Artpace International Artist-in-residence Program

Carlos Castro Arias was born in Bogota, Colombia. His interdisciplinary work explores individual and collective identity and the body as a personal and social entity. Through the formal and symbolic re-contextualization of objects and images, Castro leads viewers to a critical understanding of the past and present by examining and resurfacing mute histories.

His solo exhibitions include The Pain We Create, LA Galeria, Bogota (2019); The Language of Dead Things, Espacio el Dorado, Bogota (2017), Stagnant Heritage, MUZAC, Monteria (2015), Old News of the Present, 21st Projects, New York (2014); and Accidental Beauty, Museo Santa Clara, Bogota (2013). Notable group exhibitions include Doble Filo, Coral Gables Museum, Miami (2019); Comfortably Numb, Another Space, New York (2018); Open Art Biennale, Sweden (2017); Liquid Sensibilities, Cisneros Foundation Grants and Commissions, USA (2016); Space To Dream, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand (2016); X Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2015); and O que seria do mundo sem as coisas que não existem?, Frestas Trienal, Sorocaba, Brazil (2014), amongst others. 

Castro earned a B.F.A. at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2002) and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute (2010). His musical projects include POPO (2000) and Los Claudios de Colombia (2005–Present). Castro lives and works between San Diego, Tijuana, and Bogota.

Milagros de la Torre is a New York based artist working with the photographic medium since 1991. She studied Communications Sciences at the University of Lima and received a B.A. (Hons) in Photographic Arts from the London College of Communication. Her first solo exhibition was held at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (1993). The Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) honored her with a mid-career retrospective exhibition in 2012.

She received the Rockefeller Foundation Artist Grant and was awarded the Romeo Martinez Photography Prize and the Young Ibero-American Creators Prize for her series The Lost Steps (1998); The Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), The Dora Maar Fellowship, The Brown Foundation (2014), The Peter S. Reed Foundation Award in Photography (2016), and was the recipient of a ‘Merited Person of Culture Award’ from the Ministry of Culture in Peru (2016).

Her work is included in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Yale University, New Haven; Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, Phoenix; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, U.K.; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, amongst others.

Daniel Ramos exhibited The Land of Illustrious Men at Filter Space, Chicago in 2019. The series was also featured in The New York Times Lens column and PDN Edu Magazine. Ramos won the 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize and completed the 2018 Artist Residency Program at The Center of Photography in Woodstock, New York. He was awarded the Grand Prize in Cuarto Oscuro’s national competition in Mexico. His work has been exhibited at Houston Center for Photography, CPW’s Photography Now, AI-AP Latin American Fotografia 7, and the Lenscratch DeveloperXFor Freedoms Gallery.

Ramos graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a B.F.A. in Photography in 2003 and studied for an M.F.A. at California College of the Arts in 2007.