Gabriel Orozco

Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1962 -

BiographyEducation: Escuela Nacional de Arte Plasticas, U.N.A.M., Mexico City, Mexico, 1981-84
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, 1986-87

Awards: DAAD Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany, 1995
"Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas," Secció Espacios Alternativos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (award), 1987

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003
-Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
-Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
-CAV (Centro de Artes Visuais), Coimbra, Portugal

2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2000-01
"Gabriel Orozco," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterey, Monterey, Mexico

2000
"Blue Memory," Shima/Islands (Association for the Preservation of 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
ARC/Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1997
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
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

2003
-"Site Specific," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
-"Ritardi e Rivoluzioni" and "Utopia Station," Venice Biennale, Venice
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2002
Minor Alterations,‰ Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"Passenger. The Viewer as Participant," Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne, Kunst, Oslo, Norway

2002-01
"ARS 01," Museum of Contemporary Art, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland

2001
Yokohama 2001: International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
"Nothing," Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
"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 10, 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
"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
"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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