
Born Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1962
Education Escuela Nacional de Arte Plasticas, U.N.A.M., Mexico City, Mexico, 1981-84
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, 1986-87
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Gabriel Orozco: Recent Work, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2007 Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2006 “Gabriel Orozco,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Twelve Paintings and a Drawing, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
2005 Fondation Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2004 "Photographs," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
"Gabriel Orozco," Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
2003 "The Weight of the Sun," Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
CAV (Centro de Artes Visuais), Coimbra, Portugal
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2001 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2000-01 “Gabriel Orozco,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
California; Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
2000 “Blue Memory,” Shima/Islands, Mirei Shigemori Residence, Kyoto, Japan
1999 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
“Gabriel Orozco: Photogravity,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Museum Studies 5)
1998 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Centro Fotográfico Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
“Clinton is Innocent” ARC/Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1997 “Recordings and Drawings”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Staalichen Museum am Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany
Centre de la Vieille Charité, Musées de Marseilles, Marseilles, France
1996 Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
"The Empty Club," The Art Angel Project, London, England
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1995 "Migrateurs," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1994 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
“Gabriel Orozco”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (Projects 41)
Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Las implicaciones de la imagen, Colección Isabel & Agustin Coppel, MUCA, Mexico City
2007 Art in Motion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
New Perspectives in Latin American Art. 1930 – 2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, MoMA, New York
La Planta, Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico City
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2006 "Grey Flags," Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
"Super Vision," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye,” MCA, Chicago & Hayward Gallery, London, England
"Part Objet, Part Sculpture," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
"The Miraculous and the Everyday", University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
MART Rovereto, Italy
2005 "El mito de vos Volcanes: Popocatepet e Iztaccinvatl," Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
"Covering the Real: Arts and the Press Picture, from Warhol to Tillmans," Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
"The Experience of Art, 51st Venice Biennale," Venice, Italy
"Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
"Luna Park: Fantastic Art, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte, Codriopo, Italy
"De l'architecture," Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
"Bidibidobidiboo," Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2004-05 "Do You Believe In Reality?: 2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
"Work Ethic," The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
"Monument to Now," Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2004 "Reflecting the Mirror," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Uses of the Image: Photography, Film and Video in the Jumex
Collection," Malba – Coleccion Constantini and Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 “Plunder,” Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
“Common Wealth,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Fast Forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection,” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Moving Pictures,” Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
“Work Ethic,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Des Moines Art Center; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“A Sculpture Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Site Specific," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
"Ritardi e Rivoluzioni" and "Utopia Station," Venice Biennale, Venice
"The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
"Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection," Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
"Memory and Landscape," La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2002 “Passenger. The Viewer as Participant,” Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
“Minor Alterations,” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Tempo,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
“Moving Pictures”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Public Affairs”, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
“Dialogos entredos mementos del arte Mexicano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico city, Mexico
“En Route,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England
2002-01 “ARS 01,” Museum of Contemporary Art, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Yokohama 2001: International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
“Dévoler, Vivent les Frac (suite),” Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
“Places in the Mind: Modern Photographs from the Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
2001-00 “Versiones del Sur: Cinco Propuestas en Torno al Arte en America,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
“Sabrosa,” El Instituto de Cultura de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
2000 “Let’s Entertain,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“A Celebration of Contemporary Art. Vanitas: meditations on life and death in contemporary art,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
“Orbis Terrarum,” Museum Plantin-Moretus, Atwerp, Belgium
1999 "La Ville, Le Jardin, La Mémoire," Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
"infra-slim space," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
“SITE Sante Fe Biennial, Looking for a Place," Sante Fe, New Mexico
“Carnegie International,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“La Casa, il corpo, il cuore,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
“Diary,” Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
1998 "Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Auf der Spur,” Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von schweizer
Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Berlin Biennal, Berlin, Germany
São Paulo Biennal, São Paulo, Brazil
"Propositions II," Musée Départemental de Rochechouart,
Haute-Vienne, France
1997 Skulptur. Projekte in Münster '97, Münster, Germany
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
"Veronica’s Revenge" (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Campo 6, The Spiral Village," Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1996 "Gabriel Orozco, Rirkit Tiravanija og,” The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
"Inside - Out" (Inaugural Exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
"Everything That's Interesting is New," The Dakis Joannou Collection, an exhibition organized by The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Copenhagen
"Travelling Eye" (2-page photography contribution in Austrian weekly news magazine Profile), museum in progress, Vienna, Austria
"Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Kwangju Biennial, Seoul, Korea
“New Acquisition Display,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
"Das Americas," Museum of Art São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England
"Site of Being," Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
“Blind Spot," Dallas Artists Exhibition Space, Dallas, Texas
"Where is Abel, Thy Brother?" Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
1995 "Réalité Décalée," Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
"Morceaux Choisis," Magasin Site Bouchayer-Viallet, Grenoble, France
1994 "Endstation," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
"Watt," Witte de With & Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporary Photographic Art," Hayward Gallery, London, England
"Lo crudo y lo cocido," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Le Saut dans le Vide," French Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
1993 "Eros, c'est la vie," Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Real Time," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
"Aperto' 93:Emergenza/Emergency, " 45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"In Transit," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
"A Summer Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
1992 "Si Colón Supiera!...," Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
"América. Bride of the Sun," Koninklijk Musuem voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
1991 "Another Mexican Art," Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, California
"D.F.," Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
"Cuerpos Encontrados," Museo de la Alhóndiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato, Mexico
1990 "Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties," Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C.
"Installations: Current Directions," Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, New York
"Video D.F.," Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, New York
1989 "A Propósito," Museo del Ex-Convento del Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City, Mexico
"Artistas Mexicanos contemporáneos," Segundo Festival Latino Americano de Arte y Cultura, Brasilia, Brazil
1987 "Six Nouveaux Regards Mexicains," Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris, France
Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Secció Espacios Alternativos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1985 "Sin Motivos Aparentes I," Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
1984 "Neográfica," Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
1983 Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas (drawing section), Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
3rd Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
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