Torie Zalben lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Istanbul, Berlin, Tokyo, and Yerevan. Her photographs sit in NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study permanent collection as well as in many private collections in the United States and Europe.
Zalben’s work employs saturated color tones and abstracted imagery to evoke the passage between varied states of awareness. She seeks moments of pure coincidence and magic. Her practice relies on an interdisciplinary methodology that brings together photography, watercolor, and digital technology (video, lenticular, holographic and 3D fabrications).
Zalben has been nominated as an Emerging Artist by Rema Hort Mann, recipient of two Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gold Awards for her works in the 21st & 23rd Japan International Art Exchange, and has created limited-edition works for organizations such as Project Angel Food, The Art of Elysium, The David Lynch Foundation, The Kara Love Project and is affiliated with The Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Brett Fonfa Foundation, and more. Her work can be seen on MTV’s The Hills and HBO’s Divorce. She has been featured in Vogue, White Hot, Artillery, Art Newspaper, KCET, and more.
In 2020, Zalben launched experiential video art exhibitions with TZ Projects. She is currently working on a new series of video, holographic, and digital works to further her study of emerging technologies. She recently created TZTVs video art necklaces.
She hosts Transcending with Torie podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and formerly live at KCHUNG Radio at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary. Past guests: Yassi Mazandi, Mickey Avalon, Lynda Weinman, Carlton DeWoody, Lorien Stern, Summer Wheat, Gregory Siff, RAND, and Aaron Axelrod.