Born in 1962 in Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico
Lives and works in Paris, Mexico and New York.

EDUCATION

1995 Artiste en résidence, DAAD, Berlin
1986-87 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Espagne : 1986/87
1981-84 Ecole Nationale des Arts Plastiques ; U.N.A.M., Mexico

GRANTS & AWARDS

2006 BlueOrange prize

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2010
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2009
Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico.

2008
Inner Circles of the Wall Dallas Museum of Art, U.S.A.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.

2007
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
"Gabriel Orozco, oeuvre du FRAC Picardie", Frac Picardie, Amiens, France

2006
Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
White Cube Gallery, London, UK
"Samurai’s Tree Invariant", Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

2005
Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA

2004
Serpentine Gallery, London, GB
Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, USA

2003
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
"The Weight of the Sun", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Centro de Artes Visuais, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal

2002
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Galeria kurimanzutto, Mexico D.F., Mexico

2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
"Blue Memory", Shigemori Residence, Kyoto, Japan
"Immediately Past", 60 minutes, MK2 project café, Paris, France

1999
Portikus, Francfort, Germany
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Museum Studies 5 : Gabriel Orozco - Photogravity", Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, USA

1998
"Clinton is Innocent", Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
"Que triunfen los estranjeros", Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
"Currents 75: Charles Long"Saint-Louis Museum, USA
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

1997
"Carambole avec pendule", Chapelle du Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
"Gabriel Orozco, Sigmar Polke : Voyages", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Staatlichen Museum am Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany
"Recordings and Drawings", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1996
Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland
Anthony d'Offay, London, U.K.
"Empty club", Artangel / Beck's commission, London, U.K
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
"Atomists", Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Gabriel Orozco present Tense, contemporary project series", Art Gallery of Ontario, USA

1995
"Migrateurs", ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Galerie Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Projekt : Gelbe Schwalbe", DAAD, Berlin, Germany
Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, Belgium

1994
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

1993
"Projects 41", Museum of Modern Art, New York , USA
Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris, France

1991
Cuerpos Encontrados, Muséo de la Alhondiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato, Mexico

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
"Mexico Expected/Unexpected", TEA (Tenerife Space for The Arts), Islas Canarias, Spain.
"Universal Code: Art and Cosmology in the Information Age", The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.
"In A Room Anything Can Happen", Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY, U.S.A.
"Acquisitions 2007-2008", Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Picardie, France.
"Desenhos [drawings]: a-z", Museu da Cidade, Lisboa, Portugal. Le Travail de rivière, Crédac, Ivry, France.
"Nous tournons dans la nuit…", Musée départamental d’art contemporain, Rochechouart, France.

2008
"An Unruly History of the Readymade", La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico.
"God&Good Spiritualità and Mass Confusion", Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Codroipo (Udine) Italy.
"En perspective, Giacometti", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France.
"Come, come, come into my world", curated by Andrew Renton, Contemporary Art Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal.
"Betwixt", Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Recollection", Associazione Barriera, Tonino, Italy.
"Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door", Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein.
"L’Argent", Le Plateau, Paris, France.
"It From Bit: Art Stations Preview", Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Poland.
"Held Together with Water", Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey.
"The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
"Expected Mexico Unexpected: The Collection of Isabel and Agustín Coppel", La Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
" La invencion de lo cotidiano", Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico.

2007
"!Viva la Muerte!", Kunsthalle wien, Vienna, Austria
"Reflection", PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
"Airs de Paris", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Art in Motion", Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA
"Drapeaux gris", Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
"Edit!", Ellipse Foundation, Alcoïtao, Portugal

2006
"Grey Flags", Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
"Infinite Painting", Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte Contenporanea, Italy
"Super Vision", The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
"Part Object, Part Sculpture", Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
"The Miraculous and the Everyday", University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

2005
"Universal Experience : Art, Life & Tourist’s eye", MCA, Chicago, USA
"L’art, un cas d’école", Musée départemental de l’Education, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, France
"Bidibidobidiboo", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
"Agir Proche", Maison de la culture d’Amiens, France
"The Experience of Art", Biennale de Venise, Pavillon italien, Italy
"Luna Park Fantastic", Villa Manin, Italy
"Translation, Collection Dakis Joannou", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"Des deux côtés du Rhin - Mouvment", Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

2004
"The game show", James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
"La Ciudad Collage”, Centro de exposicones, Benalmadena, Malaga
"Paisaje y memoria", La casa encendida, Madrid, Spain
Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan

2003
"Common Wealth", Tate Modern, London, U.K.
"Through the Eye of a Needle", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"20 ans des FRAC. Le cabinet d’Ann Philbin", FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
"Looking in - Locking out", Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Venice Biennal, Italy
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
"Edén", La Coleccion Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico D.F, Mexico

2002
"Sonic Process. Une nouvelle géographie des sens”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
"Distorsions et glissements de sens", Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
"Documenta 11", Kassel, Germany
"En Route ”, Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
Hautnah, Die Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck
"Form Follows Fiction", Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli-Torino, Italy
"Minor Alterations", Center for Curatorial Studies, New-York, USA

2001
"Laboratorium Laboratorium is the answer, what is the question ?", Ed. by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Barbara Vanderlinden, Published by DuMont, Antwerpen Open and Roomade
"Form Follows Fiction", Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
"Ingenting", Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
"Conversations", Musée Départemental de Gap, Gap, France
"Aprendiendo menos (Lerning Less)", Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Mexico
"Nothing", NGCA, Sunderland, UK ; CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania ; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
"The gift, Generous offerings, threatening hospitality", Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna ; Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, Italy ; Coproduced with Independant Curators International, NY, USA
"ARS 01", Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski, Finland
"Mélanges", for the 20th birthday of the FRAC Bretagne, Centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France
"Working Tables", Permanent Collection, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"7th International Istanbul Biennial", Istanbul, Turkey
"Yokohama 2001, International Triennial of Contemporary Art", Japan
"Conversation/s", Musée Départemental de Gap, France
"Dévoler", Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
"This side of paradise", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York , USA

2000
Artissima, Arte contemporanea a Torino, Italy
"Le temps vite", Musée d'art contemporain, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Versiones del Sur (Versions of the South)", Museo Nacional Centro d’Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Ways of Worldmaking", Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen, Belgium
"Les Chantiers de Musée", Musée des arts contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
"La casa, il corpo, il cuore; Constructions of the identities", Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; National Gallery, Prag, Czech Republic
Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France
"Gabriel Orozco invite à la Galerie Chantal Crousel la Galeria Kurimanzutto", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Un Siècle d'Arpenteurs - Les Figures de la Marche", Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
"Continental Shift", Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Stradsgalerij Heerlen; Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Liège
"Mieux vaut une poule demain qu'un oeuf aujourd'hui", Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
"Soleils mexicains", Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France
"Art Frankfurt", frameworks, Frankfurt, Germany
"Orbis Terrarum", Musee Plantin, Antwerpen, Belgium
"In Between", Hannover, Germany

1999
"Woods", Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Om det sublima", Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
"Elective Affinities", Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
"Infra-slim spaces", Birmingham Museum of Art, U.K.
"La ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire", Villa Médicis, Roma, Italy
"Laboratorium", Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerpen, Belgium
"Overflow", Anton Kern gallery, D'Amelio Terras, Marianne Boesky gallery, New York, USA
"Grands papiers", Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
"Ruines", FRAC Provence Alpes côte d'Azur, Chapelle de la Persévérance, Tarascon, France
"Economia de Mercado", galeria kurimanzutto, Mexico

1998
"Collection un autre regard", Capc, Bordeaux, France
"Early Forms", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Le Fragment, la durée, le montage", Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France
"Love Boat - Collection", Musée départemental de Rochechouart, France
"Photography as Concept", 4° Foto Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
"Œuvres récentes", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Unfinished History", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
"Propositions II", Musée départemental de Rochechouart, France
Premio Fundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Guarene, Italy
Sao Paolo Biennal, Brazil
Berlin Biennal, Germany
"Auf der Spur", Kunst der 90° Jahre im Spiegel von schweizer Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland

1997
"L'Empreinte", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Whitney Biennal, New York, USA
"Veronica's Revenge", (photographic works of Lambert Art Collection), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Campo 6, The Spiral Village", Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
"Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997", Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
4e Biennale de Lyon, France
"Trash : quando i rifiuti diventano arte", Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
"Einladung", SüdwestLB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Micheline Swajcer, Antwerpen, Belgium

1996
"Traffic", Capc, Musée d' Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
"Portrait of the artist", Antony d'Offay Gallery, London, U.K.
"Dites-le avec des fleurs", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Propositions", Musée de Rochechouart, France
"Recaptured Nature / Recast Material", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
"Gabriel Orozco, Rirkit Tiravanija og", The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island
"Inside - Out", Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla, CA, USA
"Everything That's Interesting is New", The Dakis Joannou Collection, organized
by The Deste Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Travelling Eye", museum in progess, Vienna, Austria
"Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Permanent Collection", MOMA, New York, USA
Kwangju Biennale, Korea
"Das Americas", MASP (Museum od Art Sao Paolo), Sao Paolo, Brazil
Nouvelles Acquisitions, MOMA, New York, USA
Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal, Manchester, U.K.
"Cityscape", Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Site of Being", ICA, Boston, USA
"Blind Spot", Dallas Artists Exhibition Space, Dallas, USA
"Where is Abel, Thy Brother?", Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

1995
"Cityscape", Galerie Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Réalité Décalée", Frac Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
"A summer show", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
"Currents'95 : Familiar Places", ICA, Boston, USA
"Vendanges", Galerie Chantal Crousel, France
"Morceaux choisis", Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
"Glaube Hoffnung Liebe Tod", Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

1994
"A sculpture show", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, France
"Le saut dans le vide", Maison des artistes, Moscow, Russia
"In the Field", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles , USA
"Lo crude y lo cocido", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"The Epic & the Everyday - Contemporary Photographic Art", The South Bank Center, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
"Watt", Witte de With & Kunstal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Endstation", Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

1993
"Real Time", Institute of Contemporary Arts, (ICA) London, U.K.
"Aperto '93 : Emergenza/Emerengy", XLV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
"Briques", Galerie Crousel-Robelain BAMA, Paris, France
"A Group Show", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
"In Transit", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
"Eros, c'est la vie", Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Witte de With, Center for Contemlporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"A Summer Show", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

1992
"Si Colon Supiera! ...", Museo de Monterrey, Mexico
"America, Bride of the Sun", Koninklijk Museum voor schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, Belgium

1991
"Another Mexican Art", Pasadena Art Center, California D.F. ; Blue Star Art Space,
San Antonio, Texas, USA
"Cuerpos Encontrados", Museo de la Alhondiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato

1990
"Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties", Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington D C., USA
"Installations : Current Directions", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York., USA
"Video D.F.", Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA

1989
"A proposito", Museo del Ex-Convento del Desierto de los Leones, Mexico, D.F.
"Artistas Mexicanos Contemporaneos", Segundo Festival Latino Americano de
Arte y Cultura, Brasilia, Brazil

1987
Six Nouveaux Regards Mexicains, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris, France
Salon Nacional de Artos Plasticas, Seccion Espacios Alternativos, Museo de Arte
Moderno, Mexico (Award)

1985
"Sin Motivos Aparentes I", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico

1984
"Neografica", Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico

1983
Salon Nacional de Artes Plasticas, section dessin, I.N.B.A. , Mexico
III Encuentro Nacional de Arte joven, I.N.B.A., Agascalientes.