Tanya Torres is a Puerto Rican artist and writer living and working in New York City. After completing a B.A. in Art Education at the City College of New York, she was offered a scholarship to complete her M.F.A. at the same institution. 

In 2000 she created the artistic space Mixta Gallery in El Barrio, East Harlem, the community where she has lived since 1997. 

Her artwork has been presented at the United Nations Organization, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library, the Museum of the 19th Century Dominican Family in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), the Porta Coeli Museum of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture), and the Prague Congress Centre in the Czech Republic, among other cultural institutions. She has published several editions of handmade poetry books since 1994.

From 2007-2010, she was Artist-in-Residence at P.S. 57 in East Harlem, New York City, where she created 3 mosaic murals and 6 poetry murals. More recently, she installed a series of digital paintings commissioned by the East Harlem Bilingual Head Start. In 2012, her exhibition Heaven and Earth traveled to Prague and was exhibited at the Prague Congress Centre. 

Tanya's ongoing art project Song of the Magdalene, with author and musician Raquel Z. Rivera, celebrates Mary Magdalene, the biblical character and all other expressions of this symbol of feminine divinity, through research and creative actions since 2005. 

Tanya currently co-directs Lola & Julia at La Marqueta, East Harlem, NYC.

Tanya Torres