Fharid LaTorre’s sculptural practice begins at a point of instability. Bodies fracture, structures restrain, materials imitate anatomy, and objects appear caught between function and obsolescence. Rather than treating rupture as an endpoint, LaTorre approaches it as a condition through which transformation can occur—a space where injury, healing, regeneration, control, and vulnerability coexist.

Born in Miami in 1999 and raised in Weston, South Florida, LaTorre pursued art from an early stage of his education. He attended American Heritage School before transferring to DASH in Miami for his final two years of high school. He later received a Presidential Scholarship to The Cooper Union, where he earned his BFA in 2022. He was also recognized as a 2018 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts. Today, he is based in Miami and works primarily in sculpture.

What distinguishes LaTorre’s work is not simply its material vocabulary, but the psychological tension embedded within it. His sculptures frequently resemble fragments of skeletal systems, prosthetic devices, restraints, tools, medical equipment, or industrial mechanisms whose original purposes are impossible to determine. They appear familiar without becoming fully identifiable.

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