ARTIST PROFILE

Tori Pounds

  • United Kingdom (b. 1995 in Portsmouth )
  • Currently in Mexico City , Mexico.
  • Tori Pounds (b.1995) is an English painter based in Mexico City. Her works encounter the alien but familiarity of a nostalgic item characterised through layering techniques of oil paint on canvas, she is playing with the idea of what seems real.

REPRESENTATION

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • Opening art week , Brick Hotel , Mexico City , Mexico.
  • Art Fair Zona MACO, Casa Versailles , Casa Versailles, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Girasol, JO-HS, Mexico city , Mexico.

2021

  • Mujeres artistas en colonia san Rafael, Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Evolution , Huerto Roma Verde , Mexico City , Mexico.
  • ART FAIR , Zona MACO Casa Versailles, Casa Versailles, Mexico City, Mexico.

2017

  • Grief is Absurd BFA Graduation Show, Academy Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands, Netherlands.
  • no business as usual , Vesta , Groningen , Netherlands.

2016

  • 'They'll Drop You Know '- Mother , Poelestraat 28 , Groningen , Netherlands.
  • March Expo , Main Hall, Academie Minerva , Groningen , Netherlands.

2015

  • Open Studios , 205 Hudson Street , New York , United States.
  • Miniature Paintings , Hunter College , New York , United States.

2014

  • Drawing , Kunstfabrik, Berlin , Germany.

PROGRAMS

2016

  • Artist assistant, Project, Kerklaan 30, vleugel F, Haren & Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands. Assistant to Artist's Exhibition 'Branching Fields' - Esther de Graaf .
    I assisted Esther de Graaf for her upcoming exhibition “ Branching Fields” in the Groninger Museum. I worked with a team helping create her sculptures from start to finish, firstly within her studio and then at the museum.

LOCATION

  • Born 1995 in PORTSMOUTH , United Kingdom.
  • Lives and works in Mexico City , Mexico.

EDUCATION

  • 2015 - 2016
    Hunter College , New York , United States
    BFA - Exchange Programme in Studio Art - Painting
  • 2013 - 2017
    Academie Minerva , Groningen , Netherlands
    Bachelor in Fine Art

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2015
    De Groot Brugmans travelling fund
    Academie Minerva , Groningen , Netherlands

COLLECTIONS

  • Memory Landscapes, mexico city, Mexico