GABRIEL OROZCO

Gabriel Orozco studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. Following his first exhibition in 1983, Orozco has had solo exhibitions at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1995 and 1998, the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2004, the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, in 2006, the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2012, and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria in 2013, as well as traveling retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Zürich in 1996-97, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2000–01 and more recently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Tate Modern, London (2009-2011). He has participated in the Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, and 2005), the Whitney Biennial (1997), and Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002). He has received numerous awards, including the Seccio Espacios Alternativos prize at the Salon Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City (1987), a DAAD artist-in-residence grant in Berlin (1995), and the German Blue Orange prize (2006).

Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery