Goya Torres

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Goya Torres is a visual/street-artist and muralist originally born in Mexico, based in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Her practice moves towards blurring the separation line between fine arts, street-art and illustration in order to develop a visual contemporary language that encapsulates reality nowadays.

Strongly influenced by Brett Whiteley, Francis Bacon and David Alfaro Siqueiros figurative work, her expression travels through painting, public art, mural work and printmaking. Drawing is the skeleton of her work, which leads into the refined experience developed by painting and printing, and finally flourishes reinforced by content and story-telling. This results in a comprehensive body of work that touches strong points of self-consciousness in the maker and the viewer, empowering the viewer to create their own story reflected in the artwork, assimilate it and become an active entity in the space and time that the artwork has brought it to. Goya Torres responds to local and global quests with creation in order to relieve them, extract their deep attributes into a piece that empowers peoples spirit, communities and therefore life itself.

Primarily a self-taught prolific artist, Goya Torres artistically draws inspiration from her heritage, traditions and culture, as well as nature, street-art and pop surrealism. She predominately uses a mix traditional media such as oils, acrylics, spray-paint and printmaking techniques on canvas, paper and wood. She has also painted fiberglass sculptures for public art trails and murals for various street-art festivals internationally, with 25 murals under her belt and counting.

Goya Torres has been involved in group exhibitions, live-painting events, street-art festivals, mural and public art projects in Australia, Mexico, Latino-america, USA, United Kingdom and Europe since 2012. Some of her artwork is now part of private collections in Sydney, Melbourne and Mexico. She has been sponsored by aerosol brands such as NBQ and Molotow.

In the past, she participated in the Wild! Rhino project organized by Taronga Zoo where she painted a life size rhino sculpture in order to raise awareness about the rhino extinction which was exhibited in Manly Corso and then auctioned for $10,000 AUS with all earnings going towards saving the rhino from extinction in Africa.

She recently came back to Australia from her two year residency in the United Kingdom where she participated in the Street-Art Festivals: Meeting of Styles in Pristina Kosovo, Gran Canaria Spain and Budapest Hungary; and the first Beeston Street-Art Festival in Nottinghamshire UK. Also she painted a mural and judge for the yearly Street-Art Festival Exhibition at Surface Gallery in Nottingham and another one at the Printing Walls Street-Art Festival in Torrefarrera Cataluna Spain. She was also was part of a six months Young Artist Residency project Studio 22 at ArtSpace in Portsmouth, Hampshire United Kingdom.

Goya Torres currently has a studio in Newcastle, NSW Australia.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Group. International Women’s Day Art Prize and Exhibition at Meadowbank TAFE‚ See St Gallery. Professionals category. Sydney‚ Australia.
2013 Group and book release. Azuldecobalt & Steyoyoke Book Launch & Exhibition. Berlin‚ Germany.
2014 Group. "Triangle‚ angular realities"‚ travelling exhibition between Mexico - Cuba - Colombia.
2014 Group. After Dark‚ Black Board Collective‚ exhibition of painters‚ photographers and designers‚ part of The Sydney Fringe Festival. The Tent Gallery‚ Newtown‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2014 Joint Solo. "EQUINOX"‚ alongside M-lon (Miguel Gonzalez) and Lotte Smith at The Painters' Gallery as part of the Manly Arts Festival in Manly‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2014 Solo. "They Will Come"‚ Solo exhibition celebrating The Day Of The Dead. Black Penny Gallery Surry Hills‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2015 Solo. "Ocean Introspective" at GirdLerds Cafe. Dee-Why Beach front‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2015 Group. StayFly Very First Skateboard Exhibition. Kind Of Gallery‚ St Leonards‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2015 Group. CRANIUM (2nd year) at the M2 Gallery. Surry Hills‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2015 Solo-Joint. The Mexican Cartel Street-Art at Belgrave Cartel‚ Manly‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2015 Group. "Ayotzinapa Vive" at M2 Gallery‚ part of Sydney Fringe Festival. Surry Hills‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2015 Group Exhibition. 6YL Magazine. Issue 4: POWER. Allpress Studios‚ 84 Rupert Street‚ Collingwood‚ VIC. Melbourne‚ Australia.
2015 Artists in Residency Exhibition at Warringah Creative Space. North Curl Curl‚ Sydney‚ Australia.
2016 Group exhibition. "Art on the Mill", No Fixed Address Gallery inauguration and exclusive to the Macedon Ranges Sustainable Living Festival 2016. Woodend, Victoria, Australia.
2016 Group exhibition. First Borrowed Wall Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Liverpool City Library, NSW, Australia.
2016 Group exhibition. Other People's Faces, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Cornwall. United Kingdom.
2016 Group exhibition. Porthmeor Print Workshop, Autumn Show. Porthmeor Printmaking Studio, St Ives, Cornwwall. United Kingdom.
2017 Group exhibition. "SUMARIO", Museo del Tequila & Mezcal part of the International Street-Art Festival CONSTRUCTO 17. Mexico City, Mexico.
2017 Group exhibition. "Street-Art Festival". Surface Gallery. Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
2018 Group exhibition. "Hit me with your best shot", Group exhibition of the BOAA Biennale of Australian Art. City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
2018 Group exhibition. "Blackburn Open Walls Street-Art Festival Artist Exhibition". PRISM Gallery. Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
2018 Solo exhibition. '‘GOYA TORRES Artist in Residence Exhibition 2018’, Solo exhibition part of the Artist in Residence program at Art Space Portsmouth, Southsea, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

SELECTED STREET-ART FESTIVALS & PUBLIC ART
2014 Wild Rhino! project. Finalist, selected to paint life-size rhino sculpture for trail and fundraising project from Sydney to Dubbo, organised by Taronga Zoo and sponsored by Hotel Steyne Manly. Sydney, Australia.
2014 Live-painting at Manly Corso with M-lon for Flavours of Spain Paella Competition part of the Food and Wine Festival. Artwork auctioned on site. Sydney, Australia.
2014 Live-painting for the Market Lane Artist Project. 2.70cm x 2.70cm. The Painter's Gallery. Sydney, Australia.
2015 Hello Koala! project. Finalist, selected to paint two Koala sculptures for trail in Port Macquarie, organised by Port Macquarie Hastings Council and sponsored by ABC Mid North Coast and Discovery Magazine. Sydney, Australia.
2015 Live-painting on surfboard at Duke's Day Festival. Freshwater, Sydney, Australia.
2015 Live-painting on surfboard at the St George Surf Wall, Hurley Australian Open of Surfing. Manly beach front, Sydney, Australia.
2015 Live-Painting JAM at Manly Cove promenade (outside Manly Art Gallery & Museum) part of the Manly Arts Festival. Manly, Sydney, Australia.
2015 "Do Your Block" public art beach cement blocks commissioned by Warringah Council. Narrabeen, Sydney, Australia.
2015 Mural rooftop alongside French artist V2M, 8m long mural at Bondi rooftop . Bondi, Sydney, Australia.
2016 Live-Painting at Manly Australian Open of Surfing Art Wall alongside local contemporary street-artists. Manly beach front, Sydney, Australia.
2016 FEMINEM 5th International Graffitti & Street-Art Festival. Mural. Altlzayanca, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
2016 ¨Tu Estilo es el Mensaje¨ Graffitti & Street-Art Festival. Mural. Nezahuatcoyotl, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016 "Ciudad Mural Monterrey" Street-Art Festival. Mural. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
2017 CONSTRUCTO International Street-Art Festival. Mural. Sponsored by MOLOTOW and Rodin. Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales' UNAM University, Mexico City, Mexico.
2017 Meeting of Styles Copenhagen, Warm-up event, 'Kings of Province'. International Street-Art & Graffiti Festival. 5 x 2.5m mural on tunnel. Ringsted, Denmark.
2017 Blackburn Open Walls International Street-Art & Graffiti Festival. Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
2017 Meeting of Styles Poland. International Street-Art & Graffiti Festival. Artist sponsored by NBQ. Lublin, Poland.
2017 Street-art Grammart. Street-Art Festival. 6 x 12m mural (1) and 4 x 5m mural (2). Grammichele, Sicily, Italy.
2018 Meeting Of Styles Kosovo, International Street-Art & Graffiti Festival. Pristina, Kosovo.
2018 Meeting Of Styles Canary Islands, International Street-Art & Graffiti Festival. Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
2018 Beeston Street-Art Festival. Beeston, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
2018 Urban Giants Street-Art Festival. Milan, Italy.
2018 Whitecross Street Party live-painting, selected artist invited by Curious Duke Gallery. London, United Kingdom.
2018 UPFEST Street-Art Festival. Bristol, United Kingdom.
2018 Mural and Artist Jury at the 'Street-Art Exhibition', organised by Surface Gallery. Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
2018 Victorious Festival, Street-Art wall at Reggea World Music Stand. Southsea, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
2018 Meeting of Styles Budapest. International Street-Art & Graffiti Festival. Budapest, Hungary.
2018 Printing Walls - Street-Art Festival Torrefarrera. 3.5 x 25m mural. Cataluña, Spain.

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