Daniel Toretsky

Daniel Toretsky is an artist, musician, and architect based in Brooklyn. His sculptures, built environments, and urban interventions use participatory design to explore diaspora, inequality, and climate change. Toretsky’s art work is often informed by probing Ashkenazi Jewish rituals, heritage, and history with humor and a spatial focus. Many of his projects embrace Jewish cultural and religious rituals, while interrogating structures of power within the Jewish diaspora. Daniel Toretsky is a graduate of the architecture department at Cornell University. Since then Daniel has worked as a museum exhibit designer and is currently pursuing an MFA at the New School. In his current work, Daniel is exploring the exhibition tropes of natural history museums and how they can be disrupted to build public agency for combating ecological destruction. Daniel performs with the brass and klezmer bands Bris Baby, Hungry March Band, and Mrs. Toretsky’s Nightmare.