Gabriel Orozco was born on April 27,1962 and is a Mexican artist.
10 Facts About Gabriel Orozco
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Gabriel Orozco gained his reputation in the early 1990s for his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation.
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Gabriel Orozco was born in 1962 in Veracruz, Mexico to Cristina Felix Romandia and Mario Gabriel Orozco Rivera, a mural painter and art professor at the University of Veracruz.
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When Gabriel Orozco was six, the family relocated to the San Angel neighborhood of Mexico City so that his father could work with artist David Alfaro Siquieros on various mural commissions.
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Gabriel Orozco's father took him along to museum exhibitions and to work with him, during which time Orozco overheard many conversations about art and politics.
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Gabriel Orozco attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas between 1981 and 1984 but found the program too conservative.
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In contrast, Gabriel Orozco typically worked alone or with one or two other assistants.
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Gabriel Orozco's work revolves around many repeated themes and techniques that incorporate real life and common objects.
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Gabriel Orozco is represented in New York by Marian Goodman.
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Gabriel Orozco married Maria Gutierrez on August 2,1994, at City Hall in New York.