Luis Felipe Ortega

Luis Felipe Ortega (born 1966, Mexico City) is a Mexican contemporary artist.

His career started in the 1990s as a writer for the newspaper, La Jornada and El Nacional.

Since the start of his career, Luis Felipe Ortega has worked on many publication throughout his careers.

Some of these books are editorial projects, book projects, and/or catalogues from previous exhibits.

Since 1993 he has exhibited individually and collectively both in Mexico and abroad.

In 2002 he became an artist resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) and soon after he exhibited in various exhibitions at a global scale.

Luis Felipe Ortega made his first solo exhibition, Campo de acción, in Mexico City at the GALERÍA ART & IDEA.

This exhibition highlights the importance of time that, "consist of message-text planted in long lines across the walls and augmented by large painting-form arrangements of small photographs, depicting the actions of a person waiting (drinking a cup of coffee) or moving (watching traffic go by, for example)".

The exhibition uses photographs and videos as its medium, which catches and highlights a person's daily-life activities.

His exhibit titled, Nothing Else took place in New York, United States at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), which supports the artist, curators through their residence and public programs.

Ortega was a resident artist for the international Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in 2002.

This exhibit took place at the Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico.

According to the artist, this exhibition is "...the search for a line and the relationship that the observer forms with it."

The exhibition takes place a room with a white line on the walk, which is at an eye level.

It "investigates the tensions that exist between artistic conventions and the subjectivity of the creator: it proposes a certain tension between conceptual art and the technical knowledge necessary to materialize an idea."

During the same year, Luis Felipe Ortega had another exhibit where he collaborated with a fellow artist, Tania Candiani in Mexico City titled, So it is, now is now, which took place at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda.

Their artwork was projected in the pavilion wall that represents "the unpredictability of a natural disequilibrium circumstance and the different responses to it."

Luis Felipe Ortega held an artistic residency in the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City in 2002.

In 2013 Luis Felipe Ortega had an exhibit in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico at the Marso Galeria, an independent curatorial initiative and art gallery focused on highlighting contemporary artist around the world.

According to Marcela Quiroz, " Ink and graphite drawings in a variety of formats suggest basic geometries, showing that the artist is just as empathetic and clever in his treatment of empty space as he is persistent at inventing/discovering, amid those myriad traces within each stroke, almost invisible volumes—indeed, even movement."

The artist opted out on his usual cinematic approach used graphite on paper as his medium for this show.

He was a Representative of Mexico's Pavilion in the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with Tania Candiani.

His dedication on presenting various ideas and visions are honorable as he approached it by means of various mediums such as videos, audio, drawings, sculptures, and installations.

"'The journey is very important; if there isn't, you're not in a complex relationship with the part. This journey can go from more to less or from less to more and from there make a series of equations between sculpture, image and sound. All this wants to put the piece itself in crisis.'"

In 2017, he had a solo exhibit titled Landscape and Geometry (for P.P.P) in Oaxaca, Mexico at the Centro de Las Artes de San Agustin (CASA). His work can be viewed in a room where multiple strings are tied to numerous poles inside the building.

That same year, he exhibited at the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico City, Mexico where his work, Regarding the Edge of Things was featured.

Ortega's latest exhibit titled, ...y luego se tornará resquicio, took place in Puebla, Mexico City at Museo Amparo from February 5, 2022 - May 23, 2023.

Luis Felipe Ortega highlights his interest in time and space with this exhibit as he "...deals with producing liminal spaces in which the materials and techniques of execution become fundamental: both the scale of the pieces, as well as the material of each one of them carry with them a specific work that allows a peculiar imagination of the time invested in its realization.

He completed his undergraduate degree in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).