Andrew Ordonez is a visual artist and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. His sculptural practice amalgamates, erodes, and shape-shifts materiality through the ruins of capital debris. Ordonez earned his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2024. He is a recipient of the 2024 Yale School of Art Dean’s Prize. Recent residencies include the Triangle Arts Association, Casa Lú Parque Artist Residency in Mexico City, and the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. His work has been shown widely across the United States and North America, with recent exhibitions at 47 Canal; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; SHRINE NYC; the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center; Below Grand NYC; the Charlotte Street Foundation; the Emily and Todd Voth Artspace; Monaco STL; and the Mexic-Arte Museum.

Andrew Ordonez (He / Him)

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I use sculpture and installation to amalgamate, erode, and shapeshift materiality through the ruins of capital debris. This interest functions as both a research framework and a studio methodology, allowing me to engage with multiple fields of inquiry, including the role of contemporary fossilization, conditions of hauntology, and a shifting queer ecology. Through various casting and multimedia processes, I embed and cure spliced fragments within aggregates and fatty acid solubles, obscuring their histories on and within casts of everyday goods such as beach towels, dartboards, cabbages, and terrariums. Remorphed, these materials expand their capacity for containment, performing as anthropomorphized specters suspended between gestures of preservation and erasure. These arrangements blur the line between documentation and speculation, bending timelines and reframing both past and future archaeologies.