Torolab is an
artist collective, workshop and laboratory of contextual studies that identifies situations or phenomena of interest for research, basing the studies in the realm of life styles to better grasp the idea of quality of life. Founded in
Tijuana
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in 1995 by Raúl Cárdenas Osuna.
Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at various venues including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art of Louisiana, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego; LA(X)ART, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sydney; the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Havana Biennial; Liverpool Biennial; Beijing 2004 Biennial of Architecture; Mercosur Biennale, Brazil; and Lyon Biennale, France. Their work is in private and public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego and the Jumex collection in Mexico. The collective has received twice The American Center foundation award and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Their work and articles have been published at ''New York Times'', ''TIME magazine'', Harvard’s ''Political Review'', Boston Globe, Surface, Wallpaper, I.D., among others.
Biography
Raúl Cárdenas Osuna (Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 1969) holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California in San Diego.
He has taught a
CENTRO(Mexico City) and the
Universidad Iberoamericana’s School of Architecture (Tijuana) in Mexico; at the
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...
and the
California College of the Arts in the US; and
University of Rennes 2 in France.
On October 2011, Raúl Cárdenas was awarded for best arts-intervention project with social impact by Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative and on December has been named Person of the year by Tijuana’s newspaper ‘Frontera’.
Raúl Cárdenas Osuna named person of the year.
Frontera Newspaper. December 20, 2011. Right now, he also directs the non-profit organization ‘Sociedad de Agentes de Cambio’ and is the director of the Digital table for the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Tecate-Rosarito-Tijuana, where he currently lives and works.
Appearances
The Artists Experiment Initiative
at The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the ...
in 2013.
World Health Day 2012 , Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Molecular Urbanism: Design and Quality of Life
at Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
.
Pase Usted , Raúl Cárdenas / Torolab: La salud y la calidad de vida
in 2009.
External links
Torolab's webpage
Torolab on Twitter
Torolab on Facebook
OMR Gallery
References
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Mexican contemporary artists
Mexican artist groups and collectives
International artist groups and collectives