Gabriel Orozco

(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, and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, in 2006, as well as traveling retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Zürich in 1996-97 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2000–01. 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

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

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

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Gabriel Orozco Exhibitions

As Long As It Lasts
curated by Tom Eccles
July 1 - September 4, 2009
New York

The Poetics of Space
curated by Anja Isabel Schneider
June 19 - July 24, 2009
Paris

Gabriel Orozco
May 6 - June 14, 2008
New York

30/40 Part II
A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery
October 23 - November 24, 2007
New York

Invisible Colors
Curated by Karina Daskalov
June 23 - July 27, 2007
Paris

Gabriel Orozco
October 6 - November 12, 2005
New York

Reflecting the Mirror
Curated by Karina Daskalov
June 14 - August 27, 2004
New York

Gabriel Orozco
October 22 - November 22, 2003
New York

Photography: Fact to Fiction
March 8 - April 19, 2003
Paris

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Recent Photographs
November 14, 2002 - January 4, 2003
New York

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Fear Not
November 7 - December 29, 2001
New York

Gabriel Orozco Publications

Clinton Is Innocent / Piano Works
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Empty Club
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Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Telephone 212-977-7160
Fax 212-581-5187

Hours
Monday - Saturday, 10 AM - 6 PM