Torrivilla

Biography

Torrivilla is an independent writer, curator, and communications strategist whose research focuses on performance, border aesthetics, and the history of contemporary Latin American art. His practice experiments with the relationship between archive, document, and fiction to question modern national narratives, political and disciplinary borders, aiming to construct art history as a form of mourning.

He is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at UNAM and a recipient of the Excellence Scholarship for International Students awarded by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jesus teaches in the Master’s in Curatorial Studies program at UNAM and in the Department of Humanistic Studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

A contributor to more than six publications, his most recent book, El círculo de la rosa (Profoundation, 2024), intervenes in the archive of Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón to historicize and fictionalize the emergence of conceptual practices in Venezuela. The book has been presented through performances at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City and Sala Mendoza in Caracas.

As a founding member of the Procu collective, he has worked on projects such as Bordear: una idea de frontera (Palacio de Autonomía UNAM, Mexico City, 2025), an exhibition and international symposium on border art and the aesthetics of migration. In Venezuela, he has collaborated with social impact initiatives through LABO Ciudadano, presenting performance lecture series such as La historia del arte venezolano no existe (The History of Venezuelan Art Does Not Exist, 2024) and Traicionar la identidad (Betraying Identity, 2022) at various art education institutions.

He is currently curating the exhibition Gran Basamento, a site-specific installation by Deborah Castillo at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City. Conceived as a space for reflection on colonial history, memory, and political discourse, the project is accompanied by a public program of performances and academic presentations.

Torrivilla, Independent Curator, Art Historian in Mexico City, Mexico, has been awarded by Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC).