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Ortiz Torres, Rubén

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Personal name headingOrtiz Torres, Rubén
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Variant(s)Torres, Rubén Ortiz
Associated countryMexico United States
Associated placeLa Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
LocatedLos Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date1964-02-27
Field of activityArt, Latin American Mexican American art
AffiliationUniversity of California, San Diego
Profession or occupationArtists College teachers
Found inMurder 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")