Gabriel Orozco's First US Public Art Project Appears on 300 Bus Shelters

Key facts

• Gabriel Orozco Public Nature runs July 8 to September 6 on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston.
• The exhibition features twelve new photographs by Orozco exploring nature and the built environment.
• Orozco was born in 1962 in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
• His father Mario Orozco Rivera was a muralist who collaborated with David Alfaro Siqueiros.
• Orozco studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City and Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
• His 1993 MoMA 'Projects' exhibition included 'Home Run' with oranges in apartment windows.
• His altered Citroën sedan 'La DS' (1993) was featured in 1993.
• Marian Goodman Gallery has represented Orozco in New York for over three decades.
• MoMA holds 'Black Kites' (1997) and staged a retrospective Dec 2009–Mar 2010.
• The Guggenheim presented 'Asterisms' in 2012.
• Orozco created a garden for South London Gallery (2016), Chapultepec Park master plan (2019–present), and Leeum Museum garden (2026).
• Public Nature is Orozco's first commissioned photographic series and first large-scale US public art project.
• Gabriela López Dena curated the project as Public Art Fund Associate Curator of Public Practice.