C.V.

Rubén D. Ortiz-Torres

BIRTH DATE

• February 27th, 1964.

BIRTH PLACE

• Mexico City.

ADDRESS & PHONE NUMBER

• 1941 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90026, phone/fax: (323) 664-2783.
• Cerro del Tigre #28, Romero de Terreros, Coyoacán, México, 04310, D.F., Mexico. (525) 554-1732. Fax: (525) 604-2370

EDUCATION

• 1990-1992
• MFA, California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, CA.
  1982-1986
• Licenciatura en Artes Visuales, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, U.N.A.M., Mexico City.
  1981
• Career Discovery Program, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass.
  1979-1982
• C.C.H. Centro Activo Freyre. Mexico City.
  1976-1979
• Secundaria Técnica Escuela Nueva. Mexico City.
  1970-1976
• Manuel Bartolomé Cossio, Mexico City.

SOLO SHOWS

• 2002
• "Calimocho Styles," OMR Gallery, Mexico City.
  2001
• "The Adoration of the Magi, Esoteric Buddah in Secondary Inspection", Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego.
• "La Adoración de los Reyes, Alienígenas y otros Glocalismos en 3D," Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
• "The A Files", Artpace, San Antonio.
  2000
• "American Monarchy/Raza Cósmica," Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "New World Monarchies, Revolutions and Alien Abductions After Maximiliano de Habsburgo," Graz Kunsteverin, Graz, Austria.
• "Power Tools," Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles.
  1999
• "Alien Toy," Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• "Desmothernismo," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, colonia Roma, Mexico City.
• "Photographs," Zeitgeist, Seattle, Washington.
  1998
• "Alien Toys," Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "Desmothernismo," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico.
  1997
• "The House of Mirrors," Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA.
  1996
• "La Casa de los Espejos y Pinturas para Turistas," Galería OMR, Mexico City.
• "The House of Mirrors," Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles.
  1993
• "Recent Work," Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "Trabajos Recientes," Galería de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
• "ChiL.A.ngo," Centro Cultural La Raza, San Diego.
  1992
• "Si Tuviera Parque...," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
  1989
• "Pintura," Galería de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
  1985
• "Jesús y los Mutantes," Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia, Mexico City.

SCREENINGS

• 2001
• "La Zamba del Chevy," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
  2000
• "Deconstructing/Destructing Disney," Othercinema, San Francisco.
  1999
• "Raza Cósmica Videos and Films," Zeitgeist, Seattle, Washington.
• "Nations, Pollinations, and Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas," Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada.
  1998
• "Cinefestival," Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas.
• "El Super Show de Puro Pop," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• "Idea de Lugar: Vídeos sobre Latinoamérica," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
• "InSync," Anthology Film Archives, New York.
• "Primer Festival Internacional de Cortometraje de la Ciudad de México," Centro de Estudios Cinematográficas, Mexico City.
  1997
• "Glare," University of California in San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
• California State College in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA.
  1996
• "Ann Arbor Film Festival," Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• "Athens International Film & Video Festival," Athens, Ohio.
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
• "Cinefestival," Guadalupe Cultural Center, San Antonio, Texas.
• Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
  "Festimad," Madrid.
• "Festival Internacional Cinematográfico del Uruguay," Montevideo, Uruguay.
• "Festival de Cine y Video Experimental," La Panadería, Mexico City.
• "Huntington Beach Arts Center," Huntington Beach, CA.
• "Latinamerikansk FilmFestival," Stockholm and Gotemburg, Sweden.
• "Muestra de Cine Estudiantil y Latino 1996," VIII Feria Nacional Universitaria de Ciencia y Arte, Casa Natal de Morelos, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
• "Muestra Internacional de Video," Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura, Chihuahua, Mexico.
• "The American Film Institute International Film Festival," Laemmle Theaters, Santa Monica, CA.
• "New Documentary Series," The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Mexico City.
• "Video e Identidad Cultural," UAM, Xochimilco, Mexico.
• "Welcome to the Neighborhood," from "Public Space/Culture Wars," Free Speech TV, in conjunction with the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. Los Angeles.
  1995
  "Arts of the Americas Festival," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Banff Centre for the Arts ("Memory/History" and "Living at the end of the Nation-State" workshops), Banff, Alberta, Canada.
• Baskin Visual Arts Center, University of California in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
• Curare, Mexico City.
• Elana Baskin Visual Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA.
• EM Media, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• "Festival Cine Latino!," San Francisco.
• "Festival Latinoamericano de Video y Televisión," La Havana, Cuba.
• "Identidad, el Video como Espejo," Productores Independientes de Video A. C., La Sala del Deseo, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
• "In an Out of the Cold," International Documentary Asociation, UCLA Film and Television Archive and the UCLA Chicano Research Center, Melnitz Theatre, UCLA, Los Angeles.
• "Independent Eye," Channel 28 KCET, Los Angeles, California.
• International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
• "No Man's Land: Crossing Vissions" Anthology Film Archives, New York.
• Olympia Film Society, Olympia, Washington.
• "Sit Down and Watch it," Artists Space, New York.
• "The Other Cinema," Artist Television Access, San Francisco.
• Video In, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• "Video Arts Annual 1995," Resolution Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles.
• "Western Regional Conference, Society for Photographic Education," California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA.
• 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
  1993
• Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
• University of Minnesota at Bemidji, Bemidji, Minnesota.
  1992
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

GROUP SHOWS

• 2002
• "Global Address," USC Fischer Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "Lines of Sight, Views of the U.S./Mexican Border," The Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside, Riverside, CA.
• "X Files," La Panaderia, Mexico City.
  2001
• "Capital Art," Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders & American Car Culture," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA.
• "Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
• "Low N Slow/Converted," Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, Pueblo, Colorado.
• "Phoenix Triennial," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
• "The Road to Aztlán," The Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles.
• "Ultrabarroque," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
  2000
• "Above and Beyond," The Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco.
• "Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders & American Car Culture," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
• "Departures," The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
• "Eduardo Abaroa, Pedro Alvarez, Rubén Ortiz Torres," The Mc Kinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
• "Made in California," Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles.
• "Themes Out of School: Art & Education in Los Angeles," CAA, Los Angeles.
• "Ultrabarroque," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
  1999
• "Alma Colectiva, Colección de la Familia López Martínez," Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico.
• "After the Gold Rush," Thread Waxing Space, New York.
• "Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad," Museo de la ciudad de México, Mexico City.
• "Design Worlds," The Childrens Museum, San Diego.
• "Myself and My Surroundings," Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal.
• "15th National Biennal Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society," Labanda Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
  1998
• "Contact," Brewery project, Los Angeles.
• "Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Joya, CA, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico.
• "Fullbright-García Robles: Photographs & Prints," Casa del Tiempo, Mexico City, Instituto Cultural Mexicano, New York.
• "Game (Over) the Edge," Cineteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
• "L.A. Stories: engaging the city," Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
• "Mexcelente!," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• "Nopal Photo," Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
• "The Fotonovela," SF Camerawork, San Francisco.
  1997
• "Arco97, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo," Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid.
• "Arte Chido, Arte sobre la Violencia," Colegio de San Idelfonso, Mexico City.
• "Are we Touched? Identities from Outer Space," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
• "Así Está la Cosa," Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
• "Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes, Clann I gCein," Museo de Arte Alvar Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
• "InSITE 97," San Diego, Tijuana, Mexico.
• "InSITE 97: Artists Concepts," Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA.
• "Territorios Singulares," Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid.
  1996
• "10th Biennale of Sydney," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• "Contemporary Collections, Fall 1996," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles.
• "Cofradía de Luz," Zacatecas, Hermosillo, Pto. Peasco, Mérida, Guanajuato, San Luis Río Colorado, Chetumal, San Luis Potosí, Mexicali, Querétaro, Tijuana, Aguascalientes, Ensenada, Mexico.
• "Cuadro X Cuadro," Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, México.
• "Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes, Clann I gCein," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England. Camden Arts Center, London, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
• "Points of Entry, Tracing Cultures," International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, National African American Museum Project, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
• "El Nopal Press: LAX-Benito Juarez," Curare, Mexico City.
• "El Nopal Press: LAX-Benito Juarez, Carpeta de Impresiones," Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• "Siento Bonito," Museo del Chopo, Mexico City.
• "Thinking Print," The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• "Trans Inter Post, Hybrid Spaces," Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.
  1995
• "Arts of the Americas," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• "A Some of Us," Jan Kessner Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "Chicano Progeny," The Mexican Museum, San Francisco.
• "Cofradía de Luz," Colima, La Paz, Chiapa de Corzo, Guadalajara, Mazatlán, Villahermosa, Morelia, Culiacán, Campeche, Mexico.
• "Del (Mal) Uso de la Fotografía," Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
• "Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes, Clann I gCein," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England.
• "Impressions of Nature," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• "La Demanda esta en Barata". Galería OMR, Mexico City.
• "LAX-Benito Juarez: Prints from Mexico City Artists and Los Angeles Artists," Grunwald Art Center at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
• "Los Angeles Printmaking Society 13th National Exhibition," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
• "3Angular," Convento de Las Capuchinas, Antigua, Guatemala. Convento de la Merced, Mexico City. Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden.
• "The Gramercy International Art Fair," Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles.
• "The Other Cinema," Artists Television Access, San Francisco.
• "Points of Entry, Tracing Cultures," Ansel Adams Center for Photogrphy, San Francisco, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
  1994
• "A Shadow Born From the Earth," The Fred Jones Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
• "Del (Mal) Uso de la Fotografía," Museo Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico.
• "Xicano Ricorso: A Thirty Year Retrospect from Aztlan" Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  1993
• "A Shadow Born From the Earth," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
• "Confrontaciones (Europa-América)," Casa de América de Madrid, Madrid.
• "El Nopal Press: A Portfolio," Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA.
• "La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego.
• "Laughing Matters," L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "The Big Sweep (a photonovela noir)," Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles.
• "Trade Routes," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
• "Wings of Change," The Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles.
  1992
• "Counterweight," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
• "Aktuelle Kunst Aus Mexico," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
• "Virgin Territories," (L.A. Freewaves), Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
• "Identity's Voice" (L.A. Freewaves), USC School of Cinema-Television, Critical Studies, Los Angeles.
• "Lust for Life," Otis Parsons College of Art, Los Angeles.
• "Confrontation 1992," Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA.
• "Beyond the Color Line: Reflections on Race," (L.A. Freewaves), Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles. South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Torrance, CA. Artspace Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA. Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles. William Grant Still Art Center, Los Angeles. Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA. Mc Groarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA. Wexner Center Film/Video Theater, Columbus University, Columbus, Ohio.
• "Between Two Worlds, The People of the Border," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
• "Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape," Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA.
• "Fotografía Construida," Primera Bienal de Fotografía, Tenerife, Spain.
• "Rueda Como Naturaleza," Hospicio Cabaas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
• "Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico," University Galleries, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana. Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA.. Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• "Between Worlds," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia. University of Colorado Art Gallery, Colorado. California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Photographer's Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida. Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland.
  1991
• "Between Worlds," Canon Image Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
• "The Perennial Illusion of a Vulnerable Principle," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
• "Photo Salon," Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "The Gathering Storm," Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland.
• "Trough the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico," Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. Western Art Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas. The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
  1990
• "Contemporary Mexican Painting," Mexican Fine Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois.
• "Between Worlds," Impressions Gallery, York, England, University of East Anglia, Gallery, England. Camden Arts Center, London, Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York.
• "Lo Que Abre el Camino," Galería del sur, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico.
• "La Toma del Balmori," Balmori Building and Salón des Aztecs, Mexico City.
• "Mexico: Out of the Profane" Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zeland.
• "Through the Path of Echoes," Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin Texas, Museo del Barrio, New York.
• "Aquí y Allá," The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles., Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico.
  1989
• "De cabeza," Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City.
• "Yo Colecciono," Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
• "Desnudos," Galería La Agencia, Mexico City.
• "20 Festival of Art and Latin American Culture," Museum of Art, Brasilia, Brazil.
• "Artistas en Residencia," Galería de Artes Plásticas, I.N.B.A., Mexico City.
  1988
• "Six Pack de los Sesentas" Galería Carlos Ashida, Guadalajara, Mexico.
• "Somos o nos Parecemos". Galería OMR, Mexico City.
• "Doce Meses, Doce Artistas." Galería La Agencia, Mexico City.
• "Mitologías Privadas en Torno a la Muerte" Cultural Forum Santo Domingo. Mexico City.
• "De los Jovenes". Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Museo Biblioteca Pape, Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico.
• "Iconografía de la Anticipación," Foro Cultural Santo Domingo, Mexico City.
• "Vírgenes de Guadalupe," Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris, France.
  1987
• "Salón Nacional De Pintura," Galería del Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City.
• "Seis de los Sesentas," Galería Collage, Monterrey, Mexico.
• "Sin Motivos Aparentes 3," Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
• "Colectiva de Verano," Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
• "Juventud Divino Tesoro," Casa de la Cultura, Universidad del Estado de México, Mexico City.
• "Paper Works," La Agencia Gallery, Mexico City.
• "Mexico Hoy: Una Vista Nueva. Mexico today: A New View," Diverse Works Artspace, Houston , Texas. Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas. Dinnerware Artists Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.
• "Salón de Espacios Alternativos," Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
• "Contemporary Mexican Photography," California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA.
  1986
• "39 Mexican Photographers," Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas.
  "Sexto Encuentro Nacional De Arte Joven," Casa de la Cultura de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. Galería del Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City.
  1985
• "Sin Motivos Aparentes," Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
• "Sección de Espacios Alternativos," Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Galería del Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City.
• "Taller de Verano, Instituto de Artes Plásticas de Taxco," Galeria Los Talleres, Coyoacán, Mexico City.
  1984
• "Taller de Manipulación y Experimentación Fotográfica," Galería de la E.N.A.P., U.N.A.M., Mexico City.
• "Painting Exhibition," BSO, Milan, Italy.
• "Cuarto Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven," Casa de la Cultura, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. Galer ía del Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City.
• "Bienal de Fotografía," Museo de la Fotografía, Pachuca, Hidalgo. Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
• "Sobre la piel," Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, Mexico City.
  1983
  "Sección de Dibujo," Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Palacio de Bellas Artes, I.N.B.A. Mexico City.
• "Tercer Encuentro Nacional De Arte Joven," Casa de la Cultura, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. Palacio de Bellas Artes, I.N.B.A., Mexico City.
• "La Calle, Adonde Llega?," Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.
• "Neográfica en Gran Formato," Museo del Chopo, Mexico City.
  1982
• "Tres Tristes Tigres," Galeria Los Talleres, Mexico City.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• 2002
• GOMEZ, Cecilia M: "Two Shows Capture Border Life and Beyond. Views: Four Artists reveal the 'Invisible' border in a show at Sweeney Art Gallery", The Press Enterprise, E Section, Living, March 21, pp. E1-E2, Riverside, CA.
• MORENO GEAN: "The (new) Order of Things. Art, Car, Customizing and Hybrid Dreams," Art Papers, March/April, Atlanta.
• PINCUS, Robert: "2 Shows, Nothing in Common. Rubén Ortiz Torres Delivers Surreal Border Bauble Sculpture; in Coronado, an Oddly Incomplete Look at Monty Lewis' Work," The San Diego Union Tribune, Visual Arts, March 21, pp. 40-41.
  2001
• JOHNSTON, Katie: "Artomobile, Passion drives art at high-octane exhibit of custom-built low-riders and hot rods," The Gazette, Arts & Stage, May 25, Colorado Springs, Colorado, p.22.
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• ALLAN, Lois: "'Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty' at the J. Paul Getty Museum," Artweek, May, San Jose, CA.
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• JUSIDMAN, Yishai: "INSITE 97," Artforum, March, New York.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Falls Fresh Faces, Art, Rubén Ortiz Torres, 34, Mixed Media Artist": Los Angeles Times, Calendar Weekend, September 10, Los Angeles, p. 9.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Works That are Hybrid to the Core. Art Review: Modernist Ideas of Purity are of no Interest to Rubén Ortiz Torres, Who Celebrates his Cross Pollinated Subject Matter in Eclectic Ways": Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 26, Los Angeles, pp. F6-F8.
• MEDINA, Cuauhtemoc: "As Quetzalcoátl Said: "I Shall Return in a one Reed Year, all in Green, and in my Flying Saucer.,"" Alien Toyz, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA.
• MYERS, Terry R.: "Rubén Ortiz Torres at Track 16," LA Weekly, Art Reviews, January 10-February 5, Los Angeles, p. 53.
• PATCHETT, Tom: "Rubén Ortiz Torres," Double Trouble, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and The Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 202-205.
• RUIZ, Blanca: "Irrumpe Border Patrol en Expoarte Guadalajara," Reforma, Cultura, September 12, Mexico City, p. 4C.
• SCHOENKOPF, Rebecca: "Beware the Mexican Devil," OC Weekly, Art, October 2-October 8, p. 29.
• STALLINGS, Tyller: "Cross-Cultural Customizer," Desmothernismo, Smart Art Press, Travesías, Huntington Beach Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, Guadalajara, Mexico, Huntington Beach, CA, pp. 8-29.
• TAKAHAMA, Valerie: "Seeing the Area Where Cultures Come Together. The Sum is More Interesting than the Parts, Artist Rubén Ortiz Torres Says": The Orange County Register. Show Thursday, September 24, Orange County, CA, pp.1-3.
• TIBOL, Raquel: "Becas Reproducen Becas," Proceso, no.1145, October 11,
  1997
• DOCTOR, Rafael: "Imágenes Singulares," Territorios Singulares, Fotografía Contemporánea Mexicana, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, p. 16.
• GREENSTEIN, M.A.: "Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes/Clann I gCein," World Art, No. 12
• HOLLANDER, Kurt: "Rubén Ortiz Torres," Grand Street, All American, no 61, New York, p. 33.
• JUSIDMAN, Yishai: "Mucho Ruido y Bastantes Nueces," Reforma, Cultura, November 5, Mexico City, P. 3C.
• JUSIDMAN, Yishai: "Rubén Ortiz Torres," Artforum, XXXV, no 6, February, New York, p. 95.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "inSITE, OUTTA SIGHT. Artists in two border cities blast away at artificial barriers in a compelling show of talent come of age," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, October 4, Los Angeles, pp. F1-F16.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Right Here, Right Now, A record number of Los Angeles artists have attained global status in recent years, and more are on the rise. What makes this the best moment ever to be an artist in L.A.?," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, May 18, Los Angeles, pp. 4-52.
• MARTIN LOZANO, Luis: "Visión de los Volcanes," Reforma, El Angel, January 5, Mexico City, pp. 1-2.
• MENDOZA, Patricia: "Territorios Singulares, Fotografía Contemporanea Mexicana," Territorios Singulares, Fotografía Contemporánea Mexicana, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, p. 22.
• LEVY STRAUSS, David: "Distant Relations," Artforum, XXXV, no 5, January, New York, pp. 90-91.
• PINCUS, Robert, L.: "Two Autobiographers Give InSITE97 Some Wheels," The San Diego Tribune, Night & Day, The Weekly Guide, October 9-15, San Diego, p. 26.
• PINCUS, Robert, L.: "Ortiz-Torres Shifts Gears, Medium to Create Video Theater on Wheels," The San Diego Union Tribune, The Arts, July 13, San Diego, pp. E2-E10
• TIBOL, Raquel: "Cercanías Distantes (o Cercanías Forzadas)," Proceso, no. 1061, March 2, Mexico City, pp. 63-65.
  1996
• BOBKA, Vivian: "Rubén Ortiz-Torres," Jurassic Technologies Revenant, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Biennnale of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, p. 140.
• CAMHI, Leslie: "Travelling Shots," Jurassic Technologies Revenant, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Biennnale of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, p. 40.
• CARRERA, Mauricio: "Una Mezcla de lo Mejor y lo Peor de E.U. y México. Fronterilandia: La pelcula," Uno mas Uno, Antropología y Cultura, May 16, Mexico City, p. 23.
• CHALON SMITH, Mark: "Blurred Perceptions Seen in Sharp Focus," Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, June 7, Orange County, CA, p. F6
• COHN, Terri: "An America Dilemma, Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures," Afterimage, vol. 23, no. 3, November/December, Rochester, NY, p. 15.
• CULLEN, Fintan: "Confronting Multiculturalism," Circa, Spring, Dublin, Ireland, p. 21.
• DROHOJOWSKA-PHILP, Hunther: "Cultural Perversity, In the Work of Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Cultural Symbols Collide in a Border Town of the Mind," Sí, October, Los Angeles, pp. 24-29.
• GALVAN, Kyra: "Muestra de Artistas Chicanos, Irlandeses y Mexicanos," El Universal, Cultura, February 4, Mexico City, p.2.
• GEER, Suvan: "Distant Relations at the Santa Monica Museum of Art," Artweek, vol. 27, no. 12, December, San Jose, CA.
• HUNT, Ian: "Appreciating the Other," New Statesman, January 5, London England.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Refreshing Look at "Relations" Between Mexico and Ireland". Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 14, Los Angeles, pp. F1-F14
• LABELLE, Charles: "Rubén Ortiz Torres": Poliester, vol. 4, no 14, Mexico City, pp. 58-59.
• MASTERSON, Piers: "Distant Relations: A Dialogue between Chicano, Irish and Mexican Artists," Art Monthly, no. 193, February, London, pp. 34-35.
• NARANJO, Eduardo: "Rubén Ortiz, El Arte de Reírse de Salinas," Siglo 21, Vida & Cultura, September 29, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, p. 2.
• ROSTEN, Carrie: "Exhibit Attempts to Take Back Cultural and National Identities," Daily Bruin, Arts & Entertainment, September 23-26, Los Angeles,
• RUIZ, Blanca: "Conjugan "Poesía Cotidiana" con "Espejos de Realidades,"" Reforma, Sección C, Cultura, September 3, Mexico City, p.12 C.
• SMITH, Roberta: "Savoring a Medium Whose Bite Has Grown With Age," New York Times, June 19, New York City.
• TALBOT, Linda: "For Tastes both Catholic and Catholic": Hamstead & Highgate Express, February 16, London, p.32.
• WYE, Deborah: Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, distribuido por Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, pp. 86, 133, 144, 149, 152, 138.
  1995
• ÅMAN, Jan: "Spy, spy, spy," Svenska Daglabet, Kultur, May 16, Stockholm, Sweden, p.31.
• BAKER, Kenneth: "Politics of Identity in Latino-Made Art," San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, May 16, San Francisco, pp. E1-E3.
• BONETTI, David: "Artist look at immigration, loss. Photos focus on cultural viewpoints of "displacement,"" San Francisco Examiner, Weekend, September 15, San Francisco, p C-15.
• BRENNAN, Juan Arturo: "Sceanchai Rappers: The Wait is Over: "Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes, Clann I gCéin, Smart Art Press, New York, pp. 208-215.
• CLARK, Robert: "Distant Relations," The Guardian, November 21, London.
• DROHOJOWSKA-PHILP, Hunther: "When Worlds Collide. Confused about what's Mexican and what's American? Artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres explores that rocky terrain through his photographic works and a new feature-length documentary," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 3, Los Angeles, pp. 58-61
• GREEN, David: "Border Crossings, Rubén Ortiz-Torres Blurs Cultural Boundaries," Los Angeles Reader, vol. 17, no. 52, October 6, p.16.
• GREVILLE, Janie: "Thought-provoking Exploration of Cultures," Birmingham Post, November 25, Birmingham, England.
• GRUNDBERG, Andy: "Introduction," Points of Entry, Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, San Franciscolifornia, distributed by The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, p. 11.
• HELFLAND, Glen: "The Offspring," San Francisco Weekly, Art, May 3-9, San Francisco, p.37.
• KANDEL, Susan: "Capturing Multiculturalism in New Light," The Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 15, Los Angeles, p. f-30
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Carolina, Here he Comes. South of the Border isn't just a state of mind, it's a real place , and a perfect jumping-off point for Ortiz's film odyssey "Frontierland/Fronterilandia" Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 3, Los Angeles, p.61.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Enthusiastic Hybridity," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, October 28, Los Angeles, pF6
• LERNER, Jesse: "The Works of Others #1," Poliester, vol. 4, no. 5, Winter, Mexico City, pp. 8-17.
• MEDINA, Cuauhtemoc: "Irony, Barbary, Sacrilege," Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes, Clann I gCéin, Smart Art Press,, pp. 94-97.
• MUCHNIC, Suzanne: "Rubén Ortiz Torres," Art News, December, New York, p. 156.
• PAGEL, David: "Rubén Ortiz Torres," Frieze, Issue 25, November /December, London, pp. 64-65.
• RASCóN Armando: "Xicano Progeny, Investigative Agents, Executive Council and Other Representatives from the Sovereign State of Aztlán," Xicano Progeny, Investigative Agents, Executive Council and Other Representatives from the Sovereign State of Aztlán, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, p.17.
  1994
• COHEN, Michael: "Pachuco Style," Flash Art, Vol. XXVII, #176, May/June, New York, pp.87-90.
• MORALES, Rafael: "Fueron Detenidos dos Cineastas por Ofender a Nuestra Bandera Nacional," El Sol de Tijuana, Seccion A, Policia, July 13, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, p. 8.
• KESTER, Grant H.: "Taking Out the Trash," Afterimage, Summer, New York, pp.15-16.
• RUBINSTEIN, Raphael: "Catching the Trade Winds," Art in America, No 5, May, New York, pp. 36-43.
  1993
• BARNATAN, Marcos, R.: "Diálogos de Sordos, El Arte de los Jovenes en la Casa de América," El Pais, Madrid, p. 66.
• BRENNAN, Juan Arturo: "Irlanda del Norte o la Inevitable Politizacion de la Cultura," La Jornada, January 24, Mexico City, pp. 41-42.
• CASTELLANOS, Alejandro: "Rubén Ortiz Torres," Uno mas Uno, March 27, Mexico City.
• FERRER, Elizabeth: A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico, The American Federation of Arts & Universe Publishing, New York, pp.57-63.
• FERRER, Elizabeth: "Rubén Ortiz," Poliester, vol. 2, no. 5, Spring, Mexico City, pp. 41-42.
• GREEN, David, A.: "Art and its Double: Photographs by Rubén Ortiz Torres," Art Issues, no. 29, September/October, Los Angeles, pp. 17-20.
• JIMENEZ, Carlos: "Confrontaciones," Lápiz, September, Madrid, pp. 89-90.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: "Exploring the Border Experience," Los Angeles Times, March 13, Los Angeles, pp. F1-F8.
• MEDINA, Cuauhtémoc: "Rubén Ortiz: La Frontera Ubicua," La Jornada, September 21, Mexico City.
• PAGEL, David: "Fun and Games? Don't Be So Sure," Los Angeles Times, April 29, Los Angeles, p. F8.
• PINCUS, Robert L., "Theology and Baseball Caps," The San Diego Union Tribune, July 18, San Diego, The Arts, Section E, pp E1-E2.
• STALLINGS, Tyler: "Essay," Laughing Matters, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
• TIBOL, Raquel: "Rubén Ortiz en la Línea Para el Otro Lado," Proceso, no. 858, April 12, Mexico City, pp.51-53.
  1992
• BROOS, Susanne: "Versunkene Welten," Darmstdter Echo, September 26, Frankfurt, Germany.
• BUCK, Ernst: "Kunst in schroffen Gegenstzen," Offenbach-Post, October 11, Offenbach, Germany.
• DRGER, Anne: "Viva Zapata," Journal Frankfurt, October, Frankfurt, Germany.
• GOLDMAN, Shifra: "Mexican Splendor, The Official and Unofficial Stories," Visions, vol 6, no 2, spring, Los Angeles, pp. 8-13.
• GRIES, Benjamin: "Pathos Und Gewalt," Rhein-Zeitung, September 23, Frankfurt, Germany.
• HOLLANDER, Kurt: "Iluminando Fronteras," Poliester, no. 1, spring, Mexico City, pp.16-20.
• HOLLANDER, Kurt: "Report from Los Angeles, Community Access," Art in America, June, New York, pp. 57-61.
• HUTHER, Christian: "Aktuelle Kunst aus Mexiko," Aachener Nachrichten, September 30, Aachen, Germany.
• HUTHER, Christian: "Das Schrekliche ist oft ein Rtsel," Rheinische Post, October 1st, Dsseldorf, Germany.
• HUTHER, Christian: "Pathos und Gewalt," Der Tagesspiegel, October 2nd, Frankfurt, Germany.
• HUTHER, Christian: "Pathos und Gewalt in Bildern," Badische Neueste Nachrichten, September 23, Frankfurt, Germany.
• HUTHER, Christian: "Surreales zwischen Coke und Mickey Mouse," Die Welt, September 30, Germany.
• HUTHER, Christian: "Trivialkultur, Pathos und Gewalt," Dresdener Neuste Nachrichten, October 1st, Dresden, Germany.
• LERNER, Jesse: "Simultaneous Realities": Afterimage, October, Rochester, New York, pp.15-16.
• ROSE, Cynthia: "Border Art," The Face, London, no. 46, July, p.17.
• WOLFF, Thomas A.: "Elend als Begleiter des Alltags," Franfurter Rundschau, September 28, Franfurt, Germany, p.19.
• WRIGHT, Patricia: "Mexican Art: Heat and Light," Daily Hampshire Gazette, February, 13, Amherst, Mass., pp.19-22.
  1991
• COLEMAN, A.D.:"Letter From: New York, No.21," Photo Metro, San Francisco.
• DROHOJOWSKA, Hunter: "The Gray Caballeros," Art Issues, no.20, November/December, Los Angeles, pp. 20-22.
• HEREDIA, Jorge: "Between Worlds: Contemporary Mexican Photography," Perspektief, Amsterdam, Netherlands, no. 42, October, pp. 64-65.
• KNIGHT, Christopher: ""Perennial Illusion"" Fills In Some Modern Gaps Left by "Splendors,"" Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 29, Los Angeles, p. 7- p. 98.
• KOHEN, Helen L.: "Mexican Art Show Melds Past, Present Art Treads Unfamiliar Ground," The Miami Herald, Section I, October 27, Miami, Florida, pp. 1I-4I.
• MARTINEZ, Ruben: "Free-Trade Art: The Frida Kahlo-ization of L.A.," L.A. Weekly, November 1-November 7, Los Angeles pp. 16-26.
• MERRILL, R.J.: "The Big World Beckons, The Perennial Illusion of a Vulnerable Principle: Another Mexican Art at the Art Center College of Design," Artweek, vol . 22, no. 33, October 10, San Jose, CA, p. 1-p. 16.
• McKENNA, Kristine: "From Mexico, Photography With a Social Conscience," Los Angeles Times, september 17, Los Angeles, pp. F1-F7.
• SOZANSKI, Edward J.: "Political Art that Seeks to Effect Social Change," The Philadelphia Enquirer, January 31, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  1990
• AVALOS, Andy: "An Exhibit Unites Artistic Heritage," Los Angeles Times, September 10, Los Angeles, P. F4.
• COLEMAN, A.D.: "Depth, Not Breadth, in Images From Mexico," The New York Observer, December 10, New York.
• DEBROISE, Olivier: "From a Different Mexico," Aquí y Allá, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles.
• EPELSTEIN, Rina: "Lo que Abre el Camino," Lo que Abre el Camino, Seis Artistas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico.
• FADANELLI, Guillermo: "Donde Estás Buuel?," La Pusmoderna, no 2, may, Mexico City.
• FERRER, Elizabeth: "Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico," Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York.
• GONZALEZ, Flavia: "De la Reconquista de la idea: Rubén Ortiz," Arte Conceptual en México: Cuatro Artistas de los Ochentas, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, pp. 27-39.
• GRUNDBERG, Andy: "Another Facet of Mexico's Artistic Achievement," The New York Times, November 16, New York, p. C38.
• MEREWETHER, Charles: "In The Name of Myth. Sacred Images and Signs of Everyday Life," Mexico: Out of the Profane, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 3-13.
• PLATTEN, Bronwyn: "Poor Mexico, so far away from God and so close to America. Mexico Out of the Profane," Broadsheet, vol. 19, no. 2, June, Adelaide, Australia, pp13-14.
• SPRINGER, José Manuel: "Mexico: The Next Generation," Latin American Art, vol. 2, no. 4, fall, pp. 79-84.
  1989
• DEBROISE, Olivier: Pintura, Galería de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, September 18- October 14.
• FERNANDEZ, Marcial: "Poder, Corrupcion y Mentiras," El Economista, La Plaza, September 28, Mexico City, p. 30.
  1988
• ABELLEYRA, Angelica: "El que no Tenga Estilo, una Propuesta en sí: Rubén Ortiz," La Jornada, July 10, Mexico City, p. 27.
• CONDE, Teresa del: "Los Rechazados del M.A.M.," La Jornada, July 9, Mexico City, p. 19.
• CONDE, Teresa del: "Instant Sensibilities," Mexico Today: a New View. Diverse Works, Inc. Houston, Texas.
• GODDARD, Dan R.: ""Mexico Hoy" Shows Bold New Energy," The Sunday Express News, March 27, San Antonio, Texas, p. 7H.
• GOREN WESER, Marcia: "Young Artists Provide New Glimpse of Another Mexico," The Light, March 27, San Antonio, Texas, p. J16.
• JOHNSON, Patricia C., "Young Mexican Artists in 'view'," Houston Chronicle, January 14, Houston, Texas.
• OXMAN, Nelson: "Las Formas de la Posmodernidad," La Jornada, Mexico City.
• PEREZ, Joel: "The Ebb and Flow of Life: Contemporary Mexican Photography," Contemporary Mexican Photography, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA.
• SALAZAR, Gregorio: "Contemporary Mexican Art," Public News, January 6, Houston, Texas, p. 11.
• TULISSIO, David: "Artquake: Recent Painting in Mexico City," Art Monthly, July-August, London, pp. 9-11.
  1987
• ABELLEYRA, Angélica: "Llevar a la Provincia los Salones de Pintura: Tibol," La Jornada, May 11, Mexico City, p. 29.
• CHADWICK, Susan: "Shows Introduce Works of Michigan and Mexico," The Houston Post, December 25, Houston, Texas, p. 4D.
• CONDE, Teresa del: "Las Pinturas del Salón 87 en el Auditorio," Uno mas Uno, Sábado, Mexico City, p. 5.
• CONDE, Teresa del: "En Tlalpan, Juventud, Divino Tesoro," Uno mas Uno, September 12, Mexico City.
• DEBROISE, Olivier: "Un Postmodernismo en México?," México en el Arte #16, I.N.B.A., Spring Issue, Mexico City, pp. 56-63.
• PATINO, Adolfo: Catalogue essay for Seis Artistas Nacidos en los Sesentas, Galería Collage, Monterrey, Mexico.
  1986
• ABELLEYRA, Angélica: "Rubén Ortiz: la Alternativa Artística no Está en el I.N.B.A.," La Jornada, August 18, Mexico City, p. 23.
• DEBROISE, Olivier, Marco Diaz, Mario García Navarro, Oliverio Hinojosa, Herlinda Sanchez Laurel: VI Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Galeria del Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City, pp. 2-4.
• DEBROISE, Olivier: "La Cultura de la Catástrofe," La Jornada, May 20, Mexico City.
• MARSH, Steven: "Portrait of a Young Artist," The News, Arts and Leisure, August 31, Mexico City., pp. 17-23.
• PERALTA, Braulio: "Pobreza y Falta de Originalidad en el Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven," La Jornada, August, Mexico City.
• SESIN, Saide: "El Arte Joven, con Poca Presencia de la Provincia," Uno mas Uno, August 16, Mexico City, p.25.
  1985
• CURTADE BEVILACQUA, Ira: "El Arte en los Aos 80 Tiene Como Fin la Estética y la Expresión: Ortiz Torres," Uno mas Uno, June 29, Mexico City, p.17.
• LUKE JENSEN, Herdis: "Las Becas, Posibilidad Para Jóvenes Fotógrafos," Excelsior, June 20, Mexico City.
• ROMERO, Elizabeth: "Piel Sobre el Papel... Fotográfico," Punto, no 128, April 15-21, Mexico City, p. 21.
• TIBOL, Raquel: "Algo mas Sobre Espacios Alternativos," Proceso, February 4, Mexico City, p. 53.
• TIBOL, Raquel: "Espacios Alternativos 1985," Proceso, January 28, Mexico City, pp. 58-59.
• UZMAN URBIOLA, Xavier: "Sobre la Piel," La Jornada, April 25, Mexico City, p. 21.
  1984
• LUQUE, Antonio: "Presentación," Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Sección Bienal de Fotografía 1984, I.N.B.A., Mexico City, pp. 9-13.
• POLIDORI, Ambra: "Alta Calidad Estética en la Bienal de Fotografía," Uno mas Uno, June 9, Mexico City, p. 15.

AWARDS

• 2000
• Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, New York.
  1999
• The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York.
  1998
• UC Mexus Grant, University of California in San Diego, San Diego, CA.
  U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture, visual arts.
  1997
• The Andrea Frank Foundation Award, New York.
• Sistema Nacional de Creadores, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City.
  1996
• Mención Especial, Experimental Documentary, XIV Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• Special Jury Award, Cinefestival, San Antonio, Texas.
  1995
• Memory/History, Residence Program, The Banff Center for the Arts, Media Arts Program, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  1993
• Sistema Nacional de Creadores, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City.
• I.T.V.S., P.B.S. (Grant shared with Jesse Lerner), Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture (Prize shared with Jesse Lerner), Media Arts.
  1990
• Fullbright Award.
  1987
• Salón Nacional de Pintura, Mexico City.
  1986
• Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. Mexico.
  1985
• Special Prize (Prize shared with Diego Toledo and Emmanuel Lubezki), Sección de Espacios Alternativos, Mexico City.
  1984
• First place, B.S.O. International painting contest, Milan, Italy.
• Production Grant, Bienal de Fotografía, I.N.B.A., Mexico City.
• Honorary Mention, Cuarto Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
  1983
• First Honorary Mention in illustration, Punto de Partida, U.N.A.M., Mexico City.

VIDEOS & FILMS

• 2002
• "El Bodisattva" (produced in collaboration with Eduardo Abaroa), DV, 5.55 min (looped continuously), Calimocho Styles, Los Angeles.
  2001
• "Spectacle/Spaztec Aztec Visits the Alamo" (produced in collaboration with Jimmy Mendiola), 3D DVD with surround sound, 5.05 min.
  2000
• "La Zamba del Chevy," 3D DVD with surround sound, 5.56 min, Raza Cósmica Productions, Los Angeles.
  1997
• "Alien Toy," 3/4" SP, 8 min, Raza Cósmica Productions, Los Angeles.
  1995
• "Frontierland" (produced in collaboration with Jesse Lerner). video version Betacam SP, 56min. 10.sec, Film version 16 mm., 77 min, ITVS, U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture, Banff Center for the Arts.
  1992
• "Custom Mambo," 5 min. 13 sec., ChiL.A.ngo Productions, CalArts, Valencia, California.
  1991
• "How to Read Macho Mouse," 3/4," 8 min. 21 sec., L.A. Chingadera Productions (produced in collaboration with Aaron Anish), CalArts, Valencia, California.
• "The Fence," 3/4," 10 min.13 sec., ChiL.A.ngo Productions, CalArts, Valencia, California.
  1986
• "La Ciudad Rota," 3/4," Televisa, Mexico City.

PERFORMANCES

• 2002
• "Low Rez Crimes," computer, puppet, live video mix performance (in collaboration with Konstantino Mavromichaelis and Pat Miller), Emily Carr Art Institute, Vancouver.
  2001
• "Low Rez Crimes," computer, puppet, live video mix performance (in collaboration with Konstantino Mavromichaelis and Pat Miller), Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, University of California in Irvine, Irvine, California.
  2000
• "Ballet Parking," (in collaboration with Salvador Muoz),.The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• "La Zamba del Chevy (in collaboration with Salvador Muoz and Tony Ortiz), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
• "Take me to Your Leader," computer, puppet, live video performance in collaboration with Konstantino Mavromichaelis, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles.
  1999
• "Ballet Parking," (in collaboration with Salvador Muoz), SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Edge Festival, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, California.
• "Computer Puppet Lecture, ," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
• "Take me to Your Leader," computer, puppet, live video performance in collaboration with Konstantino Mavromichaelis, "Nations, Pollinations, and Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas," Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada.
  1998
• "Ballet Mecánico," (in collaboration with Salvador Muoz), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Joya, CA, Hospicio Cabaas, Guadalajara, Mexico, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico. Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
  1997
• "Computer Puppet Lecture," Sushi Gallery, San Diego.

BOOKS

• 2000
• ORTIZ TORRES, Rubén, Brenda Jo Bright, C. Ondine Chavoya, Nora Donelly, Royal Ford, Pat Ganahl, Leah M. Kerr and Dale Peck: Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, in association with The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, New York, 159 pp.
  1998
• ORTIZ TORRES, Rubén, Tyller Stallings, David Green: Desmothernismo, Smart Art Press, Travesías, Huntington Beach Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, Guadalajara, Mexico, Huntington Beach, CA, 72 pp.
  1997
• ORTIZ TORRES, Rubén, Stephen Callis, Leslie Ernst: Murder in My Suite/ Bienvenidos al Hotel California, John Brown Books, Salem, Oregon, 64 pp.
  1993
• ORTIZ TORRES, Rubén, Stephen Callis, Leslie Ernst, and Sandra Ramirez: La Gran Limpieza/The Big Sweep, California Classics Books, Los Angeles, 64 pp.
  1990
• Posturas. Tres Ensayos Sobre Realismo, Arte e Identidad en Cierto Arte de Fin de Siglo. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 90 pp.

STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

• 2001
• "Rinkeby Svenska": Curare, no 17, January/June, Mexico City, pp. 147-150.
  2000
• "Cathedrals on Wheels": Customized: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, in association with The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, New York, pp. 37-38.
  1999
• "Holly Power Tools, Batman!": Art Issues , no 57, March/April, Los Angeles, pp. 30-31
• "Le Matre du Ring": Close to Me Against You: Cameron Jamie & Elke Krystufek, Georges Tony Stoll, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France, pp 7-11.
• "Ooh, L.A. L.A.": Poliester, vol. 7, #25, Los Angeles, Spring/Summer, Mexico City, pp. 6-7.
  1998
• "Alien Speech": Alien Toys, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA.
• "Alien Toyz": Ciudad Híbrida, Hybrid City, The Production of Art in "Alien Territory," Sci-Arc Public Access Press, SC2, Southern California Studies Center and ADOBE LA, Los Angeles, pp. 22-25
• "Cathedrals on Wheels": Art Issues , no 54, September/October, Los Angeles, pp. 26-31.
• "Rock and Roll All Night": Anthony Burdin, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles.
• "Yepa, Yepa, Yepa!": Desmothernismo, Smart Art Press, Travesías, Huntington Beach Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, Guadalajara, Mexico, Huntington Beach, CA, pp. 46-59.
  1997
• "Arte y Poder Ejecutivo": La Pus Moderna, no 8, Spring, Mexico City, pp. 30-32.
• "La Casa de los Espejos": Territorios Singulares, Fotografía Contemporánea Mexicana, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, pp. 217-218.
• "La Ranfla Cósmica ORNI (Objeto Rodante no Identificado)/Alien Toy UCO (Unidentified Cruising Object)": Guide/Guía, InSITE97, San Diego/Tijuana, U.S./Mexico, p. 39.
• "Mario Ybarra Jr.": Poliester, vol 6, no 21, Winter, Mexico City, pp. 38-43.
  1996
• "Sacrificios y Pirámides: Obra Reciente de Vicente Razo": Curare, no 9, July/September, Mexico City, pp. 30-31.
• "Spanish Caprice" (in collaboration with Jesse Lerner): Art Issues, no 41, January/February, Los Angeles, pp. 23-25.
  1995
• "Colors": Xicano Progeny, Investigative Agents, Executive Council and Other Representatives from the Sovereign State of Aztlán, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, p. 36.
• Distant Relations, Cercanías Distantes, Clann I gCéin, Smart Art Press, New York, NY, p 122.
• "Gang Art": La Pus Moderna, no 5, Mexico City, pp. 9-14.
• "La Cortina de Nopal en el Lado Oscuro de la Luna": La Pus Moderna, no 5, Mexico City, pp.15-17.
• "GuaTexMex": El Regional, Oxpak', March 31-April 6, Guatemala, Guatemala, p. 6.
• Points of Entry, Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, San Franciscolifornia, distributed by The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, p. 62.
• "The House of Mirrors/La Casa de los Espejos," http://zonezero.com
  1993
• "Gang Art": El Gallito Inglés, El Vato Loco, no 12, Mexico City, pp. 3-15.
• "Pedro Meyer": Poliester, vol 2, no 5, Spring, Mexico City, pp. 62-65.
  1992
• "La Bochornosa Realidad: Notas sobre Fotografía," La Pusmoderna, no 4, spring, Mexico City, pp. 40-43.
• "Persnliche usserung," Aktuelle Kunst aus Mexiko, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, p. 58.
• "Apparitions," Between Worlds, Contemporary Mexican Photography, New Amsterdam Books, New York, and Bellew publishing, London, pp. 128-131.
  1988
• "Respuesta a los Críticos" La Jornada, July 10, Mexico City, p. 27.
  1987
• "Y Retiemble en su Centro la Tierra." México en el Arte, #16, I.N.B.A. Spring issue, Mexico City, pp. 34-39.
  1981
• "Rosalinda," Tropos, no 2, October/November, Mexico City, p. 21.

INTERVIEWS

• 2001
• KELLEY, Bill: http://www.latinart.com/faview.cfm?id=8.
  2000
• PAGEL, David: "Rubén Ortiz-Torres," Bomb, Special The Americas 2000, no 70, Winter 2000, New York.
• KPBS radio, San Diego.
  1998
• ORTIZ PARTIDA, Victor: "Desmothernismo, un modelo de adaptación, hibridismo, negociación y diálogo cultural"., Siglo XXI, Vida y Cultura, December 16, Guadalajara, Mexico, pp. 6-7.
  1997
• "Imaginarte," Canal 28, October 16, Monterrey, Mexico.
• "Taller Abierto," Canal 28, October 28, Monterrey, Mexico.
• Channel 52, Los Angeles.
  1996
• Interview with Jerry Fialka.
  1995
• "Sistema Nacional de Creadores," Radio Educación, Mexico City.
• Illegal Interns, channel 38, Los Angeles
  1993
• KFI, indepent public radio station, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  1990
• ALVAREZ, Patricia "Contemporary Artists of Mexico. Interviews,," 15 Contemporary Artists of Mexico, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois, pp.17-18.
• VÉLEZ, Gonzalo: "Dudar de la Modernidad es Poner en Tela de Juicio el Universalismo y la Razón,," Uno mas Uno, February 27, Mexico City, p. 28.
  1986
• RIUS CASO, Luis, Sin Motivos Aparentes , pp. XX-XXIV, Consejo Nacional de Recursos Para la Atención de la Juventud, S.E.P., Mexico.

ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS, CARTOONS, ETC.

• 2001
• Photographs, Les Chiens Andalous, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California.
  2000
• "Art Issues Showing the Work of Rubén Ortiz Torres," a selection of work without critical commentary, Art Issues, no 62, March/April, Los Angeles, pp. 30-35.
  1999
• "Para leer Macho Mouse," video still for the cover and "Shrine/Altar" photograph (p.18), Artpress, no 243, February, Paris.
• Guest editor for Poliester, vol. 7, no 25, Los Angeles, Spring/Summer, Mexico City.
• "Baseball Caps," Luna Córnea, no 16, September/December, Mexico City.
• "Retrato de vida y muerte," photograph, Aperture, Río de Luz, no 153, New York, p. 66.
  1997
• "Santo nio/ Holly Kid," cover photograph, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, May 18, Los Angeles. p.1.
• "The Hall of Mirrors," photographic portfolio, Grand Street, All American, no 61, New York, pp. 24-32.
  1996
• "Heroes and Bandits," art project in: Art & Design, Art & Design Profile no 51, Art & the Home, guest edited by David A. Greene, London, Great Britain, pp. 10-18.
• Photograph, Harpers Magazine, vol 293, no 1756, September, New York, p. 25.
  1995
• Photograph, See: a Journal of Visual Culture, issue 1:3, San Francisco, p. 12.
  1992
• Cartoons, Art issues, no 21, January/February, Los Angeles, p.6, p.40.
• Cover art, Poliester, no 2, summer, Mexico City.
• "How to Read Macho Mouse" and "The Fence" (reproductions of videos): Poliester, no 1, spring, Mexico City, pp. 34-35.
• Cover Photograph in: Visions, vol 6, no 2, spring, Los Angeles.
• Artwork in: Teen Angel's, no 113, Rialto, CA.
  1991
• Cover art: L.A. Weekly, November 1-November 7, Los Angeles.
• Cartoon in: Art issues, no 20, November/December, Los Angeles, p.40.
• Photograph in: Frame-work, Southern California, portfolio 1991, vol 4, no 2, LACPS, Los Angeles., p.30.
  1990
• Drawings in: La Pusmoderna, no 2, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Photograph in: The Face, no 24, September, London, England, pp. 94-95.
  1987
• Photographs in: La Regla Rota, no 4, Spring, Mexico City, p. 23, p. 26, pp. 98-101, pp. 110-115.
  1986
• Photographs, graphic work and backcover art in: La Regla Rota, no 3, Mexico City, pp. 103-106.
  1985
• Photographs in: Cartapacios, no 10, September, Mexico City, pp.16-21.
• Photograph in: MUTIS, Alvaro and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: Historia Natural de las Cosas, 50 Fotógrafos, Mexico City, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, p. 36.
• Illustration in: México en el Arte, no 9, Summer, Mexico City, pp. 16-18.
  1984
• Illustrations in: Desblusadero (Poemas del Taller de Rock en Secreto), Ediciones revista Punto de Partida, cuadernillo de taller y seminario no. 35, Mexico City.
  1982
• Illustrations in: Poesía Joven de Perú, Ediciones revista Punto de Partida, cuadernillo de taller y seminario no. 30, Mexico City.

INTERNET

• 2001
• Featured artist at: http://www.latinart.com
  2000
• MILLER, Pat: La Zamba del che, http://otisphoto.net/zamba, http://abstractmachine.com
  1995-1996
• Photography portfolio at: http://zonezero.com

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• 2002
• Art Center College of Art & Design, Pasadena, visiting artist in Mike Kelley's class.
• University of California in San Diego, San Diego, Painting: Practices and Genre, Contemporary Issues and Practices
  2001
• Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, teacher of color and basic photography.
  2000
• Claremont Colleges, teacher of video production.
• Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, teacher of color and basic photography.
• Southern California Institute of Architecture, Spring 2K Lectures, Los Angeles.
• University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, basic and intermediate photography.
  1999
• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, visiting artist.
• College of Art Association conference 1999, "Artistic Production and Curatorial Projects in Towns along the U.S.-Mexico Border," Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, Lecturer.
• Otis College of Art & Design, teacher of color & basic photography.
• Otis College of Art & Design, Summer of Art Program, photography.
• "Stop Doing Ready Mades and Start your own Country (Artworld)," Track 16 Gallery, Moderator.
• The National Hispanic Academy of Media Arts & Science, "Latino Aesthetics," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Panelist.
• University of California at Riverside, teacher of basic photography.
  1998
• Claremont College, Claremont, CA, Visiting Artist.
• "Custom-Détournment," visiting faculty of the graduate art department, winter quarter, University of California in San Diego.
• "La Imagen es de Quién la Trabaja," Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Universidad de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
• University of California in Irvine, Irvine, CA, Visiting Artist.
• University of California in Riverside, Riverside, CA, Visiting Artist.
  1997
• "Bienal de Integración," Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
• IV Jornadas sobre Fotografía Contemporanea Comunidad de Madrid, Encuentro con la Fotografía Iberoamericana, "El Autor y su Obra," Arco97, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid.
• Otis College of Art & Design, teacher of New Genres, Photography and Subcultures, Los Angeles.
• "Taller de Cine Experimental Instantaneo," Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
• "Taller de Cine Experimental Instantaneo," Nuevas Tendencias Plásticas, CONARTE, Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
• UCLA Film School, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist.
  1996
• Amherst College, Amherst Massachussets, Artist screening.
• Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA, Visiting Artist.
• California Institute for the Arts, "Hard Boiled Pop," Valencia, CA, Visiting Artist.
• California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA.
• Camberra University Art School, Camberra, Australia, Visiting Artist.
• Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Mexico City. Visiting Artist.
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, Artist presentation.
• Escuela de Pintura y Escultura "La Esmeralda," Centro Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, Visiting Artist.
• "Foro Internacionad de Teoría y Arte Contemporaneo," Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico, Art & Executive Power. Conference.
• Northeastern University, Boston, Massachussets, Artist screening.
• Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist.
• Pitzer College, Claremont, California, Artist screening.
• Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Los Angeles, Imagemaker presentation.
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Conversations with Contemporary Artists".
• "V Coloquío Latinoamericano de Fotografía," Centro Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, "Rinkeby Svenska," Conference.
• Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachussets, Artist screening.
• Western Sydney University, Visiting Artist, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Visiting Artist.
  1995
• Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA, Visiting Artist.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Artist screening
• Museum of the Photographic Arts, San Diego, Artist presentation.
  1994
• The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, "Imaging and Imagining Mexico: What Does One See in the Other," symposium.
• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lecture.
• The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, Visiting Artist.
• University of California in Irvine, Visiting Artist.
  1993
• Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota, International Artist Residency Program.
• Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Atizapán, Mexico State, Mexico, Visiting Artist at the Communications School.
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, lecture at the Art Gallery.
  1992-1993
• Otis College of Art and Design, teacher of Documentary Photography. Photo, Art and Popular Culture. Documentary Photography and Community Art.
  1992
• Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA, Visiting Artist.
  1991-1992
• California Institute of the Arts, TA in the Art School.
  1987-1988
• Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, U.N.A.M., TA in drawing.

PANELS

• 1998
• "Tercera Jornada de Cortometraje Mexicano," Mexico City.
  1996-1997
• Exhibition Panel Comitee, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles.
  1994
• "The Independent Film and Videomaker Program," The American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
  1993
• "Wings of Change," Los Angeles.

MEMBERSHIPS

• 1995-1996
• Los Angeles Printmaking Society.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Armand Hammer Museum of Art & Cultural Center/The Grunwald Art Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles.
• California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.
• Centro Cultural La Raza, San Diego.
• Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
• Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
• Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
• Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
• Mexican Museum of Fine Arts. Chicago.
• Museo de Arte Moderno de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
• Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City.
• Museo de la Fotografía, Pachuca, Mexico.
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
• New York Public Library, New York.
• The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• The Spencer Museum, Kansas City.
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
• Video Out, Vancouver.