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Mexican artist

Rubén Ortiz Torres (born February 27, ) is a Mexican photographer, painter, sculptor, film and video producer.

Biography

He was the subject of the mid-career survey show Desmothernismo at the Huntington Beach Art Center, a show which toured to the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte in Mexico City.

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His low-rider/video installation "Alien Toy" was shown as part of the InSite show in San Diego in then in at Track 16 in Los Angeles. He co-directed the feature-length experimental documentary Frontierland with Jesse Lerner in ^[1]

Ortiz has been a Faculty Member in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

Ortiz publishes a blog entitled For The Record. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in

"Customization characterizes the art of Rubén Ortiz Torres in almost all media and offers an alternative avenue for approaching the issues of globalization so central to our cur