Torie Zalben lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Istanbul, Berlin and Tokyo. Her photographs sit in NYU’s Gallaltin 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 the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gold Award for her works in the 21st 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.
She is currently working on a new series of video, holographic, and digital works to further her study of emerging technologies. Zalben recently launched experiential art exhibitions with TZ Projects and created TZTVs video art necklaces.
KCHUNG Radio Host at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Transcending with Torie. Past guests: Yassi Mazandi, Mickey Avalon, Lynda Weinman, Carlton DeWoody, Lorien Stern.