Born in 1970 in Mexico City. Received a scholarship to study architecture at the Cracow University of Technology, Poland. Graduated in 1998. She moved to Berlin in 1996, where she worked as an architect in the office Kleihues + Kleihues until 2014. 1999 her first son Anton was born. 2001 began as autodidact with black and white photography. 2002 her second son Sebastián was born. 2007 assists the photographer Stefan Müller (Architecture photography), Berlin. From 2006 to 2014 she worked in theater photography. 2014 decided to focus solely on art and photography. From 2014 to 2016 mentoring by Timothy Persons (Professor at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland). 2019 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019, for the publication Silence, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Gemany. 2020 nominated full member of the German Society for Photography, DGPh, proposed by Mr. Ditmar Schädel (Chairman of the DGPh)
Upcoming exhibitions:
-Participation in Positions Berlin Art Fair with the Brockstedt Gallery
12. - 15. September 2024, Flughafen Tempelhof Hangar 5 - 6
Tempelhofer Damm 45
12101 Berlin
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, offizieller Partner der Berlin Art Week,
Exhibitions
2024
-Etéreo, Casa de las Culturas Contemporáneas, Puebla, México
Reviews:
2023
-Participation in Positions Berlin Art Fair with the Brockstedt Gallery
-The Path of Least Resistance, solo exhibition, Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany
2022
-7th Barcelona Foto Biennale, Spain
-17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, group exhibition at FotoNostrum Gallery, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
-Radici, group exhibition, Villa Rechsteiner, Piavon di Oderzo, Italy
2021
-14th Arte Laguna Prize 2020, finalists' exhibition at the Arsenale of Venice, Italy
-The Path of Least Resistance. Solo exhibition, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2019
-Raíces, solo exhibition, RotwangHaus, Berlin, Germany
-Zu-Fall, group exhibition, Mexican Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany
-Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, N. Ireland
-Silence, book Presentation, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico.
The book was presented by Ariel Arnal.
-Silence, book Presentation, Librería Profética, Puebla, Mexico.
The book was presented by photographer Rodrigo Moya, Susan Flaherty and Ariel Arnal.
2018
-GESTE Paris, group exhibition Binary / Non-Binary, Paris, France
-Squares, group exhibition, CICA Museum, Czong Institut for Contemporary Art, Korea
-Silence - Gabriela Torres Ruiz, solo exhibition. EMOP, European Month of Photography Berlin, Germany
GALERIE im TEMPELHOF MUSEUM, Berlin, Germany
-ZONAMACO, Mexico City Contemporary Photography Fair, Mexico
-Athens Photo Festival. EMOP, European Month of Photography Athens, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
-lieux de mémoire / Memory Places, group exhibition, Pavlov's Dog Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
-Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, book Presentation and Exhibition, Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany
-8. Charity Art Auction, Berlinische Gallery / Museum of Modern Art, preview, Mianki Gallery, Berlin, Germany
-(Im) balances, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, solo exhibition, Gallery Brockstedt, Hamburg, Germany
-Accrochage, Gallery Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany
-FAN Museum, Okayama, Japan
-Toshima Ecomuse Town, Tokyo, Japan
-(Im) balances, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, solo exhibition, Gallery Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany
-Festival de la Photographie Mediterranéenne, at Station, Beyrouth, Lebanon
2016
-Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, solo exhibition, Galeria Trzecie Oko - Leica, Cracow, Poland
-7. Charity Art Auction, Berlinische Gallery / Museum of Modern Art, preview, Mianki Gallery, Berlin, Germany
-Umbral 28, MACO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico
-Collective, House at Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
-Festival de la Photographie Mediterranéenne, Sanary-sur-Mer, France
-Art is Everywhere, Chashama´s at 4 Times Square, New York, USA
-Aesthetica Art Prize, York St Mary´s, York, UK
-Extrañamiento, Gabriela Torres Ruiz and Nin Solís, Casa de las Culturas Contemporáneas, Puebla, Mexico
2015
-Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
-Fourth Annual Art Takes Miami, Art Basel Miami, USA
-6. Charity Art Auction, Berlinische Gallery / Museum of Modern Art, preview, Mianki Gallery, Berlin, Germany
-Fifth Annual Exposure Award, New York. Digital display at the Louvre, Paris, France
2014
-8th Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenal of Venice, Italy
-Last Paradise, Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts, Museum Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
-Photographic Being II, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York, USA
-Pure Art Festival, Battle, UK
-Battle Arts and Music Festival, UK
-Fifth Annual Art Takes Miami, Art Basel Miami, USA
Awards, grants and scholarships
2024
-Invited to participate in the Environment and Art Competition organized by the Kummer-Vanotti Foundation, for the realization of a
work for the environmental sculpture park on the island of Grafenwerth in Bad Honnef.
2021
-17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Honorable mention. UK
-Arte Laguna Prize 19.20. Special mention. Venice, Italy
-Funding from the Volkart Foundation for the exhibition project The Path of Least Resistance, Winterthur, Switzerland
2020
-Arte Laguna Prize 19.20., shortlisted, Venice, Italy
2019
-Art Olympia Competition, honorable mention, Tokyo, Japan
-Belfast Photo Festival, winner Photo Book, Silence, Belfast, N. Ireland
-Nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019, for the publication Silence, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany
2018
-GESTE Paris, shortlisted, Paris, France
-Hariban Award, shortlisted, Kyoto, Japan
2017
-Felix Schoeller Photo Award, shortlisted, Germany
-Hariban Award, shortlisted, Kyoto, Japan
-Art Olympia Competition, 4th Prize and Jury Award, Tokyo, Japan
-Festival de la Photographie Mediterranée, laureate, Beyrouth, Lebanon
2016
-Art Prize at Haus am Kleistpark, nominated artist, Berlin, Germany
-Hariban Award, shortlisted, Kyoto, Japan
-Festival de la Photographie Mediterranée, winner, Sanary-sur-Mer, France
-Aesthetica Art Prize, nominated artist, York, UK
-HSBC Prix pour la Photography, finalist, Paris, France
-Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Medalle d´Or from the SNBA and Prix Jean Lariviére, Paris, France
2015
-Fifth Annual Exposure Award, Winner, New York, USA
2014
-9th Dave Bown Projects, first prize, New York, USA
-8th Arte Laguna Prize, honorable mention, Venice, Italy
-PX3 Prix de la Photographie, honorable mention, Paris, France
2006-2014
-Architectural Projects / Awards, performed by Kleihues + Kleihues, Berlin, Germany
1991-1996
-Scholarship for the architecture studies at the Technical University of Krakow, Poland
Works in Collections
-Collection of the Museums Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
-Diverse private collections, Mexico, Germany, USA, Poland