Ana Torfs (born in 1963,

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) is a Belgian visual artist. In her installations she uses a wide range of reproducible media, including slide projections, audio, photographs, prints, video, tapestries, and film.

Life

Torfs studied communication science at the University of Leuven and film and video at the Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in

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. Torfs has lived and worked in Brussels since 1986. Torfs has had solo exhibitions at in Mexico, City (2021), at in Brussels (2020) the Pori Art Museum in Finland, in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, at

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, Centre for Contemporary Arts in

, 2014, at

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in 2010, at

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in 2010, at the

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, 2008, at the Argos Centre for Art and Media in Brussels in 2007, at daadgalerie in

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, 2006, at in

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in 2006, and at Bozar in

in 2000. She has participated in numerous international group exhibitions including the 8th Contour Biennial in

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in 2017, the Parasophia International Festival of Contemporary Culture in

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, 2015, the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of

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in 2014, the

Sharjah Biennial The Sharjah Biennial is a large-scale contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in the city of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The first Sharjah Biennial took place in 1993, and was organized by the Sharjah Department of Cu ...

in 2013, the Manifesta 9 in

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in 2012, the 2nd

La Biennale de Montreal La Biennale de Montréal (BNL MTL) is a bi-annual multidisciplinary arts event to confront the Quebec and Canadian art with those of foreign artists around common issues and concepts corresponding to ''"the timeliness of the art"''. Founded in 1 ...

in 2000 and the 3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 1995. In 2004 she was invited by the

Dia Art Foundation Dia Art Foundation is a nonprofit organization that initiates, supports, presents, and preserves art projects. It was established in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, the daughter of Houston arts patron Dominique de Menil and an heiress to the Schlumbe ...

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to create a web project. In 2004, ''A Prior Magazine 10'' was dedicated to the work of Ana Torfs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Torfs, Ana 1963 births Living people 20th-century Belgian women artists 21st-century Belgian women artists People from Mortsel Artists from Antwerp Province Women video artists KU Leuven alumni