Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962, Xalapa, Mexico) is one of the most influential artists of his generation, with a practice that moves fluidly through sculpture, photography, drawing, painting, and installation. Among his best-known works are drawings on airline boarding passes, a modified Citroën automobile (La DS, 1993), and a whale skeleton covered in graphite patterns (Mobile Matrix, 2006). Across media and scale, Orozco often reconfigures existing objects, situations, and environments, revealing unexpected possibilities within them.
Public space has long been central to Orozco’s practice, serving as both a site of observation and a medium for artistic intervention. Over the past decade, he has expanded this engagement through a series of large-scale landscape projects: a permanent garden for the South London Gallery (2016), the cultural master plan for Chapultepec Park in Mexico City (2019–present), and a site-specific garden commission for the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul (2026).
Orozco has presented major exhibitions at leading institutions worldwide, among them The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); Kunstmuseum Basel (2010); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); Tate Modern, London (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2015); The Noguchi Museum, New York (2019); and Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2025). His work has been the subject of more than 25 monographs.
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