ABOUT

Carlos Torres Machado is a visual artist and cultural leader from Latin America who currently resides and works in New York. He earned his BA in Contemporary Arts and Communication, with minors in Photography and Psychology, from Universidad de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador.
 
The CICA Museum in South Korea chose him as one of the eight most influential artists for the International Symposium for Visual Culture 2021 (ISVC) and to be featured in the book “New Media Art 2022.” In the same year, he was awarded the City Artist Corps Grant by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Summer Rising Grant by the New York City Department of Education. In 2020, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) awarded him financial grants to continue developing his art projects during the pandemic.

From 2021 to 2023, ProjectArt selected him as an Artist in Residence, and since 2019, SUN Arts has awarded him an Artist Studio Residency, both in New York. He received the 2017 New York Regional Award from the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series.

Machado’s work has been exhibited at the Alliance Française in Dubai and the CICA Museum in South Korea, the Guild Hall Museum, Derfner Judaica Museum, Art on Paper, Clemente Soto Cultural Center, Chashama, The Border, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Microsoft, and Metlife in New York, and the Scope Art Show and The Versace Mansion in Miami. Museo El Cuartel, Museo de Arte Moderno, and Bienal Nómade in Latin America. He is the Co-Founder and Director of ArteLatAm, an arts organization dedicated to supporting LatinX visual artists: artelatam.nyc

COLLECTORS

- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
- Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
- El Cuartel Cultural Center & Museum, Ibarra, Ecuador.
- Carusone & Cherres Architects, Queens, New York.
- Jay Solly (Sustainable United Neighborhoods), Brooklyn, New York.
- Diana Aguilar (Zaruma Gold Coffee), Brooklyn, New York.
- Janeth Velin (Rossa Negra), Niantic, Connecticut.
- Juan Carlos Bonilla, New Jersey.
- Sylvia Mata, Queens, New York.
- Myra Kooy, Brooklyn, New York.
- Graciela Kartofel (Art Historian), New York, New York.
- Rosemary Perchner, Saarbrücken, Germany.
- Hesy Landesbaum (New York Life), New York, New York.
- Pablo Andrade, Quito, Ecuador.
- Pepe Aviles (The Container Gallery), Quito, Ecuador.
- Franciso Pazmiño (Miope Studio), Quito, Ecuador.
- Maria Pérez, Quito, Ecuador.
- José Luis Matheus, Miami, Florida.
- Dr. Rodrigo King & Asociados, Quito, Ecuador.