Gabriella Torres-Ferrer (they/him)
b. 1987, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
mail@gabriellatorr.es
Selected Works
Upcoming:
CITADEL Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts 10.04.2026
Anti Heroes Jakob Collection at Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, 07.03 – 07.06.2026

2026
CITADEL — Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts
Anti Heroes — Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar
2025
Strata Biennale — Goethe-Institut, Singapore
The World is Garbage — Situations, New York
2024
Energies — Swiss Institute, New York
Man & Mining — Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
Mañana: Habitar la crisis — Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
ARCOmadrid (curated section: The Shore, the Tide, the Current) — Madrid
Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: América Latina y el Caribe — San Juan
2023
Notes on Power (solo) — Embajada, San Juan
Forking Paths — Max Goelitz, Munich
Commodity-Fetishism — Square Street, Hong Kong
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking? — London
Vi el futuro, es maravilloso, hay Puertorriqueñxs — San Juan
2022
No existe un mundo poshuracán — Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Magical Hacksterism or the Elasticity of Resilience — SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Operational Excellence — CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York
Liste (solo presentation with Embajada) — Basel
Kinzonzi Berlin — Acud Macht Neu, Berlin
Kinzonzi 2.0 — Laboratoire Kontempo (online program)
Untitled (What a Crypton) — nmenos1.xyz (online solo)
15th Bienal de Artes Mediales — Santiago
Give a Way — Proxyco, New York
Money Has No Smell — CUE Foundation, New York
2021
Unfinished Camp — The Shed, New York
We Are All Under the Same Sky — Priska Pasquer, Cologne (online solo)
Kinzonzi — National Museum of the D.R. Congo, Kinshasa
Fictions Might Be Speculative and Inspire Particular Developments — ArtClub, Augsburg
Hardware almost feels real — KI-Camp (online)
Gossip, Fleeting Moments, and Performances — Berlin
2020
9:16 — Bogotá (on/offline)
ARCO Madrid — Embajada
Material Art Fair — Mexico City
NADA Miami — Embajada (online viewing room)
Collecteurs — online platform
Future-framed Works — Unrequited Leisure (online)
2019
The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale — global
Futuro Modular — Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Stage of Maneuvers — Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
XYXX010101000 — Curro, Guadalajara
This Synthetic Moment (Replicant) — Philip Martin, Los Angeles
The Scalability Project — A.I.R. Gallery, New York
INDEX’19 — Santo Domingo
Rather Than Más Bien Que Enlloc De — La Virreina, Barcelona
2018
FUF: Symbolic Art for a Symbolic Country (solo) — Embajada, San Juan
MECA International Art Fair — San Juan
PM (Post-María) — Embajada, San Juan
2013-2017
Debtfair (Whitney Biennial) — Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Debtfair (Puerto Rico Bundle) — El Museo del Barrio, New York
Caribbean: Together Apart — Imago Mundi, Venice
FAD 3 — San Juan
Archizines — international touring exhibition


FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
Artist-in-Residence fellowship, at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2020–21
Guest artist (honorary mention), Arts at CERN Collide International Award, Geneve 2020
Bar Project's Bartool Grant supported by Fabra i Coats, Barcelona 2018–19
La Práctica, Beta Local, San Juan 2012–13
WORKSHOPS / TALKS / LECTURES
Mine Your Own Business; On Digital Decentralization and Imperialism
— Institute for Endotic Research, Berlin 2023
Natural Resources and Unnatural Disasters
— Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2023
What is the future of art in a decentralized world?
— The Shed, New York 2021
On Digital Decentralization and Imperialism
— Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin 2022
Pixelated Cumulonimbus Bring No Rain: Digital Materiality & Imperialism
— Gorki Theater, Berlin 2022
Fiction, Exoticism and (Post)Colonial Aesthetic
— Augsburg / online 2021
Self-representation in the Digital Era: Beyond Binaries
— Madrid /online 2020
Resistance Strategies in Art and Their Practices
— PAOS GDL, Guadalajara 2019
PRESS (SELECTED)
The New York Times Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney
The Art Newspaper Work of the Week by the Puerto Rican artist Gabriella Torres-Ferrer
Artnet News The Whitney Museum Will Stage a Landmark Show of Puerto Rican Art Made in the Five Years Since Hurricane Maria
e-flux Hybrid Ways of Knowledge Production
NPR When people are less important than beaches: Puerto Rican artists at the Whitney
Cultured Magazine Our Critic Resorted to Trespassing to See This Artist’s Work. Here’s How You Can See It—and the Exhibition It’s a Part Of—(Legally)
Art Viewer ‘Notes on Power’ at Embajada, San Juan
Artforum selected reviews and contextual mentions
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
Man & Mining exhibition catalogue (interview with the artist)