ABOUT
The multidisciplinary work of Daniel Otero Torres encompasses sculpture, installation, ceramic work, pictorial practice, as well as drawing, which connects from the
beginning all his creative facets. Many of his works stand out precisely because of an
absolutely unique technique that explores the frontier between drawing and sculp-
ture, marked by a virtuous photorealistic trait applied on monumental cut-out steel
structures. This process manages to create a dislocation of materials and contexts.
Generally, his images do not represent a single person but a visual and historical
collage created from different sources, from archives and old books to images found in
contemporary newspapers or online sources.
The artist is interested in notions of resistance and revolution —exemplified in the marginalized or ignored groups that have played an essential role in recent history— but also in images of demonstration, celebration and reconciliation as drivers of social change. More recently, ecological concerns have also found their way into his work as an indissociable element of contemporary activism. Otero Torres pays special attention to the harmful effects of exacerbated capitalism on biodiversity or indigenous peoples, while questioning the viewer about the links between nature and global politics.
His works have been exhibited in numerous international institutions and events such as the the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Thyssen-Bornemiza Art Contemporary (TBA21), C3A, Córdoba, Spain (2024); La Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (2024); Kyiv 23 Biennale, Vienna, Austria (2023); 16th Lyon Biennial (2022); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2022); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); Drawing Lab Paris (2021); MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco (2020); the Espacio 23 of the Jorge Perez Collection, Miami (2019); La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, France (2019); FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles (2019); Musée Régional d’Art Contem- porain MRAC Sérignan, France (2017); IAC Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes, France (2016); Kunstverein Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany (2014); and the Bullukian Foundation, Lyon, France (2010), among others.
Daniel Otero Torres has been a resident of the Villa Belleville (2015-2016); Moly-Sabata Residency in Les Sablons, France (2014); the Cité des arts de Paris (2011-2012),and L’atrape-couleurs in Lyon, France. He has been awarded the Prix CPGA -Etant donnés 2023 prize, awarded by the Professional Committee of Art Galleries and Villa Alber- tine at Art Basel Miami Beach (2023); Laureate Drawing Lab Paris (2019); the Hors les murs creation and research program award by the French Institute (2017); the Price Rhône-Alpes de la Jeune Création, Rendez-vous 15, Biennale de Lyon (2015); and the prize of the Conseil Général of the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon (2010).
Born in 1985, Bogotá, Colombia.
The artist is interested in notions of resistance and revolution —exemplified in the marginalized or ignored groups that have played an essential role in recent history— but also in images of demonstration, celebration and reconciliation as drivers of social change. More recently, ecological concerns have also found their way into his work as an indissociable element of contemporary activism. Otero Torres pays special attention to the harmful effects of exacerbated capitalism on biodiversity or indigenous peoples, while questioning the viewer about the links between nature and global politics.
His works have been exhibited in numerous international institutions and events such as the the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Thyssen-Bornemiza Art Contemporary (TBA21), C3A, Córdoba, Spain (2024); La Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (2024); Kyiv 23 Biennale, Vienna, Austria (2023); 16th Lyon Biennial (2022); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2022); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); Drawing Lab Paris (2021); MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco (2020); the Espacio 23 of the Jorge Perez Collection, Miami (2019); La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, France (2019); FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles (2019); Musée Régional d’Art Contem- porain MRAC Sérignan, France (2017); IAC Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes, France (2016); Kunstverein Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany (2014); and the Bullukian Foundation, Lyon, France (2010), among others.
Daniel Otero Torres has been a resident of the Villa Belleville (2015-2016); Moly-Sabata Residency in Les Sablons, France (2014); the Cité des arts de Paris (2011-2012),and L’atrape-couleurs in Lyon, France. He has been awarded the Prix CPGA -Etant donnés 2023 prize, awarded by the Professional Committee of Art Galleries and Villa Alber- tine at Art Basel Miami Beach (2023); Laureate Drawing Lab Paris (2019); the Hors les murs creation and research program award by the French Institute (2017); the Price Rhône-Alpes de la Jeune Création, Rendez-vous 15, Biennale de Lyon (2015); and the prize of the Conseil Général of the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon (2010).
Born in 1985, Bogotá, Colombia.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024
Sonidos del Crepúsculo (Twilight sounds), curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, United States
2022
Las huellas del viento, mor charpentier, Paris
2021
Tierradentro, curated by Anaîs Lepage, Drawing Lab Paris.
2019
Así fue, The Pill, Istambul.
2017
(Dé)placements, curated by Sandra Patron, MRAC Sérignan, Musée régional d’art
contemporain, Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Sérignan.
Artissima, Galerie Sketch, Drawing section curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva, directors of Kunstalle Lissabon, Turin.
De l’autre côté, INSA Lyon.
Artissima, Galerie Sketch, Drawing section curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva, directors of Kunstalle Lissabon, Turin.
De l’autre côté, INSA Lyon.
2015
Drawing now, galerie Marine Veilleux, Le carreaux du temple, Paris.
2014
Amalgame, au GAC à Annonay, dans le cadre des Galeries Nomades
en partenariat avec l’Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne,
Rhone- Alpes.
Summertime, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
Summertime, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
2011
Welcome, l’Attrape-Couleurs, Lyon.
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024
Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa,
60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024.
Biennale de Lahore, curated John Tain, Lahorem, Pakistan.
Ecologías de la paz, curated by Daniela Zyman, Thyssen-Bornemiza Art Contemporary (TBA21), C3A Centro de Creación Conteporánea, Córdoba, Spain.
Artistes et paysans. Battre la campagne, curated by Julie Crenn, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
Revenir du présent, regards croisés sur la scène actuelle, curated by Stéphane Ibars et Yvannoé Kruger, La Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
Territorios; arte contemporáneo latinoamericano en la Colección Jorge M. Pérez, curated by Jimena Blázquez Abascal,
El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Spain.
60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024.
Biennale de Lahore, curated John Tain, Lahorem, Pakistan.
Ecologías de la paz, curated by Daniela Zyman, Thyssen-Bornemiza Art Contemporary (TBA21), C3A Centro de Creación Conteporánea, Córdoba, Spain.
Artistes et paysans. Battre la campagne, curated by Julie Crenn, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
Revenir du présent, regards croisés sur la scène actuelle, curated by Stéphane Ibars et Yvannoé Kruger, La Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
Territorios; arte contemporáneo latinoamericano en la Colección Jorge M. Pérez, curated by Jimena Blázquez Abascal,
El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Spain.
2023
Kyiv 23 Biennale, curated by Serge Klymko, Hedwig Saxenhuber & Georg Schöllhammer, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
Remedios, Directions to the old ways, curated by Daniela Zyman, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Córdoba, Spain.
Diasporiques, curated by Ami Barak, Centru d’interes de Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Transalating Worlds, curated by Milan Vukašinović & Nilüfer Şaşmazer, Depo, Istambul.
Vestiges du futur, curated by Clémént Noet, in dialogue with the team of Narbo Via, Musée Narbo Via, Narbonne, France.
Bittersweet Symphony, mor charpentier, Paris.
Remedios, Directions to the old ways, curated by Daniela Zyman, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Córdoba, Spain.
Diasporiques, curated by Ami Barak, Centru d’interes de Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Transalating Worlds, curated by Milan Vukašinović & Nilüfer Şaşmazer, Depo, Istambul.
Vestiges du futur, curated by Clémént Noet, in dialogue with the team of Narbo Via, Musée Narbo Via, Narbonne, France.
Bittersweet Symphony, mor charpentier, Paris.
2022
Manifesto of Fragility : Biennale de Lyon, curated by Sam Bardaouil
and Till Fellrath, Lyon, France.
An ocean in every drop, curated by Rahul Gudipudi and Nora Razian, Jameel Arts centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, curator: Adam Budak, assistant curator: Alexander Wilmschen, Kestner gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany.
Power Flower, curated by Marie Maertens et Cédric Teisseire, Grande halle du 109, Nice, France.
An ocean in every drop, curated by Rahul Gudipudi and Nora Razian, Jameel Arts centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, curator: Adam Budak, assistant curator: Alexander Wilmschen, Kestner gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany.
Power Flower, curated by Marie Maertens et Cédric Teisseire, Grande halle du 109, Nice, France.
2021
Ubuntu, un rêve lucide, curated by Marie- Ann Yemsi,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Fuera de Lugar, curated by Bruno Leitao, Sabrina Amrani gallery, Madrid.
Battements d’une machine fabuleuse, curated by Asli Seven, Saint- Joseph Lisesi Kûltûrel Etkinlikleri, Istambul
Fuera de Lugar, curated by Bruno Leitao, Sabrina Amrani gallery, Madrid.
Battements d’une machine fabuleuse, curated by Asli Seven, Saint- Joseph Lisesi Kûltûrel Etkinlikleri, Istambul
2020
HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY?, curated by Marie- Ann Yemsi, MACAAL, Morocco.
Your friends and neighbors, High Art, Paris.
Radical Hope, mor charpentier, Paris.
Your friends and neighbors, High Art, Paris.
Radical Hope, mor charpentier, Paris.
2019
Time For Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Perez Collection, curated by José Roca, El Espacio 23, Miami.
Paroxysm of Sublime, curated by Anna Milone & Ana Iwataki, Welcome to LACE with Flax Foundation, Los Angeles.
A Causal Loop, Curated by Ami Barak, Gallery Charim, Vienna.
Les jours de la pleine lune #22, La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand.
Paroxysm of Sublime, curated by Anna Milone & Ana Iwataki, Welcome to LACE with Flax Foundation, Los Angeles.
A Causal Loop, Curated by Ami Barak, Gallery Charim, Vienna.
Les jours de la pleine lune #22, La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand.
2018
Bandes à part, nouvel accrochage des collections, curated by Sandra Patron, MRAC, Musée
régional d’art contemporain, Occitanie, Pyrénées- Méditerranée,
Sérignan. .
J’allai, ce soir-là, fumer une cigarette sur le sable au bord de la mer,Galerie Anne-Sarah Benichou, Paris.
J’allai, ce soir-là, fumer une cigarette sur le sable au bord de la mer,Galerie Anne-Sarah Benichou, Paris.
2017
Le 6B dessine son salon, Artiste invité du salon,
commissariat: Marie Gautier et Claire Luna, 6B, Paris
HC10 / Fênetres, domaine Lezigno, Languedoc Roussillon.
HC10 / Fênetres, domaine Lezigno, Languedoc Roussillon.
FMAC à la Fiac, acquisitions 2017 du fonds municipal d’art contemporain de Paris, Foire internationale d’art contemporain FIAC, Paris.
Attaches, curated by Claire Luna, Année France- Colombie 2017, Cité des arts, Paris
Corps sans tête, un lendemain difficile, Maêlle Galerie, Paris
Rendez vous 2017, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, Chine.
2016
Le Temps de l’audace et de l’Engagement - de leur Temps (5),
collections privées Françaises, IAC de Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes.
Jeune création 66 édition, Exposition internationale d’art contemporain, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin.
Women’s Independence, Paris Asian art fair.
Sculptura, biennale 3ème édition, Bourse du travail et Espace contemporain, Valence
Session #1 Instantanés, Backslash, Paris.
The making of an exhibition, Curate it yourself, Galleria Marcolini,Forli, Italy
Jeune création 66 édition, Exposition internationale d’art contemporain, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin.
Women’s Independence, Paris Asian art fair.
Sculptura, biennale 3ème édition, Bourse du travail et Espace contemporain, Valence
Session #1 Instantanés, Backslash, Paris.
The making of an exhibition, Curate it yourself, Galleria Marcolini,Forli, Italy
2015
Rendez-vous 15, Jeune création internationale / Biennale de Lyon, Institut d’art contemporain - Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes.
Curate it yourself, Villa Belleville, Paris.
Bazar, Primo Piani, Paris.
Empan, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
Curate it yourself, Villa Belleville, Paris.
Bazar, Primo Piani, Paris.
Empan, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
2014
Conspirations? Quelle conspiration?, Kunstverein Sparkasse,
Leipzig. Allemagne.
#1 Poros, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
Animal Paradise, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres.
2014
Conspirations? Quelle conspiration?, Kunstverein Sparkasse,
Leipzig. Allemagne.
#1 Poros, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
Animal Paradise, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres.
#1 Poros, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.
Animal Paradise, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres.
2011
A skeleton in the closet 2, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel,
ReMap3-Galeria Utopia, Athens.
3ème édition de Art Protects, galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Vue sur la mer, en partenariat avec les works masters de la HEAD Genève, nouveau bâtiment de la Ciguë, Genève.
A Skeleton in the Close, à Heidelberg Kunstverein, Allemagne.
Hard Copy, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel et Raoul Zöllner, PM Gallery, Berlin.
56ème Salon de Montrouge.
Copie Right, musée des moulages à Lyon.
Jet Lag, à la galerie Espacio Alternativo ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico
Les Enfants du sabbat XII, au Centre d’Art Contemporain le Creux de l’enfer, Thiers.
3ème édition de Art Protects, galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Vue sur la mer, en partenariat avec les works masters de la HEAD Genève, nouveau bâtiment de la Ciguë, Genève.
A Skeleton in the Close, à Heidelberg Kunstverein, Allemagne.
Hard Copy, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel et Raoul Zöllner, PM Gallery, Berlin.
56ème Salon de Montrouge.
Copie Right, musée des moulages à Lyon.
Jet Lag, à la galerie Espacio Alternativo ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico
Les Enfants du sabbat XII, au Centre d’Art Contemporain le Creux de l’enfer, Thiers.
2010
Toubabou, à la Fondation Bullukian, Lyon.
AWARDS
2023
Etant Donnés Prize at Art Basel Miami Beach, organized by Villa
Albertine and France’s Comité Professionnel de Galeries d’art, CPGA.
2020
Oeuvres temporaires et réactivables
dans l’espace public, CNAP, France.
2019
Laureat Drawing Lab Paris.
2017
Hors les murs – programme de recherche et de création,
Institut Français.
2015
Prix Rhône-Alpes de la Jeune Création, Rendez - vous 15,
IAC de Villeurbanne / Biennale de Lyon.
2010
Prix de Paris et du Conseil Général à l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux
Arts de Lyon.