Born in Mexico City in 1966, Luis Felipe Ortega was part of a group of artists at the forefront of contemporary artistic practice in Mexico during the 1990s. Ortega, along with fellow artists Gabriel Orozco and Daniel Guzmán, was one of the original artists represented by kurimanzutto. He currently lives and works in Mexico City.

 

Ortega’s artistic practice incorporates a wide range of media, including drawing, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. He regularly departs from his literary and academic interests and pulls freely from myriad sources—personal, social, and political; his visual language is simultaneously rich and subtle, intimate and explosive, radical and mundane. He transforms everyday materials and images into unexpected and charged artistic declarations. Ortega’s art addresses the underlying effects of globalized society on the individual, using his travels and literary interests as points of departure. 

 

Ortega frequently transcends individual artistic practice and collaborates with other artists. His participation in Temístocles 44, Casper magazine, Dos Pliegos magazine, and La Universidad Desconocida, a compilation of cultural documentaries, attests to this tendency.

 

 

Luis Felipe Ortega

(Mexico, 1966)