
Rubén Ortiz Torres explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization. A plurality of parallel strategies spring from the various media he explores.
Mexico City, Mexico, 1964
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
His work is often centered around adaptation processes in specific and widely varied contexts and the subsequent transformations that they invoke—as signs and objects that constantly change their shape and meaning. The work of Ortiz Torres includes painting, photograph, video, collage, multimedia, and commercial products that range from baseball caps to pick-up trucks, all of which question the veneration of the art object and the degradation of folk culture and the vernacular. Since the early 1980s, he has produced a wide-ranging body of work and is associated with the development of a specifically Mexican form of postmodernism.
















































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OMR is pleased to announce Zonas de Colaboración, Rubén Ortiz Torres' solo exhibition in New York at Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz.The exhibition remains open to the public until March 16, 2025. This exhibition examines the deconstruction of styles, the displacement of identity paradigms, and the creation of new forms of political aesthetics within his artistic practice. Through a selection of photography, ceramics, textiles, painting, animation, and printmaking, Ortiz Torres collaborates with workshops in Los Angeles and Guadalajara to craft a visual narrative that intertwines the historical with the contemporary.
Among the featured works, murals depict the chaotic dynamics of global conflicts, and diacritic records of his social circle are painted on ceramic plates. Additionally, palladium prints of Machu Picchu establish a link between the Peruvian diaspora in Los Angeles and the memory of ancestral spaces.





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Customatism is the first retrospective exhibition of Rubén Ortiz Torres (1964), a Mexican artist based in California and a key figure in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. Ortiz Torres presents a critical, cosmopolitan, technically inventive and intellectually comical visual practice, through an oeuvre that explores the cultural paradoxes of the global world that offers an informed critique of avant-garde art traditions.



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