Gabriella Torres-Ferrer (they/him)
mail@gabriellatorr.es
Puerto Rico, 1987

Selected works

Upcoming:
Energies, Swiss Institute, New York City, Sept 11 - Jan 5

Selected Exhibitions ⋆*

2024 —— Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: América Latina y el Caribe, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, PR.
2024 —— Mañana: Habitar la crisis at Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, CO.
2024 —— La orilla, la marea, la corriente: un Caribe oceánico curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates y Sarah Hermann, at ARCOmadrid, Madrid, ES.
2024 —— Man & Mining, at the Museum of Labour (Museum der Arbeit), Hamburg, DE
2023 —— Contra toda autoridad...excepto mi mamá, at Embajada, San Juan, PR.
2023 —— At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking?, at 26 St. Lukes Mews, W11 1DF, London, UK.
2023 —— Vi el futuro, es maravilloso, hay Puertorriqueñxs, curated by Mariana Ramos Ortiz, at Taller Comunidad La Goyco, San Juan, PR.
2023 —— commodity-fetishism, curated by Aaditya Sathish at Square Street Gallery, Sheung Wan, HK.
2023 —— 'notes on power', solo show at Embajada, San Juan, PR.
2023 —— forking paths, at max goelitz, Munich, DE.
2022 —— no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, curated by Marcela Guerrero at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.
2022 —— Give a Way, presented by Embajada at Proxyco, NYC.
2022 —— 'magical hacksterism or the elasticity of resilience', curated by Juan Pablo García Sossa at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE.
2022 —— Money Has No Smell, curated by ACOMPI at CUE Foundation, NYC.
2022 —— Liste, solo show presented by Embajada, Basel, CH.
2022 —— Labkontempo Kinzonzi Berlin, exhibition at Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, DE.
2022 —— Operational Excellence, curated by Isabella Achenbach at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
2022 —— Untitled (What a Crypton), live streamed solo exhibition at nmenos1.xyz.
2022 —— Kinzonzi 2.0, online program organized by Labortoire Kontempo 2022.
2022 —— ‘El concilio de los sueños’ Entre realidades, sueños, psicodelia y cibernética, curated by Nicole L'Huillier for MIAAU at the Medial Arts Biennial of Santiago, CL.
2021 —— gossip, fleeting moments, and performances, in collaboration with Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Berlin, DE.
2021 —— Kinzonzi: Laboratoire Kontempo 2021, exhibition at the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, D.R.C.
2021 —— Unfinished Camp The High Line x Unfinished Live at The Shed, NYC.
2021 —— We Are All Under the Same Sky virtual solo exhibition curated by Mara-Johanna Kölmel at Priska Pasquer, Cologne, DE.
2021 —— Hardware Almost Feels Real online exhibition as part of KI-Camp 2021, curated by The Real Office.
2020 —— NADA Miami Embajada, online viewing room.
2020 —— 9:16 on/offline exhibition curated by Nmenos1, Bogotá, CO.
2020 —— Future-framed Works online exhibition @unrequitedleisure.com.
2020 —— 1-31 @collecteurs curated by Adam Carr.
2020 —— ARCO Madrid Embajada, Madrid, ES.
2020 —— Material Art Fair Embajada, Mexico City, MX.
2019 —— The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale with online-offline group shows in Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
2019 —— Futuro Modular curated by Christopher Rivera at Rachel Uffner, NYC.
2019 —— Stage of Maneuvers curated by Anna Goetz at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, AT.
2019 —— XYXX010101000 curated by Dorotheé Dupuis at Curro, Guadalajara, MX.
2019 —— This Synthetic Moment (Replicant) curated by David Hartt at Philip Martin, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 —— The Scalability Project: For Information at A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
2019 —— INDEX'19 Internacional Performance Festival, Santo Domingo, DR.
2019 —— Rather Than Más Bien Que Enlloc De group show at La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, ES.
2018 —— FUF: Symbolic Art for a Symbolic Country solo show at Embajada, San Juan, PR.
2018 —— PM (Post-María) at Embajada, San Juan, PR.
2017 —— Curating Spam Pavillion @The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, World Wide Web.
2017 —— Debtfair, Puerto Rico Bundle, Museo del Barrio, NYC.
2017 —— Debtfair, a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.
2015 —— Armas de destrucción colectiva, Taller Secreto, San Juan, PR.
2014 —— Caribbean: Together Apart, Imago Mundi, Fundación Luciano Benetton, Venice, IT.

Selected Press ྀི

2024 —— Cultured Mag Our Critic Resorted to Trespassing to See This Artist’s Work. Here’s How You Can See It—and the Exhibition It’s a Part Of—(Legally).
2024 —— Man & Mining Exhibition publication interview with Gabriella Torres-Ferrer.
2024 —— RTVE Arco 2024.
2023 —— SAT.1 REGIONAL Ausstellung "Man & Mining" im Hamburger Museum der Arbeit.
2023 —— Revista Artishock Vi el futuro, es maravilloso, hay puertorriqueñxs.
2023 —— Art Viewer Gabriella Torres-Ferrer 'notes on power' at Embajada, San Juan.
2023 —— Monopol munich: forking paths.
2022 —— NPR When people are less important than beaches: Puerto Rican artists at the Whitney.
2022 —— The Art Newspaper Work of the Week by the Puerto Rican artist Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, 25 Nov 2022 - The Week in Art podcast.
2022 —— The New York Times Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney.
2022 —— The Cut The Puerto Rican Artists Redefining ‘American Art’ “No existe un mundo poshuracán” opens at the Whitney Museum.
2022 —— Artnews The Five Best Booths at Liste, From Not-So-Heavenly Angels to a Cutting Critique of Crypto in Puerto Rico.
2022 —— Artnet The Whitney Museum Will Stage a Landmark Show of Puerto Rican Art Made in the Five Years Since Hurricane Maria.
2021 —— e-flux Hybrid ways of knowledge production.
2021 —— Akademie Solitude The Horizontal Reading Group guest lecture series.
2019 —— Terremoto Magazine Marginalia #55 feature.
2019 —— Parnass Art Magazine Stage of Maneuvers in Gianni Manhattan, Vienna.
2018 —— Pazmaker Nº 14, Mining Contest: Gabriella Torres-Ferrer/Jodi.org.
2018 —— Puerto Rico Art News FUF: Symbolic Art for a Symbolic Country exposición individual de Gabriella Torres Ferrer.

Fellowships, residencies and awards 𓂙
2020 —— Artist-in-Residence fellowship, at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE.
2020 —— Guest artist, honorary mention at CERN Collide, Geneve, CH.
2018 —— Bar Project's Bartool Grant supported by Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, ES.
2012 —— La Practica, Beta Local, San Juan, PR.

Workshops, talks and lectures ᯤ
2023 —— Mine Your Own Business; On Digital Decentralization and Imperialism, artist talk at The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), Berlin, DE
2023 —— Natural Resources and Unnatural Disasters, artist conversation on Zoom featuring artists included in no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
2022 —— On Digital Decentralization and Imperialism, artist talk with Gabriella Torres-Ferrer at Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, DE.
2022 —— Pixelated Cumulonimbus Bring No Rain: Digital Materiality & Imperialism, workshop in collaboration with Aouefa Amoussouvi at the Gorki Theater, Berlin, DE.
2021 —— What is the future of art in a decentralized world?, conversation moderated by Emma Enderby, Senior Curator of The Shed, with some of the artists involved in Unfinished Camp, including Thero Makepe of Botswana, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer of Germany, and Kiyan Williams of the U.S., New York City.
2021 —— Fiction, Exoticism and (Post)Colonial Aesthetic, artist talk on Zoom with Christ Mukenge (Congo), Lydia Schellhammer (Germany) and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer (Puerto Rico), as part of the exhibition Fictions Might Be Speculative and Inspire Particular Developments, Augsburg, DE.
2020 —— Self-representation in the Digital Era: Beyond Binaries, round table talk with Toni Navarro, Clara Bascuñana and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer supported by @usergender and @proyectogalaxxia, Madrid, ES.
2019 —— Resistance Strategies in Art and Their Practices, conversation with Dorothée Dupuis, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer and Lourdes Martínez at PAOS GDL, Guadalajara, MX.