Eamon Ore-Giron

(Tucson, Arizona, 1973 - )

Eamon Ore-Giron’s heritage, interests, and travels have created many simultaneous cultural influences on his artistic practice. He was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona to a Peruvian father and a mother of Irish descent who worked on the nearby Tohono O’odham reservation. In his youth he regularly traveled with his family to visit relatives in Peru, in Lima and the highland city of Huancayo. As an adult he spent time in Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico; and Huancayo and Lima, Peru before relocating to Los Angeles, where he is currently based. Music is a central part of his identity, one that he fostered through his travels through frequent observation of indigenous Peruvian dancers, and via his own musical practice as a musician and DJ (under the stage name DJ Lengua and as part of the two-person team LOS JAICHACKERS). For several decades, Ore-Giron has mined the complex nature of Latinx identity, the history of the Americas (including South America, Mesoamerica, and the intersection of cultures in the American Southwest), and the many legacies of abstraction in art more broadly. 

Ore-Giron received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. The artist has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Austin (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2022); and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2005), among others. Ore-Giron created a major public commission for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Brooklyn’s Bay Parkway Station, and has been selected for additional commissions for LA METRO in Los Angeles and the Phoenix Art Museum. His work is in the permanent collections of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 

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