BORIS TORRES 39 Withers St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 917 573 1232 torresboris@gmail.com EDUCATION M.F.A.

Brooklyn College of New York, NY, 2011 M.A. City College of New York, NY, 2008 B.F.A. Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 2000 FIELDS OF EXPERTISE Oil & Acrylic Painting, Watercolor, Drawing TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Brooklyn College of New York, NY, Spring 2011 Undergraduate painting focusing on multi-disciplinary approaches. Substitute Art Teacher, Grades 9-12, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, New York, NY, 2007-2009 Basic Drawing, Painting and Art History. Workshop Facilitator, Childrens Art Carnival, New York, NY, Summer 2009 Taught afterschool workshops using a wide variety of artistic techniques and media. Teaching Assistant, Grades K-6, P.S. 003 Charrette School, New York, NY, Fall 2007 Taught a variety of art tools and techniques, such as clay modeling, watercolors and collage. LANGUAGES Fluent in Spanish and English ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS Organizer of The Brooklyn College Visiting Artists Program, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Graduate Investment Program Research Grant, 2011 Curator, (auto)biography: the photography of Nelson Edwin Rodriguez online exhibition for Visual Aids Web Gallery, 2010 Bernard Horlick Memorial Scholarship, 2010 Brooklyn College Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award, 2010 Wolff-Ravenal Travel Grant Award, 2009 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Midnite, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada En Carne Viva, La Naranjilla Mecnica, Quito, Ecuador 2009 Boris Torres: Recent Paintings, The Gay & Lesbian Community Center, New York, NY 2006

Recent Paintings and a Drawing, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 The Pop Up Museum of Queer History, Leslie Lohman Art Foundation, New York, NY Memory Palace, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY Global Arts Project, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Social Photography, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY College Art Association MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY 2010 The Infidels, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Family Albums, Clifford Chance, New York, NY Self-Consciousness: Curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als, Gordon Veneklasen Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin, Germany Kwark, Bowman Bloom Gallery, New York, NY 2009 New York Stories, Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY The Evolution of a Revolution, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 2008 Sex in the City: Curated by Dean Daderko, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY Hung Magazine Selects, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2007 No More Drama: The Saga Continues, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Those Who Can, City College, New York, NY 2006 Do You Think Im Disco, Longwood Art Project at Hostos, Bronx, NY The Faerie Show, Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY 2005 LTTR: The Explosion, Art In General, New York, NY