Milagros de la Torre is an artist based in New York.[1]
Milagros de la Torre | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Peruvian-American |
Education | University of the Arts London |
Known for | Photography, Art |
Website | www |
Her work is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art[2] in New York. De la Torre was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts - Photography in 2011 and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award in 2021.[3][4]
She is a part of the Advisory Board at the Penumbra Foundation in New York.[5]
De la Torre is an artist who has been working since the 90s. She immigrated from Peru at an early age to follow her career in London, Paris, Mexico City, and finally settled in New York. [6][7][8] De la Torre was named the Wolf Chair in Photography at the Cooper Union (Fall 2023) , where she gave an artist talk.[9]
She has given artist lectures at New York University Institute of Fine Arts,[10] Columbia University, Parsons School of Design,[11] New York University,[12] the International Center of Photography,[13] Pratt Institute, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts,[14] Artpace,[15] Americas Society,[16] Lima Art Museum,[17] MALBA,[18] and the School of Visual Arts.[19]
De la Torre received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011,[3] the Dora Maar Fellowship from The Brown Foundation in 2014,[20] the Peter S. Reed Foundation Photography Award in 2016,[21] the "Merited Person of Culture Medal" from the Minister of Culture in Peru in 2016, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Residency Grant in 2020, Hundred Heroines in 2021,[22] and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award in 2021.[4]
De la Torre's work is part of the following public collections: