(b. 1962, Veracruz, Mexico. Lives and works internationally.)
Gabriel Orozco studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. Following his first exhibition in 1983, Orozco has had solo exhibitions at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1995 and 1998, the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2004, the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, in 2006, the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2012, and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria in 2013, as well as traveling retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Zürich in 1996-97, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2000–01 and more recently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Tate Modern, London (2009-2011). He has participated in the Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, and 2005), the Whitney Biennial (1997), and Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002). He has received numerous awards, including the Seccio Espacios Alternativos prize at the Salon Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City (1987), a DAAD artist-in-residence grant in Berlin (1995), and the German Blue Orange prize (2006).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2013
Gabriel Orozco, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2012
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Gabriel Orozco, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2011
Gabriel Orozco: Corplegados and Particles, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Gabriel Orozco, Tate Modern, London, England
2010
Gabriel Orozco, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland;
Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2009
Gabriel Orozco, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
Gabriel Orozco: Inner Circles of the Wall, The Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
2006
Gabriel Orozco,Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
NYC, 1993, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York
Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, United Arab Emirates
Every Day Matters, Farschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
En Suspension, FRAC, Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
2012
11th Havana Biennial, La Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
Moca’s 15th Anniversary Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
Gold, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Tacita Dean, William Kentridge,...Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
2011
Private/Corporate VI, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation, Portugal
Vermessung der Welt - Heterotopien und Wissensräume in der Kunst
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Dance/Draw, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
2010
Changing the Focus: The Art of Latin American Photography, Molaa Museum of Latin American Art
2009
Desenhos [Drawings]: A – Z, Pavilhão Branco – Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
A mancha humana / the human stain, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2008
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2007
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
La Planta, Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico