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Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez is a New York City- and Providence-based artist and educator. His performance and visual art works emerge from his experiences of being a transnational adoptee from Colombia growing up and living in the U.S. and have recently focused on who or what gets to be (in) public and the limits of empathy when working on problems of structural inequity.
Lundberg Torres Sánchez’s work has appeared in spaces including the Queens Museum, RISD Museum (Providence), Museum of the Moving Image (Queens), PHI Centre (Montreal), The Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, the Morgan Library & Museum (Manhattan), The Museum of Work and Culture (Woonsocket, RI), Zona 30 (Lima), El Bunker (La Paz), SP Escola de Teatro (Sao Paulo), La Galleria at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (Boston), The Granoff Center at Brown University (Providence), The Main Art Gallery at URI (Kingston, RI), The Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), IMAGO Gallery (Warren, RI), the Pigeon Hole Gallery (Providence), Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Providence International Arts Festival, PVDFest (Providence), DownStreet Art’s TRUST Festival (North Adams, MA), Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, La MaMa E.T.C. (Manhattan), Panoply Performance Laboratory (Brooklyn), Bowery Poetry Club (Manhattan), DCTV (Manhattan), Teatro Circulo (Manhattan), Silent Barn (Brooklyn), Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics (Brooklyn), JC Fridays (Jersey City), AS220 (Providence), and AURORA (Providence.)
Lundberg Torres Sánchez is a resident artist at AS220 in Providence, is a member of the 2012 EMERGENYC cohort at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, and sits on the board of the Colombian American Cultural Society of Rhode Island. He is the recipient of NEA funding through AS220’s 2017 Community Live Arts Residency, was RISCA’s 2017 Merit Fellow in New Genres, and is RISCA’s 2018 Merit Fellow in Film & Video.
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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2006
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
2006
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Colombian American Cultural Society of Rhode Island
Date: 06/2018-06/2018
I sit on the board of the Colombian American Cultural Society and co-created the exhibit "SONÍDOS" with them. SONIDOS (2017- ) is an on-going collaboration with the The Colombian American Cultural Society Inc and Colombian people across Rhode Island exploring Colombianidad through sound. A mix of oral history, environmental sound, and fragments of informal conversations, the ever expanding SONIDOS exhibit immerses the public in a multilayered sound experience that invites visitors to sift through the competing sounds to receive story from a constantly shifting aural landscape. The Cultural Society hopes that the exhibit will help to link contemporary experiences to histories of migration to the Blackstone Valley, and foster connections across generations of Colombians living in Rhode Island. This project is supported in part by AS220 and a National Endowment for the Arts ArtWorks grant.
Greater Kennedy Plaza || Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy
Date: 06/2018-06/2018
I presented my interactive installation Color Polll (2017) in collaboration with Chloë Bass' City Palette app as part of Greater Kennedy Plaza || Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy's programming for the 2018 PVD Fest.
Arts Center
Date: 06/2018-06/2018
Gave a performance of A Lengua for Mi Boca (2016) for the 2018 Queer Arts Festival at AS220
Panoply Performance Laboratory
Date: 05/2018-12/2018
I was selected to be a part of the temporary collective, Civic Reflex / Reflejo Civico at Panoply Performance Laboratory in Brooklyn. I gave three public performances as a part of of the collective in May 2018: Naturalization (2013), El Montón (2017), and A Lengua for Mi Boca (2016)
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$100 - $500NEST Eligible Artist
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