Faculty

Milagros de la Torre is an artist whose conceptually rigorous practice examines the language and authority of photographic images. Working across photography and installation, her layered work critically interrogates the codes, conventions, and assumptions that shape visual representation and meaning.

She earned a B.A. (Hons) in Photographic Arts from the University of the Arts, London. Her first solo exhibition Under the Black Sun (1993), curated by Robert Delpire, was presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

De la Torre is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), the Dora Maar Fellowship (2014), the Peter S. Reed Foundation Award in Photography (2016), the Merited Person of Culture medal of Peru (2016) and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship (2021). She was appointed the Wolf Chair in Photography at the Cooper Union, New York (Fall 2023), and has mentored, served as dissertation advisor and taught broadly.

Her work has been exhibited at leading institutions including Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, International Center of Photography, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris and Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and is held in prominent public collections including Museum of Modern Art MoMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, Harvard Art Museums and MALBA, Buenos Aires.

She serves on the Board of the Penumbra Foundation, New York, and is the moderator for its Artist Series program.