Andrea Orejarena (b. 1994, Colombia) & Caleb Stein (b. 1994, UK) are a multimedia
artist duo currently based in the U.S.
Orejarena & Stein have been nominated for a number of awards, including the
Hariban/Benrido Award (chosen by Yasufumi Nakamori, Senior Curator of
International Art at Tate Modern), the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and the 2023 Spotlight
Awards at The Belfast Photo Festival. They are the 2024 recipients of FOAM Talent
Award and The Center for Photographic Art Grant.
Their work has been published in The New York Times, The British Journal of
Photography, The Guardian, i-D Vice, Vogue Italia, among many other places. They
have given artist talks at the International Center of Photography (ICP), Christie’s
Education, Sotheby’s Art Institute, Vassar College, The Center for Photographic Art,
Penumbra Foundation, TILT and University College London. A book of their work
‘Long Time No See’ was published by Jiazazhi Press in 2022, with texts by Đỗ Tường
Linh and Forensic Architecture, designed in collaboration with Brian Paul Lamotte.
As a duo and individually, their work is in a number of public & private collections,
including the Nguyen Art Foundation, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, The
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Ann Tenenbaum &
Thomas H. Lee Family Collection, MoMA (special collections), and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (special collections).
Their second book ‘American Glitch’, will be published in early 2024 by Gnomic Book
with an introduction by David Campany and a booklet of texts reflecting on
conceptions of glitch in contemporary society with contributions from 35 renowned
writers, artists, and curators. Their first museum solo show, Tactics & Mythologies:
Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein will open at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg in the fall
of 2024, curated by Nadine Isabelle Heinrich.