Born in Mazatlán (Sinaloa, Mexico), Raúl Cárdenas Osuna is the founder of Torolab, a Tijuana-based collective workshop and laboratory of contextual studies that identifies situations or phenomena of interest for research. Established in 1995, Torolab creates projects that address the politics and poetics of various social phenomena, urban spaces, and artistic languages. Torolab’s work has been shown nationally and internationally at various venues: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (MoMA) in Long Island City (New York), Havana Biennial, 2004 Liverpool Biennial (UK), Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, LAXART in Los Angeles, the First Architectural Biennial Beijing (2004), OMR gallery in Mexico City, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Working in conjunction with SFAI’s City Studio Program, Cárdenas Osuna and Torolab are participating in the 2009 Lyon Biennial. He currently lives in Tijuana, Mexico.
