Lives and works in Paris, New York and Mexico City
Education
1984 Escuela Nacional de Arte Plasticas, U.N.A.M., Mexico City, Mexico
1987 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Tate Modern, London (forthcoming)
2010
“Gabriel Orozco,” Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; travelled to Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2009
“Gabriel Orozco,” Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England
“Gabriel Orozco,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
“Gabriel Orozco: Inner Circles of the Wall,” The Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2006
“Gabriel Orozco,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2005
Fondation Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain
Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2004
“Photographs,” Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
“Gabriel Orozco,” Serpentine Gallery, London
2003
“The Weight of the Sun,” Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; travelled to Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
CAV(Centro de Artes Visuais), Coimbra, Portugal
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2002
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2000
“Gabriel Orozco,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, 2000-1; travelled to Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2000-1; and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 2000-1
“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
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
1997
“Recordings and Drawings,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Staalichen Museum am Kulturforum, Berlin
Centre de la Vieille Charité, Musées de Marseilles, Marseilles, France
1996
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
“The Empty Club,” The Art Angel Project, London
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1995
“Migrateurs,” ARC/Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1994
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
“Gabriel Orozco,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1993
Museum of Modern Art, New York (Projects 41)
Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
“Collected Visions,” Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), Bronx, New York
“Changing the Focus: The Art of Latin American Photography,” Museum of Latin American Art(MoLAA), Long Beach, California
2009
“Le Travail de Riviere,” Centre d’ art contemporain d’Ivry – Le Credac, Ivry sur Seine, France
“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
“Universal Code,” The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
“As Long As It Lasts,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
“Continuous Present,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
2008
“New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“La Colección: La Tradición de la Rupturas,” Museo Arte Moderno, Mexico City
“Las Implicaciones de la Imagen,” Colección Coppel MUCA, Mexico City
2007
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Art in Motion,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
“Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection,” Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
“Invisible Colors,” curated by Karina Daskalov, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
“La Planta,” Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico
2006
“Grey Flags,” Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
“Super Vision,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Part Object, Part Sculpture,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“The Miraculous and the Everyday,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
MART Rovereto, Italy
2005
“El mito de vos Volcanes: Popocatepet e Iztaccinvatl,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes,
Mexico City, Mexico
“Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye,” MCA, Chicago; travelled to Hayward Gallery, London
“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
“Bidibidobidiboo,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2004
“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
“Reflecting the Mirror,” Marian Goodman Gallery, 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
“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; travelled to Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, Iowa; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“A Sculpture Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
“Site Specific,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“Ritardi e Rivoluzioni,” and “Utopia Station,” 50th 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
2001
“ARS 01,” KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
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
2000
“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
“Let’s Entertain,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art,” Virginia Museum of Fine Art,
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
“Auf der Spur,” Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von schweizer
Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
Berlin Biennal, Berlin
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
“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
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 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 Comtemporary 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
“Watt,” Witte de With & Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporary Photographic Art,” Hayward Gallery, London
“Lo crudo y lo cocido,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Le Saut dans le Vide,” French Cultural Center, Moscow
“A Sculpture Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1993
“Eros, c’est la vie,” Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
“A Group Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
“Real Time,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“Aperto’ 93: Emergenza/Emergency,” 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“In Transit,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“A Summer Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, 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
“Video D.F.,” Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1989
“A Propósito,” Museo del Ex-Convento del Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City, Mexico
“Artistas Mexicanos contemporáneous,” Segundo Festival Latino Americano de Arte y Cultura, Brasilia, Brazil
1987
“Six Nouveaux Regards Mexicains,” Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris
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
Awards & Residencies
2006 BlueOrange Prize, German Cooperative Banks, Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken
1995 DAAD Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany
1987 “Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas,” Secció Espacios Alternativos, Museo de Arte
Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
