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Ruben Ortiz Torres
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biography
(b. Mexico City, 1964).
RubĂ©n Ortiz Torres lives and works in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He studied visual arts and graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM, in Mexico City. In 1990 he obtained a Fulbright scholarship to study at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received an MFA. Employing a diverse array of artistic practices including photography, video, film, installation and painting, Ortiz explores areas of cultural intersection and interrelations between Mexico and US and resulting hybrid aesthetics. Dissolving distinctions between "high" and "low" art, Ortiz employs icons and emblems from popular culture and manipulates them to address the many levels of exchange between art, society, politics, economics, and culture between these two countries. Ortiz’s work draws on numerous visual sources from both countries including sports imagery, pictures of popular Mexican nationalist heroes such as Zapata, Disney cartoon characters, "lowrider" culture, extraterrestrials and religious images. His work has been exhibited internationally in such exhibitions as Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, MCA San Diego (2000); Distant Relations/CercanĂas Distantes/Clann I Gcein, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (1997); the 10th Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1996); Thinking Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1996); Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California (1995); Xicano Ricorso: A Thirty-Year Retrospect from Aztlán, a media arts program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); and inSITE2000. Ortiz’s solo exhibitions include, among others, Desmothernismo, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (1998) and ChiL.A.ngo, Centro Cultural la Raza, San Diego (1993). His films and videos have additionally been included in numerous international film and video festivals. Courtesy: Insite 2000
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