Nationality Peruvian | Known for Photography | |
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Education University of Lima, London College of Communication Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean | ||
Milagros de la torre conceptual photographer
Milagros de la Torre is an artist working with the photographic medium since 1991. Her images involve rigorous research and examine intimate representations of violence, its residual effect on the individual, and the structures of remembrance.
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She studied Communications Sciences at the University of Lima and received a B.A. (Hons) in Photographic Arts from the London College of Communication.
Her first solo exhibition, curated by Robert Delpire, was presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She received the Rockefeller Foundation Artist Grant and was awarded the Romeo Martinez Photography Prize and the Young Iberoamerican Creators Prize. In 2003, her artist book Trouble de la Vue was published by Toluca Editions, Paris. De la Torre received the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, 2011, the Dora Maar Fellowship from The Brown Foundation in 2014, The Peter S. Reed Foundation Photography Award and was the recipient of a "Merited Person of Culture Award" from the Minister of Culture in Peru in 2016.
Her work has been exhibited broadly and is part of permanent museum collections in America and Europe. In 2012, the Americas Society, N.Y. presented ‘Observed’, a solo show curated by Edward J. Sullivan, and the Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI honored her with a mid-career retrospective exhibition.
De la Torre lives and works in New York.