Andrea Orejarena (b. 1994, Colombia) is a multi-media artist based in Brooklyn. Orejarena’s work employs play and fantasy’s subversive power to examine the American Dream and ways media influences our desire and agency, often touching on the collective as a theme, particularly as it relates to the construction of mythology. Her work also explores the notion of the femme and its relationship to the land.Orejarena’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at FOAM, Amsterdam; Palo Gallery, New York; Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland; The Griffin Museum, Massachusetts; Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City; The Curator’s Room, Amsterdam; Special Edition Projects, Shanghai, and The Center for Photographic Art, California, among others.
Orejarena’s work made as an artist duo with Caleb Stein was recently the subject of a solo museum show at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich. Orejarena & Stein are the 2024 recipients of the Foam Talent Award and The Center for Photographic Art Grant. Features on Orejarena’s work have appeared in The New York Times, i-D Vice, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, The British Journal of Photography, amongst others. Orejarena has given artist talks at ICP, Christie’s Education, Sotheby’s Art Institute, Vassar, Penumbra Foundation, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and UCL. Public & private collections include Nguyen Art Foundation, The Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee Family Collection, and the library collections at MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Rijskmuseum, Stanford University, Yale University, Princeton University, and The Center for Book Arts. Orejarena’s work ‘Long Time No See’ was published by Jiazazhi Press in 2022, with texts by Đỗ Tường Linh and Forensic Architecture. Her second book ‘American Glitch’, with an introduction text by ICP curator David Campany and a text booklet with 36 contributions from writers, artists, and curators on their conceptions of glitch in contemporary society, was published by Gnomic Book in 2024.