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Wortham Fellow

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Tania Tovar Torres is an architect, writer, and curator whose practice explores creative media and formats in architecture exhibition and production with an emphasis in documentary and archival research. She is cofounder and director of Proyector, a curatorial platform and exhibition space base in Mexico City devoted to the promotion of emerging voices in architectural research. She was awarded with the 2022 Young Creators Architecture Fellowship of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico for the development of her literary and research project “White-Washed Elephants: Architecture of the Promise and Utilitarian Propaganda in Mexico, 2000-2018.”

Tovar Torres has worked as a consultant for the German Cooperation Agency for Sustainable Development in Mexico and was appointed curator of the Architecture Pavilion of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño in 2019. Previously she worked at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in New York in the development of archival and research-based projects.

 

Education

  • M.S. Columbia University
  • B.Arch. Universidad Nactional Autónoma de México

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