EXHIBITION (group show) "Galery 44" (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.
March 2023 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) "Espacio Migrante" (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). 
February 2023 (MX)

EXHIBITION (group show) "The People United"
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.
February 2023 (CA)

FEATURE "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.
January 2023 (US)

EXHIBITION (solo show) "Displace" (link here)
Solo show at Project 107 Gallery in Toronto, ON Canada.
Thursday, January 5, to Sunday, January 8.
January 2023 (CA)

HONOURS "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).
December 2022 (ES)

HONOURS "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.
December 2022 (ES)

BENEFIT SALE (group show) "Artishock" (link here)
Two works available in the 2023 benefit sale for Artishock Magazine. 
December 2022 (FR)

EXHIBITION (group show) "Les Photaumnales"
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. 
November 2022 (FR)

HONOURS "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.
November 2022 (CA)

ARTICLE "Frecuencia" (link here)
Article written by Alejandra Villasmil by contemporary art magazine Artishock about my exhibition Frequency at Galería Animal in Santiago de Chile.

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."
October 2022 (CL)

EXHIBITION (group show) "The Artist as Author: Recent Canadian Photobooks" (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.
October 2022 (DK)

ARTIST TALK "The People United"
Online Artist talk on October 13 at 7PM EST together with artist Syrup Marcus Ware, for Sur Gallery.
October 2022 (CA)

EXHIBITION (solo show) "Frecuencia"
Thursday 06 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.
October 2022 (CL)

EXHIBITION (group show) "The People United"
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
September 2022 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) "Les livres du vécu" (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.
August 2022 (CA)

HONOURS "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!
August 2022 (CA)

COLLECTION "On Trial"
On Trial, published by acb press, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection in Ottawa, ON Canada.
July 2022 (CA)

HONOURS "Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Nominee"
Very honoured to be nominated to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022.
July 2022 (GE)

BOOK "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.
June 2022 (US+CA)

COLLECTION "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. 
May 2022 (AU)

BOOK FAIR "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
May 2022 (AU)

PUBLICATION "Urbanautica Insitute Awards 2020" (link here)
Recently released, the new publication by Urbanautica Institute, with all the winners of their awards from 2020. Under the category "Architecture, Space, Conflicts", the project Frequency is featured with photographs and text.

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.
May 2022 (IT)

COLLECTION "San Telmo Museum"
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.
March 2022 (ES)

EXHIBITION (group show) "Salon 44 Online"
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.
March 2022 (CA)

HONOURS "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!
February 2022 (CA)

FEATURE "C4 Journal" (link here)
Notes included in the article "Zines that made us think in 2021".

"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." 
—
Extract, text by Callum Beaney
January 2022 (UK)

INTERVIEW/FEATURE "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.
January 2022 (ES)

INTERVIEW/FEATURE "Urbanautica Institute" (link here)
Interviewed and featured at Urbanautica. Conversation with curator Steve Bisson.
December 2021 (IT)

PUBLICATION "Fotosfera" (link here)
Selected for a cover 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. 
December 2021 (AR)

HONOURS "Winner, 2021 Burtynsky Grant" (link here)
Ongoing body of work "Frequency" has won the 2021 Burtynsky Grant.
Edward Burtynsky, Romke Hoogwaerts, Michele Pearson Clarke, and Zun Lee (Jury)
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."
—
CONTACT Photography Festival
October 2021 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) "Read the Room"
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 (UK)

WORKSHOP "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. 
November 2021 

FAIR "Artsy, 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 
July - August 2021 

COLLABORATION "Extempore"
A series of 10 Gelatine Silver Prints used as covers in collaboration with Extempore, an impromptu music and field recording process by artist Justin Pape. A number of 3 copies per print released as a limited edition of 30 and published in a 6-track cassette housed within a small sculpture created by Justin, constructed from debris collected from daily walks in Toronto, Justin's daily coffee grounds, and his hair grown during this year.
10 Gelatine Silver Print
Edition of 3 each
Published and Available by Colony Collapse
July 2021 (CA)

PRINTS "Artsy, Galería Animal" (link here)
Honoured to have some work available on Artsy with Galería Animal. Limited edition archival pigment prints (100% cotton, acid and longing-free paper). Works created between 2019 and 2020. Thanks to curator María Jose Sagredo. 
April 2021 (CL)

FEATURE "Other Voices" (link here)
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.
Thanks for the words to Greta and the Pellicola Magazine
April 2021 (IT)

EDITORIAL "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.
April 2021 (CA)

HONOURS "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.
March 2021 (IT)

TALK/PANEL "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!
November 23, 2020 (CL)

FEATURE "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. 
October 17, 2020 (CL)

ONLINE "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.
October 15, 2020 (CL)

EXHIBITION (solo show) "Sink After the Sun"
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 (RU)

ARTICLE "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.
September 2020 (IT)

EXHIBITION (group show) Picture Paralyse
The School. The Gallery at Maison Florida. Hasselt, Belgium
Curated by Pablo Hannon
August 21, 2020 (BE)

ARTICLE "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.
July 2020 (IT)

FEATURED 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
July 24, 2020 (CA)

ONLINE Both Literally and Figuratively
Publication curated by Pablo Hannon
March 31, 2020 (BE)

WRITING about Sergio Larrain's work for the Book "100 x 100". Edited and Curated by Patricio Pozo
January 2020 (CL)

TEACHING Editorial, Book Design
Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
January — April 2020 (CA)

PUBLICATION "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.
November 2019 (IT)

PUBLICATION De discursos visuales, secuencias y fotolibros (link here)
Book by Ros Boisier y Leo Simoes. Published by Editorial RM. Edited by Muga. 
Mention of photobooks "Other Voices", "A Way to Disconnect and Connect", "Sink After the Sun", and "Time Regrets its Passing".
August 2019 (CL)

FAIR Rombo, Museum of Contemporary Art
"Colección del Metalibro" will be available at MAC
Published by Metalibro
July 2019 (CL)

EXHIBITION (solo show) Sink After the Sun
Space Place Gallery, Nizhniy Tagil, Russia
Curated by Evgeny Komuhin
July 12, 2019 (RU)

EXHIBITION (group show) Other Voices
Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum. Athens Photo Festival.
June - July 28, 2019 (GR)

FEATURE "A Way to Disconnect and Connect" (link here)
Booooooom, Photographer Spotlight
November 2018 (CA)

FAIR Vancouver Art Book Fair
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
October 2018 (CA)

FAIR Contact PhotoBook Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON
CONTACT Scotiabank Photography Festival
July 2018 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) The Vernacular of Landscape
Curated by Subjectively Objective and Float Photo Magazine
Group Exhibition, Subjectively Objective Gallery, Detroit, MI
July 2018 (US)

PUBLISHED The Vernacular of Landscape
Publication by Subjectively Objective
Curated by Noah Waldeck and co-edited by Float Photo Magazine
June 2018 (US)

EXHIBITION (group show) The Print Swap: Reflections of a Dream
Curated by Paul Kopeikin. The Print Swap and Feature Shoot
The month of Photography Los Angeles Festival
Group Exhibition, ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
April 2018 (US)

STOCKLIST The Canadian Centre for Architecture (link here)
"A Way to Disconnect and Connect" Book, published by Daga
Available at CCA bookstore, Montréal, Québec
February 2018 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) Terrain Notes
Edited and Art Directed by Cristian Ordóñez
Group Exhibition and publication launch at Pushmi Pullyu Gallery, Toronto, ON
November 2017 (CA)

PUBLICATION (group) Terrain Notes
Edited and Art Directed by Cristian Ordóñez
November 2017 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) This is Two Personal
Curated by Luis Mora
Working Title, Toronto, ON
May 2017 (CA)

EXHIBITION (group show) The Impossible Image 
Curated by Matt Martin
BIP, Biennale De L’image Possible, Liège, Belgium
October 2016 (BE)

EXHIBITION (group show) Salon 44
Group exhibition at Gallery 44 in Toronto
March 2016 (CA)