Interdisciplinary Artist | Art educator | Curator

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Brenda Torres-Figueroa, is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and art educator born and raised in Puerto Rico working mainly between performance art, installations and public art. In the year 2000, she graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and soon after moved to Chicago to pursue her Masters in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brenda is also an alum of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (‘02) and has participated and developed multiple collective exhibitions and performances both in Chicago and Puerto Rico. Her return to Puerto Rico in 2004, served her to develop her teaching practice and her curatorial experience at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santurce until her permanent return to Chicago in 2008. Since then Brenda has been devoted to her art education practice, raising her two daughters and branding her designs through Freedom Effect. In 2023, Brenda founded El Schomburg, an art/cultural enterprise dedicated to the visualization, production and circulation of art created by artists from Puerto Rico and its Diaspora.

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