Gabriel Orozco was born in Vera Cruz in 1962, and currently lives in Mexico city New York, and Paris. He studied painting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Mexico and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. Orozco has been the subject of exhibitions at the Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Kunsthalle Zurich, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work has been included in Documenta and the Venice Biennale.