Of the many painters who studied with his father, the great Constructivist artist Joaquín Torres-García, Horacio Torres made the quantum leap into the Contemporary art world of abstract and expressionistic painters in New York's 1970s. That he did so with figurative canvases was a singular achievement. Taken under the wing of the critic Clement Greenberg, who understood that Horacio'swork was really about painting and was thoroughly modern, Horacio explored the thunderous territory of Titian, Velasquez andlate Goya with a unique background of skill and aesthetic education in a contemporary way. Thus the series of headless nudes and of figures with faces obscured, make clear his painterly intentions and concerns. His monumental canvases are wondrous exercises of painted imagination formed with the structure of the depicted figure, but they are not about nudes, they are about painting. Public Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA). Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA) Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C., USA). Davis Museum, Wellesley College (Massachusetts, USA). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts, USA). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas, USA). Brandeis University Museum, Waltham (Massachusetts, USA). Hastings College (Nebraska, USA). Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence (New York, USA). Muséed’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France). Edmonton Museum (Alberta, Canada) Biblioteca Nacional (Montevideo, Uruguay). Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Juan Manuel Blanes (Montevideo, Uruguay). Main Solo Exhibitions (partial listing): 2017- Horacio Torres: Nudes, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 2016- Horacio Torres: Early Works, Cecilia de Torres,Ltd.(New York, USA). 1999- Salander-O’Reilly Gallery Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 1989- Salander-O’Reilly Gallery (New York, USA). 1986- Salander-O’Reilly Gallery (New York, USA),. 1983- Edmonton Art Gallery (Alberta,Canada). 1982- Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, Canada). 1981- Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York, USA). 1980- Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York, USA). 1979- Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York, USA). 1976- Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York, USA). 1975- Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York, USA). 1978- Galería Karlen Guggerlmeier (Montevideo, Uruguay). 1977- Meredith Long Contemporary (New York, USA). 1975- Watson/de Nagy & Co., Houston (Texas, USA). 1974- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts, USA). 1974- Richard Grey Gallery (Chicago, USA). 1974- Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles (California, USA). 1973- Noah Goldowsky Gallery (New York, USA). 1968- Galería Moretti (Montevideo, Uruguay). 1965- Galería Moretti (Montevideo, Uruguay). 1963- Biblioteca Nacional (Montevideo, Uruguay). 1961- Galería Witcomb (Buenos Aires, Argentina). 1956- Galerie Du Haut-Pavée (Paris, France). Group Exhibitions(partial listing): 2016- Under the Influence, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 2015- The South was Their North: Artists of the Torres-García Workshop, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 2006- Line-Plane-Volume/Sculpture: 1940-2006,Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 2002- Modernism in Montevideo & Buenos Aires: 1930s-1960s, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 2000- A Latin American Metaphysical Perspective, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 1998- The Murals of Sant-Bois Hospital, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Montevideo, Uruguay). 1998- The School of the South, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo (New York, USA). 1998- La Escuela del Sur - El Taller Torres-García, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles (California, USA). 1998- Sixties by Six, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 1997- A Escola do Sul, Pavilhão Cultural Renée Behar (São Paulo, Brazil). 1997- La Escuela del Sur, Museo Bellas Artes (Caracas, Venezuela). 1997- Torres García y 10 Artistas del Taller, Galería Ruth Benzacar (Buenos Aires, Argentina). 1997- Dibujos en papel, Galería Clavé (Caracas, Venezuela). 1997- El Taller Torres-García, Museo Central de Costa Rica (San Juan, Costa Rica). 1996- The Still Life, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 1996- Constructive Universalism, Art Museum of the Americas (Washington D.C., USA). 1995- 65 Years of Constructivist Wood, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York, USA). 1993- El Taller Torres-García, The School of the South, Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain). 1991- Archer M. Huntington ArtGallery, Austin (Texas, USA). 1991- Museo de Monterrey & Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico DF, Mexico). 1991- The BronxMuseum (New York, USA). 1992- Les Tutoyeurs de L’Arc-en-ciel, Galerie Gerald Piltzer (Paris, France). 1990- Group 1990, Salander-O’Reilly Gallery (New York, USA). 1990- Figuring the Body, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts, USA). 1982- Latin American Artists in New York since 1970, Huntington Art Gallery, Austin (Texas, USA). 1981- Contemporary Realism, The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle (New York, USA). 1981- The Figure, Tibor de Nagy (New York, USA). 1980- Tibor de Nagy: Works from the Personal Collection, Syracuse U. Gallery (New York, USA). 1979- The Image of Post-Modern Man in Contemporary Painting, University of Virginia Art Museum, (Charlottesville, USA). 1979-78- Painterly Realism, Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA). 1978- Waco Creative Art Center (Texas, USA). 1978- Selected Twentieth Century American Nudes, Harold Reed Gallery (New York, USA). 1974- New Accessions (Colorado, USA). 1974- Springs Fine Art Center (Colorado, USA). Works for public spaces: 1962- Three Murals in brick relief, Seminariode Toledo (Canelones, Uruguay). 1958- Mural in relief (polychrome sheet steel), LiceoMiranda Nº9 (Montevideo, Uruguay). 1966- One Hundred Years -Uruguayan Painting, Corcoran Gallery (Washington D.C., USA). 1956- Jonges Schilders uit Uruguay, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Holland). 1956- The NetherlandsWorks for Public Spaces. 1950- Mural decoration, ANCAP executive suite (Montevideo,Uruguay). 1944- Two Murals, Hospital Saint Bois (Montevideo,Uruguay). Selected Bibliography Bell, Jane. Horacio Torres at NoahGoldowsky, Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no.7, May-June 1973 Lubell, Ellen. Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no. 6, April 1973 Crimp,Douglas. Art News, vol. 72, no. 4, April 1973 Moffett, Kenworth. Horacio Torres, with Some Notes on Contemporary Representational Painting. Art International, Volume XIX/2, February 1975 Moffett, Kenworth. Horacio Torres and the Affirmation of a Monumental Figurative Art, Arts Magazine, November 1975 Nochlin, L. & Leslie, A. Torres, New Uses of History, Art in America, March-April 1976 Frech-frazier, Nina. Horacio Torres, Arts Magazine, April 1979 Tatransky, Valentin. Horacio Torres, Arts Magazine, April 1981 Yau, John. Art in America, October 1981 Brenson, Michael. Horacio Torres, The New York Times, Friday, Jan. 5, 1990 (review of the exhibition at Salander-O’Reilly Gallery).