Tora López
New Orleans, LA, 1977.
Lives and works in New York City.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Incidents In Romance Technologies 101: Making Love Out Of Nothing At All, Alaska Projects, Sydney, AU
2011 Panties For Diamonds– A Psychodramatic Audition In The Age Of Abandonment, Honey Space, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions + Projects
2019 Phallacies, A Guide To The Field, Mountain Dale, NY
Artist & Allies, Signs & Symbols, NYC
Every Woman Biennial, La Mama La Galleria, NYC
The Lives Of Others, MoFo, Launceston, Tasmania, AU
BIG, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2018 The collection of Beth DeWoody,The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
Artist & Allies, Signs & Symbols, NYC
The Laugh Back, Smack Mellon, NYC
24:7, ZAZ Art InitiativeTimes Square, NYC
2017 The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC
Whitney Houston Biennial, Chashama, NYC
RHW Enterprise, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC
Tony Conrad memorial, Knockdown Center, NYC
2016 New York Art Book Fair, Booklyn, NYC (artist book + box set)
Club Los Angeles, commission from Mexico City, CDMX
2015 Declaration Of Sentiments: The Remix, Great Hall Cooper Union, NYC
Peekskill Projects 6, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
The Gaze, Momma Tried Artist Feature at Port Projects, New Orleans, LA
2014 The Embassy, New Orleans Biennial Prospect 3+ satellite project, New Orleans, LA
Hangers, Hot Dogs & Cigarettes, Governors Island Art Fair, Ground Floor Gallery, NYC
Total Body Burden, The Museum Of Old And New Art, Tasmania, AU
Women’s International Tennis Finals, Hobart, Tasmania, AU (performance)
2013 Cold Castle, Family Business, NYC
Playtime: A Performative Pedagogical Symposium, Eyebeam, NYC (curator)
We Couldn’t Remember What We Came To Forget, Pulse Art Fair, NYC
Homeward Found, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
2012 Knowing Me, Knowing You, Pulse Art Fair, NYC
Honey Me To Tears, Honey Space, NYC
2011 Currently Untitled, billboard campaign in conjunction with New Orleans Biennial Prospect 2, New Orleans, LA
The Many Rumors Of Renni Esruoc, The Museum Of Old And New Art (grand opening), Tasmania, AU
2010 Ex Deo Libertas!, Life is Art Foundation West, Sonoma, CA.
Order of 8, Life Is Art Collective at the Eiffel Society, New Orleans, LA
Do You Want Gold, Life Is Art Collective at Honey Space Gallery, NYC
Kneed, KKProjects | Life Is Art Foundation, New Orleans, LA
2008 New Orleans Biennial Prospect 1+ satellite project, KKProjects | Life Is Art Foundation, New Orleans, LA
2007 Parthenogenesis, with DUMBA at The Box NYC (performance)
ETOV, The Stone, NYC (performance)
Residencies + Awards
2017 NURTUREart, New Collaborations Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Mana Contemporary, BTSM Residency, Jersey City, NJ
Booklyn Artist Alliance Box Set Grant, Brooklyn, NY
2015/16 LMCC Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel, NYC
2012 Wassaic Projects Residency, Wassaic, NY
Collections
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, AU
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Bibliography
2019 Kaechele, Kirsha. Eat The Problem. Museum Of Old And New Art. print
Baker, R.C. They’re Every Woman, A Biennial for the Rest of Us. Village Voice (May 22)
2018 Cascone, Sarah. Here Are the 10 Absolute Best Works of Art We Saw Around the World in 2018. Artnet (Dec 27)
D’Addario, John. Ogden Museum’s hidden art gems brought into the light for sprawling new show, BIG. The New Orleans Advocate (Dec18)
Ray, Sharmistha. Rya Kleinpeter and Tora Lopez at the Bunker Artspace. Artcritical (Dec 8)
Vogel, Wendy. Incorrectly Female. Mousse Magazine. (Fall) print
Colucci, Emily. Well Laugh, Though Your Heart Is Breaking In Two: Comedic Resistance In "Laugh Back". Filthy Dreams (Aug 2)
2017 Lesser, Casey. 16 Curators to Watch at SPRING/BREAK. Artsy (March 1)
2015 Eliezer, Theo. Featured Artist: Tora Lopez. Momma Tried (Issue 2) print
2013 Haines, Chelsea. Critics Pic: Homeward Found. Artforum (June)
Kennedy, Randy. Ars Longa, Studio Brevis. New York Times (Feb. 24) print
2012 Bailey, Stephanie. Free Your Mind The Art Of INNER COURSE. Art Papers (March/April)
2011 MacCash, Doug. No Kirsha Kaechele? Times Picayune (Dec 23) print
MacCash, Doug. Is that Kirsha Kaechele on those mysterious St. Claude billboards? Times Picayune (Sept) print
Beale, Thomas. INNER COURSE, Panties For Diamonds. Planet Magazine (July 26)
2010 Kennedy, Randy. In California, Pot Is Now An Art Patron. New York Times (Oct 11) print
Shaw, Cameron. Living Landmark. Art in America (June 15) print