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...GABRIEL OROZCO


Born 1962 in Veracruz, Mexico 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). He lives and works internationally.









RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2013
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Gabriel Orozco, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2012
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris 
Gabriel Orozco, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 
2011
Gabriel Orozco: Corplegados and Particles, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Gabriel Orozco, Tate Modern, London, England
2010
Gabriel Orozco, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 
Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2009
Gabriel Orozco, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
Gabriel Orozco: Inner Circles of the Wall, The Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
2006
Gabriel Orozco,Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

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