Andrea Orejarena (b. 1994, Colombia) is a multi-media artist based in Brooklyn. Orejarena’s work employs play and fantasy’s subversive power to examine the American Dream and ways media influences our desire and agency. Her work also explores the notion of femininity and its relationship to the land. Orejarena’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at FOAM, Amsterdam; Palo Gallery, New York; Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland; Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City; The Curator’s Room, Amsterdam; Special Edition Projects, Shanghai, and The Center for Photographic Art, California, among others. Orejarena’s work made as an artist duo with Caleb Stein will be the subject a solo museum show at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich. A group exhibition on AI and Disinformation at The Griffin Museum in MA will also open in the fall of 2024. Orejarena & Stein are the 2024 recipients of the Foam Talent Award and The Center for Photographic Art Grant. Features on Orejarena’s work have appeared in The New York Times, i-D Vice, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, The British Journal of Photography, amongst others. Orejarena has given artist talks at ICP, Christie’s Education, Sotheby’s Art Institute, Vassar, Penumbra Foundation, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and UCL. Public & private collections include Nguyen Art Foundation, The Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee Family Collection, and the library collections at MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Rijskmuseum, Stanford University, Yale University, Princeton University, and The Center for Book Arts. Orejarena’s work ‘Long Time No See’ was published by Jiazazhi Press in 2022, with texts by Đỗ Tường Linh and Forensic Architecture. Her second book ‘American Glitch’, with an introduction text by ICP curator David Campany and a text booklet with 36 contributions from writers, artists, and curators on their conceptions of glitch in contemporary society, was published by Gnomic Book in 2024.
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Born in 1994 in Colombia
Based in Brooklyn
EDUCATION
2017 BA, Vassar College, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Tactics & Mythologies: Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. Curated by Nadine Isabelle Heinrich (upcoming)
2024 American Glitch, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
2024 American Glitch, PALO Gallery, NY
2023 American Glitch, Belfast Photo Festival
2022 Long Time No See, Special Editions Project (Sep), Shanghai, China
2021 Full of Surprises, Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Disinformation, The Griffin Museum, MA (curated by Crista Dix), forthcoming
2024 Night of the Year, Arles Photo Festival (‘American Glitch’ included in the ‘Night of the Year’ screening)
2024 FOAM Talent Awards, American Glitch, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam
2023 Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans (curated by Jacob Moscovitch)
2023 American Glitch, Encontros da Imagem, Portugal, group exhibition
2022 The Real Wild, PALO GALLERY, NY
2022 Orejarena & Stein, The Curator’s Room, Amsterdam, Netherlands (exhibited alongside Francisco de Goya, Adam Broomberg, and Jake & Dinos Chapman)
2020 Long Time No See, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam, (curated by Mizuki Endo & Đỗ Tường Linh)
2020 ‘Long Time No See’, Broken Screen Festival, La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, traveling group exhibition,
Buenos Aires
2020 ‘Long Time No See’, Little Island Festival, upcoming screening, Sikinos, Greece
2019 Under the Subway Video Art Night, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
AWARDS
2024 FOAM Talent Award
2023 Winner, Artist Grant Recipient, Center for Photographic Art, California
2023 Shortlist, Images Vevey Book Award
2023 Shortlist, Spotlight Award, Belfast Photo Festival
2022 CENTER Review Santa Fe, Scholarship Recipient
2022 Gomma Grant, nomination
2021 Hariban/Benrido Prize, nominated by Yasufumi Nakamori, Senior Curator at Tate Modern. Nakamori contributed text about ‘Long Time No See’, the work he selected published in the Hariban/Benrido catalogue
2021 Critical Mass, finalist
2021 Michael Reichmann Project Grant, Photo Lucida
2020 W. Eugene Smith Grant, nominated by Teju Cole, former photography critic for The New York Times
2020 FOAM Talent, longlist
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thomas H. Lee & Ann Tenenbaum Family Collection
MoMA (library collection)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (library collection)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston (library collection)
Yale University (library collection)
Stanford University (library collection)
Center for Book Arts (library collection)
ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES
2024 Palo Gallery, artist talk with Jessica D. Brier, curator of photography at Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
2024 Center for Photographic Art, artist talk with Shana Lopes, curator of photography at SFMoMA
2024 Foam Talent Panel, FOAM, Amsterdam
2024 Center for Photography in Woodstock (CPW), artist talk
2023 Center for Photographic Art, invited by Ann Jastrab
2022 Penumbra Foundation, invited by photographer David Rothenberg
2021 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (TILT)
2021 International Center of Photography (ICP), invited by photographer Kathryn Harrison
2021 University College London (UCL), Art Business Summit
2020 Christie’s Education, Christie’s Conversations in Contemporary Art, invited by Kathleen Madden, ArtForum
SOLO/GROUP BOOKS
2023 American Glitch, published by Gnomic Book
Made with Caleb Stein. Introduction by David Campany.
Design by Jason Koxvold and edit by Shane Rocheleau.
2022 Long Time No See, artist book published by Jiazazhi Press, Texts by Forensic Architecture and Đỗ Tường Linh, designed in collaboration with Brian Paul Lamotte
2022 Hariban/Benrido Award Catalogue, ‘Long Time No See’ text by Yasufumi Nakamori (Senior Curator, Tate)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY / ARTICLES / INTERVIEWS
2024 American Glitch, British Journal of Photography, Ravi Ghosh, July (review of book in print issue)
2024 11 Books We Can’t Stop Thinking About This Month, American Glitch, Vanity Fair, Madison Freid, June 2024
2024. Fake News, Real Art, Inside ‘American Glitch’, Public Offerings, Ellen Stone, June
2024 Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein’s American Glitch, Photobook Journal, Gerhard Clausing, April
2024 Niets is wat het lijkt - of wel?, De Standaard (in print and online), April
2024 Plötzlich sind alle gefordert, über Bilder anders nachzudenken, Die Zeit, Oskar Pietas & Nadine Isabelle
Henrich interview, April
2024 American Glitch by Orejarena & Stein at Palo Gallery, Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily, March
2024 Foam Magazine: Talent Issue, portfolio of American Glitch, Taco Hidde Bakker, February
2024 American Glitch, L’Oeil de la Photographie, February
2024 American Glitch: What Can The World Trust?, Alp Tekin, Yuzu Magazine
2024 American Glitch Book by Artists Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein, Booooooom, February
2024 Duo Orejarena & Stein: Simulations, Artistry, and the Nature of Reality, Observer, Christa Terry, January
2024 American Glitch, Aesthetica Magazine, January
2023 The Beautiful Desolation of Life on Mars (Orejarena & Stein), The New York Times, December, 2023
2023 The Value of Expanded Authorship in Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein’s New Book, Vogue Italia, Rica Cerbarano, January, 2023
2023 A Glitch in the American Dream, Der Greif, Francesca Hummer, January, 2023
2023 American Glitch by Photographers Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein, Booooooom, January, 2023
2022 Long Time No See, Marigold Warner, The British Journal of Photography
2022 American Glitch, Kim Holtermand, Nowhere Diary
2022 American Glitch, PHMuseum
2022 Are we living in a simulation? American Glitch, Ayla Angelos, It’s Nice That
2022 Long Time No See, Danilo Rößger, Leica Camera Blog
2021 Orejarena & Stein Open Up About Their Collaborative Series “Andrea”, Rica Cerbarano, Vogue Italia
2021 Orejarena & Stein: A Couple in Love Photograph Their Life on the Road, Ryan White, i-D Vice
2021 Orejarena & Stein, Ayla Angelos, Port Magazine
2021 Interview: Long Time No See, Jiazazhi Press Blog (English Version)
2021 Interview: Long Time No See, Jiazazhi Press Blog (Mandarin Version)
2020 Looking Further Through the Lens, Jasmine Jackson, The Earth Issue
2020 I Can Change, Through Exchange, Steve Bisson, Urbanautica
2020 Long Time No See, Palm* Studios
2020 Orejarena & Stein Capture The ‘Memory and Legacy’ of the Vietnam-American War, Agyla Angelos, It’s Nice That
2020 If Memory was a Room, Hà Đào, Matca