Gabriel Orozco
| Gabriel Orozco | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 27, 1962 Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Education | Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Circulo de Bellas Artes |
Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984 and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid between 1986 and 1987. Orozco gained his reputation in the early 1990s with his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. In 1998 Francesco Bonami called him "one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too." Within the past fifteen years Orozco has also created work in the medium of painting.
An avid world traveler, Orozco, his wife Maria Gutierrez, and their son Simón, divide their time between Paris, New York and Mexico City.
Orozco was born in 1962 in Veracruz, Mexico to Cristina Fèlix Romandía and Mario Orozco Rivera, a mural painter and art professor at the Universidad Veracruzana. When Orozco was six, the family relocated to the San Àngel neighborhood of Mexico City so that his father could work with artist David Alfaro Siquieros on various mural commissions. His father took him along to museum exhibitions and to work with him, where Orozco overheard many conversations on art and politics.
Orozco attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984, but found it to be a conservative program of study; in 1986 he moved to Madrid and enrolled at the Circulo de Bellas Artes. Here his instructors introduced him to a broad range of post-war artists working in non-traditional formats. He has stated of his time in Spain,
"What's important is to be confronted deeply with another culture. And also to feel that I am the Other not the resident. That I am the immigrant. I was displaced and in a country where the relationship with Latin America is conflicted. I came from a background that was very progressive. And then to travel to Spain and confront a very conservative society that also wanted to be very avant-garde in the 1980s, but treated me as an immigrant, was shocking. That feeling of vulnerability was really important for developing my work. I think a lot of my work has to do with that kind of exposure, to expose vulnerability and make that your strength."
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