Caleb Stein (b. 1994, UK) is a multimedia artist currently based in the U.S. His work has been exhibited internationally, often as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena (b. 1994, Colombia). Stein’s work is represented by ROSEGALLERY in LA, PALO Gallery in New York, and Vin Gallery in HCMC. Stein’s work can be found in a number of public & private collections, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Nguyen Art Foundation (with Orejarena), The New York State Museum, and the Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee Family Collection (with Orejarena). His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, FOAM, Red Hook Labs, The Curator’s Room, PHMuseum, Belfast Photo Festival, Photo Vogue Festival, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, ROSEGALLERY, Palo Gallery, and Vin Gallery. Stein has been nominated for a number of awards including a LensCulture nomination by Legacy Russell (Senior Director, The Kitchen) in 2020 and a nomination for the Anne Wilkes Tucker Young Photographer Award at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As an artist duo, Orejarena & Stein are the recipients of the 2024 FOAM Talent Award and the 2024 Center for Photographic Art Artist Grant. Orejarena & Stein have also been nominated for a number of awards, including the Hariban/Benrido Award (with Orejarena, chosen by Yasufumi Nakamori, former Senior Curator of Photography at Tate Modern). Stein’s work has been published in The New York Times, The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, i-D Vice, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Wallpaper*, Photograph Magazine, FOAM, Collector Daily, Juxtapoz Magazine, Observer, Aesthetica Magazine, LA Review of Books, Musée Magazine, Der Greif, It’s Nice That, WePresent, Hamburger Eyes, and Paper Journal Magazine, among many other places. Books include ‘Long Time No See’ (made as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena), published by Jiazazhi Press in 2022 with texts by Do Tuong Linh and Forensic Architecture, ‘How to Move a Mountain’, published by Luhz Press in 2024 with an introduction by David Campany, and ‘American Glitch’ (made as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena), published by Gnomic Book in 2024 with an introduction by David Campany and a text booklet with contributions from 35 writers, artists, and curators offering their reflections on contemporary conceptions of glitch. These books are held in the special collections at MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University, Princeton University, Stanford University, The Rijksmuseum, and The Center for Book Arts, among other places. Orejarena & Stein’s first solo museum show ‘Viral Hallucinations: Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein’s Tactics & Mythologies’ was on view at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in the early fall of 2024 until early 2025, curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich; the exhibition includes new sculptural, installation, and video components. The exhibition will travel to PhotoForum Pasquart in Switzerland for an iteration of the work curated by Amelia Schüle.