Marisol L. Torres

Marisol L. Torres is a Chicana visual artist, writer, and performer based in Los Angeles, California. Born in the United States of Mexican and Nicaraguan descent, her art and writing are a reflection of this voice; be it through comedic sensibility, ancestral whispers, illustrated into a theatrical or visual painting, a poem, or a song.

Torres holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from California State University, Los Angeles. Her goal as a visual artist and performer is to create representations of this observation and experience, create access to artistic programming, dialogue, and inspire change across communities. From 1996- 2008, she was a partner, writer, and performer with ChUSMA-formerly an internationally touring theater group co-writing, producing original plays, and coordinating theater workshops that were presented at venues across the country and in Mexico.

In 1997, she co-founded the Los Angeles-based women’s performance art collective In Lak Ech (1997-present), a Chicana Spoken Word and Song group who perform, organize, and produce cultural work for the past 13 years throughout the United States and the Americas.  Since 2008, Torres is privileged to be a co-writer, producer, and performer with comedic theatrical troupe Las Ramonas creating satirical plays, analysis, and reflection via the vehicle of comedy, theater, and video.

A visual artist working in various mediums from acrylic paint and canvas, to murals and jewelry-making to paper mache art; Torres also teaches workshops and classes in multi-media arts throughout Los Angeles from South Gate to East Los Angeles to the East San Fernando Valley working with children, youth, and adults at schools, community centers, to universities. Her artwork has been published and shown in venues in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Veracruz, Mexico. Torres aspires to share art as a vehicle for communication within audiences, different communities, and students so that they may utilize art as an extension of their voice, a method to critique and generate dialogue in their own communities and in themselves; utilizing her experience in theater, video, poetry, and visual art as a means for this conversation.

Below is a flyer from Marisol L. Torres’ first SOLO Exhibit in May 2010.