[1] Her work is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art[2] in New York.
She immigrated from Peru at an early age to follow her career in London, Paris, Mexico City, and finally settled in New York.
[6][7][8] De la Torre was named the Wolf Chair in Photography at the Cooper Union (Fall 2023) , where she gave an artist talk.
De la Torre received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011,[3] the Dora Maar Fellowship from The Brown Foundation in 2014,[20] the Peter S. Reed Foundation Photography Award in 2016,[21] the "Merited Person of Culture Medal" from the Minister of Culture in Peru in 2016, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Residency Grant in 2020, Hundred Heroines in 2021,[22] and the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship Award in 2021.
[4] De la Torre's work is part of the following public collections: