Gabriel Orozco
Born in 1962 in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Lives and works in Paris, Mexico and New York.
Education & residencies (show/hide)
1995 DAAD, Berlin
1986-87 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Espagne
1981-84 Ecole Nationale des Arts Plastiques, U.N.A.M., Mexico
Grants & awards (show/hide)
2006 BlueOrange prize
Solo exhibitions (show/hide)
2011
Tate Modern, London, UK.
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
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, USA.
2007
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Gabriel Orozco, oeuvre du FRAC Picardie, Frac Picardie, Amiens, France.
Inner Circles of the Wall, Dallas Museum of Art, USA.
2006
Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico.
White Cube Gallery, London, U.K.
Samurai’s Tree Invariant, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany.
2005
Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain.
Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA.
Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
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, USA.
Galeria Kurimanzutto, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA.
2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA.
Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
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.
Selected group exhibitions (show/hide)
2011
Shaping a Collection. An Interpretation of the Fundación Botín Collection, Santander, Spain.
Incidents of Mirror-Travel in Yucatan and Elsewhere, Museo Tamyao, Mexico City, Mexico.
CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, March 27 - May 22, New York US.
Between Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA.
Mexico: Politica y poetica, San Francisco State University, San Francisco.
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego / The Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.
¿Tierra de Nadie ?, Centro cultural Montehermoso de Victoria – Gasteiz.
2010
C’est la vie ! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris, France.
Collected Visions, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, USA.
Changing The Focus: The Art Of Latin American Photography (1990-2005),Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY II - The second Anniversary of the Gallery, Black Cube Gallery, Calle Horitzontal, Barcelona, Spain.
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, USA.
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.
Walker Evans and the Barn, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Where Do We Go From Here?, Selections from La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA.
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected- Collection Isabel and Agustín Coppel, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands.
Zwischenzonen: La Colección Jumex, Mexiko, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna, Italy.
Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA.
El tiempo del Arte, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
as long as it lasts, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA.
The Poetics of Space, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France.
A mancha humana/the human stein, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Drawings and Watercolors, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, USA.
le Travail de riviere, Centre d´art contemporain d´Ivry - le Credac, Ivry sur Seine, France.
Acquisitions 2007-2008, FRAC, Picardie, Amiens, France.
Twentysix Gasoline Stations ed altri libri d’Artista, Una collezione, Museo Regionale di Messina, Messina, Italy.
2008
An Unruly History of the Readymade, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico.
Helga De Alvear im Dialog mit Harald Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg, Germany.
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, USA.
Expected Mexico Unexpected: The Collection of Isabel and Agustín Coppel, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
Betwixt, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Germany.
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
Held together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey.
IMPLANT, The Horticultural Society of New York Gallery, New York, USA.
SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA.
You can go your own way, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA.
Abstract Imagination, PKM TRINITY GALLERY, Seoul, South Korea.
TRANSactions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro,USA.
Mondo e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, MAN: Museo d`Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy.
L’Argent, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, France.
Art Station Preview: It From Bit, Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Poland.
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Echo wanted, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France.
MMKK Länderspiel, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria.
Viva la muerte, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Reasia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA.
Des constructeurs éclectiques, Premier Temps, Premier Mouvement, CRAC: Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain de Sète, France.
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, USA.
La invencion de lo cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico.
2007
!Viva la Muerte!, Kunsthalle wien, Vienna, Austria.
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. Reflection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
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, Venice Biennial, Italian Pavilion, 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, Spain.
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.
Ritardi e Rivoluzioni, Utopia Station, Venice Biennial, 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, München, Germany.
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli-Torino, Italy.
Minor Alterations, Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, USA.
2001
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
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, Prague, 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, Belgium.
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, 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, 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.
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.
New 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.
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.
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/Emergency, Venice Biennial, Italy.
Briques, Galerie Crousel-Robelin BAMA, Paris, France.
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 Artist, Pasadena Art Center, California D.F. Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Cuerpos Encontrados, Museo de la Alhondiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato, Mexico.
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. Mexico.
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.
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. BOOKS AND PERSONNAL.