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Diego Felipe Torres (b. 1989) is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, mixed-media collage, digital illustration, printmaking, photography, multimedia design, video, and sound.

He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2012 and was Artist-in-Residence at the Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio in New York City in 2014, the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture in Bogong, Australia in 2016, The Future Residency in Minneapolis in 2019, and 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA in 2021.

He has received awards from CityMD, Tomie dePaola, AIGA Worldstudio, The National Society of Arts and Letters, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and the Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Key in Computer Art.

He was an intern at The New Yorker in 2011 and The Norton Museum of Art in 2006. 

His artwork has been commissioned by The New York Times, Datlook, The Indy, Mouth Agency, The Deal, and W42ST magazine, and been featured in the American Illustration and Latin American Ilustración annuals. 

His work has been exhibited in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Bogong, Australia.


​His work explores the process of layering, accumulation, and removal as an investigation on anxiety, obsession, desire, transformation, healing, and regeneration, as well as the reimagining of place and its effects on the individual in the search of escapism or a better space or view, as depicted through the plays of layering, concealment, entrapment, and release; secrecy and revelation; relocation and wanderlust; and ritualistic intimacy.

His work is influenced by symbolism, expressionism, existentialism, the coming-out process, travel, and the themes and mood of avant-garde/post-punk music, as well as by the relationship of rendering and revealing, covering and erasing, and concealing and releasing.



You can find his audio/video work here: ​soundcloud.com/mysticcrime and here: vimeo.com/diegoftorres

Design work on Behance: behance.net/diegofelipetorres 
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/diegofelipetorresart
LinkedIn: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegoftorres/
Working Not Working: https://www.workingnotworking.com/94986-diego
Dribbble: https://www.dribbble.com/ditorre

CV
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​Education
2012 B.F.A. in Communications Design (Emphasis in Illustration), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Artist Residencies
2021 Visiting Artist, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Artist-in-Residence, The Future, Minneapolis, MN

2016 Artist-in-Residence, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Bogong Village, Australia
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio, New York, NY

Awards
2015 CityMD Artist Commission
2011 Tomie dePaola Illustration Scholarship
2009 AIGA Worldstudio Scholarship Foundation, The Coyne Family Award in Illustration
2008 The National Society of Arts and Letters, The Art of Photography Scholarship
2007 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Gold Key in Computer Art
2007 Arts for the Future Scholarship

Skills
Drawing, painting, mixed-media collage, digital illustration, photography, printmaking, film, sound, graphic design. iPad Pro, Mac, PC, iOS.
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Bridge, AfterEffects, Premiere, Audition, Soundbooth, XD, Adobe Mobile Apps: Adobe Draw, Sketch, Spark, Comp, Post;
Garageband; Logic; Final Cut Pro; iMovie; Pages; Microsoft Office: Word, Powerpoint.
Fluent English, Spanish, Italian.


​Group Exhibitions
2021 Visiting Artist Open Studios, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Collage Garden, Radius Studio, Denver, CO
2019 Recycling is Culture, Kenektid Gallery, New York, NY 
2017 Phantasmagoria, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Bogong Village, Victoria, Australia
2017 Botanical Art Show, selected work, Local Project, New York, NY
2017 Alchemy Body - Fire. Air. Water. Earth, selected work, Jorge Jurado Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
2015 ‘Life is More Than...’ CityMD Artist Initiative Show, OPENHOUSE Pop-Up Event Space, New York, NY
2015 Collagistas Festival, Tabya Art Space, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014 Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, WAH Center,  Brooklyn, NY
2014 Flesh Garden, Mimik Magazine Pop-Up / La Petite Mort Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Zeitgeist, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2012 13 ~ A Group Exhibition, AMO Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Body Image, Fishbowl Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Now On Paper, Scholastic Fundraiser, The Upper Crust, New York, NY
2009 Persona Student Juried Show, Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2007 Scholastic Gold Medal Winners, Reeves Contemporary, New York, NY
2006 Intern Exhibition, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Publications
2020 Voyage LA interview
2020 The New York Times Op-Ed illustration 
2018 Spunk [arts] magazine #12
2015 Spunk [arts] magazine #10; W42ST magazine
2014-15 The New York Times Op-Ed / Sunday Dialogues illustration
2014-15 Datlook Instagram social media graphics
2014 The Indypendent newspaper
2013 AI-AP: Dispatches from Latin America blog interview
2012 American Illustration 31; Latin American Illustration 1 book annuals

Work Experience / Assistantships and Internships
2020-21 Disney Launchpad Films / Fuse-Google art department set design, Los Angeles, CA  
2020 Karen Pearce Global Direct, remote
2019 Leslie Wigon Studio, remote
2019 ATLIST travel blog, remote
2019 Adobe Max Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Dreamforce Salesforce, San Francisco, CA
2016 Eileen Hoffman Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Pratt Institute Human Resources, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Jonathan Horowitz Studio, New York, NY
2014-15 Brian Labrecque Prop/Set Design, New York, NY
2014-15 Richard Dupont Studio, New York, NY
2013-15 Doug Beube Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Kon Trubkovich Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2011 The New Yorker magazine, New York, NY
2010 Pratt Institute Computer Imaging Labs, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jaffe Center for the Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL
2006 Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Artist Talks and Workshops
2021 Creative Roundtables, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Kolaj Fest New Orleans invitation to participate
2016 Mount Beauty Secondary College, Mount Beauty, Australia
2014 Weird Collage Show collage workshop, The Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

If you are interested in purchasing artwork or contacting me about commissions, exhibitions, or collaborations, send me an email:

Diego Felipe Torres
diegofetorres@gmail.com