De la Torre, Milagros

Peruvian artist based in New York, born in 1965, who has been working with the medium of photography since 1991. Her images involve a critical investigation into the history and conceptual procedures of photography. She studied Communication Sciences at the University of Lima and Photography at the London College of Communication. Her first solo exhibition, curated by Robert Delpire, was held at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 1993. In 1995, she was an artist-in-residence at the Cité des Arts and worked as a curatorial assistant in the Photography Department at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. She has received the Rockefeller Foundation Artistic Grant, the Romeo Martínez Photography Award, and the Young Ibero-American Creators Award for her series "Los pasos perdidos" (1998). She has received numerous accolades and awards. In 2003, her artist book "Trouble de la Vue" was published by Toluca Éditions in Paris. The Museum of Art of Lima (MALI) presented a mid-career retrospective exhibition in 2012. Her work has been widely exhibited and is included in the permanent collections of museums in Chicago, Houston, Austin, New York, Cambridge, New Haven, Boston, Providence, Phoenix, Massachusetts, Paris, the United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Buenos Aires, among others. De la Torre's work has been reviewed by Art in America, The New Yorker, ARTFORUM, Frieze Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, Public Radio International, Beaux Arts Magazine, Jeu de Paume Revista, Revista EXIT, ArtNexus, Arte al Día, Revista Atlántica, and others.