A photo of artist Gabriella Torres-Ferrer. They are taking a selfie but the area where his face would be is distorted.

Gabriella Torres Ferrer

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Gabriella Torres-Ferrer (Puerto Rico, b. 1987) is a multimedia artist and researcher whose work considers futurability, power dynamics—means of exchange and production in our interconnected global society. Their transmedial practice integrates new media, installation, video, web-based interventions, among other experimentations.

Torres-Ferrer’s work has been featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), El Museo del Barrio (New York), the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard (Annandale-on-Hudson), Museum der Arbeit (Hamburg), and the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa). Their work has also been shown at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale; 15th Bienal de Artes Mediales (Santiago); The Shed (New York); SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin); A.I.R. Gallery (New York); max goelitz (Munich); CURRO (Guadalajara); and Embajada (San Juan). In 2020, Torres-Ferrer received a guest artist prize from CERN (Geneva) and enrolled in the Akademie Schloss Solitude’s international artist-in-residence fellowship.

Crushed cans and bottles are lined up against a white background and intertwined with black cables.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer" notes on power(from the south)", 2023. Mine Your Own Business living sculptures series. Microcomputers, live data, found objects, electroluminescent LED panels, batteries and wires, 450 x 150 x 65 cm. Installation view, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, 2024. Photograph documentation by Maria Feck
Mirror engraved and cut with wires dangling from behind the mount.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, "Let it go", from the series 'Be Real'..., 2024. Laser engraved mirrored glass, electroluminescence, wires, 82cm x 66cm x 2cm. Photograph documentation courtesy of the artist.
Display made from fresh and rotting pineapples combine with small computer displays and wires.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, "(Untitled) Piñas, coladas.", 2022. Mine Your Own Business living sculptures series. Pineapples, live cryptocurrency displays. 182 x 61 x 46 cm. Installation view, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2022. Photograph documentation courtesy of the artist.
Hurricane ravaged wooden electric post with statehood propaganda.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, "Untitled (Valora tu mentira americana) (Untitled [Value Your American Lie])", 2018. Hurricane ravaged wooden electric post with statehood propaganda. 295 x 300 x 310 cm. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2022. In permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph documentation by D. Alvarado
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