(b. Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1962; lives and works in New York and Mexico City).
This Mexican photographer and multi-media artist studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Plastica, UNAM, Mexico from 1981 to 1984, and the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid from 1986 to 1987. Through unexpected associations and conceptual links Orozco addresses the relationship to common objects, creating a metaphor for the contemporary condition of transience through both time and place. His use of varied and everyday materials such as a rubber inner tube, a ball of plasticine, a tin of cat food, or the cap of a yogurt container are subtly transformed in unexpected combinations that draw attention to and celebrate the discarded and mundane in contemporary life. His works also require the viewer to re-examine everyday interactions and see these objects as symbols of our social exchanges and geographical mobility.He has had one person exhibitions at MoCA, Los Angeles, 2000; Galerie Chantal Crousel,
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