Through a personal and affectively charged research-oriented practice, Mario Garcia Torres' work investigates the structures and politics that make art possible, primarily utilizing blind spots from recent art history while employing gestures typically associated with conceptual art's immaterial legacy. Interested in uncertainties and counter-narratives, he has blurred the boundaries between fact and fiction through a wide range of media including film, slide presentations, performance, sound, and painting.
Some of the most important solo exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich in Zurich (2008); Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley (2009); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2010); Museo MADRE in Naples (2013); Pérez Art Museum in Miami (2015); TBA21 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna (2016); Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (2016); Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2018); Wiels Art Centre in Brussels (2019); and MARCO | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey (2021).
His most recent exhibitions include: A History of Influence at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany (2024); La Paradoja del Esfuerzo at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo, Japan (2024); gettare la spugna at Galleria Massimo Minini in Brescia, Italy (2024); Cositas at Arte Abierto in Mexico City, Mexico (2024); The Space Under My Chair & The Music I Was Listening To at MASA in Mexico City, Mexico (2024); A Scene That Cannot Be Easily Explained at Galeria Luisa Strina in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); I Can't See Regret in Here at Jan Mot Gallery in Brussels, Belgium (2023); and LASuite at Fondation Walter & Nicole Leblanc in Brussels, Belgium (2023).
Torres has also participated in international exhibitions such as the Sharjah Biennial 13 in the United Arab Emirates (2017); Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016); Berlin Biennale (2014); Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre (2013); documenta 13 in Kassel (2012); São Paulo Biennial (2010); and Venice Biennale (2007), to name a few.
His work is part of numerous private collections worldwide. Additionally, it can be found in public collections including MoMA in New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris; MUAC | Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; and Tate Modern in London.