June 29 – July 27, 2024
Steve Turner is pleased to present Salt Water, a solo exhibition by Orlando-based MJ Torrecampo that features new paintings inspired by their parents’ retirement and subsequent return to the Philippines after many years in the United States. Water represents the vast, physical divide between the two countries and is a device that the artist uses to connect and isolate figures with their complex compositions. The works also relate to Torrecampo’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between the individual within the group as they struggle to reconcile the need to form an individual identity inside the American framework amidst their strong roots within Filipino culture.
MJ Torrecampo (born 1992, Philippines) earned an MFA at the New York Academy of Art (2020) and a BFA at the University of Central Florida (2014). They have had solo exhibitions at Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong (2024); Canepaneri Gallery, Milan (2021) and Canepaneri Gallery, Genoa (2020). This is Torrecampo’s first solo exhibition with Steve Turner.
Born 1992, Phillipines
Lives and works in Orlando
Education
2020
Master of Fine Arts, New York Academy of Art, New York
2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Salt Water, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Ready… Set… Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong
2022
Tall Enough to See Over Myself, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
2020
(Un)Freedom, C + N Canepaneri Gallery, Genova
Group Exhibitions
2023
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
Friends and Lovers, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
Down to Earth, Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid
State of Play, The Here and There Co., New York
2022
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Sean Horton (Presents))
Swab Barcelona (with C + N Canepaneri Gallery)
In Between, Maitland Art & History Museum, Maitland
Refuge, Kent Museum, Calais, Vermont
Future Fair, New York (with C + N Canepaneri Gallery)
Due per Due, C + N Canepaneri Gallery, Milan
Eve Presents II, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
Hand Land, C + N Canepaneri Gallery, Milan
Fever Dream, curated by Daria Borisova, Vortic (online exhibition)
2021
ArtVerona (with C + N Canepaneri Gallery)
2020
AXA Art Prize Show, New York Academy of Art, New York
Cambridge National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Eye to Eye: Untraditional Voices, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Bibliography
2023
ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 26, April 20
