LC control no. | n 98086032 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Ortiz Torres, Rubén |
Variant(s) | Torres, Rubén Ortiz |
Associated country | Mexico United States |
Associated place | La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) |
Located | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
Birth date | 1964-02-27 |
Field of activity | Art, Latin American Mexican American art |
Affiliation | University of California, San Diego |
Profession or occupation | Artists College teachers |
Found in | Murder in my suite, 1998: t.p. (Rubén Ortiz Torres) Wikipedia, Oct. 4, 2017 (Rubén Ortiz Torres (born February 27, 1964) is a Mexican photographer, painter, sculptor, film and video producer; currently a Faculty Member in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego) UC San Diego faculty webpage, Oct. 4, 2017 (Rubén Ortiz-Torres is an artist who joined the Visual Arts Department effective Fall 2001. He began his career as a photographer, printmaker, and painter in the early 1980s, well before he received his M.F.A. from the California Institute of Arts in 1992. Ortiz-Torres is a Mexican-born artist who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 1990. Ortiz-Torres is widely regarded as one of today's leading Mexican artists and as an innovator in the 1980s of a specifically Mexican form of postmodernism. Over the past ten years, he has produced a body of work in a wide range of media) <http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/rub%C3%A9n-ortiz-torres> Email from Ortiz Torres, Oct. 4, 2017 (Rubén Ortiz Torres, Los Angeles, CA; Professor in the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego; was part of the team of phototographers that worked on "Murder in my Suite") |