Rubén Torres Llorca

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2015 "Better Days Ahead" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida
• 2012 "One of Us Can Be Wrong and Other Essays" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida.
• 2010 "Figure 1 to 20" Now Contemporary Art, Wynwood, Miami, Florida.
• 2009 "Los Peores Hombres Cuentan las Mejores Historias" Praxis, New York, New York.
• 2008 "The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty" Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 2008 "Manual de Carpinteria China" Praxis, Wynwood, Miami, Florida.
• 2007 "Una Historia Para Niños Basada en un Crimen Real", Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, Florida.
• 2006 "Pagador de Promesas", Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2006 "Easy to Build/Modelo Para Armar" Frost Museum, Miami, Florida
• 2005 "If They Pay You For It ", Praxis International, Coral Gables, Florida
• 2004 "Take This Waltz", Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo
• 2002 "Si Pierdo la Memoria que Pureza", Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
• 2001 "Secret Life", Gary Nader Fine Arts, Coral Gables, Florida
• 2000 "Last News From Havana", Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
• 1999 "Better Death Than Alive", Freites Revilla Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
• 1998 "So Quiet in Here", Museo del Bario, New York, New York.
• 1998 "Gotan", Der Brucke, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1998 "Fill in the Blanks", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, New York.
• 1997 "All my Lies are Wishes", Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, New York.
• 1997 "The Pledge", Fred Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
• 1996 "Eight Visits to the Artist's Studio", Miami Art Museum, Florida
• 1995 "The Anchor", Marta Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1993 "Casa Tomada", Expositum, Mexico DF.
• 1992 "Ya No Te Espero", Ninart, Centro de Cultura, Mexico DF.
• 1990 "La Trampa", Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1990 "La Soledad", Museo Benjamin Carrion, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1989 "Una Mirada Retrospectiva", Centro de Artes Platicas Luz y Oficios, La Habana, Cuba.
• 1988 "El Hombre Incompleto", Galeria Habana, Cuba.
• 1987 "A Semejansa Nuestra", Centro Cultural Capilla Britanica, Mexico DF.
• 1987 "Estrictamente Personal", Fototeca de Cuba", La Habana, Cuba.
• 1985 "Tus Bacterias y las Mias", Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico DF.
• 1985 "El lado de la Sombra", Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Mexico.
• 1983 "Cine del Hogar", Galeria Habana, Cuba.
• 1981 "Fumar Daña Tu Salud", Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, La Habana, Cuba.

  Selected group exhibitions

• "Making Circles in the water" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida

• "Art Wynwood" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida
• "Short Story" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida
• "Feria Iberoamericana de art" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
• "It's only a Paper Craft" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida
• "Pinta Miami" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida

• "Art Miami" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida
• Bienal del Sur en Panamá 2013
• "Personal is Political" Hardcore Gallery, Miami, Florida
• "Gallery Funds Collective" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida
• "The Infinite Lightness of Being: A Tribute to La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre" Olga M. and Carlos Saladrigas Gallery, Miami, Florida

• "Art Miami" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida

• "The 2011-2012 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship Award Winners" Miami Dade College, Freedom Tower, Miami, Florida
• "Declaring Independence" Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, Arizona

• "Recent Acquisitions" Museo del Barrio, New York, New York.
• "Cuba Avant-Garde" Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York.
• "Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art." Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
• "PARALLEL CURRENTS Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana.
• "Recent Acquisitions from the Latin American Art Collection" Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.

• "Cuba Avant-Garde" The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
• "Arte TransCubano" Galeris Chico Zapote, Mexico DF.
• "Irreversible" The Cisneros Fontanal Art Foundation, Miami, Florida.
• "Aesthetics & Values" The Gallery at Green Library, Florida International University, Miami Florida.

• "Visiones:20th Century Latin American Art" Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
• "Cuban Avant-Garde" Harm Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida.

• "M4" Design Miami/ Buena Vista Building, Miami, Florida.
• "Cuban Avant-Garde" Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
• "Witches, Bitches and Saints" Miami Dade College, Kendal Campus, Florida.

• "Iturria-Torres LLorca", Praxis International, Coral Gables, Florida.
• "Go Figure!", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
• "Beyond All That", World Arts Building, Miami, Florida.

• "Permanent Collection", Nassau County Museum, New York.
• "Tres", GDS gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.

• "Visual Poetics" Miami Art Museum, Florida.
• "American Art Today", Frost Museum, Miami Florida.
• "Thinking Outside the Sphere", Museum of Science, Miami, Florida.
• "Inside the Paper", Centro Cultural Espanol, Coral Gables, Florida.

• "Art from Cuba", State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
• "Miami Currents", Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
• "Contemporanea", Coconut Convention Center, Miami, Florida.

• "Drawing Conclusions" Design Miami/ Buena Vista Building.

• "En Casa", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.

• "The Present Absent" Museo Palacio Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• "The Dream Collection", Miami Art Museum Florida.

• "The Narrative Art", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.

• "Breaking Barriers", The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• "Cultural Consortium Fellowship Exhibition", Miami Art Museum, Florida.

• "Modernismo y Sincretismo", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias/
• Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
• "Defining the 90's" Museum of Contemporari Art, Miami, Florida.

• "Abril", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.

• "Von Dort Aus: Kuba., Ludwing Forum Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
• "La Decada Prodigiosa", Museo del Chopo, Mexico DF.

• "El Collage Contemporaneo", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF.

• "Kuba Oklahoma", Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany.

• "XX Bienal de São Paulo", São Paulo, Brazil.
• "III Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
• "No Por Mucho Madrugar Amanece Mas Temprano", Fototeca De Cuba, La Habana.

• "Signs of Transition", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, New York.
• "Raices en Accion", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF.

• "XII Drawing Biennial" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

• "II Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.

• "I Bienal de La Habana", Pabellon Cuba, La Habana.

• "Sano y Sabroso", Galeria L, La Habana, Cuba.

• "Retrospectiva de Arte Joven", Salon Lalo Carrasco, La Habana, Cuba.

• "Volumen I", Galeria de Arte Internacional, La Habana, Cuba.

  Awards

Permanent collections

• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
• Fototeca de Cuba, La Habana.
• Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
• Museo del Barrio, New York, New York.
• Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan.
• Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
• The Frost Museum, Miami, Florida.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida.
• The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
• Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida.
• Miami Dade College, Florida.
• The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• The Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York.
• MUAC Contemporary Art Museum, UNAM, Mexico DF.
• Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF.
• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Michoacan, Mexico.
• Kendall Art Center, Miami, Florida