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RUBÉN ORTIZ-TORRES Born in Mexico City, 1964 Lives and works in Los Angeles Education: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1992 Licenciatura en Artes Visuales, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 1986 Selected solo exhibitions: 2006 Galería OMR, Mexico City Redhead Projects, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 2004 Art in General, New York Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles The Glassell School of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2003 Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver Gallery 400, Chicago Beacon Cultural Foundation, Beacon, New York 2002 Galería OMR, Mexico City Brotfabrik, Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2001 Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City Artpace San Antonio (in collaboration with Jim Mendiola) Selected group exhibitions: 2001 The Road to Aztlán: Art from a Mythic Homeland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2000 Departures, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1997 InSITE97, San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico 1990 Between Worlds: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Impressions Gallery of Photography, York, England, and tour 1989 20th Festival of Art and Latin American Culture, Museum of Art, Brasilia, Brazil 1987 Contemporary Mexican Photography, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside 191 Maya work in progress, from the series The Past Is Not What It Used to Be, 2005, digital image