Joe Joe Orangias
New Zealand (residence), United States (citizenship) °1988
en
Joe Joe Orangias is a visual artist, writer and curator based in New York City. His projects, often collaborative and site-specific, focus on monuments, public space, queerness, decolonization and sustainable development. He earned a MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), and a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Orangias has exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Gaffa Gallery, Sydney; Hinterconti Projects, Hamburg; Proof Gallery, Boston; and the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong; among other venues. He was awarded a SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellowship for research in Aotearoa New Zealand; an Art School Alliance Fellowship from the Hochschule für bildende Künste-Hamburg; and residencies at the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas, Art342 in Colorado, RM Gallery in Auckland and Atelier OPA in Tokyo. He has published writing in Temporary Land Bridge and Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art: 11).