STRUCTURE AND SEQUENCE (CONTACT Photography Festival), workshop — link here
Last week, I had the pleasure of co-leading the “Structure and Sequence” photobook workshop with Kate Schneider for the CONTACT Photobook Lab and the CONTACT Photography Festival. A heartfelt thank you to Kate for the great collaboration and Brian St. Denis for his trust, as well as for all the meticulous planning and support before and throughout the three-day event.
I’m also deeply grateful to the participants—Clara Lacasse, Meg Ross, Valérian Mazataud, and Grégoire Bellans—for their enthusiasm, trust, and the opportunity to engage with their incredible work. It was truly inspiring to learn from each of you, and this experience reinforced how much I enjoy the collaborative process.
The workshop was enriched by insightful artist talks from Birthe Piontek and Benjamin Freedman, along with group critiques by Ben and Lauren Wickware. A sincere thank you to all!
STRUCTURE AND SEQUENCE (CONTACT Photography Festival), workshop — link here
Last week, I had the pleasure of co-leading the “Structure and Sequence” photobook workshop with Kate Schneider for the CONTACT Photobook Lab and the CONTACT Photography Festival. A heartfelt thank you to Kate for the great collaboration and Brian St. Denis for his trust, as well as for all the meticulous planning and support before and throughout the three-day event.
I’m also deeply grateful to the participants—Clara Lacasse, Meg Ross, Valérian Mazataud, and Grégoire Bellans—for their enthusiasm, trust, and the opportunity to engage with their incredible work. It was truly inspiring to learn from each of you, and this experience reinforced how much I enjoy the collaborative process.
The workshop was enriched by insightful artist talks from Birthe Piontek and Benjamin Freedman, along with group critiques by Ben and Lauren Wickware. A sincere thank you to all!
A NARROW FOOTHOLD (Another Earth), website — link here
"A Narrow Foothold", the book I edited and designed for Another Earth and artists Jonas Feige and Alan Huck, is out of print, We made it available on a website dedicated to the project that includes the photographs, a downloadable PDF of the book, and the conversation between the artists that was part of the special edition. A website by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck and Cristian Ordóñez, with typography by Erkin Karamemet. Also, Jonas and Alan had a conversation with Brad Feuerhelm on THE NEAREST TRUTH podcast, episode 428.
A NARROW FOOTHOLD (Another Earth), website — link here
"A Narrow Foothold", the book I edited and designed for Another Earth and artists Jonas Feige and Alan Huck, is out of print, We made it available on a website dedicated to the project that includes the photographs, a downloadable PDF of the book, and the conversation between the artists that was part of the special edition. A website by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck and Cristian Ordóñez, with typography by Erkin Karamemet. Also, Jonas and Alan had a conversation with Brad Feuerhelm on THE NEAREST TRUTH podcast, episode 428.
HONOURS (Canada), Toronto Arts Council. Visual Artists: Creation Grant
My current work focusing on the Atacama Desert in Chile has won the Visual Artists: Creation grant provided by the Toronto Arts Council. Thank you for the support to the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
HONOURS (Canada), Toronto Arts Council. Visual Artists: Creation Grant
My current work focusing on the Atacama Desert in Chile has won the Visual Artists: Creation grant provided by the Toronto Arts Council. Thank you for the support to the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
Sustainable Photobook Publishing, Case Study (UK) — link here
I was invited to share work related to sustainability and books by Tamsin Green from SSP network. Case Study focuses on the my limited edition book Displace, published by Another Earth in 2023, part of the exhibition created at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto.
Sustainable Photobook Publishing, Case Study (UK) — link here
I was invited to share work related to sustainability and books by Tamsin Green from SSP network. Case Study focuses on the my limited edition book Displace, published by Another Earth in 2023, part of the exhibition created at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto.
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Revista Letargo (Chile) — link here
“Paisaje común” y el detenerse como elemento fundamental para el mirar, texto escrito por Felipe Muñoz de la exhibición Paisaje Común en Galería Animal, Santiago de Chile.
“Ordoñez, con una investigación de carácter territorial direcciona la mirada hacia los valles de la región de Atacama, en Huasco. Desde ahí, se emerge el paisaje resultante de un territorio afectado por los cambios drásticos del clima y el propio actuar humano, fotografía que habla de la intervención directa e indirecta en el habitar del territorio, recordándonos su fragilidad y aridez." — extracto
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Revista Letargo (Chile) — link here
“Paisaje común” y el detenerse como elemento fundamental para el mirar, texto escrito por Felipe Muñoz de la exhibición Paisaje Común en Galería Animal, Santiago de Chile.
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Galería Animal (Chile)
Group exhibition with photographers Javier Aravena, Sebastián Mejía, Cristian Ordóñez, Cristóbal Palma, Marcos Zegers. The exhibition introduces us to the work of five photographers with a solid career in the field of contemporary landscape who for the first time show their work together. The proposal highlights the encounters and dialogues between their personal styles through an intertwined montage of unpublished projects developed both in Chile and in Latin America. From May 30th, until July 13th, 2024.
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Galería Animal (Chile)
Group exhibition with photographers Javier Aravena, Sebastián Mejía, Cristian Ordóñez, Cristóbal Palma, Marcos Zegers. The exhibition introduces us to the work of five photographers with a solid career in the field of contemporary landscape who for the first time show their work together. The proposal highlights the encounters and dialogues between their personal styles through an intertwined montage of unpublished projects developed both in Chile and in Latin America. From May 30th, until July 13th, 2024.
ORIPEAU, Public Exhibition (Montréal)
I was invited to exhibit a couple of images as part of the Oripeau Public Exhibition n°576, located in Montréal, Canada. Oripeau is a participative graphic design project in constant evolution. This diptych was created in Valle del Huasco in Atacama, Chile. Cerro Centinela. Atacama, 2022.
ORIPEAU, Public Exhibition (Montréal)
I was invited to exhibit a couple of images as part of the Oripeau Public Exhibition n°576, located in Montréal, Canada. Oripeau is a participative graphic design project in constant evolution. This diptych was created in Valle del Huasco in Atacama, Chile. Cerro Centinela. Atacama, 2022.
ATACAMA (Chile)
Last month in Atacama, Chile. For the second time collaborating with my brother, the academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This time around the San Pedro de Atacama area visiting different ayllus, towns and specific landmarks. Participating in several interviews that Eduardo had for his research with activists, community members, journalists, businessmen from the mining and tourist area and councilors, a process that informs my photographic work and understanding of the relationship of the territory, the inhabitants and the multinationals. We also traveled to Copiapó where I was invited by Eduardo to participate in a meeting with academics, anthropologists and miners from the University of Atacama. We shared the photographic work done in the Huasco Valley in 2022, and Eduardo spoke about his research in addition to a lecture to the students. An excellent and informative trip - now back in Canada to process and review the work done.
ATACAMA (Chile)
Last month in Atacama, Chile. For the second time collaborating with my brother, the academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This time around the San Pedro de Atacama area visiting different ayllus, towns and specific landmarks. Participating in several interviews that Eduardo had for his research with activists, community members, journalists, businessmen from the mining and tourist area and councilors, a process that informs my photographic work and understanding of the relationship of the territory, the inhabitants and the multinationals. We also traveled to Copiapó where I was invited by Eduardo to participate in a meeting with academics, anthropologists and miners from the University of Atacama. We shared the photographic work done in the Huasco Valley in 2022, and Eduardo spoke about his research in addition to a lecture to the students. An excellent and informative trip - now back in Canada to process and review the work done.
UNFOLD, Public Billboards (Canada)
Billboards with photographs from the ongoing work Unfold. Curated by Heather Canlas Rigg. CONTACT Photography Festival. Installed and visible in Toronto, March 2024 (with an early de-installation — please contact for details). Installation photos © Toni Hafkenscheid and Cristian Ordóñez.
UNFOLD, Public Billboards (Canada)
Billboards with photographs from the ongoing work Unfold. Curated by Heather Canlas Rigg. CONTACT Photography Festival. Installed and visible in Toronto, March 2024 (with an early de-installation — please contact for details). Installation photos © Toni Hafkenscheid and Cristian Ordóñez.
THE URBANAUT PODCAST (Italy), Episode 16 — link here
It was an honour to speak with Patrick Hubbard and ramble about my background and two specific bodies of work (Frequency and Valle). If you want to listen to me ramble for almost 2 hours, please visit the links at The Urbanaut Podcast. Thanks for the interest and thinking of me to Steve Bisson, Patrick Hubbard and Urbanautica Institute.
THE URBANAUT PODCAST (Italy), Episode 16 — link here
It was an honour to speak with Patrick Hubbard and ramble about my background and two specific bodies of work (Frequency and Valle). If you want to listen to me ramble for almost 2 hours, please visit the links at The Urbanaut Podcast. Thanks for the interest and thinking of me to Steve Bisson, Patrick Hubbard and Urbanautica Institute.
PHOTOBOOK WORKSHOP (Canada), Toronto Metropolitan University
I recently did a photobook workshop with photography senior thesis students at the School of Image Arts, TMU. Thanks for the invitation to artists and educators Annie MacDonell and Clare Samuel.
PHOTOBOOK WORKSHOP (Canada), Toronto Metropolitan University
I recently did a photobook workshop with photography senior thesis students at the School of Image Arts, TMU. Thanks for the invitation to artists and educators Annie MacDonell and Clare Samuel.
HONOURS (Canada), Canada Council for the Arts
My Artist Residence OMNE/LAND has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad Residencies program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
HONOURS (Canada), Canada Council for the Arts
My Artist Residence OMNE/LAND has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad Residencies program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
FREQUENCY (US), MoMA — link here
Honoured to hear that my brook Frequency has been included to the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, Archives & Library Collection.
Museum of Modern Art Library, MoMA Manhattan Special Collections;
TR659.5. O73 2023
FREQUENCY (US), MoMA — link here
Honoured to hear that my brook Frequency has been included to the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, Archives & Library Collection.
Museum of Modern Art Library, MoMA Manhattan Special Collections;
TR659.5. O73 2023
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It has been a great pleasure working on this book with Alan Huck and Jonas Feige over the past year. Two photographers and friends whom I admire, appreciate and from whom I am constantly inspired. Thank you both for your trust and allowing me to be part of your collaboration.
56 pages
30 photographs
7.25 x 8.75 inches
Swiss-bound hard cover
Edition of 100 copies
Edited by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck, and Cristian Ordóñez
Designed by Cristian Ordóñez
Published by Another Earth
© 2024
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It has been a great pleasure working on this book with Alan Huck and Jonas Feige over the past year. Two photographers and friends whom I admire, appreciate and from whom I am constantly inspired. Thank you both for your trust and allowing me to be part of your collaboration.
56 pages
30 photographs
7.25 x 8.75 inches
Swiss-bound hard cover
Edition of 100 copies
Edited by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck, and Cristian Ordóñez
Designed by Cristian Ordóñez
Published by Another Earth
© 2024
CINCO LENTES (Chile), Revista ED
Contemporary Chilean photography under five lenses, an article written by Felipe Muñoz Tirado for Diario Financiero and Revista ED, appeared in the print and online version of Revista ED on Saturday, January 20 in Chile. Text and works by photographers Bruno Giliberto, Cristian Ordóñez, Constanza Bravo Granadino, Marcos Zegers and Paz Olivares-Droguett.
CINCO LENTES (Chile), Revista ED
Contemporary Chilean photography under five lenses, an article written by Felipe Muñoz Tirado for Diario Financiero and Revista ED, appeared in the print and online version of Revista ED on Saturday, January 20 in Chile. Text and works by photographers Bruno Giliberto, Cristian Ordóñez, Constanza Bravo Granadino, Marcos Zegers and Paz Olivares-Droguett.
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It is always an honour to collaborate on photographic projects. Sequencing, editing and graphic design, in this case happy collaborating and learning with Kate, and bringing her work to life in this beautiful limited edition publication. Supported by The Penumbra Foundation, Eureka! and John Hartman Award from the MacLaren Art Centre.
Pages: 72
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Via, and Keaycolour
Size: 9×12 inches
Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Purple, Yellow), Screenprint (cover)
Images & Text: Kate Schneider
Sequencing & Design: Cristian Ordóñez & Kate Schneider
Riso Printing: Kate Schneider
Cover Printing: Jo Yetter
Typeface: Domaine, Klim Type Foundr
Book documentation: Kevin Kunstadt
© 2023
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It is always an honour to collaborate on photographic projects. Sequencing, editing and graphic design, in this case happy collaborating and learning with Kate, and bringing her work to life in this beautiful limited edition publication. Supported by The Penumbra Foundation, Eureka! and John Hartman Award from the MacLaren Art Centre.
Pages: 72
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Via, and Keaycolour
Size: 9×12 inches
Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Purple, Yellow), Screenprint (cover)
Images & Text: Kate Schneider
Sequencing & Design: Cristian Ordóñez & Kate Schneider
Riso Printing: Kate Schneider
Cover Printing: Jo Yetter
Typeface: Domaine, Klim Type Foundr
Book documentation: Kevin Kunstadt
© 2023
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
OMNE Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est, residency and exhibition program is a landscape observatory, a container of projects aimed at raising awareness of the environment through the practice of walking. Using multidisciplinary contributions OMNE promotes projects and actions on the territory by creating photographic campaigns, public walks, artist residencies, workshops, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, publications. Promoted and supported by the City of Castelfranco Veneto / Department of Environment and Sustainable Mobility, ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana / Department of Prevention, the University of Padua, Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, the project fits into the activities of the Regional Observatory for the Landscape of the Veneto, Local Observatory for the Castellana Landscape as part of the Varcities project funded by the European program Horizon 2020.
Since 2016 OMNE has organized three editions of artist residencies hosting twenty-two authors and an articulated program of events. The results of the previous artist residencies have been published in the volumes OMNE/WORK 2016–2018 (LetteraVentidue, 2018), OMNE/ BEAUTY 2018–2021 (Skinnerboox, 2021), OMNE/NATURE 2021–2023 (is being published).
This year's edition of the OMNE/LAND artist residency took place in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, between September 21 and 28. It was a great pleasure and an honor to be awarded and participate in this art residency program, which included a series of conferences with artists, urban planners and architects, various exhibitions, talks and all the photographic work that was created in the territory, work that it is currently being processed and edited in Canada. I also participated in the OMNEFEST program with an artist talk about my personal practice at Villa Parco Bolasco. Thanks to the commission: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, Maura Gallina and the entire Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est team.
The artist residence is a biennale program (2023–2025), with artists Filippo Maria Barbero (IT), Michele Cera (IT), Camilla de Maffei (IT), Matteo de Mayda (IT), Giulia Iacolutti (IT), Ingar Krauss (GE), Cristian Ordóñez (CL+CA) and Aaron Schuman (US+UK). Plus invited photographers Olivo Barbieri (IT) and Francesco Raffaelli (IT). Each one of us will continue to work on this biennale program to produce a collective book and group exhibition towards 2025, the new edition of OMNEFEST in Italy.
Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy
Artist Residence September 21st – 28th, 2023
OMNE/LAND program biennale 2023 – 2025
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
OMNE Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est, residency and exhibition program is a landscape observatory, a container of projects aimed at raising awareness of the environment through the practice of walking. Using multidisciplinary contributions OMNE promotes projects and actions on the territory by creating photographic campaigns, public walks, artist residencies, workshops, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, publications. Promoted and supported by the City of Castelfranco Veneto / Department of Environment and Sustainable Mobility, ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana / Department of Prevention, the University of Padua, Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, the project fits into the activities of the Regional Observatory for the Landscape of the Veneto, Local Observatory for the Castellana Landscape as part of the Varcities project funded by the European program Horizon 2020.
Since 2016 OMNE has organized three editions of artist residencies hosting twenty-two authors and an articulated program of events. The results of the previous artist residencies have been published in the volumes OMNE/WORK 2016–2018 (LetteraVentidue, 2018), OMNE/ BEAUTY 2018–2021 (Skinnerboox, 2021), OMNE/NATURE 2021–2023 (is being published).
This year's edition of the OMNE/LAND artist residency took place in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, between September 21 and 28. It was a great pleasure and an honor to be awarded and participate in this art residency program, which included a series of conferences with artists, urban planners and architects, various exhibitions, talks and all the photographic work that was created in the territory, work that it is currently being processed and edited in Canada. I also participated in the OMNEFEST program with an artist talk about my personal practice at Villa Parco Bolasco. Thanks to the commission: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, Maura Gallina and the entire Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est team.
The artist residence is a biennale program (2023–2025), with artists Filippo Maria Barbero (IT), Michele Cera (IT), Camilla de Maffei (IT), Matteo de Mayda (IT), Giulia Iacolutti (IT), Ingar Krauss (GE), Cristian Ordóñez (CL+CA) and Aaron Schuman (US+UK). Plus invited photographers Olivo Barbieri (IT) and Francesco Raffaelli (IT). Each one of us will continue to work on this biennale program to produce a collective book and group exhibition towards 2025, the new edition of OMNEFEST in Italy.
Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy
Artist Residence September 21st – 28th, 2023
OMNE/LAND program biennale 2023 – 2025
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
It is a great pleasure and an honour to be awarded with the OMNE/LAND art residency program, 21st – 28th September 2023 at Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Commissioned by: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, and Maura Gallina. Artists include: Filippo Maria Barbero, Michele Cera, Camilla de Maffei, Matteo de Mayda, Giulia Iacolutti, Ingar Krauss, Cristian Ordóñez and Aaron Schuman. Invited artists: Olivo Barbieri and Francesco Raffaelli.
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
It is a great pleasure and an honour to be awarded with the OMNE/LAND art residency program, 21st – 28th September 2023 at Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Commissioned by: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, and Maura Gallina. Artists include: Filippo Maria Barbero, Michele Cera, Camilla de Maffei, Matteo de Mayda, Giulia Iacolutti, Ingar Krauss, Cristian Ordóñez and Aaron Schuman. Invited artists: Olivo Barbieri and Francesco Raffaelli.
BOOK REVIEW (CANADA), On Trial reviewed by Barry Schwabsky — link here
On Trial, reviewed by Barry Schwabsky, in his column "PICTURE LIBRARY: From Inner Architecture to Unremembered Images" with Rhona Bitner, Marianne Mueller, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Barry Stone and Cristian Ordóñez, for Border Crossings magazine, issue 162.
"I wouldn’t necessarily have known it from looking at the photographs themselves: Ordóñez is an exquisite observer of place, but his interest in place is not a sociologist’s or even a geographer’s; seeing where you are, in this work, has little to do with knowing where you are..." — Barry Schwabsky
BOOK REVIEW (CANADA), On Trial reviewed by Barry Schwabsky — link here
On Trial, reviewed by Barry Schwabsky, in his column "PICTURE LIBRARY: From Inner Architecture to Unremembered Images" with Rhona Bitner, Marianne Mueller, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Barry Stone and Cristian Ordóñez, for Border Crossings magazine, issue 162.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (Artist Talk + Panel)
Artist talk about the work 'Valle' happening this Thursday August 17, and on Friday August 18, I will be joining artists Sarah Boutin, Miguel Leache, Normand Rajotte, and Kinuko Asano on a panel discussion about photobooks moderated by Louis Perreault, at Quai des Arts, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec. Part of the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie.
Photograph by Veronica Nicolardi.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (Artist Talk + Panel)
Artist talk about the work 'Valle' happening this Thursday August 17, and on Friday August 18, I will be joining artists Sarah Boutin, Miguel Leache, Normand Rajotte, and Kinuko Asano on a panel discussion about photobooks moderated by Louis Perreault, at Quai des Arts, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec. Part of the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (solo show) — link here
The series Valle, from Huasco Valley, Atacama, is exhibited at Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, 14th edition of the Festival, curated by Claude Goulet and installed at Matapedia Valley, Quebéc from July 15 to September 30, 2023.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (solo show) — link here
The series Valle, from Huasco Valley, Atacama, is exhibited at Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, 14th edition of the Festival, curated by Claude Goulet and installed at Matapedia Valley, Quebéc from July 15 to September 30, 2023.
REVIEW, Frequency 2023 — link here
Honoured to have Louis Perreault review Frequency for Ciel Variable Magazine. Thank you very much for your reading and interpretation of the work!
The wearing away of the built environment, the resilience of plants, and the faint, but inevitable, presence of time passing: Cristian Ordóñez invites us to look at the world both for what it might have once been and for what it will become. Here, Louis Perreault reviews the book Frequency.
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L’usure du bâti, la résilience du végétal et la présence sourde, mais inévitable, du temps qui s’écoule : Cristian Ordóñez invite à regarder le monde à la fois pour ce qu’il a pu être dans le passé, mais aussi pour ce qu’il deviendra. Louis Perrault commente ici le livre Frequency.
REVIEW, Frequency 2023 — link here
Honoured to have Louis Perreault review Frequency for Ciel Variable Magazine. Thank you very much for your reading and interpretation of the work!
The wearing away of the built environment, the resilience of plants, and the faint, but inevitable, presence of time passing: Cristian Ordóñez invites us to look at the world both for what it might have once been and for what it will become. Here, Louis Perreault reviews the book Frequency.
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L’usure du bâti, la résilience du végétal et la présence sourde, mais inévitable, du temps qui s’écoule : Cristian Ordóñez invite à regarder le monde à la fois pour ce qu’il a pu être dans le passé, mais aussi pour ce qu’il deviendra. Louis Perrault commente ici le livre Frequency.
COLLECTIONS, Frequency 2023 — link here
Very honoured the book Frequency has recently joined the following collections:
— National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— San Telmo Museum, Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection (Spain).
COLLECTIONS, Frequency 2023 — link here
Very honoured the book Frequency has recently joined the following collections:
— National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— San Telmo Museum, Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection (Spain).
The CONTACT Photobook Fair (Canada) — link here
Saturday, Apr 29, 11am – 5pm at Stephen Bulger Gallery (1356 Dundas St W, Toronto). CONTACT Photography Festival. Free and open to the public.
The CONTACT Photobook Fair (Canada) — link here
Saturday, Apr 29, 11am – 5pm at Stephen Bulger Gallery (1356 Dundas St W, Toronto). CONTACT Photography Festival. Free and open to the public.
BOOK, Frequency 2023 — link here
New book "Frequency" is out — 46 photographs, 72 pages, 8.75 x 10.5 in, Soft Cover, Smyth Sew, Swiss binding with exposed spine. Printed in Canada. Limited edition. This book was created with the support of the Edward Burtynsky Grant from the CONTACT Festival, awarded in 2021. Available soon, contact studio@cristianordonez.com
BOOK, Frequency 2023 — link here
New book "Frequency" is out — 46 photographs, 72 pages, 8.75 x 10.5 in, Soft Cover, Smyth Sew, Swiss binding with exposed spine. Printed in Canada. Limited edition. This book was created with the support of the Edward Burtynsky Grant from the CONTACT Festival, awarded in 2021. Available soon, contact studio@cristianordonez.com
AWARD (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 — link here
I am honoured to have won the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 with the project "Valle", in the "Nature, Environment and Perspectives" category. This project is a collaboration with my brother, academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce (PhD Associate Professor, Athabasca University School of Business). Congratulations to all the other winners and shortlisted artists for their beautiful work. Many thanks to Steve Bisson, the jury and Urbanautica team. To Eduardo and the students from the University of Santiago for their collaboration.
AWARD (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 — link here
I am honoured to have won the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 with the project "Valle", in the "Nature, Environment and Perspectives" category. This project is a collaboration with my brother, academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce (PhD Associate Professor, Athabasca University School of Business). Congratulations to all the other winners and shortlisted artists for their beautiful work. Many thanks to Steve Bisson, the jury and Urbanautica team. To Eduardo and the students from the University of Santiago for their collaboration.
EXHIBITION (GERMANY), A Sense of Place (group show) — link here
Curated by Bénédicte Blondeau and Rüdiger Lange. The concept of "A Sense of Place" is the focus of the third collaboration between PEP - Photographic Exploration Project and B-Part Berlin Exhibition. Exhibition dates: April 1 - 29, 2023. Opening reception Friday, March 31st in Berlin.
Artists include: David Bruneel, Zoé Chauvet, Sara Cuce, Owen Davies, Jonathan De Maeyer, Luciana Demichelis, Juan Fabuel, Lindsay Godin, Jasper Goodall, Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Jade Joannès, Alicja Khatchikian, Cassandra Klos, Su Kui, Santeri Kuisma, Céline Levain, Cristian Ordóñez, Xenia Petrovska, Jamie Reed, Christopher Rodriguez, Bartolomeo Rossi, Pascal Sgro, Marvin Systermans, Anya Tsaruk, Greta Valente, Ties van Brussel, Pauline Vanden Neste, Nick Verhaeghe, Yuxi Wang, Wang Chuen Wong, Kinga Wrona and Martha Wurmus.
EXHIBITION (GERMANY), A Sense of Place (group show) — link here
Curated by Bénédicte Blondeau and Rüdiger Lange. The concept of "A Sense of Place" is the focus of the third collaboration between PEP - Photographic Exploration Project and B-Part Berlin Exhibition. Exhibition dates: April 1 - 29, 2023. Opening reception Friday, March 31st in Berlin.
Artists include: David Bruneel, Zoé Chauvet, Sara Cuce, Owen Davies, Jonathan De Maeyer, Luciana Demichelis, Juan Fabuel, Lindsay Godin, Jasper Goodall, Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Jade Joannès, Alicja Khatchikian, Cassandra Klos, Su Kui, Santeri Kuisma, Céline Levain, Cristian Ordóñez, Xenia Petrovska, Jamie Reed, Christopher Rodriguez, Bartolomeo Rossi, Pascal Sgro, Marvin Systermans, Anya Tsaruk, Greta Valente, Ties van Brussel, Pauline Vanden Neste, Nick Verhaeghe, Yuxi Wang, Wang Chuen Wong, Kinga Wrona and Martha Wurmus.
PUBLICATION (CANADA), Trick Not Telos
Trick Not Telos by Katherine McKittrick was curated by Liz Ikiriko and Katherine McKittrick, design direction by Cristian Ordóñez. French translations are by Lyse Hébert. Print production by The Gas Company. Parts of this project were funded by the SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University.
8x10 (5 books + unbound booklet); 11x8.5x2.5 (Box); English and French. 100 copies.
ISBN 978-1-7782093-0-7
An experiment in repetition and revision, Trick Not Telos takes words and ideas that have already been shared and refashions them outside their original context. The project understands written academic narratives as flexible and shifting yet tethered to a past formation or iteration; the project seeks to express how ideas on the page are simultaneously tactile, opaque, and precise and thus how the written word, and the academic argument, have the capacity to unravel while also maintaining historical traces. Trick Not Telos is, in part, working through and complementing Amiri Baraka’s “the changing same” by illuminating how creative unboundedness is harnessed to black energy, memory, and place.1 As a method, the changing same is the engagement, sharing, reading and response to black ideas (songs, narratives, spirituals, tunes, words, lyrics, impulses, sounds) with a recognition of contested and broken and seamless creative genealogies. In this, black creative and intellectual works are comprised of entanglements of the things that never left us and ongoing effacement. Trick Not Telos sits with this creative uneasiness; it emerges from both trace and impossibility. The five essays shared here have been written and read and published before. They were given permission to repeat. They were re-read and reformatted and shared. They were translated toward French and re-imagined as French-English pairs. They were redesigned. They were recontextualized and remade as academic objects that perhaps desire, but may not fully realize, black aesthetic possibilities. Trick Not Telos is inspired by the work of Krista Franklin, Neta Bomani, Alec Soth, Roy DeCarava, Adrien Piper, among others. It is guided by the beautiful art book, the tactual photography book, the spines of novels, pages of verse and vellum and uncoated paper and the weaver’s knot and the vinyl box set. Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s reading of “Plantation Futures” inspired the title, Trick Not Telos.
PUBLICATION (CANADA), Trick Not Telos
Trick Not Telos by Katherine McKittrick was curated by Liz Ikiriko and Katherine McKittrick, design direction by Cristian Ordóñez. French translations are by Lyse Hébert. Print production by The Gas Company. Parts of this project were funded by the SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University.
8x10 (5 books + unbound booklet); 11x8.5x2.5 (Box); English and French. 100 copies.
ISBN 978-1-7782093-0-7
An experiment in repetition and revision, Trick Not Telos takes words and ideas that have already been shared and refashions them outside their original context. The project understands written academic narratives as flexible and shifting yet tethered to a past formation or iteration; the project seeks to express how ideas on the page are simultaneously tactile, opaque, and precise and thus how the written word, and the academic argument, have the capacity to unravel while also maintaining historical traces. Trick Not Telos is, in part, working through and complementing Amiri Baraka’s “the changing same” by illuminating how creative unboundedness is harnessed to black energy, memory, and place.1 As a method, the changing same is the engagement, sharing, reading and response to black ideas (songs, narratives, spirituals, tunes, words, lyrics, impulses, sounds) with a recognition of contested and broken and seamless creative genealogies. In this, black creative and intellectual works are comprised of entanglements of the things that never left us and ongoing effacement. Trick Not Telos sits with this creative uneasiness; it emerges from both trace and impossibility. The five essays shared here have been written and read and published before. They were given permission to repeat. They were re-read and reformatted and shared. They were translated toward French and re-imagined as French-English pairs. They were redesigned. They were recontextualized and remade as academic objects that perhaps desire, but may not fully realize, black aesthetic possibilities. Trick Not Telos is inspired by the work of Krista Franklin, Neta Bomani, Alec Soth, Roy DeCarava, Adrien Piper, among others. It is guided by the beautiful art book, the tactual photography book, the spines of novels, pages of verse and vellum and uncoated paper and the weaver’s knot and the vinyl box set. Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s reading of “Plantation Futures” inspired the title, Trick Not Telos.
INTERVIEW (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Grateful for the nice conversation I had with C4 Journal about my process and the works On Trial, Notes, Frequency and Displace.
INTERVIEW (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Grateful for the nice conversation I had with C4 Journal about my process and the works On Trial, Notes, Frequency and Displace.
PUBLICATION (Chile/Canada), Multinacionales y Comunidades
Part of the photographic work "Valle", created as part of a research project in collaboration with Associate Professor, Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This publication is created in response to ongoing research that began in early 2022, including a visit to the Huasco Valley in Atacama, Chile in October of the same year. Specially produced in a limited edition to deliver the preliminary quantitative results to the community of Huasco, namely actors from the civil society, the public sector, indigenous peoples, business people and ordinary citizens who participated in this process.
Funded by Athabasca University and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of the Government of Canada, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Santiago de Chile. Created and edited by Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce, PhD, Athabasca University and Photographer, Cristian Ordóñez.
PUBLICATION (Chile/Canada), Multinacionales y Comunidades
Part of the photographic work "Valle", created as part of a research project in collaboration with Associate Professor, Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This publication is created in response to ongoing research that began in early 2022, including a visit to the Huasco Valley in Atacama, Chile in October of the same year. Specially produced in a limited edition to deliver the preliminary quantitative results to the community of Huasco, namely actors from the civil society, the public sector, indigenous peoples, business people and ordinary citizens who participated in this process.
Funded by Athabasca University and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of the Government of Canada, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Santiago de Chile. Created and edited by Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce, PhD, Athabasca University and Photographer, Cristian Ordóñez.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Galery 44 (group show) — link here
My books "Displace" published by Another Earth and "On Trial" published by acb-press will be available at Salon 44, Gallery 44's annual fundraising exhibition in support of exhibition and education programs, bringing together a collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with valued works for both new and seasoned collectors. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Emilie Croning and Maegan Broadhurst. Opening this Thursday 2 in Toronto from 7-10pm.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Galery 44 (group show) — link here
My books "Displace" published by Another Earth and "On Trial" published by acb-press will be available at Salon 44, Gallery 44's annual fundraising exhibition in support of exhibition and education programs, bringing together a collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with valued works for both new and seasoned collectors. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Emilie Croning and Maegan Broadhurst. Opening this Thursday 2 in Toronto from 7-10pm.
EXHIBITION (MEXICO), Espacio Migrante (group show) — link here
Collective installation curated by Anamaria Briede and Catalina De la Cruz at Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro, México, as part of Encuentro de Fotografía de Querétano 2023, with a selection of photographs from Frequency.
The project takes as a reference the American territory, specifically South America and from there it seeks to re-articulate, re-draw and above all re-connect the borders from the photographic practice.
The work is based on the possibility of creating a dialectic that distorts the notions of territory, identity and geography from the South American perspective that unites us, to inhabit and materialize the poetic illusion of a new imaginary, as a cartography of individual experiences, historical, social, political and emotional contexts. A collaborative visual writing as a repository of mental, intimate, public, emotional images as a glossary of territorial geolocations that indicate the cultural plurality of America.
Collaborative project that brings together photographic, audio and music works by Latin American artists looking at the territory: Aníbal Mangoni (Argentina), Guadalupe Arriegue (Argentina), Federico Estol (Uruguay), Claudio Bertoni (Chile), Guillermo Daghero (Chile-Argentina), Cecilia Cordi (Argentina), Pilar Pedraza (Perú), Juan Carlos Rodríguez (México), Jhonny Chávez (Perú), Margara De Haene (México), Esmelyn Miranda (Venezuela), Andrés Muñoz (Chile), Nia Diedla (Chile-Francia), Martín Gubbins (Chile), Gregorio Fontén (Chile), Romina Resuche (Argentina), Santiago Jara (Chile), and Cristián Ordóñez (Canada – Chile).
EXHIBITION (MEXICO), Espacio Migrante (group show) — link here
Collective installation curated by Anamaria Briede and Catalina De la Cruz at Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro, México, as part of Encuentro de Fotografía de Querétano 2023, with a selection of photographs from Frequency.
The project takes as a reference the American territory, specifically South America and from there it seeks to re-articulate, re-draw and above all re-connect the borders from the photographic practice.
The work is based on the possibility of creating a dialectic that distorts the notions of territory, identity and geography from the South American perspective that unites us, to inhabit and materialize the poetic illusion of a new imaginary, as a cartography of individual experiences, historical, social, political and emotional contexts. A collaborative visual writing as a repository of mental, intimate, public, emotional images as a glossary of territorial geolocations that indicate the cultural plurality of America.
Collaborative project that brings together photographic, audio and music works by Latin American artists looking at the territory: Aníbal Mangoni (Argentina), Guadalupe Arriegue (Argentina), Federico Estol (Uruguay), Claudio Bertoni (Chile), Guillermo Daghero (Chile-Argentina), Cecilia Cordi (Argentina), Pilar Pedraza (Perú), Juan Carlos Rodríguez (México), Jhonny Chávez (Perú), Margara De Haene (México), Esmelyn Miranda (Venezuela), Andrés Muñoz (Chile), Nia Diedla (Chile-Francia), Martín Gubbins (Chile), Gregorio Fontén (Chile), Romina Resuche (Argentina), Santiago Jara (Chile), and Cristián Ordóñez (Canada – Chile).
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
The People United at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Opening reception Friday, February 10th, from 7-9 pm.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
The People United at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Opening reception Friday, February 10th, from 7-9 pm.
PRESS (US), New York Review of Architecture — link here
Article published today “Is Toronto burning?”, by Sebastián López Cardozo focusing on Toronto’s social and economic crisis. The article highlights my recent show Displace at Project 107 Gallery, as a memoir of a modernist building slated for demolition in the Regent Park neighbourhood. Article by Uruguayan architectural designer, editor, and writer, Sebastián López Cardozo.
Extract: The same building is the setting for, and the object of CRISTIAN ORDÓÑEZ’s new large-format photography exhibition, Displace, which opened on January 5. The exhibition marks the culmination of a year-long collaboration between Ordóñez and the gallery. “Nicole and [co-owner] Justin [Pape] found this space,” Ordóñez told me, “and I started visiting them and working with them on projects.” On his frequent visits to the building, he began noticing certain quirks—an aborted renovation project, a stained carpet, a desiccated plant left behind in an empty office—that he eventually thought to record.
The photographs are mounted on thin wooden structures. Anchored to the wall and to the ground, the displays venture into the space of the gallery itself. “There are corners, areas where you have to go in and discover new images; it recreates the way that I discovered spaces while moving through the building,” said Ordóñez. Speaking of his decision to print the photographs in newsprint paper, Ordóñez said that he wanted to evoke the fragility and impermanence of the space: “Unlike what you might expect from fine art prints, newsprint will disappear over time. It’s a metaphor, in a way, about how this place is also going to disappear.”
PRESS (US), New York Review of Architecture — link here
Article published today “Is Toronto burning?”, by Sebastián López Cardozo focusing on Toronto’s social and economic crisis. The article highlights my recent show Displace at Project 107 Gallery, as a memoir of a modernist building slated for demolition in the Regent Park neighbourhood. Article by Uruguayan architectural designer, editor, and writer, Sebastián López Cardozo.
Extract: The same building is the setting for, and the object of CRISTIAN ORDÓÑEZ’s new large-format photography exhibition, Displace, which opened on January 5. The exhibition marks the culmination of a year-long collaboration between Ordóñez and the gallery. “Nicole and [co-owner] Justin [Pape] found this space,” Ordóñez told me, “and I started visiting them and working with them on projects.” On his frequent visits to the building, he began noticing certain quirks—an aborted renovation project, a stained carpet, a desiccated plant left behind in an empty office—that he eventually thought to record.
The photographs are mounted on thin wooden structures. Anchored to the wall and to the ground, the displays venture into the space of the gallery itself. “There are corners, areas where you have to go in and discover new images; it recreates the way that I discovered spaces while moving through the building,” said Ordóñez. Speaking of his decision to print the photographs in newsprint paper, Ordóñez said that he wanted to evoke the fragility and impermanence of the space: “Unlike what you might expect from fine art prints, newsprint will disappear over time. It’s a metaphor, in a way, about how this place is also going to disappear.”
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Displace (solo show) — link here
Solo show at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto, ON Canada. Opening on Thursday, January 5, until Sunday, January 8.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Displace (solo show) — link here
Solo show at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto, ON Canada. Opening on Thursday, January 5, until Sunday, January 8.
HONOURS (SPAIN), Getxophoto — link here
Honour to be one of the finalists with my project Frequency, of the Getxophoto’s Open Call, under the theme Pause!. Thank you to the international jury made up of Elisa Medde (editor-in-chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam), Luis Juárez (editor of Revista Balam, Buenos Aires), Jon Uriarte (digital curator of The Photographers’ Gallery, London) and María Ptqk (curator of Getxophoto).
HONOURS (SPAIN), Getxophoto — link here
Honour to be one of the finalists with my project Frequency, of the Getxophoto’s Open Call, under the theme Pause!. Thank you to the international jury made up of Elisa Medde (editor-in-chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam), Luis Juárez (editor of Revista Balam, Buenos Aires), Jon Uriarte (digital curator of The Photographers’ Gallery, London) and María Ptqk (curator of Getxophoto).
HONOURS (CANADA), Nothing Special
The 2022 ADCC Awards honoured with Bronze for the Complete Book Design category to Nothing Special. The book contains 36 photographs by Cristian Ordóñez and Designed by Biography.
HONOURS (CANADA), Nothing Special
The 2022 ADCC Awards honoured with Bronze for the Complete Book Design category to Nothing Special. The book contains 36 photographs by Cristian Ordóñez and Designed by Biography.
BENEFIT SALE (LATIN AMERICA), Artishock — link here
Two works available in the 2023 benefit sale for Artishock Magazine.
BENEFIT SALE (LATIN AMERICA), Artishock — link here
Two works available in the 2023 benefit sale for Artishock Magazine.
EXHIBITION (FRANCE), Les Photaumnales (group show)
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition curated by Louis Perreault, at Les Photaumnales in Creil, at the Faïencerie, Allée Nelson, France. Available between November 18 - 20.
EXHIBITION (FRANCE), Les Photaumnales (group show)
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition curated by Louis Perreault, at Les Photaumnales in Creil, at the Faïencerie, Allée Nelson, France. Available between November 18 - 20.
PROCESS (CHILE), Valle
Currently working on a research project focusing on the communities and their territories of the Huasco Valley, located in the southern Atacama Desert, Chile.
PROCESS (CHILE), Valle
Currently working on a research project focusing on the communities and their territories of the Huasco Valley, located in the southern Atacama Desert, Chile.
HONOURS (CANADA), Canada Council for the Arts
My project Frequency has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
HONOURS (CANADA), Canada Council for the Arts
My project Frequency has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
PRESS (LATIN AMERICA), Frecuencia — link here
Article written by Alejandra Villasmil by contemporary art magazine Artishock about my exhibition Frequency at Galería Animal.
Extract (Spanish): "En Frecuencia no estamos ante imágenes de una clasificación fácil. Aunque su opacidad es precisamente su gran virtud, es en la vivencia autoral de lo glocal desde donde se puede entender el impulso de estas cuidadas composiciones. Muchas de ellas abrazan la noción espacio-tiempo a través de la “ausencia de nuestra presencia” en el paisaje urbano, o las marcas y cicatrices del concreto yuxtapuestas a una naturaleza herida que lucha por defender el lugar sagrado que le corresponde."
PRESS (LATIN AMERICA), Frecuencia — link here
Article written by Alejandra Villasmil by contemporary art magazine Artishock about my exhibition Frequency at Galería Animal.
Extract (Spanish): "En Frecuencia no estamos ante imágenes de una clasificación fácil. Aunque su opacidad es precisamente su gran virtud, es en la vivencia autoral de lo glocal desde donde se puede entender el impulso de estas cuidadas composiciones. Muchas de ellas abrazan la noción espacio-tiempo a través de la “ausencia de nuestra presencia” en el paisaje urbano, o las marcas y cicatrices del concreto yuxtapuestas a una naturaleza herida que lucha por defender el lugar sagrado que le corresponde."
EXHIBITION (DENMARK), The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks, curated by Louis Perreault, at Photobook Week Aarhus in the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Available between October 27 - 30. Supported by The Canadian Art Council, Galleri Image and the Aarhus School of Architecture.
EXHIBITION (DENMARK), The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks, curated by Louis Perreault, at Photobook Week Aarhus in the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Available between October 27 - 30. Supported by The Canadian Art Council, Galleri Image and the Aarhus School of Architecture.
ARTIST TALK (ONLINE), The People United
Online Artist talk on October 13 at 7PM EST together with artist Syrup Marcus Ware, for Sur Gallery.
ARTIST TALK (ONLINE), The People United
Online Artist talk on October 13 at 7PM EST together with artist Syrup Marcus Ware, for Sur Gallery.
EXHIBITION (CHILE), Frecuencia (solo show)
Thursday 6 de Octubre de 19:00-21:00 hrs. Galería Animal. Av. Nueva Costanera 3731, Vitacura, Santiago. Curated by Maria Jose Sagredo. Supported by Ontario Art Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
EXHIBITION (CHILE), Frecuencia (solo show)
Thursday 6 de Octubre de 19:00-21:00 hrs. Galería Animal. Av. Nueva Costanera 3731, Vitacura, Santiago. Curated by Maria Jose Sagredo. Supported by Ontario Art Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
Sur Gallery, Toronto ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Artists: Beehive Collective, Carlos Colín, Cristian Ordóñez, Syrus Marcus Ware and Colectivo LASTESIS. September 22 - November 26, 2022
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
Sur Gallery, Toronto ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Artists: Beehive Collective, Carlos Colín, Cristian Ordóñez, Syrus Marcus Ware and Colectivo LASTESIS. September 22 - November 26, 2022
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Les livres du vécu (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie, curated by Louis Perreault. Exhibition open from August 5 — September 3, 2022, Carleton, QC Canada.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Les livres du vécu (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie, curated by Louis Perreault. Exhibition open from August 5 — September 3, 2022, Carleton, QC Canada.
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2022-2023
My project Trama has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant, for a forthcoming group exhibition at Sur Gallery / Latin American-Canadian Art Projects in Toronto. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2022-2023
My project Trama has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant, for a forthcoming group exhibition at Sur Gallery / Latin American-Canadian Art Projects in Toronto. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
COLLECTION (CANADA), On Trial
On Trial, published by acb press, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection in Ottawa, ON Canada.
COLLECTION (CANADA), On Trial
On Trial, published by acb press, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection in Ottawa, ON Canada.
HONOURS (GERMANY), Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Nominee
Very honoured to be nominated to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022.
HONOURS (GERMANY), Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Nominee
Very honoured to be nominated to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022.
BOOK (US/CANADA), Signals — link here
Photo Edit and Design of Signals by Another Earth. Edition in conjunction with Abbey Meaker. Signals presents the works and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet.
Presents the images and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet. Organized into elemental chapters – earth, fire, water, wind – the works coalesce around weather events from the devastating to the mundane, offering a collective portrait of reciprocity and communication between self, earth, and environment.
Artists: Dylan Haustor, Daniel Fleitas, Camila Valdés, Vojtech Veskrna, Gaspar Abrilot, Henry Tyson, Susan Clarahan, Chelsea Call, Ben Currotto, Tommy Nease, Rodolfo Muñoz, Parker Stewart, Tyler Muzzin, Tal Ben Avi, Ali Beşikçi, Catlin Johnson, Sebastien Arrighi, Sharon Castellanos, Paloma Palomino, Sean Peeters, Keith Gray, Max LaBelle, Leah Beeferman, John Watts, Helen Kohnke, Andy Becker, Adam Ianniello, Elijah Barrett, Lindsay Godin, DJ Hellerman
72 pages colour
6 x 7.85 inches
Thread Sewn Paperback
Card stock Slipcase
Edition of 100 copies
English
Printed by The Gas Company, Inc.
Book designed by Cristian Ordóñez.
Edited by Abbey Meaker and Cristian Ordóñez.
Curated by Abbey Meaker, Cristian Ordóñez, and Estefania Puerta.
©2022
BOOK (US/CANADA), Signals — link here
Photo Edit and Design of Signals by Another Earth. Edition in conjunction with Abbey Meaker. Signals presents the works and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet.
Presents the images and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet. Organized into elemental chapters – earth, fire, water, wind – the works coalesce around weather events from the devastating to the mundane, offering a collective portrait of reciprocity and communication between self, earth, and environment.
Artists: Dylan Haustor, Daniel Fleitas, Camila Valdés, Vojtech Veskrna, Gaspar Abrilot, Henry Tyson, Susan Clarahan, Chelsea Call, Ben Currotto, Tommy Nease, Rodolfo Muñoz, Parker Stewart, Tyler Muzzin, Tal Ben Avi, Ali Beşikçi, Catlin Johnson, Sebastien Arrighi, Sharon Castellanos, Paloma Palomino, Sean Peeters, Keith Gray, Max LaBelle, Leah Beeferman, John Watts, Helen Kohnke, Andy Becker, Adam Ianniello, Elijah Barrett, Lindsay Godin, DJ Hellerman
72 pages colour
6 x 7.85 inches
Thread Sewn Paperback
Card stock Slipcase
Edition of 100 copies
English
Printed by The Gas Company, Inc.
Book designed by Cristian Ordóñez.
Edited by Abbey Meaker and Cristian Ordóñez.
Curated by Abbey Meaker, Cristian Ordóñez, and Estefania Puerta.
©2022
COLLECTION (AUSTRALIA), On Trial
Honoured to have my new publications On Trial, published by acb press, being part of the State Library of Victoria collection in Melbourne, and the National Library of Australia collection in Canberra, Australia.
COLLECTION (AUSTRALIA), On Trial
Honoured to have my new publications On Trial, published by acb press, being part of the State Library of Victoria collection in Melbourne, and the National Library of Australia collection in Canberra, Australia.
BOOK FAIR (AUSTRALIA), On Trial — link here
On Trial, published by acb press was recently launched at Photo 2022, Photobook Weekend in Melbourne, Australia and Permanent Art Book Fair in Sydney, Australia with acb press and Rohan Hutchinson — Order here
BOOK FAIR (AUSTRALIA), On Trial — link here
On Trial, published by acb press was recently launched at Photo 2022, Photobook Weekend in Melbourne, Australia and Permanent Art Book Fair in Sydney, Australia with acb press and Rohan Hutchinson — Order here
Photographers and visual artists featured: Richard Chivers, Cristian Ordóñez, Andreas Tschersich, Fyodor Konukhov, Filippo Bardazzi, Pierre Folk, Rosie Barnes, Dawn Roe, Bruno Silva, Tommaso Rada, Ralph Steinegger, Benina Hu, Paweł Starzec, Sara Palmieri, Daniele Molajoli, Jaime Permuth, Michelle Piergoelam, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Anne Immelé, Ivan Petrović, Camillo Pasquarelli, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Matteo Spertini, Breno Rotatori, Kosmas Pavlidis, Thomas Gauthier, Jenia Fridlyand, Max Arens, Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley, Davide Degano.
Photographers and visual artists featured: Richard Chivers, Cristian Ordóñez, Andreas Tschersich, Fyodor Konukhov, Filippo Bardazzi, Pierre Folk, Rosie Barnes, Dawn Roe, Bruno Silva, Tommaso Rada, Ralph Steinegger, Benina Hu, Paweł Starzec, Sara Palmieri, Daniele Molajoli, Jaime Permuth, Michelle Piergoelam, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Anne Immelé, Ivan Petrović, Camillo Pasquarelli, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Matteo Spertini, Breno Rotatori, Kosmas Pavlidis, Thomas Gauthier, Jenia Fridlyand, Max Arens, Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley, Davide Degano.
COLLECTION (SPAIN), San Telmo Museum — link here
Honoured to have my publications Notes 1, Notes 2, Notes 3 and Other Voices being part of the Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection at San Telmo Museum, Spain.
COLLECTION (SPAIN), San Telmo Museum — link here
Honoured to have my publications Notes 1, Notes 2, Notes 3 and Other Voices being part of the Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection at San Telmo Museum, Spain.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 Online (group show) — link here
Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs. Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Tatum Dooley and Maegan Broadhurst. Salon 44 launches March 3 at Midnight through March 19, 2022.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 Online (group show) — link here
Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs. Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Tatum Dooley and Maegan Broadhurst. Salon 44 launches March 3 at Midnight through March 19, 2022.
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2021-2022
My project Frequency has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2021-2022
My project Frequency has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
PRESS (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Notes included in the article "Zines that made us think in 2021".
Extract, text by Callum Beaney: Without commitment to a fully-fledged narrative, Ordóñez’s images, in their spotty, charcoal blacks, keep true to their quality as observations, curiosities held by the photographer. Notes 3 exclusively observes the shape & structure of the landscapes, presenting in logical progress the desert’s cascading, granular textures of foliage and rocks, moving later to the divide between land and sky. Though a logical progression, it is one both intuitive and visually gorgeous."
PRESS (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Notes included in the article "Zines that made us think in 2021".
Extract, text by Callum Beaney: Without commitment to a fully-fledged narrative, Ordóñez’s images, in their spotty, charcoal blacks, keep true to their quality as observations, curiosities held by the photographer. Notes 3 exclusively observes the shape & structure of the landscapes, presenting in logical progress the desert’s cascading, granular textures of foliage and rocks, moving later to the divide between land and sky. Though a logical progression, it is one both intuitive and visually gorgeous."
PRESS (SPAIN), Fotonostrum — link here
Interviewed and featured at Fotonostrum Magazine issue 22. FotoNostrum Magazine is a spinoff of FotoNostrum Gallery, Mediterranean House of Photography, a parent company of WonderPick (UK) and The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards. It is released monthly, available on print and online. FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain.
PRESS (SPAIN), Fotonostrum — link here
Interviewed and featured at Fotonostrum Magazine issue 22. FotoNostrum Magazine is a spinoff of FotoNostrum Gallery, Mediterranean House of Photography, a parent company of WonderPick (UK) and The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards. It is released monthly, available on print and online. FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain.
PUBLICATION (ARGENTINA), Fotosfera — link here
Cover photography of new photographic book Fotosfera, a Latin American photography platform from Argentina. The book is available for pre-order and contains works by 22 photographers.
PUBLICATION (ARGENTINA), Fotosfera — link here
Cover photography of new photographic book Fotosfera, a Latin American photography platform from Argentina. The book is available for pre-order and contains works by 22 photographers.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), The idea of the Photobook — link here
In November I am looking forward to doing an online workshop called "The idea of the Photobook" at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Please email Leila Fatemi at lfatemi@gallery44.org to register or if you have any questions. Free for members.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), The idea of the Photobook — link here
In November I am looking forward to doing an online workshop called "The idea of the Photobook" at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Please email Leila Fatemi at lfatemi@gallery44.org to register or if you have any questions. Free for members.
HONOURS (CANADA), Burtynsky Grant Winner, 2021 — link here
Ongoing body of work "Frequency" has won the 2021 Burtynsky Grant. Jury by Edward Burtynsky, Romke Hoogwaerts, Michele Pearson Clarke, and Zun Lee. CONTACT Photography Festival.
Extract (CONTACT Photography Festival): “Produced while on daily walks throughout Toronto in 2020 and 2021, Cristian Ordóñez’s project 'Frequency' is a timely meditation on the tension between humans, nature, and the urban landscape. Ordóñez’s large- and medium-format photographs are masterfully composed, presenting uncanny vestiges of both natural and built environments in a wide tonal range of black and white. The energy, thoughtfulness, and the pacing of this body of work resonates with the pace of what life has been like in recent years. Ordóñez has been quietly and consistently creating self-published book projects for many years, and the jury is excited that this grant will assist him in the opportunity to work with a publisher."
HONOURS (CANADA), Burtynsky Grant Winner, 2021 — link here
Ongoing body of work "Frequency" has won the 2021 Burtynsky Grant. Jury by Edward Burtynsky, Romke Hoogwaerts, Michele Pearson Clarke, and Zun Lee. CONTACT Photography Festival.
Extract (CONTACT Photography Festival): “Produced while on daily walks throughout Toronto in 2020 and 2021, Cristian Ordóñez’s project 'Frequency' is a timely meditation on the tension between humans, nature, and the urban landscape. Ordóñez’s large- and medium-format photographs are masterfully composed, presenting uncanny vestiges of both natural and built environments in a wide tonal range of black and white. The energy, thoughtfulness, and the pacing of this body of work resonates with the pace of what life has been like in recent years. Ordóñez has been quietly and consistently creating self-published book projects for many years, and the jury is excited that this grant will assist him in the opportunity to work with a publisher."
EXHIBITION (UK), Read the Room (group show)
Publications Notes 01, 02 + 03 part of group show Read the Room. A celebration of self-published and independently published works and the artists who make them. Serchia Gallery in Bristol. October 22-24, 2021.
EXHIBITION (UK), Read the Room (group show)
Publications Notes 01, 02 + 03 part of group show Read the Room. A celebration of self-published and independently published works and the artists who make them. Serchia Gallery in Bristol. October 22-24, 2021.
VIDEO (CANADA), Nothing Special
Video concept and directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Audio composed by Justin Pape. Final video with voice over by Matt Schichter. Collaboration with Biography.
VIDEO (CANADA), Nothing Special
Video concept and directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Audio composed by Justin Pape. Final video with voice over by Matt Schichter. Collaboration with Biography.
BOOK (CANADA), Nothing Special
36 Photographs by Cristian Ordóñez. Book Edited and Designed by Marlo Onilla. 51.5 x 33.5 x 70 cms (Box). 48.5 x 33 x 30 cms (Book). 108 pages. Book contained in handmade box (Gauze, Paint, Sand, Epoxy and Laser Cut). Cover photograph protected with resin. Brass engraved and polished tube with pencil inside. Limited edition. Collaboration with Biography.
BOOK (CANADA), Nothing Special
36 Photographs by Cristian Ordóñez. Book Edited and Designed by Marlo Onilla. 51.5 x 33.5 x 70 cms (Box). 48.5 x 33 x 30 cms (Book). 108 pages. Book contained in handmade box (Gauze, Paint, Sand, Epoxy and Laser Cut). Cover photograph protected with resin. Brass engraved and polished tube with pencil inside. Limited edition. Collaboration with Biography.
FAIR (ONLINE), Artsy, with Galería Animal — link here
Part of the first edition of Latin American Galleries Now by Artsy, bringing together the gallery associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico all in one place. Joining this initiative thanks to Galería Animal, together with artists Bruno Giliberto, Patricia Claro and Hernán Gana. Thanks to curator María Jose Sagredo. Latin American Galleries Now. July 19 - August 9, 2021.
FAIR (ONLINE), Artsy, with Galería Animal — link here
Part of the first edition of Latin American Galleries Now by Artsy, bringing together the gallery associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico all in one place. Joining this initiative thanks to Galería Animal, together with artists Bruno Giliberto, Patricia Claro and Hernán Gana. Thanks to curator María Jose Sagredo. Latin American Galleries Now. July 19 - August 9, 2021.
PRESS (ITALY) Other Voices — link here
Thanks for the words to Greta and the Pellicola Magazine.
Extract: Landscapes as works of our mind. Cristian Ordóñez explores the border between reality and memory and the recurring connections that establish when these two dimensions interact with one another. Emotions, connections, sensory perceptions shape what we experience creating a symbolic reality, unidentifiable and in between moments in which the unknown and the familiar become inseparable. This boundary between what is far and what is recognizable is what makes way for unclear associations, as we were floating into existence directed by our past, like a “narrative dream”. Works from publication "Other Voices", 2019.
PRESS (ITALY) Other Voices — link here
Thanks for the words to Greta and the Pellicola Magazine.
Extract: Landscapes as works of our mind. Cristian Ordóñez explores the border between reality and memory and the recurring connections that establish when these two dimensions interact with one another. Emotions, connections, sensory perceptions shape what we experience creating a symbolic reality, unidentifiable and in between moments in which the unknown and the familiar become inseparable. This boundary between what is far and what is recognizable is what makes way for unclear associations, as we were floating into existence directed by our past, like a “narrative dream”. Works from publication "Other Voices", 2019.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), The Globe and Mail
Urban habitats are in trouble. What Toronto's ailing ravines reveal about the future of city wilderness — Story by Alex Bozikovic and Oliver Moore. Photographs of scientist and forestry ecologist Eric Davies, for The Globe and Mail print version, on the cover and folio section. Photo editor Clare Vander Meersch.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), The Globe and Mail
Urban habitats are in trouble. What Toronto's ailing ravines reveal about the future of city wilderness — Story by Alex Bozikovic and Oliver Moore. Photographs of scientist and forestry ecologist Eric Davies, for The Globe and Mail print version, on the cover and folio section. Photo editor Clare Vander Meersch.
HONOURS (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute — link here
Ongoing project "Frequency" has been awarded the Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2020, in the category Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts. The project is accompanied by a text by the sociologist Mónica Salinero Rates. The project will be published later this year in a publication by the institute. Urbanautica Institute works on photography, visual anthropology and cultural landscapes.
HONOURS (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute — link here
Ongoing project "Frequency" has been awarded the Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2020, in the category Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts. The project is accompanied by a text by the sociologist Mónica Salinero Rates. The project will be published later this year in a publication by the institute. Urbanautica Institute works on photography, visual anthropology and cultural landscapes.
TEACHING (CANADA), Authorship, Editorial
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2021.
TEACHING (CANADA), Authorship, Editorial
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2021.
TALK/PANEL (CHILE), Hacia una nueva visualidad — link here
Talk about inspiration and collaborations, plus a panel discussion about design and culture with architect Rodrigo Tisi, design academic Pamela Gatica and graphic designer Werner Fett, as part of the event "Diseñar Hoy", organized by the Chilean Minister of Culture, Arts and Patrimony. Event in Spanish!
TALK/PANEL (CHILE), Hacia una nueva visualidad — link here
Talk about inspiration and collaborations, plus a panel discussion about design and culture with architect Rodrigo Tisi, design academic Pamela Gatica and graphic designer Werner Fett, as part of the event "Diseñar Hoy", organized by the Chilean Minister of Culture, Arts and Patrimony. Event in Spanish!
FEATURE (GERMANY/CHILE), Raúl Zurita, La poesía como la escencia de toda creación
An honor to share my photographs with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Buchmesse), in the short documentary film curated by Gabinete Contemporary Art, with Goethe-Institute. An important date turning one year from the Chilean social outbreak from October 18, 2019. Photographs from my ongoing work called "Trama". Thank you to curator Carolina Martínez Sánchez for the invitation.
FEATURE (GERMANY/CHILE), Raúl Zurita, La poesía como la escencia de toda creación
An honor to share my photographs with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Buchmesse), in the short documentary film curated by Gabinete Contemporary Art, with Goethe-Institute. An important date turning one year from the Chilean social outbreak from October 18, 2019. Photographs from my ongoing work called "Trama". Thank you to curator Carolina Martínez Sánchez for the invitation.
ONLINE SALE (CHILE), The distance of things is overcome by a plane
Curated by Matías Allende Contador, with advice from Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz. "Perimeter Series", 2020 explores the relationship and the dialogue that is generated between the urbanization imposed by the human being and nature, putting emphasis on how we constantly try to control its organic growth. Works commissioned in response by "The distance of things is overcome by a plane" title of an essay by Matías Allende, to integrate the collaborative project of Fundación Antenna and available to purchase in the new local art platform of Falabella. Thanks for the invitation to Matías Allende, Fundación Antenna, and to all the team that carried out this project, including Loa Bascuñan, Cristián Aninat, Alfonzo Diaz, and Antonio Bascuñan.
ONLINE SALE (CHILE), The distance of things is overcome by a plane
Curated by Matías Allende Contador, with advice from Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz. "Perimeter Series", 2020 explores the relationship and the dialogue that is generated between the urbanization imposed by the human being and nature, putting emphasis on how we constantly try to control its organic growth. Works commissioned in response by "The distance of things is overcome by a plane" title of an essay by Matías Allende, to integrate the collaborative project of Fundación Antenna and available to purchase in the new local art platform of Falabella. Thanks for the invitation to Matías Allende, Fundación Antenna, and to all the team that carried out this project, including Loa Bascuñan, Cristián Aninat, Alfonzo Diaz, and Antonio Bascuñan.
EXHIBITION (RUSSIA), Sink After the Sun (solo show)
Department of Culture, Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture. Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Russia. Curated by Evgeny Komuhin. September 13 to October 11, 2020
EXHIBITION (RUSSIA), Sink After the Sun (solo show)
Department of Culture, Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture. Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Russia. Curated by Evgeny Komuhin. September 13 to October 11, 2020
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A World Without Us
Featured work on the next issue of Rivista Eco, a magazine dedicated to sustainable education and environmental culture, with an article by Ugo Leone on the book 'Extinction' published by Urbanautica. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A World Without Us
Featured work on the next issue of Rivista Eco, a magazine dedicated to sustainable education and environmental culture, with an article by Ugo Leone on the book 'Extinction' published by Urbanautica. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
EXHIBITION (BELGIUM), Picture Paralyse (group show)
The School. The Gallery at Maison Florida. Hasselt, Belgium. Curated by Pablo Hannon.
EXHIBITION (BELGIUM), Picture Paralyse (group show)
The School. The Gallery at Maison Florida. Hasselt, Belgium. Curated by Pablo Hannon.
PRESS (CANADA), Voir l'invisible — link here
"See the invisible" text by Michelle Drapeau.
Artist-run centre VU Photo (Québec) features article that includes artists Hua Jin, Débora Flor, Florence Le Blanc, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Clint Enns, Pierre&Marie, Cristian Ordóñez, Marjolaine Bourdua, Dani Hausmann, and Jean-Francois Pros.
PRESS (CANADA), Voir l'invisible — link here
"See the invisible" text by Michelle Drapeau.
Artist-run centre VU Photo (Québec) features article that includes artists Hua Jin, Débora Flor, Florence Le Blanc, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Clint Enns, Pierre&Marie, Cristian Ordóñez, Marjolaine Bourdua, Dani Hausmann, and Jean-Francois Pros.
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A Possible Catalogue — link here
Featured work in an article written by Ugo Leone, an expert on environmental policies, long-lecturer at the University of Naples Federico II and former president of the Vesuvius National Park. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A Possible Catalogue — link here
Featured work in an article written by Ugo Leone, an expert on environmental policies, long-lecturer at the University of Naples Federico II and former president of the Vesuvius National Park. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), Thoughts, Instinct, and Process — link here
Photobook workshop directed at VU Photo in Québec City. This two-and-a-half-day collective workshop allows participating artists to develop an existing photographic project into book form. Activity offered in the context of Assemblages, VU's annual workshop for the creation of book maquettes, which will take place 10-28 February with the artists' Gaston Côte and Hua Jin. VU Photo, Québec City. February, 21 - 23, 2020.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), Thoughts, Instinct, and Process — link here
Photobook workshop directed at VU Photo in Québec City. This two-and-a-half-day collective workshop allows participating artists to develop an existing photographic project into book form. Activity offered in the context of Assemblages, VU's annual workshop for the creation of book maquettes, which will take place 10-28 February with the artists' Gaston Côte and Hua Jin. VU Photo, Québec City. February, 21 - 23, 2020.
PUBLICATION (CHILE), Sergio Larrain
Essay about Sergio Larrain's work for the Book "100 x 100". Edited and Curated by Patricio Pozo.
PUBLICATION (CHILE), Sergio Larrain
Essay about Sergio Larrain's work for the Book "100 x 100". Edited and Curated by Patricio Pozo.
TEACHING (CANADA), Editorial, Book Design
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2020.
TEACHING (CANADA), Editorial, Book Design
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2020.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), Brick Magazine: A Literary Journal, issue 104
“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end” — text by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Article text by Kaitlin Ruether. Art Direction by Mark Byk.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), Brick Magazine: A Literary Journal, issue 104
“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end” — text by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Article text by Kaitlin Ruether. Art Direction by Mark Byk.
PUBLICATION (ITALY), Extinction. The World Without Us — link here
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute. Edited and Curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
PUBLICATION (ITALY), Extinction. The World Without Us — link here
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute. Edited and Curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
EXHIBITION (GREECE), Other Voices (group show)
Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum. Athens Photo Festival. June - July 28, 2019.
EXHIBITION (GREECE), Other Voices (group show)
Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum. Athens Photo Festival. June - July 28, 2019.
PANEL (CANADA), Photobook Lab: On Longevity
Panel discussion invited by Toronto Photo Library and Zackery Hobler. Panel with artists Bianca Salvo, Steven Beckly, Josée Schryer, and Seth Fluker, part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto. Hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Supported by Dara and Marvin Singer.
PANEL (CANADA), Photobook Lab: On Longevity
Panel discussion invited by Toronto Photo Library and Zackery Hobler. Panel with artists Bianca Salvo, Steven Beckly, Josée Schryer, and Seth Fluker, part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto. Hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Supported by Dara and Marvin Singer.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Open Show 33: Photo/Graphic
Curated by Gilbert Li, at Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Open Show 33: Photo/Graphic
Curated by Gilbert Li, at Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA) Journalism Class
Artist talk for Journalism department at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA) Journalism Class
Artist talk for Journalism department at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
PUBLICATION (SPAIN) La Mono Magazine, Essence.
Written by Vicky Navarro, Barcelona, Spain.
PUBLICATION (SPAIN) La Mono Magazine, Essence.
Written by Vicky Navarro, Barcelona, Spain.
PRESS (ITALY), At the Pace of the Bloom
Landscape Stories
PRESS (ITALY), At the Pace of the Bloom
Landscape Stories
FAIR (CANADA), Vancouver Art Book Fair
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC.
FAIR (CANADA), Vancouver Art Book Fair
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC.
BOOK (CHILE), Colección del Metalibro N2
Edited by Javiera Novoa. Text by Mónica Salinero. Translation by Tomás Peters. Published by Metalibro.
BOOK (CHILE), Colección del Metalibro N2
Edited by Javiera Novoa. Text by Mónica Salinero. Translation by Tomás Peters. Published by Metalibro.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. September — October 2018.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. September — October 2018.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Subjectively Objective Gallery, Detroit, MI.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Subjectively Objective Gallery, Detroit, MI.
PUBLICATION (US) The Vernacular of Landscape
Publication by Subjectively Objective. Curated by Noah Waldeck and co-edited by Float Photo Magazine.
PUBLICATION (US) The Vernacular of Landscape
Publication by Subjectively Objective. Curated by Noah Waldeck and co-edited by Float Photo Magazine.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
EXHIBITION + PUBLICATION (CANADA), Terrain Notes (group show)
Edited and Art Directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Group Exhibition and publication launch at Pushmi Pullyu Gallery, Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITION + PUBLICATION (CANADA), Terrain Notes (group show)
Edited and Art Directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Group Exhibition and publication launch at Pushmi Pullyu Gallery, Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITION (NETHERLANDS), The Night (group show)
Curated by Chantalle Weerts and Pablo Hannon. BIP, Biennale De L’image Possible, Belgium. Group Exhibition at Maastricht, Netherlands. Large photocopies, book and screenprints. Various materials and sizes.
EXHIBITION (NETHERLANDS), The Night (group show)
Curated by Chantalle Weerts and Pablo Hannon. BIP, Biennale De L’image Possible, Belgium. Group Exhibition at Maastricht, Netherlands. Large photocopies, book and screenprints. Various materials and sizes.
EXHIBITION (ITALY), XXI Triennale di Milano
Street Art pavilion at the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition: City After the City. Exhibition Design and Edition. Associate Creative Direction, Design and Edition with (Bruce Mau Design) Creative Direction by Manuel Gonzalez, and with designers Mariana Nemer and Sebastián Rodriguez. Curated by Nina Bassoli.
EXHIBITION (ITALY), XXI Triennale di Milano
Street Art pavilion at the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition: City After the City. Exhibition Design and Edition. Associate Creative Direction, Design and Edition with (Bruce Mau Design) Creative Direction by Manuel Gonzalez, and with designers Mariana Nemer and Sebastián Rodriguez. Curated by Nina Bassoli.
PRESS (GERMANY), Der Greif
Guest-Room Online Group Exhibition. Curated by Ann-Christin Bertrand.
PRESS (GERMANY), Der Greif
Guest-Room Online Group Exhibition. Curated by Ann-Christin Bertrand.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 (group show)
Group exhibition at Gallery 44 in Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 (group show)
Group exhibition at Gallery 44 in Toronto, ON.
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STRUCTURE AND SEQUENCE (CONTACT Photography Festival), workshop — link here
Last week, I had the pleasure of co-leading the “Structure and Sequence” photobook workshop with Kate Schneider for the CONTACT Photobook Lab and the CONTACT Photography Festival. A heartfelt thank you to Kate for the great collaboration and Brian St. Denis for his trust, as well as for all the meticulous planning and support before and throughout the three-day event.
I’m also deeply grateful to the participants—Clara Lacasse, Meg Ross, Valérian Mazataud, and Grégoire Bellans—for their enthusiasm, trust, and the opportunity to engage with their incredible work. It was truly inspiring to learn from each of you, and this experience reinforced how much I enjoy the collaborative process.
The workshop was enriched by insightful artist talks from Birthe Piontek and Benjamin Freedman, along with group critiques by Ben and Lauren Wickware. A sincere thank you to all!
STRUCTURE AND SEQUENCE (CONTACT Photography Festival), workshop — link here
Last week, I had the pleasure of co-leading the “Structure and Sequence” photobook workshop with Kate Schneider for the CONTACT Photobook Lab and the CONTACT Photography Festival. A heartfelt thank you to Kate for the great collaboration and Brian St. Denis for his trust, as well as for all the meticulous planning and support before and throughout the three-day event.
I’m also deeply grateful to the participants—Clara Lacasse, Meg Ross, Valérian Mazataud, and Grégoire Bellans—for their enthusiasm, trust, and the opportunity to engage with their incredible work. It was truly inspiring to learn from each of you, and this experience reinforced how much I enjoy the collaborative process.
The workshop was enriched by insightful artist talks from Birthe Piontek and Benjamin Freedman, along with group critiques by Ben and Lauren Wickware. A sincere thank you to all!
A NARROW FOOTHOLD (Another Earth), website — link here
"A Narrow Foothold", the book I edited and designed for Another Earth and artists Jonas Feige and Alan Huck, is out of print, We made it available on a website dedicated to the project that includes the photographs, a downloadable PDF of the book, and the conversation between the artists that was part of the special edition. A website by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck and Cristian Ordóñez, with typography by Erkin Karamemet. Also, Jonas and Alan had a conversation with Brad Feuerhelm on THE NEAREST TRUTH podcast, episode 428.
A NARROW FOOTHOLD (Another Earth), website — link here
"A Narrow Foothold", the book I edited and designed for Another Earth and artists Jonas Feige and Alan Huck, is out of print, We made it available on a website dedicated to the project that includes the photographs, a downloadable PDF of the book, and the conversation between the artists that was part of the special edition. A website by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck and Cristian Ordóñez, with typography by Erkin Karamemet. Also, Jonas and Alan had a conversation with Brad Feuerhelm on THE NEAREST TRUTH podcast, episode 428.
HONOURS (Canada), Toronto Arts Council. Visual Artists: Creation Grant
My current work focusing on the Atacama Desert in Chile has won the Visual Artists: Creation grant provided by the Toronto Arts Council. Thank you for the support to the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
HONOURS (Canada), Toronto Arts Council. Visual Artists: Creation Grant
My current work focusing on the Atacama Desert in Chile has won the Visual Artists: Creation grant provided by the Toronto Arts Council. Thank you for the support to the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
Sustainable Photobook Publishing, Case Study (UK) — link here
I was invited to share work related to sustainability and books by Tamsin Green from SSP network. Case Study focuses on the my limited edition book Displace, published by Another Earth in 2023, part of the exhibition created at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto.
Sustainable Photobook Publishing, Case Study (UK) — link here
I was invited to share work related to sustainability and books by Tamsin Green from SSP network. Case Study focuses on the my limited edition book Displace, published by Another Earth in 2023, part of the exhibition created at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto.
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Revista Letargo (Chile) — link here
“Paisaje común” y el detenerse como elemento fundamental para el mirar, texto escrito por Felipe Muñoz de la exhibición Paisaje Común en Galería Animal, Santiago de Chile.
“Ordoñez, con una investigación de carácter territorial direcciona la mirada hacia los valles de la región de Atacama, en Huasco. Desde ahí, se emerge el paisaje resultante de un territorio afectado por los cambios drásticos del clima y el propio actuar humano, fotografía que habla de la intervención directa e indirecta en el habitar del territorio, recordándonos su fragilidad y aridez." — extracto
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Revista Letargo (Chile) — link here
“Paisaje común” y el detenerse como elemento fundamental para el mirar, texto escrito por Felipe Muñoz de la exhibición Paisaje Común en Galería Animal, Santiago de Chile.
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Galería Animal (Chile)
Group exhibition with photographers Javier Aravena, Sebastián Mejía, Cristian Ordóñez, Cristóbal Palma, Marcos Zegers. The exhibition introduces us to the work of five photographers with a solid career in the field of contemporary landscape who for the first time show their work together. The proposal highlights the encounters and dialogues between their personal styles through an intertwined montage of unpublished projects developed both in Chile and in Latin America. From May 30th, until July 13th, 2024.
PAISAJE COMÚN (Common Landscape), Galería Animal (Chile)
Group exhibition with photographers Javier Aravena, Sebastián Mejía, Cristian Ordóñez, Cristóbal Palma, Marcos Zegers. The exhibition introduces us to the work of five photographers with a solid career in the field of contemporary landscape who for the first time show their work together. The proposal highlights the encounters and dialogues between their personal styles through an intertwined montage of unpublished projects developed both in Chile and in Latin America. From May 30th, until July 13th, 2024.
ORIPEAU, Public Exhibition (Montréal)
I was invited to exhibit a couple of images as part of the Oripeau Public Exhibition n°576, located in Montréal, Canada. Oripeau is a participative graphic design project in constant evolution. This diptych was created in Valle del Huasco in Atacama, Chile. Cerro Centinela. Atacama, 2022.
ORIPEAU, Public Exhibition (Montréal)
I was invited to exhibit a couple of images as part of the Oripeau Public Exhibition n°576, located in Montréal, Canada. Oripeau is a participative graphic design project in constant evolution. This diptych was created in Valle del Huasco in Atacama, Chile. Cerro Centinela. Atacama, 2022.
ATACAMA (Chile)
Last month in Atacama, Chile. For the second time collaborating with my brother, the academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This time around the San Pedro de Atacama area visiting different ayllus, towns and specific landmarks. Participating in several interviews that Eduardo had for his research with activists, community members, journalists, businessmen from the mining and tourist area and councilors, a process that informs my photographic work and understanding of the relationship of the territory, the inhabitants and the multinationals. We also traveled to Copiapó where I was invited by Eduardo to participate in a meeting with academics, anthropologists and miners from the University of Atacama. We shared the photographic work done in the Huasco Valley in 2022, and Eduardo spoke about his research in addition to a lecture to the students. An excellent and informative trip - now back in Canada to process and review the work done.
ATACAMA (Chile)
Last month in Atacama, Chile. For the second time collaborating with my brother, the academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This time around the San Pedro de Atacama area visiting different ayllus, towns and specific landmarks. Participating in several interviews that Eduardo had for his research with activists, community members, journalists, businessmen from the mining and tourist area and councilors, a process that informs my photographic work and understanding of the relationship of the territory, the inhabitants and the multinationals. We also traveled to Copiapó where I was invited by Eduardo to participate in a meeting with academics, anthropologists and miners from the University of Atacama. We shared the photographic work done in the Huasco Valley in 2022, and Eduardo spoke about his research in addition to a lecture to the students. An excellent and informative trip - now back in Canada to process and review the work done.
UNFOLD, Public Billboards (Canada)
Billboards with photographs from the ongoing work Unfold. Curated by Heather Canlas Rigg. CONTACT Photography Festival. Installed and visible in Toronto, March 2024 (with an early de-installation — please contact for details). Installation photos © Toni Hafkenscheid and Cristian Ordóñez.
UNFOLD, Public Billboards (Canada)
Billboards with photographs from the ongoing work Unfold. Curated by Heather Canlas Rigg. CONTACT Photography Festival. Installed and visible in Toronto, March 2024 (with an early de-installation — please contact for details). Installation photos © Toni Hafkenscheid and Cristian Ordóñez.
THE URBANAUT PODCAST (Italy), Episode 16 — link here
It was an honour to speak with Patrick Hubbard and ramble about my background and two specific bodies of work (Frequency and Valle). If you want to listen to me ramble for almost 2 hours, please visit the links at The Urbanaut Podcast. Thanks for the interest and thinking of me to Steve Bisson, Patrick Hubbard and Urbanautica Institute.
THE URBANAUT PODCAST (Italy), Episode 16 — link here
It was an honour to speak with Patrick Hubbard and ramble about my background and two specific bodies of work (Frequency and Valle). If you want to listen to me ramble for almost 2 hours, please visit the links at The Urbanaut Podcast. Thanks for the interest and thinking of me to Steve Bisson, Patrick Hubbard and Urbanautica Institute.
PHOTOBOOK WORKSHOP (Canada), Toronto Metropolitan University
I recently did a photobook workshop with photography senior thesis students at the School of Image Arts, TMU. Thanks for the invitation to artists and educators Annie MacDonell and Clare Samuel.
PHOTOBOOK WORKSHOP (Canada), Toronto Metropolitan University
I recently did a photobook workshop with photography senior thesis students at the School of Image Arts, TMU. Thanks for the invitation to artists and educators Annie MacDonell and Clare Samuel.
HONOURS (Canada), Canada Council for the Arts
My Artist Residence OMNE/LAND has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad Residencies program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
HONOURS (Canada), Canada Council for the Arts
My Artist Residence OMNE/LAND has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad Residencies program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
FREQUENCY (US), MoMA — link here
Honoured to hear that my brook Frequency has been included to the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, Archives & Library Collection.
Museum of Modern Art Library, MoMA Manhattan Special Collections;
TR659.5. O73 2023
FREQUENCY (US), MoMA — link here
Honoured to hear that my brook Frequency has been included to the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, Archives & Library Collection.
Museum of Modern Art Library, MoMA Manhattan Special Collections;
TR659.5. O73 2023
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It has been a great pleasure working on this book with Alan Huck and Jonas Feige over the past year. Two photographers and friends whom I admire, appreciate and from whom I am constantly inspired. Thank you both for your trust and allowing me to be part of your collaboration.
56 pages
30 photographs
7.25 x 8.75 inches
Swiss-bound hard cover
Edition of 100 copies
Edited by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck, and Cristian Ordóñez
Designed by Cristian Ordóñez
Published by Another Earth
© 2024
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It has been a great pleasure working on this book with Alan Huck and Jonas Feige over the past year. Two photographers and friends whom I admire, appreciate and from whom I am constantly inspired. Thank you both for your trust and allowing me to be part of your collaboration.
56 pages
30 photographs
7.25 x 8.75 inches
Swiss-bound hard cover
Edition of 100 copies
Edited by Jonas Feige, Alan Huck, and Cristian Ordóñez
Designed by Cristian Ordóñez
Published by Another Earth
© 2024
CINCO LENTES (Chile), Revista ED
Contemporary Chilean photography under five lenses, an article written by Felipe Muñoz Tirado for Diario Financiero and Revista ED, appeared in the print and online version of Revista ED on Saturday, January 20 in Chile. Text and works by photographers Bruno Giliberto, Cristian Ordóñez, Constanza Bravo Granadino, Marcos Zegers and Paz Olivares-Droguett.
CINCO LENTES (Chile), Revista ED
Contemporary Chilean photography under five lenses, an article written by Felipe Muñoz Tirado for Diario Financiero and Revista ED, appeared in the print and online version of Revista ED on Saturday, January 20 in Chile. Text and works by photographers Bruno Giliberto, Cristian Ordóñez, Constanza Bravo Granadino, Marcos Zegers and Paz Olivares-Droguett.
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It is always an honour to collaborate on photographic projects. Sequencing, editing and graphic design, in this case happy collaborating and learning with Kate, and bringing her work to life in this beautiful limited edition publication. Supported by The Penumbra Foundation, Eureka! and John Hartman Award from the MacLaren Art Centre.
Pages: 72
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Via, and Keaycolour
Size: 9×12 inches
Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Purple, Yellow), Screenprint (cover)
Images & Text: Kate Schneider
Sequencing & Design: Cristian Ordóñez & Kate Schneider
Riso Printing: Kate Schneider
Cover Printing: Jo Yetter
Typeface: Domaine, Klim Type Foundr
Book documentation: Kevin Kunstadt
© 2023
A NARROW FOOTHOLD, Another Earth (link)
It is always an honour to collaborate on photographic projects. Sequencing, editing and graphic design, in this case happy collaborating and learning with Kate, and bringing her work to life in this beautiful limited edition publication. Supported by The Penumbra Foundation, Eureka! and John Hartman Award from the MacLaren Art Centre.
Pages: 72
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Via, and Keaycolour
Size: 9×12 inches
Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Purple, Yellow), Screenprint (cover)
Images & Text: Kate Schneider
Sequencing & Design: Cristian Ordóñez & Kate Schneider
Riso Printing: Kate Schneider
Cover Printing: Jo Yetter
Typeface: Domaine, Klim Type Foundr
Book documentation: Kevin Kunstadt
© 2023
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
OMNE Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est, residency and exhibition program is a landscape observatory, a container of projects aimed at raising awareness of the environment through the practice of walking. Using multidisciplinary contributions OMNE promotes projects and actions on the territory by creating photographic campaigns, public walks, artist residencies, workshops, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, publications. Promoted and supported by the City of Castelfranco Veneto / Department of Environment and Sustainable Mobility, ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana / Department of Prevention, the University of Padua, Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, the project fits into the activities of the Regional Observatory for the Landscape of the Veneto, Local Observatory for the Castellana Landscape as part of the Varcities project funded by the European program Horizon 2020.
Since 2016 OMNE has organized three editions of artist residencies hosting twenty-two authors and an articulated program of events. The results of the previous artist residencies have been published in the volumes OMNE/WORK 2016–2018 (LetteraVentidue, 2018), OMNE/ BEAUTY 2018–2021 (Skinnerboox, 2021), OMNE/NATURE 2021–2023 (is being published).
This year's edition of the OMNE/LAND artist residency took place in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, between September 21 and 28. It was a great pleasure and an honor to be awarded and participate in this art residency program, which included a series of conferences with artists, urban planners and architects, various exhibitions, talks and all the photographic work that was created in the territory, work that it is currently being processed and edited in Canada. I also participated in the OMNEFEST program with an artist talk about my personal practice at Villa Parco Bolasco. Thanks to the commission: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, Maura Gallina and the entire Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est team.
The artist residence is a biennale program (2023–2025), with artists Filippo Maria Barbero (IT), Michele Cera (IT), Camilla de Maffei (IT), Matteo de Mayda (IT), Giulia Iacolutti (IT), Ingar Krauss (GE), Cristian Ordóñez (CL+CA) and Aaron Schuman (US+UK). Plus invited photographers Olivo Barbieri (IT) and Francesco Raffaelli (IT). Each one of us will continue to work on this biennale program to produce a collective book and group exhibition towards 2025, the new edition of OMNEFEST in Italy.
Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy
Artist Residence September 21st – 28th, 2023
OMNE/LAND program biennale 2023 – 2025
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
OMNE Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est, residency and exhibition program is a landscape observatory, a container of projects aimed at raising awareness of the environment through the practice of walking. Using multidisciplinary contributions OMNE promotes projects and actions on the territory by creating photographic campaigns, public walks, artist residencies, workshops, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, publications. Promoted and supported by the City of Castelfranco Veneto / Department of Environment and Sustainable Mobility, ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana / Department of Prevention, the University of Padua, Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, the project fits into the activities of the Regional Observatory for the Landscape of the Veneto, Local Observatory for the Castellana Landscape as part of the Varcities project funded by the European program Horizon 2020.
Since 2016 OMNE has organized three editions of artist residencies hosting twenty-two authors and an articulated program of events. The results of the previous artist residencies have been published in the volumes OMNE/WORK 2016–2018 (LetteraVentidue, 2018), OMNE/ BEAUTY 2018–2021 (Skinnerboox, 2021), OMNE/NATURE 2021–2023 (is being published).
This year's edition of the OMNE/LAND artist residency took place in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, between September 21 and 28. It was a great pleasure and an honor to be awarded and participate in this art residency program, which included a series of conferences with artists, urban planners and architects, various exhibitions, talks and all the photographic work that was created in the territory, work that it is currently being processed and edited in Canada. I also participated in the OMNEFEST program with an artist talk about my personal practice at Villa Parco Bolasco. Thanks to the commission: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, Maura Gallina and the entire Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est team.
The artist residence is a biennale program (2023–2025), with artists Filippo Maria Barbero (IT), Michele Cera (IT), Camilla de Maffei (IT), Matteo de Mayda (IT), Giulia Iacolutti (IT), Ingar Krauss (GE), Cristian Ordóñez (CL+CA) and Aaron Schuman (US+UK). Plus invited photographers Olivo Barbieri (IT) and Francesco Raffaelli (IT). Each one of us will continue to work on this biennale program to produce a collective book and group exhibition towards 2025, the new edition of OMNEFEST in Italy.
Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy
Artist Residence September 21st – 28th, 2023
OMNE/LAND program biennale 2023 – 2025
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
It is a great pleasure and an honour to be awarded with the OMNE/LAND art residency program, 21st – 28th September 2023 at Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Commissioned by: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, and Maura Gallina. Artists include: Filippo Maria Barbero, Michele Cera, Camilla de Maffei, Matteo de Mayda, Giulia Iacolutti, Ingar Krauss, Cristian Ordóñez and Aaron Schuman. Invited artists: Olivo Barbieri and Francesco Raffaelli.
OMNE/LAND (Italy), Artist Residency — link here
It is a great pleasure and an honour to be awarded with the OMNE/LAND art residency program, 21st – 28th September 2023 at Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Commissioned by: Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, and Maura Gallina. Artists include: Filippo Maria Barbero, Michele Cera, Camilla de Maffei, Matteo de Mayda, Giulia Iacolutti, Ingar Krauss, Cristian Ordóñez and Aaron Schuman. Invited artists: Olivo Barbieri and Francesco Raffaelli.
BOOK REVIEW (CANADA), On Trial reviewed by Barry Schwabsky — link here
On Trial, reviewed by Barry Schwabsky, in his column "PICTURE LIBRARY: From Inner Architecture to Unremembered Images" with Rhona Bitner, Marianne Mueller, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Barry Stone and Cristian Ordóñez, for Border Crossings magazine, issue 162.
"I wouldn’t necessarily have known it from looking at the photographs themselves: Ordóñez is an exquisite observer of place, but his interest in place is not a sociologist’s or even a geographer’s; seeing where you are, in this work, has little to do with knowing where you are..." — Barry Schwabsky
BOOK REVIEW (CANADA), On Trial reviewed by Barry Schwabsky — link here
On Trial, reviewed by Barry Schwabsky, in his column "PICTURE LIBRARY: From Inner Architecture to Unremembered Images" with Rhona Bitner, Marianne Mueller, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Barry Stone and Cristian Ordóñez, for Border Crossings magazine, issue 162.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (Artist Talk + Panel)
Artist talk about the work 'Valle' happening this Thursday August 17, and on Friday August 18, I will be joining artists Sarah Boutin, Miguel Leache, Normand Rajotte, and Kinuko Asano on a panel discussion about photobooks moderated by Louis Perreault, at Quai des Arts, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec. Part of the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie.
Photograph by Veronica Nicolardi.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (Artist Talk + Panel)
Artist talk about the work 'Valle' happening this Thursday August 17, and on Friday August 18, I will be joining artists Sarah Boutin, Miguel Leache, Normand Rajotte, and Kinuko Asano on a panel discussion about photobooks moderated by Louis Perreault, at Quai des Arts, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec. Part of the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (solo show) — link here
The series Valle, from Huasco Valley, Atacama, is exhibited at Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, 14th edition of the Festival, curated by Claude Goulet and installed at Matapedia Valley, Quebéc from July 15 to September 30, 2023.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Valle (solo show) — link here
The series Valle, from Huasco Valley, Atacama, is exhibited at Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, 14th edition of the Festival, curated by Claude Goulet and installed at Matapedia Valley, Quebéc from July 15 to September 30, 2023.
REVIEW, Frequency 2023 — link here
Honoured to have Louis Perreault review Frequency for Ciel Variable Magazine. Thank you very much for your reading and interpretation of the work!
The wearing away of the built environment, the resilience of plants, and the faint, but inevitable, presence of time passing: Cristian Ordóñez invites us to look at the world both for what it might have once been and for what it will become. Here, Louis Perreault reviews the book Frequency.
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L’usure du bâti, la résilience du végétal et la présence sourde, mais inévitable, du temps qui s’écoule : Cristian Ordóñez invite à regarder le monde à la fois pour ce qu’il a pu être dans le passé, mais aussi pour ce qu’il deviendra. Louis Perrault commente ici le livre Frequency.
REVIEW, Frequency 2023 — link here
Honoured to have Louis Perreault review Frequency for Ciel Variable Magazine. Thank you very much for your reading and interpretation of the work!
The wearing away of the built environment, the resilience of plants, and the faint, but inevitable, presence of time passing: Cristian Ordóñez invites us to look at the world both for what it might have once been and for what it will become. Here, Louis Perreault reviews the book Frequency.
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L’usure du bâti, la résilience du végétal et la présence sourde, mais inévitable, du temps qui s’écoule : Cristian Ordóñez invite à regarder le monde à la fois pour ce qu’il a pu être dans le passé, mais aussi pour ce qu’il deviendra. Louis Perrault commente ici le livre Frequency.
COLLECTIONS, Frequency 2023 — link here
Very honoured the book Frequency has recently joined the following collections:
— National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— San Telmo Museum, Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection (Spain).
COLLECTIONS, Frequency 2023 — link here
Very honoured the book Frequency has recently joined the following collections:
— National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Collection (Canada)
— San Telmo Museum, Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection (Spain).
The CONTACT Photobook Fair (Canada) — link here
Saturday, Apr 29, 11am – 5pm at Stephen Bulger Gallery (1356 Dundas St W, Toronto). CONTACT Photography Festival. Free and open to the public.
The CONTACT Photobook Fair (Canada) — link here
Saturday, Apr 29, 11am – 5pm at Stephen Bulger Gallery (1356 Dundas St W, Toronto). CONTACT Photography Festival. Free and open to the public.
BOOK, Frequency 2023 — link here
New book "Frequency" is out — 46 photographs, 72 pages, 8.75 x 10.5 in, Soft Cover, Smyth Sew, Swiss binding with exposed spine. Printed in Canada. Limited edition. This book was created with the support of the Edward Burtynsky Grant from the CONTACT Festival, awarded in 2021. Available soon, contact studio@cristianordonez.com
BOOK, Frequency 2023 — link here
New book "Frequency" is out — 46 photographs, 72 pages, 8.75 x 10.5 in, Soft Cover, Smyth Sew, Swiss binding with exposed spine. Printed in Canada. Limited edition. This book was created with the support of the Edward Burtynsky Grant from the CONTACT Festival, awarded in 2021. Available soon, contact studio@cristianordonez.com
AWARD (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 — link here
I am honoured to have won the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 with the project "Valle", in the "Nature, Environment and Perspectives" category. This project is a collaboration with my brother, academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce (PhD Associate Professor, Athabasca University School of Business). Congratulations to all the other winners and shortlisted artists for their beautiful work. Many thanks to Steve Bisson, the jury and Urbanautica team. To Eduardo and the students from the University of Santiago for their collaboration.
AWARD (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 — link here
I am honoured to have won the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 with the project "Valle", in the "Nature, Environment and Perspectives" category. This project is a collaboration with my brother, academic Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce (PhD Associate Professor, Athabasca University School of Business). Congratulations to all the other winners and shortlisted artists for their beautiful work. Many thanks to Steve Bisson, the jury and Urbanautica team. To Eduardo and the students from the University of Santiago for their collaboration.
EXHIBITION (GERMANY), A Sense of Place (group show) — link here
Curated by Bénédicte Blondeau and Rüdiger Lange. The concept of "A Sense of Place" is the focus of the third collaboration between PEP - Photographic Exploration Project and B-Part Berlin Exhibition. Exhibition dates: April 1 - 29, 2023. Opening reception Friday, March 31st in Berlin.
Artists include: David Bruneel, Zoé Chauvet, Sara Cuce, Owen Davies, Jonathan De Maeyer, Luciana Demichelis, Juan Fabuel, Lindsay Godin, Jasper Goodall, Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Jade Joannès, Alicja Khatchikian, Cassandra Klos, Su Kui, Santeri Kuisma, Céline Levain, Cristian Ordóñez, Xenia Petrovska, Jamie Reed, Christopher Rodriguez, Bartolomeo Rossi, Pascal Sgro, Marvin Systermans, Anya Tsaruk, Greta Valente, Ties van Brussel, Pauline Vanden Neste, Nick Verhaeghe, Yuxi Wang, Wang Chuen Wong, Kinga Wrona and Martha Wurmus.
EXHIBITION (GERMANY), A Sense of Place (group show) — link here
Curated by Bénédicte Blondeau and Rüdiger Lange. The concept of "A Sense of Place" is the focus of the third collaboration between PEP - Photographic Exploration Project and B-Part Berlin Exhibition. Exhibition dates: April 1 - 29, 2023. Opening reception Friday, March 31st in Berlin.
Artists include: David Bruneel, Zoé Chauvet, Sara Cuce, Owen Davies, Jonathan De Maeyer, Luciana Demichelis, Juan Fabuel, Lindsay Godin, Jasper Goodall, Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Jade Joannès, Alicja Khatchikian, Cassandra Klos, Su Kui, Santeri Kuisma, Céline Levain, Cristian Ordóñez, Xenia Petrovska, Jamie Reed, Christopher Rodriguez, Bartolomeo Rossi, Pascal Sgro, Marvin Systermans, Anya Tsaruk, Greta Valente, Ties van Brussel, Pauline Vanden Neste, Nick Verhaeghe, Yuxi Wang, Wang Chuen Wong, Kinga Wrona and Martha Wurmus.
PUBLICATION (CANADA), Trick Not Telos
Trick Not Telos by Katherine McKittrick was curated by Liz Ikiriko and Katherine McKittrick, design direction by Cristian Ordóñez. French translations are by Lyse Hébert. Print production by The Gas Company. Parts of this project were funded by the SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University.
8x10 (5 books + unbound booklet); 11x8.5x2.5 (Box); English and French. 100 copies.
ISBN 978-1-7782093-0-7
An experiment in repetition and revision, Trick Not Telos takes words and ideas that have already been shared and refashions them outside their original context. The project understands written academic narratives as flexible and shifting yet tethered to a past formation or iteration; the project seeks to express how ideas on the page are simultaneously tactile, opaque, and precise and thus how the written word, and the academic argument, have the capacity to unravel while also maintaining historical traces. Trick Not Telos is, in part, working through and complementing Amiri Baraka’s “the changing same” by illuminating how creative unboundedness is harnessed to black energy, memory, and place.1 As a method, the changing same is the engagement, sharing, reading and response to black ideas (songs, narratives, spirituals, tunes, words, lyrics, impulses, sounds) with a recognition of contested and broken and seamless creative genealogies. In this, black creative and intellectual works are comprised of entanglements of the things that never left us and ongoing effacement. Trick Not Telos sits with this creative uneasiness; it emerges from both trace and impossibility. The five essays shared here have been written and read and published before. They were given permission to repeat. They were re-read and reformatted and shared. They were translated toward French and re-imagined as French-English pairs. They were redesigned. They were recontextualized and remade as academic objects that perhaps desire, but may not fully realize, black aesthetic possibilities. Trick Not Telos is inspired by the work of Krista Franklin, Neta Bomani, Alec Soth, Roy DeCarava, Adrien Piper, among others. It is guided by the beautiful art book, the tactual photography book, the spines of novels, pages of verse and vellum and uncoated paper and the weaver’s knot and the vinyl box set. Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s reading of “Plantation Futures” inspired the title, Trick Not Telos.
PUBLICATION (CANADA), Trick Not Telos
Trick Not Telos by Katherine McKittrick was curated by Liz Ikiriko and Katherine McKittrick, design direction by Cristian Ordóñez. French translations are by Lyse Hébert. Print production by The Gas Company. Parts of this project were funded by the SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University.
8x10 (5 books + unbound booklet); 11x8.5x2.5 (Box); English and French. 100 copies.
ISBN 978-1-7782093-0-7
An experiment in repetition and revision, Trick Not Telos takes words and ideas that have already been shared and refashions them outside their original context. The project understands written academic narratives as flexible and shifting yet tethered to a past formation or iteration; the project seeks to express how ideas on the page are simultaneously tactile, opaque, and precise and thus how the written word, and the academic argument, have the capacity to unravel while also maintaining historical traces. Trick Not Telos is, in part, working through and complementing Amiri Baraka’s “the changing same” by illuminating how creative unboundedness is harnessed to black energy, memory, and place.1 As a method, the changing same is the engagement, sharing, reading and response to black ideas (songs, narratives, spirituals, tunes, words, lyrics, impulses, sounds) with a recognition of contested and broken and seamless creative genealogies. In this, black creative and intellectual works are comprised of entanglements of the things that never left us and ongoing effacement. Trick Not Telos sits with this creative uneasiness; it emerges from both trace and impossibility. The five essays shared here have been written and read and published before. They were given permission to repeat. They were re-read and reformatted and shared. They were translated toward French and re-imagined as French-English pairs. They were redesigned. They were recontextualized and remade as academic objects that perhaps desire, but may not fully realize, black aesthetic possibilities. Trick Not Telos is inspired by the work of Krista Franklin, Neta Bomani, Alec Soth, Roy DeCarava, Adrien Piper, among others. It is guided by the beautiful art book, the tactual photography book, the spines of novels, pages of verse and vellum and uncoated paper and the weaver’s knot and the vinyl box set. Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s reading of “Plantation Futures” inspired the title, Trick Not Telos.
INTERVIEW (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Grateful for the nice conversation I had with C4 Journal about my process and the works On Trial, Notes, Frequency and Displace.
INTERVIEW (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Grateful for the nice conversation I had with C4 Journal about my process and the works On Trial, Notes, Frequency and Displace.
PUBLICATION (Chile/Canada), Multinacionales y Comunidades
Part of the photographic work "Valle", created as part of a research project in collaboration with Associate Professor, Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This publication is created in response to ongoing research that began in early 2022, including a visit to the Huasco Valley in Atacama, Chile in October of the same year. Specially produced in a limited edition to deliver the preliminary quantitative results to the community of Huasco, namely actors from the civil society, the public sector, indigenous peoples, business people and ordinary citizens who participated in this process.
Funded by Athabasca University and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of the Government of Canada, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Santiago de Chile. Created and edited by Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce, PhD, Athabasca University and Photographer, Cristian Ordóñez.
PUBLICATION (Chile/Canada), Multinacionales y Comunidades
Part of the photographic work "Valle", created as part of a research project in collaboration with Associate Professor, Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce. This publication is created in response to ongoing research that began in early 2022, including a visit to the Huasco Valley in Atacama, Chile in October of the same year. Specially produced in a limited edition to deliver the preliminary quantitative results to the community of Huasco, namely actors from the civil society, the public sector, indigenous peoples, business people and ordinary citizens who participated in this process.
Funded by Athabasca University and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of the Government of Canada, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Santiago de Chile. Created and edited by Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce, PhD, Athabasca University and Photographer, Cristian Ordóñez.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Galery 44 (group show) — link here
My books "Displace" published by Another Earth and "On Trial" published by acb-press will be available at Salon 44, Gallery 44's annual fundraising exhibition in support of exhibition and education programs, bringing together a collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with valued works for both new and seasoned collectors. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Emilie Croning and Maegan Broadhurst. Opening this Thursday 2 in Toronto from 7-10pm.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Galery 44 (group show) — link here
My books "Displace" published by Another Earth and "On Trial" published by acb-press will be available at Salon 44, Gallery 44's annual fundraising exhibition in support of exhibition and education programs, bringing together a collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with valued works for both new and seasoned collectors. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Emilie Croning and Maegan Broadhurst. Opening this Thursday 2 in Toronto from 7-10pm.
EXHIBITION (MEXICO), Espacio Migrante (group show) — link here
Collective installation curated by Anamaria Briede and Catalina De la Cruz at Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro, México, as part of Encuentro de Fotografía de Querétano 2023, with a selection of photographs from Frequency.
The project takes as a reference the American territory, specifically South America and from there it seeks to re-articulate, re-draw and above all re-connect the borders from the photographic practice.
The work is based on the possibility of creating a dialectic that distorts the notions of territory, identity and geography from the South American perspective that unites us, to inhabit and materialize the poetic illusion of a new imaginary, as a cartography of individual experiences, historical, social, political and emotional contexts. A collaborative visual writing as a repository of mental, intimate, public, emotional images as a glossary of territorial geolocations that indicate the cultural plurality of America.
Collaborative project that brings together photographic, audio and music works by Latin American artists looking at the territory: Aníbal Mangoni (Argentina), Guadalupe Arriegue (Argentina), Federico Estol (Uruguay), Claudio Bertoni (Chile), Guillermo Daghero (Chile-Argentina), Cecilia Cordi (Argentina), Pilar Pedraza (Perú), Juan Carlos Rodríguez (México), Jhonny Chávez (Perú), Margara De Haene (México), Esmelyn Miranda (Venezuela), Andrés Muñoz (Chile), Nia Diedla (Chile-Francia), Martín Gubbins (Chile), Gregorio Fontén (Chile), Romina Resuche (Argentina), Santiago Jara (Chile), and Cristián Ordóñez (Canada – Chile).
EXHIBITION (MEXICO), Espacio Migrante (group show) — link here
Collective installation curated by Anamaria Briede and Catalina De la Cruz at Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro, México, as part of Encuentro de Fotografía de Querétano 2023, with a selection of photographs from Frequency.
The project takes as a reference the American territory, specifically South America and from there it seeks to re-articulate, re-draw and above all re-connect the borders from the photographic practice.
The work is based on the possibility of creating a dialectic that distorts the notions of territory, identity and geography from the South American perspective that unites us, to inhabit and materialize the poetic illusion of a new imaginary, as a cartography of individual experiences, historical, social, political and emotional contexts. A collaborative visual writing as a repository of mental, intimate, public, emotional images as a glossary of territorial geolocations that indicate the cultural plurality of America.
Collaborative project that brings together photographic, audio and music works by Latin American artists looking at the territory: Aníbal Mangoni (Argentina), Guadalupe Arriegue (Argentina), Federico Estol (Uruguay), Claudio Bertoni (Chile), Guillermo Daghero (Chile-Argentina), Cecilia Cordi (Argentina), Pilar Pedraza (Perú), Juan Carlos Rodríguez (México), Jhonny Chávez (Perú), Margara De Haene (México), Esmelyn Miranda (Venezuela), Andrés Muñoz (Chile), Nia Diedla (Chile-Francia), Martín Gubbins (Chile), Gregorio Fontén (Chile), Romina Resuche (Argentina), Santiago Jara (Chile), and Cristián Ordóñez (Canada – Chile).
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
The People United at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Opening reception Friday, February 10th, from 7-9 pm.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
The People United at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Opening reception Friday, February 10th, from 7-9 pm.
PRESS (US), New York Review of Architecture — link here
Article published today “Is Toronto burning?”, by Sebastián López Cardozo focusing on Toronto’s social and economic crisis. The article highlights my recent show Displace at Project 107 Gallery, as a memoir of a modernist building slated for demolition in the Regent Park neighbourhood. Article by Uruguayan architectural designer, editor, and writer, Sebastián López Cardozo.
Extract: The same building is the setting for, and the object of CRISTIAN ORDÓÑEZ’s new large-format photography exhibition, Displace, which opened on January 5. The exhibition marks the culmination of a year-long collaboration between Ordóñez and the gallery. “Nicole and [co-owner] Justin [Pape] found this space,” Ordóñez told me, “and I started visiting them and working with them on projects.” On his frequent visits to the building, he began noticing certain quirks—an aborted renovation project, a stained carpet, a desiccated plant left behind in an empty office—that he eventually thought to record.
The photographs are mounted on thin wooden structures. Anchored to the wall and to the ground, the displays venture into the space of the gallery itself. “There are corners, areas where you have to go in and discover new images; it recreates the way that I discovered spaces while moving through the building,” said Ordóñez. Speaking of his decision to print the photographs in newsprint paper, Ordóñez said that he wanted to evoke the fragility and impermanence of the space: “Unlike what you might expect from fine art prints, newsprint will disappear over time. It’s a metaphor, in a way, about how this place is also going to disappear.”
PRESS (US), New York Review of Architecture — link here
Article published today “Is Toronto burning?”, by Sebastián López Cardozo focusing on Toronto’s social and economic crisis. The article highlights my recent show Displace at Project 107 Gallery, as a memoir of a modernist building slated for demolition in the Regent Park neighbourhood. Article by Uruguayan architectural designer, editor, and writer, Sebastián López Cardozo.
Extract: The same building is the setting for, and the object of CRISTIAN ORDÓÑEZ’s new large-format photography exhibition, Displace, which opened on January 5. The exhibition marks the culmination of a year-long collaboration between Ordóñez and the gallery. “Nicole and [co-owner] Justin [Pape] found this space,” Ordóñez told me, “and I started visiting them and working with them on projects.” On his frequent visits to the building, he began noticing certain quirks—an aborted renovation project, a stained carpet, a desiccated plant left behind in an empty office—that he eventually thought to record.
The photographs are mounted on thin wooden structures. Anchored to the wall and to the ground, the displays venture into the space of the gallery itself. “There are corners, areas where you have to go in and discover new images; it recreates the way that I discovered spaces while moving through the building,” said Ordóñez. Speaking of his decision to print the photographs in newsprint paper, Ordóñez said that he wanted to evoke the fragility and impermanence of the space: “Unlike what you might expect from fine art prints, newsprint will disappear over time. It’s a metaphor, in a way, about how this place is also going to disappear.”
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Displace (solo show) — link here
Solo show at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto, ON Canada. Opening on Thursday, January 5, until Sunday, January 8.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Displace (solo show) — link here
Solo show at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto, ON Canada. Opening on Thursday, January 5, until Sunday, January 8.
HONOURS (SPAIN), Getxophoto — link here
Honour to be one of the finalists with my project Frequency, of the Getxophoto’s Open Call, under the theme Pause!. Thank you to the international jury made up of Elisa Medde (editor-in-chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam), Luis Juárez (editor of Revista Balam, Buenos Aires), Jon Uriarte (digital curator of The Photographers’ Gallery, London) and María Ptqk (curator of Getxophoto).
HONOURS (SPAIN), Getxophoto — link here
Honour to be one of the finalists with my project Frequency, of the Getxophoto’s Open Call, under the theme Pause!. Thank you to the international jury made up of Elisa Medde (editor-in-chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam), Luis Juárez (editor of Revista Balam, Buenos Aires), Jon Uriarte (digital curator of The Photographers’ Gallery, London) and María Ptqk (curator of Getxophoto).
HONOURS (CANADA), Nothing Special
The 2022 ADCC Awards honoured with Bronze for the Complete Book Design category to Nothing Special. The book contains 36 photographs by Cristian Ordóñez and Designed by Biography.
HONOURS (CANADA), Nothing Special
The 2022 ADCC Awards honoured with Bronze for the Complete Book Design category to Nothing Special. The book contains 36 photographs by Cristian Ordóñez and Designed by Biography.
BENEFIT SALE (LATIN AMERICA), Artishock — link here
Two works available in the 2023 benefit sale for Artishock Magazine.
BENEFIT SALE (LATIN AMERICA), Artishock — link here
Two works available in the 2023 benefit sale for Artishock Magazine.
EXHIBITION (FRANCE), Les Photaumnales (group show)
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition curated by Louis Perreault, at Les Photaumnales in Creil, at the Faïencerie, Allée Nelson, France. Available between November 18 - 20.
EXHIBITION (FRANCE), Les Photaumnales (group show)
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition curated by Louis Perreault, at Les Photaumnales in Creil, at the Faïencerie, Allée Nelson, France. Available between November 18 - 20.
PROCESS (CHILE), Valle
Currently working on a research project focusing on the communities and their territories of the Huasco Valley, located in the southern Atacama Desert, Chile.
PROCESS (CHILE), Valle
Currently working on a research project focusing on the communities and their territories of the Huasco Valley, located in the southern Atacama Desert, Chile.
HONOURS (CANADA), Canada Council for the Arts
My project Frequency has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
HONOURS (CANADA), Canada Council for the Arts
My project Frequency has been awarded a Travel Grant under the Arts Abroad program. Thank you Canada Council for the Arts for the support.
PRESS (LATIN AMERICA), Frecuencia — link here
Article written by Alejandra Villasmil by contemporary art magazine Artishock about my exhibition Frequency at Galería Animal.
Extract (Spanish): "En Frecuencia no estamos ante imágenes de una clasificación fácil. Aunque su opacidad es precisamente su gran virtud, es en la vivencia autoral de lo glocal desde donde se puede entender el impulso de estas cuidadas composiciones. Muchas de ellas abrazan la noción espacio-tiempo a través de la “ausencia de nuestra presencia” en el paisaje urbano, o las marcas y cicatrices del concreto yuxtapuestas a una naturaleza herida que lucha por defender el lugar sagrado que le corresponde."
PRESS (LATIN AMERICA), Frecuencia — link here
Article written by Alejandra Villasmil by contemporary art magazine Artishock about my exhibition Frequency at Galería Animal.
Extract (Spanish): "En Frecuencia no estamos ante imágenes de una clasificación fácil. Aunque su opacidad es precisamente su gran virtud, es en la vivencia autoral de lo glocal desde donde se puede entender el impulso de estas cuidadas composiciones. Muchas de ellas abrazan la noción espacio-tiempo a través de la “ausencia de nuestra presencia” en el paisaje urbano, o las marcas y cicatrices del concreto yuxtapuestas a una naturaleza herida que lucha por defender el lugar sagrado que le corresponde."
EXHIBITION (DENMARK), The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks, curated by Louis Perreault, at Photobook Week Aarhus in the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Available between October 27 - 30. Supported by The Canadian Art Council, Galleri Image and the Aarhus School of Architecture.
EXHIBITION (DENMARK), The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks, curated by Louis Perreault, at Photobook Week Aarhus in the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Available between October 27 - 30. Supported by The Canadian Art Council, Galleri Image and the Aarhus School of Architecture.
ARTIST TALK (ONLINE), The People United
Online Artist talk on October 13 at 7PM EST together with artist Syrup Marcus Ware, for Sur Gallery.
ARTIST TALK (ONLINE), The People United
Online Artist talk on October 13 at 7PM EST together with artist Syrup Marcus Ware, for Sur Gallery.
EXHIBITION (CHILE), Frecuencia (solo show)
Thursday 6 de Octubre de 19:00-21:00 hrs. Galería Animal. Av. Nueva Costanera 3731, Vitacura, Santiago. Curated by Maria Jose Sagredo. Supported by Ontario Art Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
EXHIBITION (CHILE), Frecuencia (solo show)
Thursday 6 de Octubre de 19:00-21:00 hrs. Galería Animal. Av. Nueva Costanera 3731, Vitacura, Santiago. Curated by Maria Jose Sagredo. Supported by Ontario Art Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
Sur Gallery, Toronto ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Artists: Beehive Collective, Carlos Colín, Cristian Ordóñez, Syrus Marcus Ware and Colectivo LASTESIS. September 22 - November 26, 2022
EXHIBITION (CANADA), The People United (group show)
Sur Gallery, Toronto ON Canada. Curated by Tamara Toledo. Artists: Beehive Collective, Carlos Colín, Cristian Ordóñez, Syrus Marcus Ware and Colectivo LASTESIS. September 22 - November 26, 2022
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Les livres du vécu (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie, curated by Louis Perreault. Exhibition open from August 5 — September 3, 2022, Carleton, QC Canada.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Les livres du vécu (group show) — link here
My four books On Trial and Notes 1, 2 and 3 are part of the group exhibition Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie, curated by Louis Perreault. Exhibition open from August 5 — September 3, 2022, Carleton, QC Canada.
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2022-2023
My project Trama has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant, for a forthcoming group exhibition at Sur Gallery / Latin American-Canadian Art Projects in Toronto. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2022-2023
My project Trama has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant, for a forthcoming group exhibition at Sur Gallery / Latin American-Canadian Art Projects in Toronto. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
COLLECTION (CANADA), On Trial
On Trial, published by acb press, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection in Ottawa, ON Canada.
COLLECTION (CANADA), On Trial
On Trial, published by acb press, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection in Ottawa, ON Canada.
HONOURS (GERMANY), Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Nominee
Very honoured to be nominated to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022.
HONOURS (GERMANY), Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Nominee
Very honoured to be nominated to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022.
BOOK (US/CANADA), Signals — link here
Photo Edit and Design of Signals by Another Earth. Edition in conjunction with Abbey Meaker. Signals presents the works and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet.
Presents the images and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet. Organized into elemental chapters – earth, fire, water, wind – the works coalesce around weather events from the devastating to the mundane, offering a collective portrait of reciprocity and communication between self, earth, and environment.
Artists: Dylan Haustor, Daniel Fleitas, Camila Valdés, Vojtech Veskrna, Gaspar Abrilot, Henry Tyson, Susan Clarahan, Chelsea Call, Ben Currotto, Tommy Nease, Rodolfo Muñoz, Parker Stewart, Tyler Muzzin, Tal Ben Avi, Ali Beşikçi, Catlin Johnson, Sebastien Arrighi, Sharon Castellanos, Paloma Palomino, Sean Peeters, Keith Gray, Max LaBelle, Leah Beeferman, John Watts, Helen Kohnke, Andy Becker, Adam Ianniello, Elijah Barrett, Lindsay Godin, DJ Hellerman
72 pages colour
6 x 7.85 inches
Thread Sewn Paperback
Card stock Slipcase
Edition of 100 copies
English
Printed by The Gas Company, Inc.
Book designed by Cristian Ordóñez.
Edited by Abbey Meaker and Cristian Ordóñez.
Curated by Abbey Meaker, Cristian Ordóñez, and Estefania Puerta.
©2022
BOOK (US/CANADA), Signals — link here
Photo Edit and Design of Signals by Another Earth. Edition in conjunction with Abbey Meaker. Signals presents the works and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet.
Presents the images and words of 30 artists and writers as messages received from a beautiful and strained planet. Organized into elemental chapters – earth, fire, water, wind – the works coalesce around weather events from the devastating to the mundane, offering a collective portrait of reciprocity and communication between self, earth, and environment.
Artists: Dylan Haustor, Daniel Fleitas, Camila Valdés, Vojtech Veskrna, Gaspar Abrilot, Henry Tyson, Susan Clarahan, Chelsea Call, Ben Currotto, Tommy Nease, Rodolfo Muñoz, Parker Stewart, Tyler Muzzin, Tal Ben Avi, Ali Beşikçi, Catlin Johnson, Sebastien Arrighi, Sharon Castellanos, Paloma Palomino, Sean Peeters, Keith Gray, Max LaBelle, Leah Beeferman, John Watts, Helen Kohnke, Andy Becker, Adam Ianniello, Elijah Barrett, Lindsay Godin, DJ Hellerman
72 pages colour
6 x 7.85 inches
Thread Sewn Paperback
Card stock Slipcase
Edition of 100 copies
English
Printed by The Gas Company, Inc.
Book designed by Cristian Ordóñez.
Edited by Abbey Meaker and Cristian Ordóñez.
Curated by Abbey Meaker, Cristian Ordóñez, and Estefania Puerta.
©2022
COLLECTION (AUSTRALIA), On Trial
Honoured to have my new publications On Trial, published by acb press, being part of the State Library of Victoria collection in Melbourne, and the National Library of Australia collection in Canberra, Australia.
COLLECTION (AUSTRALIA), On Trial
Honoured to have my new publications On Trial, published by acb press, being part of the State Library of Victoria collection in Melbourne, and the National Library of Australia collection in Canberra, Australia.
BOOK FAIR (AUSTRALIA), On Trial — link here
On Trial, published by acb press was recently launched at Photo 2022, Photobook Weekend in Melbourne, Australia and Permanent Art Book Fair in Sydney, Australia with acb press and Rohan Hutchinson — Order here
BOOK FAIR (AUSTRALIA), On Trial — link here
On Trial, published by acb press was recently launched at Photo 2022, Photobook Weekend in Melbourne, Australia and Permanent Art Book Fair in Sydney, Australia with acb press and Rohan Hutchinson — Order here
Photographers and visual artists featured: Richard Chivers, Cristian Ordóñez, Andreas Tschersich, Fyodor Konukhov, Filippo Bardazzi, Pierre Folk, Rosie Barnes, Dawn Roe, Bruno Silva, Tommaso Rada, Ralph Steinegger, Benina Hu, Paweł Starzec, Sara Palmieri, Daniele Molajoli, Jaime Permuth, Michelle Piergoelam, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Anne Immelé, Ivan Petrović, Camillo Pasquarelli, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Matteo Spertini, Breno Rotatori, Kosmas Pavlidis, Thomas Gauthier, Jenia Fridlyand, Max Arens, Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley, Davide Degano.
Photographers and visual artists featured: Richard Chivers, Cristian Ordóñez, Andreas Tschersich, Fyodor Konukhov, Filippo Bardazzi, Pierre Folk, Rosie Barnes, Dawn Roe, Bruno Silva, Tommaso Rada, Ralph Steinegger, Benina Hu, Paweł Starzec, Sara Palmieri, Daniele Molajoli, Jaime Permuth, Michelle Piergoelam, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Anne Immelé, Ivan Petrović, Camillo Pasquarelli, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Matteo Spertini, Breno Rotatori, Kosmas Pavlidis, Thomas Gauthier, Jenia Fridlyand, Max Arens, Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley, Davide Degano.
COLLECTION (SPAIN), San Telmo Museum — link here
Honoured to have my publications Notes 1, Notes 2, Notes 3 and Other Voices being part of the Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection at San Telmo Museum, Spain.
COLLECTION (SPAIN), San Telmo Museum — link here
Honoured to have my publications Notes 1, Notes 2, Notes 3 and Other Voices being part of the Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection at San Telmo Museum, Spain.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 Online (group show) — link here
Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs. Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Tatum Dooley and Maegan Broadhurst. Salon 44 launches March 3 at Midnight through March 19, 2022.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 Online (group show) — link here
Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photography’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs. Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Tatum Dooley and Maegan Broadhurst. Salon 44 launches March 3 at Midnight through March 19, 2022.
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2021-2022
My project Frequency has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
HONOURS (CANADA), Ontario Arts Council Grant: 2021-2022
My project Frequency has been awarded the OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant. Thank you Ontario Arts Council for their support!
PRESS (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Notes included in the article "Zines that made us think in 2021".
Extract, text by Callum Beaney: Without commitment to a fully-fledged narrative, Ordóñez’s images, in their spotty, charcoal blacks, keep true to their quality as observations, curiosities held by the photographer. Notes 3 exclusively observes the shape & structure of the landscapes, presenting in logical progress the desert’s cascading, granular textures of foliage and rocks, moving later to the divide between land and sky. Though a logical progression, it is one both intuitive and visually gorgeous."
PRESS (UK), C4 Journal — link here
Notes included in the article "Zines that made us think in 2021".
Extract, text by Callum Beaney: Without commitment to a fully-fledged narrative, Ordóñez’s images, in their spotty, charcoal blacks, keep true to their quality as observations, curiosities held by the photographer. Notes 3 exclusively observes the shape & structure of the landscapes, presenting in logical progress the desert’s cascading, granular textures of foliage and rocks, moving later to the divide between land and sky. Though a logical progression, it is one both intuitive and visually gorgeous."
PRESS (SPAIN), Fotonostrum — link here
Interviewed and featured at Fotonostrum Magazine issue 22. FotoNostrum Magazine is a spinoff of FotoNostrum Gallery, Mediterranean House of Photography, a parent company of WonderPick (UK) and The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards. It is released monthly, available on print and online. FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain.
PRESS (SPAIN), Fotonostrum — link here
Interviewed and featured at Fotonostrum Magazine issue 22. FotoNostrum Magazine is a spinoff of FotoNostrum Gallery, Mediterranean House of Photography, a parent company of WonderPick (UK) and The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards. It is released monthly, available on print and online. FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain.
PUBLICATION (ARGENTINA), Fotosfera — link here
Cover photography of new photographic book Fotosfera, a Latin American photography platform from Argentina. The book is available for pre-order and contains works by 22 photographers.
PUBLICATION (ARGENTINA), Fotosfera — link here
Cover photography of new photographic book Fotosfera, a Latin American photography platform from Argentina. The book is available for pre-order and contains works by 22 photographers.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), The idea of the Photobook — link here
In November I am looking forward to doing an online workshop called "The idea of the Photobook" at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Please email Leila Fatemi at lfatemi@gallery44.org to register or if you have any questions. Free for members.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), The idea of the Photobook — link here
In November I am looking forward to doing an online workshop called "The idea of the Photobook" at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Please email Leila Fatemi at lfatemi@gallery44.org to register or if you have any questions. Free for members.
HONOURS (CANADA), Burtynsky Grant Winner, 2021 — link here
Ongoing body of work "Frequency" has won the 2021 Burtynsky Grant. Jury by Edward Burtynsky, Romke Hoogwaerts, Michele Pearson Clarke, and Zun Lee. CONTACT Photography Festival.
Extract (CONTACT Photography Festival): “Produced while on daily walks throughout Toronto in 2020 and 2021, Cristian Ordóñez’s project 'Frequency' is a timely meditation on the tension between humans, nature, and the urban landscape. Ordóñez’s large- and medium-format photographs are masterfully composed, presenting uncanny vestiges of both natural and built environments in a wide tonal range of black and white. The energy, thoughtfulness, and the pacing of this body of work resonates with the pace of what life has been like in recent years. Ordóñez has been quietly and consistently creating self-published book projects for many years, and the jury is excited that this grant will assist him in the opportunity to work with a publisher."
HONOURS (CANADA), Burtynsky Grant Winner, 2021 — link here
Ongoing body of work "Frequency" has won the 2021 Burtynsky Grant. Jury by Edward Burtynsky, Romke Hoogwaerts, Michele Pearson Clarke, and Zun Lee. CONTACT Photography Festival.
Extract (CONTACT Photography Festival): “Produced while on daily walks throughout Toronto in 2020 and 2021, Cristian Ordóñez’s project 'Frequency' is a timely meditation on the tension between humans, nature, and the urban landscape. Ordóñez’s large- and medium-format photographs are masterfully composed, presenting uncanny vestiges of both natural and built environments in a wide tonal range of black and white. The energy, thoughtfulness, and the pacing of this body of work resonates with the pace of what life has been like in recent years. Ordóñez has been quietly and consistently creating self-published book projects for many years, and the jury is excited that this grant will assist him in the opportunity to work with a publisher."
EXHIBITION (UK), Read the Room (group show)
Publications Notes 01, 02 + 03 part of group show Read the Room. A celebration of self-published and independently published works and the artists who make them. Serchia Gallery in Bristol. October 22-24, 2021.
EXHIBITION (UK), Read the Room (group show)
Publications Notes 01, 02 + 03 part of group show Read the Room. A celebration of self-published and independently published works and the artists who make them. Serchia Gallery in Bristol. October 22-24, 2021.
VIDEO (CANADA), Nothing Special
Video concept and directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Audio composed by Justin Pape. Final video with voice over by Matt Schichter. Collaboration with Biography.
VIDEO (CANADA), Nothing Special
Video concept and directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Audio composed by Justin Pape. Final video with voice over by Matt Schichter. Collaboration with Biography.
BOOK (CANADA), Nothing Special
36 Photographs by Cristian Ordóñez. Book Edited and Designed by Marlo Onilla. 51.5 x 33.5 x 70 cms (Box). 48.5 x 33 x 30 cms (Book). 108 pages. Book contained in handmade box (Gauze, Paint, Sand, Epoxy and Laser Cut). Cover photograph protected with resin. Brass engraved and polished tube with pencil inside. Limited edition. Collaboration with Biography.
BOOK (CANADA), Nothing Special
36 Photographs by Cristian Ordóñez. Book Edited and Designed by Marlo Onilla. 51.5 x 33.5 x 70 cms (Box). 48.5 x 33 x 30 cms (Book). 108 pages. Book contained in handmade box (Gauze, Paint, Sand, Epoxy and Laser Cut). Cover photograph protected with resin. Brass engraved and polished tube with pencil inside. Limited edition. Collaboration with Biography.
FAIR (ONLINE), Artsy, with Galería Animal — link here
Part of the first edition of Latin American Galleries Now by Artsy, bringing together the gallery associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico all in one place. Joining this initiative thanks to Galería Animal, together with artists Bruno Giliberto, Patricia Claro and Hernán Gana. Thanks to curator María Jose Sagredo. Latin American Galleries Now. July 19 - August 9, 2021.
FAIR (ONLINE), Artsy, with Galería Animal — link here
Part of the first edition of Latin American Galleries Now by Artsy, bringing together the gallery associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico all in one place. Joining this initiative thanks to Galería Animal, together with artists Bruno Giliberto, Patricia Claro and Hernán Gana. Thanks to curator María Jose Sagredo. Latin American Galleries Now. July 19 - August 9, 2021.
PRESS (ITALY) Other Voices — link here
Thanks for the words to Greta and the Pellicola Magazine.
Extract: Landscapes as works of our mind. Cristian Ordóñez explores the border between reality and memory and the recurring connections that establish when these two dimensions interact with one another. Emotions, connections, sensory perceptions shape what we experience creating a symbolic reality, unidentifiable and in between moments in which the unknown and the familiar become inseparable. This boundary between what is far and what is recognizable is what makes way for unclear associations, as we were floating into existence directed by our past, like a “narrative dream”. Works from publication "Other Voices", 2019.
PRESS (ITALY) Other Voices — link here
Thanks for the words to Greta and the Pellicola Magazine.
Extract: Landscapes as works of our mind. Cristian Ordóñez explores the border between reality and memory and the recurring connections that establish when these two dimensions interact with one another. Emotions, connections, sensory perceptions shape what we experience creating a symbolic reality, unidentifiable and in between moments in which the unknown and the familiar become inseparable. This boundary between what is far and what is recognizable is what makes way for unclear associations, as we were floating into existence directed by our past, like a “narrative dream”. Works from publication "Other Voices", 2019.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), The Globe and Mail
Urban habitats are in trouble. What Toronto's ailing ravines reveal about the future of city wilderness — Story by Alex Bozikovic and Oliver Moore. Photographs of scientist and forestry ecologist Eric Davies, for The Globe and Mail print version, on the cover and folio section. Photo editor Clare Vander Meersch.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), The Globe and Mail
Urban habitats are in trouble. What Toronto's ailing ravines reveal about the future of city wilderness — Story by Alex Bozikovic and Oliver Moore. Photographs of scientist and forestry ecologist Eric Davies, for The Globe and Mail print version, on the cover and folio section. Photo editor Clare Vander Meersch.
HONOURS (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute — link here
Ongoing project "Frequency" has been awarded the Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2020, in the category Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts. The project is accompanied by a text by the sociologist Mónica Salinero Rates. The project will be published later this year in a publication by the institute. Urbanautica Institute works on photography, visual anthropology and cultural landscapes.
HONOURS (ITALY), Urbanautica Institute — link here
Ongoing project "Frequency" has been awarded the Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2020, in the category Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts. The project is accompanied by a text by the sociologist Mónica Salinero Rates. The project will be published later this year in a publication by the institute. Urbanautica Institute works on photography, visual anthropology and cultural landscapes.
TEACHING (CANADA), Authorship, Editorial
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2021.
TEACHING (CANADA), Authorship, Editorial
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2021.
TALK/PANEL (CHILE), Hacia una nueva visualidad — link here
Talk about inspiration and collaborations, plus a panel discussion about design and culture with architect Rodrigo Tisi, design academic Pamela Gatica and graphic designer Werner Fett, as part of the event "Diseñar Hoy", organized by the Chilean Minister of Culture, Arts and Patrimony. Event in Spanish!
TALK/PANEL (CHILE), Hacia una nueva visualidad — link here
Talk about inspiration and collaborations, plus a panel discussion about design and culture with architect Rodrigo Tisi, design academic Pamela Gatica and graphic designer Werner Fett, as part of the event "Diseñar Hoy", organized by the Chilean Minister of Culture, Arts and Patrimony. Event in Spanish!
FEATURE (GERMANY/CHILE), Raúl Zurita, La poesía como la escencia de toda creación
An honor to share my photographs with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Buchmesse), in the short documentary film curated by Gabinete Contemporary Art, with Goethe-Institute. An important date turning one year from the Chilean social outbreak from October 18, 2019. Photographs from my ongoing work called "Trama". Thank you to curator Carolina Martínez Sánchez for the invitation.
FEATURE (GERMANY/CHILE), Raúl Zurita, La poesía como la escencia de toda creación
An honor to share my photographs with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Buchmesse), in the short documentary film curated by Gabinete Contemporary Art, with Goethe-Institute. An important date turning one year from the Chilean social outbreak from October 18, 2019. Photographs from my ongoing work called "Trama". Thank you to curator Carolina Martínez Sánchez for the invitation.
ONLINE SALE (CHILE), The distance of things is overcome by a plane
Curated by Matías Allende Contador, with advice from Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz. "Perimeter Series", 2020 explores the relationship and the dialogue that is generated between the urbanization imposed by the human being and nature, putting emphasis on how we constantly try to control its organic growth. Works commissioned in response by "The distance of things is overcome by a plane" title of an essay by Matías Allende, to integrate the collaborative project of Fundación Antenna and available to purchase in the new local art platform of Falabella. Thanks for the invitation to Matías Allende, Fundación Antenna, and to all the team that carried out this project, including Loa Bascuñan, Cristián Aninat, Alfonzo Diaz, and Antonio Bascuñan.
ONLINE SALE (CHILE), The distance of things is overcome by a plane
Curated by Matías Allende Contador, with advice from Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz. "Perimeter Series", 2020 explores the relationship and the dialogue that is generated between the urbanization imposed by the human being and nature, putting emphasis on how we constantly try to control its organic growth. Works commissioned in response by "The distance of things is overcome by a plane" title of an essay by Matías Allende, to integrate the collaborative project of Fundación Antenna and available to purchase in the new local art platform of Falabella. Thanks for the invitation to Matías Allende, Fundación Antenna, and to all the team that carried out this project, including Loa Bascuñan, Cristián Aninat, Alfonzo Diaz, and Antonio Bascuñan.
EXHIBITION (RUSSIA), Sink After the Sun (solo show)
Department of Culture, Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture. Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Russia. Curated by Evgeny Komuhin. September 13 to October 11, 2020
EXHIBITION (RUSSIA), Sink After the Sun (solo show)
Department of Culture, Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture. Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Russia. Curated by Evgeny Komuhin. September 13 to October 11, 2020
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A World Without Us
Featured work on the next issue of Rivista Eco, a magazine dedicated to sustainable education and environmental culture, with an article by Ugo Leone on the book 'Extinction' published by Urbanautica. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A World Without Us
Featured work on the next issue of Rivista Eco, a magazine dedicated to sustainable education and environmental culture, with an article by Ugo Leone on the book 'Extinction' published by Urbanautica. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
EXHIBITION (BELGIUM), Picture Paralyse (group show)
The School. The Gallery at Maison Florida. Hasselt, Belgium. Curated by Pablo Hannon.
EXHIBITION (BELGIUM), Picture Paralyse (group show)
The School. The Gallery at Maison Florida. Hasselt, Belgium. Curated by Pablo Hannon.
PRESS (CANADA), Voir l'invisible — link here
"See the invisible" text by Michelle Drapeau.
Artist-run centre VU Photo (Québec) features article that includes artists Hua Jin, Débora Flor, Florence Le Blanc, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Clint Enns, Pierre&Marie, Cristian Ordóñez, Marjolaine Bourdua, Dani Hausmann, and Jean-Francois Pros.
PRESS (CANADA), Voir l'invisible — link here
"See the invisible" text by Michelle Drapeau.
Artist-run centre VU Photo (Québec) features article that includes artists Hua Jin, Débora Flor, Florence Le Blanc, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Clint Enns, Pierre&Marie, Cristian Ordóñez, Marjolaine Bourdua, Dani Hausmann, and Jean-Francois Pros.
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A Possible Catalogue — link here
Featured work in an article written by Ugo Leone, an expert on environmental policies, long-lecturer at the University of Naples Federico II and former president of the Vesuvius National Park. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
PRESS (ITALY), Extinction. A Possible Catalogue — link here
Featured work in an article written by Ugo Leone, an expert on environmental policies, long-lecturer at the University of Naples Federico II and former president of the Vesuvius National Park. Book edited and curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), Thoughts, Instinct, and Process — link here
Photobook workshop directed at VU Photo in Québec City. This two-and-a-half-day collective workshop allows participating artists to develop an existing photographic project into book form. Activity offered in the context of Assemblages, VU's annual workshop for the creation of book maquettes, which will take place 10-28 February with the artists' Gaston Côte and Hua Jin. VU Photo, Québec City. February, 21 - 23, 2020.
WORKSHOP (CANADA), Thoughts, Instinct, and Process — link here
Photobook workshop directed at VU Photo in Québec City. This two-and-a-half-day collective workshop allows participating artists to develop an existing photographic project into book form. Activity offered in the context of Assemblages, VU's annual workshop for the creation of book maquettes, which will take place 10-28 February with the artists' Gaston Côte and Hua Jin. VU Photo, Québec City. February, 21 - 23, 2020.
PUBLICATION (CHILE), Sergio Larrain
Essay about Sergio Larrain's work for the Book "100 x 100". Edited and Curated by Patricio Pozo.
PUBLICATION (CHILE), Sergio Larrain
Essay about Sergio Larrain's work for the Book "100 x 100". Edited and Curated by Patricio Pozo.
TEACHING (CANADA), Editorial, Book Design
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2020.
TEACHING (CANADA), Editorial, Book Design
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON. January — April 2020.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), Brick Magazine: A Literary Journal, issue 104
“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end” — text by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Article text by Kaitlin Ruether. Art Direction by Mark Byk.
EDITORIAL (CANADA), Brick Magazine: A Literary Journal, issue 104
“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end” — text by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Article text by Kaitlin Ruether. Art Direction by Mark Byk.
PUBLICATION (ITALY), Extinction. The World Without Us — link here
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute. Edited and Curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
PUBLICATION (ITALY), Extinction. The World Without Us — link here
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute. Edited and Curated by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica Institute.
EXHIBITION (GREECE), Other Voices (group show)
Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum. Athens Photo Festival. June - July 28, 2019.
EXHIBITION (GREECE), Other Voices (group show)
Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum. Athens Photo Festival. June - July 28, 2019.
PANEL (CANADA), Photobook Lab: On Longevity
Panel discussion invited by Toronto Photo Library and Zackery Hobler. Panel with artists Bianca Salvo, Steven Beckly, Josée Schryer, and Seth Fluker, part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto. Hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Supported by Dara and Marvin Singer.
PANEL (CANADA), Photobook Lab: On Longevity
Panel discussion invited by Toronto Photo Library and Zackery Hobler. Panel with artists Bianca Salvo, Steven Beckly, Josée Schryer, and Seth Fluker, part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto. Hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Supported by Dara and Marvin Singer.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Open Show 33: Photo/Graphic
Curated by Gilbert Li, at Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA), Open Show 33: Photo/Graphic
Curated by Gilbert Li, at Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA) Journalism Class
Artist talk for Journalism department at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALK (CANADA) Journalism Class
Artist talk for Journalism department at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
PUBLICATION (SPAIN) La Mono Magazine, Essence.
Written by Vicky Navarro, Barcelona, Spain.
PUBLICATION (SPAIN) La Mono Magazine, Essence.
Written by Vicky Navarro, Barcelona, Spain.
PRESS (ITALY), At the Pace of the Bloom
Landscape Stories
PRESS (ITALY), At the Pace of the Bloom
Landscape Stories
FAIR (CANADA), Vancouver Art Book Fair
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC.
FAIR (CANADA), Vancouver Art Book Fair
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC.
BOOK (CHILE), Colección del Metalibro N2
Edited by Javiera Novoa. Text by Mónica Salinero. Translation by Tomás Peters. Published by Metalibro.
BOOK (CHILE), Colección del Metalibro N2
Edited by Javiera Novoa. Text by Mónica Salinero. Translation by Tomás Peters. Published by Metalibro.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. September — October 2018.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. September — October 2018.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Subjectively Objective Gallery, Detroit, MI.
EXHIBITION (US), The Vernacular of Landscape (group show)
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine. Group Exhibition, Subjectively Objective Gallery, Detroit, MI.
PUBLICATION (US) The Vernacular of Landscape
Publication by Subjectively Objective. Curated by Noah Waldeck and co-edited by Float Photo Magazine.
PUBLICATION (US) The Vernacular of Landscape
Publication by Subjectively Objective. Curated by Noah Waldeck and co-edited by Float Photo Magazine.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
FAIR (CANADA), Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON. CONTACT Photography Festival.
EXHIBITION + PUBLICATION (CANADA), Terrain Notes (group show)
Edited and Art Directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Group Exhibition and publication launch at Pushmi Pullyu Gallery, Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITION + PUBLICATION (CANADA), Terrain Notes (group show)
Edited and Art Directed by Cristian Ordóñez. Group Exhibition and publication launch at Pushmi Pullyu Gallery, Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITION (NETHERLANDS), The Night (group show)
Curated by Chantalle Weerts and Pablo Hannon. BIP, Biennale De L’image Possible, Belgium. Group Exhibition at Maastricht, Netherlands. Large photocopies, book and screenprints. Various materials and sizes.
EXHIBITION (NETHERLANDS), The Night (group show)
Curated by Chantalle Weerts and Pablo Hannon. BIP, Biennale De L’image Possible, Belgium. Group Exhibition at Maastricht, Netherlands. Large photocopies, book and screenprints. Various materials and sizes.
EXHIBITION (ITALY), XXI Triennale di Milano
Street Art pavilion at the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition: City After the City. Exhibition Design and Edition. Associate Creative Direction, Design and Edition with (Bruce Mau Design) Creative Direction by Manuel Gonzalez, and with designers Mariana Nemer and Sebastián Rodriguez. Curated by Nina Bassoli.
EXHIBITION (ITALY), XXI Triennale di Milano
Street Art pavilion at the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition: City After the City. Exhibition Design and Edition. Associate Creative Direction, Design and Edition with (Bruce Mau Design) Creative Direction by Manuel Gonzalez, and with designers Mariana Nemer and Sebastián Rodriguez. Curated by Nina Bassoli.
PRESS (GERMANY), Der Greif
Guest-Room Online Group Exhibition. Curated by Ann-Christin Bertrand.
PRESS (GERMANY), Der Greif
Guest-Room Online Group Exhibition. Curated by Ann-Christin Bertrand.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 (group show)
Group exhibition at Gallery 44 in Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITION (CANADA), Salon 44 (group show)
Group exhibition at Gallery 44 in Toronto, ON.