Rubén Torres Llorca
b. 1957
Havana, Cuba

Rubén Torres Llorca is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, drawing, sculpture, collages, and photography. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana from 1972 to 1976, followed by the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), also in Havana, from 1976 to 1981. Torres Llorca lived briefly in Mexico City, Mexico from 1990 to 1993.

Torres Llorca is proud to have been recognized for his work throughout his career, including the 1990 Curatorship Prize from the International association of Arts Critics (AICA) for "Una Mirada Retrospectiva" exhibited in Havana. In 1997 he was awarded the Visual and Media Fellowship from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, Florida.

Rubén Torres Llorca's work can be found in the permanent collections of: El 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, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Miami Art Museum (MAM), Miami, FL; The Frost Museum, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, FL; The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL; Miami Dade College, FL; The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY; MUAC Contemporary Art Museum, UNAM, Mexico DF; Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Michoacan, Mexico; The Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL.

Additionally, Torres Llorca's work can be found in many significant Cuban art collections around the world, including the Jorge Perez and Howard Farber Collections.

Torres Llorca has lived and worked in Miami, FL since 1993.