore, MD.
Cultural Anthropology

2005-2006
Richmond, the American International University. London, England.
International Relations; Minor: Economics

Whitney Museum of American Art
"(Eye, Virus), 2019" 7 min short film
- This work is currently up at ArtForum and has travelled globally to 110 different institutions via Visual Aids.

SOLO INSTALLATIONS
Language Writes Myth Writes Reality. 2017. City Arts 2. Baltimore, MD.

Creation Myth Scrolls 1. 2014. Horton’s Tuxedo Shop. Baltimore, MD.

SOLO SHOWS
Digital Works. 2018. Reverb Collective. Baltimore, MD.

Reptilian Love. 2012. MIX NYC 2012. Brooklyn, New York.

The Last Computer. 2012. Current Gallery. Baltimore, MD.

Fire. 2011. Worlds in Collusion. University of Baltimore. Baltimore, MD.

Untitled (Durational Sound Performance). 2011. La Mama Galleria. New York, New York.

AKHROS. 2011. Red Room. Curated by MC Schmidt (Matmos). Baltimore, MD.

Creation Myth 1. 2011. Florestree Gallery. Baltimore, MD.

COMMISSIONED WORKS
Oracle Pyramid. 2016. Fields Festival. Ramblewood, MD.

Mythologizing the Real. 2015. Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD.

JURIED WORKS
Not So Foreign Elections. 2016. Transmodern Festival. Peale Museum. Baltimore, MD.

Carmen Scroll 1. 2016. “People4People.” Gallery CA. Baltimore, MD.

Immigrant. 2015. “Boundries, Borders, and Barricades Performance Art Festival.” Baltimor...