Gabriel Orozco attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984 and in 1986, moved to Madrid to continue his studies. In 1987, Orozco returned to Mexico City, where he associated with a group of other artists including Damián Ortega, Gabriel Kuri, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Dr. Lakra. This group met once a week for five years to talk about myriad artistic and cultural projects. Orozco has had many important solo exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, in 2000; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2004; the Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, (2005); the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2006). The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a mid-career retrospective that toured to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and ended at the Tate Modern, London, in May 2011. Other important solo exhibitions include the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo MOT, Tokyo, Japan (2015); and the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, in 2016. Orozco participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993, 2003, 2005 and 2017, the Whitney Biennial (1995 and 1997), as well as Documenta X (1997) and Documenta XI (2002). In 2019, the President of Mexico announced that Orozco would, in conjunction with the Secretariat of Culture, oversee the construction of a major new cultural center within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. Gabriel Orozco lives and works between Tokyo, Mexico City and New York.

Founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos at 14, rue du Dragon in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Cahiers d’Art encompasses a publishing house, a gallery, and a revue. The Cahiers d’Art Revue was entirely unique when it was introduced, and it still is: a revue of contemporary art defined by its combination of striking typography and layout, abundant photography, and juxtaposition of ancient and modern art. Between the 1920s and the mid-1970s, Cahiers d’Art published ninety-seven issues of the Revue and more than fifty books on fine art and architecture, as well as the thirty-three volume catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso. After its acquisition and relaunch in 2012 by Staffan Ahrenberg, an editorial board comprised of Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Isabela Mora, and Staffan Ahrenberg was created. Cahiers d’Art has since published several new Revues and art books devoted to Ellsworth Kelly, Rosemarie Trockel, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Schütte, Gabriel Orozco, Joan Miró, Lucas Arruda, Ai Weiwei, Arthur Jafa, Frank Gehry, Christo, and others. From the 1920s till today, Cahiers d’Art has maintained a gallery, exhibiting the artists it publishes. Cahiers d’Art continues to fulfill its mission to be the cultural bridge between the avant-garde of Picasso, Duchamp, and Le Corbusier, and the leading artists and architects of our time.