Tanya Torres (born 1969 in
New York City
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) is a Puerto Rican artist, author, and poet. After being born in New York, her family moved back to
San Germán, Puerto Rico
San Germán () is a historic San Germán barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality located in the Sabana Grande Valley of southwestern region of Puerto Rico, south of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and Maricao, Puer ...
where she grew up until she was 15 years old and then returned to New York.
Education
She received her B.A. in Art Education at the
City College of New York
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and was offered a scholarship for an M.F.A. in Printmaking with a minor in Painting.
Life and artwork
In 1997 she moved to
El Barrio where she created the artistic space Mixta Gallery. Her artwork has been presented at the United Nations Organization, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library, the Museum of the 19th Century Dominican Family in Santo Domingo (
Dominican Republic
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), the Porta Coeli Museum of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, and the
Prague Congress Centre
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in the
Czech Republic
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, among other cultural institutions.
Torres is also the force behind "Children Without a Nationality" project which she describes as: "The idea came about when I told a friend that I was going to exhibit the Battle Body pieces in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She told me that she had recently found out that children born of Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic do not have the right to Dominican citizenship and live in the worst conditions."
Awards
The New York City daily
El Diario/La Prensa
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selected her as one of the newspaper's annual ''50 Women of the Year'' for 2002.
References
External links
Tanya Roberts Online Gallery
1969 births
Living people
Puerto Rican artists
21st-century Puerto Rican poets
Puerto Rican women artists
Artists from New York City
Writers from New York City
People from San Germán, Puerto Rico
City College of New York alumni
Date of birth missing (living people)
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