Rubén Torres Llorca

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1957). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (1976) and the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1981). Lives and works in the United States. Contributed to Volume 1 at the Galería de Arte Internacional in Havana (1981), I Havana Biennale (1984), II Havana Biennale (1986), XX São Paulo Biennale (1986), III Havana Biennale (1989), Kuba o.k. Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba. Arte actual de Cuba at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf (1990), La década prodigiosa: plástica cubana de los 80 at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Museo del Chopo in México DF (1992), Von dort aus: Kuba at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen (1992), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), Versuche zu Trauern at the Ludwig Institut in Schloß Oberhausen (1995), Cuba siglo XX: modernidad y sincretismo at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Fundación La Caixa in Palma, Majorca and the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica in Barcelona (1996) and the one-man shows Rubén Torres Llorca at the Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño in Havana (1989), So Quiet in Here at the Museo del Barrio in New York (1998) and Portrait of the Artist as a Serial Killer at the Santa Fe Museum in New Mexico (1999).