Milagros de la Torre

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, 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 Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and is held in major public collections including Museum of Modern Art MoMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, Harvard Art Museums and MALBA, Buenos Aires.

De la Torre serves on the Board of the Penumbra Foundation, NY, and as the moderator for its Spring 2026 Artist Series.