Lucy + Jorge Orta

Lucy + Jorge Orta’s collaborative practice focuses on social and ecological issues, employing a diversity of media – drawing, sculpture, installation, couture, painting, silkscreen, photography, video, light and performance. The Orta's studios are located in central Paris and Les Moulins, a cultural complex founded by the artists along an 8km stretch of the Grand Morin valley in Seine-et-Marne. Les Moulins is an extension of their practice, to establish a collective environment dedicated to artistic research and production of contemporary art.

Lucy Orta (b. Sutton Coldfield, UK, 1966) and Jorge Orta (b. Rosario, Argentina, 1953) have been awarded the Love British Food Harvest Heroes Award (2015) and the Green Leaf Award for artistic excellence (2007). In 2013, they won the Terrace Wires Competition for the public artwork Meteoros, installed in St. Pancras International Train Station in London. They have exhibited at Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, Italy (2023); Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (2023); Harewood House, Leeds (2023); Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium (2022); Wave Hill, New York, USA (2022); Museo della Scultura Contemporanea, Matera, Italy (2022); The Het Nieuwe Instituut, The Netherlands (2022); LMCC Arts Center, New York (2020); Drawing Lab, Paris (2020); European Cultural Capital, Italy (2019); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2019); Barcelona Design Museum, Spain (2019); National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA (2018); NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2016); Cornell University, New York (2013); MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2011); Natural History Museum, London (2010); Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, UK (2010); The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Sweden (2008); Barbican Centre, London (2005). Studio Orta has exhibited at the 56th, 55th, 51st, and 46th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015; 2013; 2005; 1995). Public collections include CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Centre National de Arts Plastiques, Paris; Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa; Cornell University, New York; MAXXI Museum Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome; Wellcome Collection, London; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.

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