Born in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba in 1979, Ariel studied high school at the Oscar Fernandez Morera Professional School of Plastic Arts in Trinidad from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he began his higher studies until 2005. His work is expressed through actions, photography, drawings, intervened objects and installations.
He has lived and worked in Mexico City since 2005. Among his most important individual exhibitions are: Weight Exercise 2002. Asclepio Polyclinic in Havana. Fifty Acts of Luck 2006. Siqueiros Public Art Room Mexico City Behind the Glass 2012. Federica Schiavo Gallery, Italy. Guajiro walking between drops of asphalt 2013. UAM, Mexico D.F. Present Continuous Spencer Brownstone Gallery New York 2014. Head in Feet 2020 Enrique Guerrero Gallery Mexico City. He has also participated in various group exhibitions, the most important of which are: Como te voy a forgette, Perrotin Art Gallery, Paris, France. Broken Animal 2008. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City. Urban stories. X Baltic Triennial of international Art. Vilnius Lithuania. Lithuania. Pete and Repeat at Zabludowicz Collection. London. In 2010 he participated in Brouillon. La Criéer d, contemporary art/ Le Pabillon, laboratoire de creátion du Palais de Tokyo. Paris. Under destruction. Museun Tinguely. Manimal. Project Space Kaleidoscope. Milan. Marcher –Créer Rencontres d, Galerie Arena – EMSP. Arles France. In 2011 Onder destruction. Swiss Institute. New York. In 2012 he participated in The social contract. Artefact Festival. Stuk Kunstcentrum. Leuven. Belgium and in 2014 he participated in Freedom on the Move. Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil. His work is part of various collections such as: Daros-Latinoamerica Collection Zurich, Jumex Mexico Collection, Edgar Brofman Collection New York, Tony Shafrazi Collection New York, Anita Zabludowicz Collection London, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection New York, Servais Collection Belgium and Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Mexico among others.
STUDIES
2005 Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba
1999 Escuela Profesional de Artes Plásticas, Trinidad, Cuba
SOLO SHOWS
2022 Domingo Estirado, Licenciado, Mexico, CDMX 2022 The agreement, Uota, Mexico, CDMX
2021 Trojan taco, Espacio temporal, Paris, France
2020 Have a seat and let me tell you, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York La cabeza en los pies, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico, CDMX AMEXICA, The Servais family collection, The Loft, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Short Tales, Licenciado, Mexico, CDMX
2017 Solo project, Zona Maco, Mexico, CDMX
2016 Standard, Licenciado, Mexico, CDMX
2014 Presente continuo, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Zoom in, Bipersonal with Marianela Orozco. Galería Servando, Havana, Cuba
2013 Guajiro caminando entre gotas de asfalto. Casa Rafael Galván, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, CDMX 2012 Behind the crystal, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2009 Loop. Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2007 Ariel Orozco, Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery, Paris, France
2006 50 acts of luck, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico, CDMX 2005 Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, Myto, Miami, USA
Lo que sucede y no se ve, Galería Myto, Mexico, CDMX
2002 Ejercicios de Peso. Policlínico Asclepio, Havana, Cuba
1999 Homeostasia, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Bienal de paisaje de Sonora, Sonora, Mexico
2016 FAVCA, Festival de arte de Campeche, Campeche, Mexico
Como te voy a olvidar, Perrotin Gallery, Paris, France
Sublimina, Museo delle Mura Aureliane a Roma, Italy
2015 Through window, through contains, call us: Contemporary Cuban art, Donna Beamne art gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Imago Mundi: Map of the new art, Luciano Benetton Collection, Georgio Cini Fundation, Venice, Italy
2014 Art as a verb, MONASH University, Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia 2014 Liberdade em Movimento, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2012 The social contract, Artefact festival, Stuk kunstcentrum, Leuven, Belgium 2011 Under destruction, Swiss Institute, New York
2010 Circuito cerrado, Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico, CDMX
Ibrido, Genetica delle forme d’arte, Milano, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Italia Manimal, Project Space kaleidoscope, Milán, Italy
Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Brouillon. La Criée centre d ́ art contemporain/ Le Pavillon, laboratoire de création du Palais de Tokio. Paris, France
Marcher – Créer, Rencontres d ́Arles, Galerie Aréna – ENSP, Arles, France Esférico, Una visión del fútbol a través del arte, Museo de Arte de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Mexico, CDMX Zona Maco, Myto, Mexico, CDMX
2009 Pete and Repeat, Works from Zabludowicz Collection. London, England Urban stories, X Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania Hecho en casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, CDMX
LISTE, The Young Art Fair in Basel, Myto, Basel, Switzerland FEMACO, Myto, Mexico, CDMX
2008 Animal roto. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, CDMX
NADA Art Fair, Myto, Miami, USA
Disarming Matter, Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Beholden, Besotted, Betwixt: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and Parsons, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at the Sheila C, Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, New York WIE DU MIR (TIT FOR TAT). Counter Images for Transcultural Thinking and Acting. Minoritengalerien im Priesterseminar. Austrian avant-garde festival, Graz, Austria LATINOLATINO Palazzo della Vicaria, Trapani, Italy
LISTE, The Young Art Fair in Basel, Myto, Basel, Switzerland
FEMACO, Myto, Mexico, CDMX
The New World, Artnews Projects. Berlin, Germany
Art Brussels, Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Terapia de grupo (Arte cubano actual), Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain Los Desobedientes, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 NADA Art Fair, Myto, Miami, USA
Das phantastische Geheimnis des exotischen Universums, Galerie Birgit Ostermeier. Berlin, Germany Zona Maco, Myto, Mexico, CDMX
2006 Melbourne Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia
War and Nature, Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York, USA
Pasión/ Provocación – fotografía y video en la colección Teófilo Cohen, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, CDMX
Zona Maco, Myto, Mexico, CDMX
2005 Salón de Premiados, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Havana, Cuba Salón Provincial Oscar Fernández Morera, Centro Provincial de Arte, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba Zona Maco, Myto, Mexico, CDMX
II Festival de Escultura Efímera, Centro Experimental de Artes Plásticas 23 y C, Havana, Cuba
2003 Exposición de sonido, Cátedra Arte de Conducta, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Havana, Cuba Sentido Común, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
2002 Exposición Centro Cultural ICAIC, Havana, Cuba
2001 Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
COLLECTIONS
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Daros-Latin America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Tony Shafrazi Collection, New York Edgar Bronfman Collection, New York
Aby Rosen Collection, New York
Luciano Benetton Collection, Treviso, Italy
Celia Birbragher Collection, Miami
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Vanesa Arelle Collection, London
Anita Zabludowicz Collection, London
Patricia Phelps Cisneros Collection, New York Servais Family Collection, Brussels