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Reveca Torres

Visual Artist

Reveca Torres is a Mexican-American artist, filmmaker, and disability advocate who was paralyzed in a car accident as a teenager. Her work explores ancestry, identity, creativity, and the stories we leave behind. Working across painting, photography, illustration, film, and movement, she creates work that documents lived experience, preserves histories, and makes space for stories that deserve to be remembered.

Reveca is the founder of BACKBONES, a disability-led nonprofit supporting people with spinal cord injuries and disabilities, and former co-director of ReelAbilities Film Festival Chicago. She is the director and producer of the documentary While We Are Here (2026), which explores art, disability, ancestry, and creative legacy.

 

Her work has been supported by 3Arts, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Kartemquin Films, Ford Foundation, Firelight Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, NALAC, and Santa Fe Art Institute, among others. Through her art and filmmaking, Reveca creates work that invites audiences to see and care differently.

Reveca Torres's Website
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Featured Artworks

  • The poster features a gold-suited figure curled into a fetal pose against a black background, with red “X” marks. The title WHILE WE ARE HERE appears prominently at the top, with “A FILM BY REVECA TORRES” and “FEATURE DOCUMENTARY” below. While We Are Here film (2026) Through a tapestry of letters, journals, and art, Chicago-based artist Reveca Torres engages in a dialogue with iconic disabled artists Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse who have inspired a new generation of artists. https://www.whileweareherefilm.com/
  • a brick wall with two dresses displayed. The left is white with small flowers on the skirt. The right is a blue top and green skirt with tan ruffle. They are replicas of the dresses in Frida Kahlo's "Dos Fridas" "Tres Fridas" exhibition (2019) By Reveca Torres, Mariam Pare and Tara Ahern; he Tres Fridas collection includes recreations of Dos Fridas, Mona Lisa, Rosie the Riveter, The Last Supper, Whistler’s Mother, and more, all with the subjects being people with disabilities.
  • triptych: person wearing a golden bodysuit laying on a black sheet. Photos of photos of person in bodysuit in different positions. There are red X marks on the body "Pain" series for DIS exhibit (2020) Exploring my relationship with my body and chronic pain
  • Reveca Torres artwork Images of different ways of mounting and adjusting a camera on my wheelchair to document and film from my perspective.
  • Reveca Torres artwork

    Manipulating textiles using natural dyes, stitching and draping
  • Reveca Torres artwork

Reveca Torres has crowd-funded a project with 3AP

  • Tres Fridas

    by: Reveca Torres
    • $6,662 raised of $4,700 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 142% funded

    The goal of this campaign is to raise funds to exhibit the Tres Fridas project at Bridgeport Arts Center in Chicago during the month of September 2019. Tres Fridas is a collaboration between myself, Mariam Pare, and Tara Ahern. We …

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