The Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco has forged a reputation as one of the most original and inventive young sculptors working today.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City (1981–4) and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1986–7) and now lives and works in Paris, New York and Mexico City.
Orozco works with found objects and spaces, questioning the boundaries between art and the everyday environment and inviting consideration of our notions of reality. He often creates works for a specific space or on the occasion of an exhibition and is not restrained by medium, working in drawing, painting, installation and sculpture.
Orozco has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial and Documenta as well as having solo exhibitions internationally including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Serpentine Gallery, London and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich. He was awarded the Seccio Espacios Alternativos prize at the Salon Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City, a DAAD artist-in-residence grant in Berlin and the German Blue Orange prize.