TONY ORRICO
(USA, 1979)
EDUCATION
MFA Choreography, University of Iowa
BS Dance Theater, Illinois State University
Tony Orrico´s starting point as an artist is the development of his own physical
symmetry practice. In his own words, his “state of readiness” implies the imprint of
his body to a surface or object. He avows that artists must prepare themselves as
they would their mediums.
Orrico is fascinated with how physical impulses manifest into visible forms. He finds
inherent beauty in what is lost through representation and how ideas in motion may
replicate, mutate, or disintegrate.
His artifacts and performances often enter infinities of reflective and rotational
symmetry. Centralizing on themes of cyclic motion and the generation and
regeneration of material, the work draws on the tension between what is fleeting and
what is captured.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 CARBON, Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Penwald Drawings / CARBON, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 Penwald Drawings, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
2010 - present
2010 - present
2012 New Museum, New York, USA
University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Lightwell, Buffalo, New York, USA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
2011 Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
CCCB La Porta Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
2010 National Academy of Sciences, Cultural Programs, Washington DC, USA
FLUX/S Drafts Establishing Future, Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2009 Postmaster’s Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2012 Falling through Space Drawn by the Line, University of Buffalo Art Gallery,
Buffalo, New York, USA
Drawing(a)live, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Diálogos Contemporáneos, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Tripping the Line Fantastic, J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Fleet Moves, Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED PRESENTED DRAWINGS
COLLABORATIONS
2011 Canyon, John Jasperse Company, visual design for choreography, Harvey
Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New Yor, New York, USA
2010 Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York, USA, reperformer
2006-2009 Trisha Brown Dance Company, New York, New York, USA
2003-2006 Shen Wei Dance Arts, New York, New York, USA