MARCELA TORRES

(b. Salt Lake City, Utah)

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Marcela Torres is an artist who brings performance, objects, workshops, organizing, and sound installations into an experiential interrogation of our state of interpellation. Unpacking themes of diaspora, violence and rituals using their Latinx Queer bodies as the toolkit. Torres received a BA in Sculpture Intermedia and a BFA in Art History from the University of Utah in 2015. They received an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2017. Torres has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), Performance is Alive (Miami, FL), Fringe Festival (Detroit, MI), Experimental Actions (Houston, TX), and Time Based Arts (Portland, Oregon). Torres has exhibited work at the Green Gallery at Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT), Tropical Contemporary (Eugene, OR), Petzel Gallery (NYC, NY). In 2020, Torres will be a resident at Recess in Brooklyn, NYC and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.