Torie Zalben is a multimedia photographer. She invites varied perspectives and subjective understandings as a means of interpreting her work. Inspiration from her study of film and meditation synthesize her cosmology as an artist. Born in Los Angeles, CA she attended Loyola Marymount University and received her BA in film & television in 2011, and her MA in video art and media from New York University in 2015. Zalben sits on the board of the NYU Gallatin Dean’s Council, an events committee member of Project Angel Food, an honorary young board member of LA’s new art museum the ICA LA, and an advisory board member of the David Lynch Foundation in Los Angeles. She has currently exhibited at The Pacific Design Center, Unicef’s next Gen Art Party and her work will be featured in this year’s Angel Art located at NEUE House in Hollywood. She has lectured at CalArts and is responsible for helping establishing the CalArts Immersion Group that invites students to create 360° content for the Vortex Immersion Media Dome at LA Center Studios in Downtown LA. She was recently nominated for a 2018 Emerging Artist Grant award from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.
MA, Video Art & Media, New York University, New York, NY - 2015
BA, Film & TV, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA - 2011