Rubén Torres Llorca (b. 1957, Havana) is a Cuban-born conceptual artist, painter, sculptor and installation artist whose work explores power, belief, memory and morality, and the stories people tell themselves about the world. Educated at Havana's San Alejandro Academy and the Instituto Superior de Arte, he participated in 1981 in "Volumen Uno," the landmark exhibition often described as the beginning of the New Cuban Art movement, alongside José Bedia, Juan Francisco Elso and Flavio Garciandía. After gaining recognition in Cuba during the 1980s, he lived in Mexico City before settling in Miami in 1993. Combining humor, storytelling and recognizable imagery, his paintings, sculptures, collages and installations often function like fragments of unfinished stories. His work is held by the Pérez Art Museum Miami, El Museo del Barrio, MOCA North Miami, the Lowe Art Museum, the Frost Art Museum and the Ludwig Forum.
