Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Collaborating brothers Einar and Jamex’ practice involves blown glass sculpture, photomural installations using lenticular printing, and an expanding body of large-scale installation art. Their multilayered pieces reflect their bicultural perspective on the complexity and humor that we are presented with in our lives. Deeply referential in content, their lenticulars combine influences from religious iconography, art history and global politics, while paying homage to Mexican vernacular arts and pre-Columbian art. Einar and Jamex De La Torre were born in Guadalajara, México, 1963, & 1960. Their family moved to the United States in 1972, and they both attended California State University at Long Beach. Now the brothers live and work on both sides of the border, The Guadalupe Valley in Baja California, México, and San Diego. The complexities of the immigrant experience and contradicting bicultural identities, as well as their current life and practice on both sides of border, inform their narrative and aesthetics.

Together the artists have won The USA Artists Fellowship award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and The San Diego Art Prize. Among countless solo museum exhibitions and major, public art projects they have also participated in 4 biennales. In 2023, they completed several encompassing installations, including a career retrospective at the The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, which then traveled to the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY. Concurrently, the  McNay Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX) presented both a career survey and a site-specific installation in their lobby by the artists.