Fall 2023 Wolf Chair Milagros de la Torre gives an artist talk about her work. Registration required. Please note this free event is first-come-first-served, and an RSVP does not guarantee admission.

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Milagros de la Torre is a New York-based artist whose work explores the connections between image-language and the notions of racial identity, violence, surveillance, and censorship. She received a B.A. (Hons) in Photographic Arts from the University of the Arts London. Her first solo exhibition Under the Black Sun, 1993, curated by Robert Delpire, was presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
 
De la Torre was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), The Dora Maar Fellowship (2014), was the recipient of a Merited Person of Culture medal from the Ministry of Culture in Peru (2016), and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award (2021). Her work has been exhibited broadly and is part of permanent museum collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois;  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Spain, MALBA Museum, Argentina, among others.
 
De la Torre is currently a co-chair for the Photography Department at the Bard College MFA program and serves at the Board of the Penumbra Foundation, NY, a non-profit organization that brings together the Art and Science of Photography through education, research, public and residency programs.