Claudia de la Torre
Claudia de la Torre (1986) is a Mexican, Berlin-based artist who creates art- works situated at the intersection of printed media, conceptual publications, and installation. Using the basic concept of a book as her guide, de la Torre examines the structures and relationships of surface, form, and ideas. In 2011 de la Torre founded backbonebooks, an experimental publishing imprint that has published and designed 80 artists’ books and editions and continues to produce work. De la Torre is also the director of the Artists’ Books Workshop in Berlin.
De la Torre holds a BA from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado ‘La Esmeralda’ (2009). In 2010 she was the first Mexican artist to obtain the Frida Kahlo Scholarship for Women Artists granted by the DAAD, which allowed her to pursue an MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany.
She is an active member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the ABC (Artists Books Cooperative). Through backbonebooks, she tables at numerous international art book fairs, and in 2018 she was the recipient of the Shannon Michael Cane Award for Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair.
