Andrew Ordonez (b. 1991, Fort Worth, TX) is a visual artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. His sculptural practice examines the obsolete and hauntological dimensions of material culture, drawing on heirlooms, found media, and capital debris. Ordonez received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2024 and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013.
Inquiries: andrordonez@gmail.com
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Education
2024 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2013 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Scorchers, Roommate Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Cho-re-og-ra-phy, Abrir Galeria, virtual exhibition
2020 Deadbolts, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO
2019 What’s Got Into You Lately? Monaco, St. Louis, MO
2018 Fantasma/Stratum, Front/Space, Kansas City, MO
2016 Courtside Manner, Kiosk Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 A Bag to Breathe Into, SoMad, New York, NY
2025 hither and thither, 47 Canal, New York, NY
2025 The Salon for Possible Futures, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2024 SOS, Hotel Juliet, Philadelphia, PA
2024 A Thousand Plateaus, Shrine NYC, New York, NY
2024 DOOM: Yale Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2024 Signs of Life, Below Grand, New York, NY
2023 Side Stage, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2022 Mycelium Phone, Sapien Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2022 Site One, Sapien Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2021 A Little Undefined, Lodger, Kansas City, MO
2021 Aluxes, Casa Lu Galería, Ciudad de México
2021 Flatfile + Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2020 Momento, Holsum Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2020 Deadbolts, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO
2019 Here/Now, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2019 The Things We Take Away, The Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019 First Date Exhibition, G-CADD, Granite City, IL
2019 Off The Clock, Imagine That KC, Kansas City, MO
2018 Reality, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2018 Beyond Walls - Between Gates - Under Bridges, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
2018 Illuminating the Queer Experience, InterUrban Art House, Overland Park, KS
2018 Flat File Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2017 The KCAI Art and Design Auction, Kansas City, MO
2016 Flat File Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2016 Fifty at Fifty-Fifty, 50/50 KC, Kansas City, MO
2015 Things to be Read, 50/50 KC, Kansas City, MO
2014 Flat File Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2014 Arena Inaugural Showcase, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2013 4x6, Front/Space, Kansas City, MO
2013 If only a fool, City Ice Arts, Kansas City, MO
2013 Annual BFA Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2013 Senior Painting Thesis Exhibition, KCAI, Kansas City, MO
2012 Day Dreamscape, Vulpus Bastille, Kansas City, MO
2012 Blue Ribbon by Warren Rosser, KCAI Painting Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2012 Structure in Construction, City Ice Arts, Kansas City, MO
2009 Nod and Smile, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
Curatorial Exhibitions
2022 Sweeping the Chimney through the Mantle of the Earth, Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2022 Did I do that? Imagine That KC, Kansas City, MO
2018 World Piece, Imagine That KC, Kansas City, MO
Activity/Awards
2026 Yale Norfolk School of Art Teaching Fellowship, Norfolk, CT
2025-2026 Triangle Arts Association, Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Visiting Artist Lecture, Kansas City Art Institute, Painting Department, Kansas City, MO
2025 Visiting Artist Lecture, New York University, Steinhardt Studio Art, New York, New York
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2024 Dean's Prize Recipient, Yale School of Art
2024 Yale Department of Film and Media Studies: Teaching Fellow, New Haven, CT
2022-2024 Victor Wilson Yale Scholarship
2019-2022 Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Resident, Kansas City, MO
2022 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award finalist
2021 Casa Lu Studio Residency, Ciudad de México, México
2017-2019 Drugstore KC Studio Resident, Kansas City, MO
2018 Reality P&M Juried Exhibition, Best in Show award recipient
2014 H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO The Big Draw, Workshop “Jigsaw: Director’s Cut.”
Selected Press and Publications
2024 Boyle, Meka. “Group Show Summer” July 2024 (family style.com)
2022 Thompson, Matt. "Meeting Kansas City's Emerging Art Curators: Three Young Talents bring their ideas to bear on the presentation from art from KC to beyond" (July 2022): 58-60
2022 "Embodying the new emotional landscape in an upcoming exhibition: Sweeping the Chimney through the Mantle of the Earth," April 2022 (charlottestreet.org)
2022 "Sweeping the Chimney through the Mantle of the Earth", May 2022, (kcstudios.org)
2022 "Artspeak Radio April 20, 2022" hosted by Maria Vasquez Boyd, April 2022, (kkfi.org/programepisodes/artspeak-radio with Andrew Ordonez)
2019 "Now/Here," H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, July 2019, (kcstudios.org)
2018 Alonso, Ivan. "Andrew Ordonez - Interview with Andrew Ordonez." Fields Magazine - Issue 10 (autumn/winter 2018): 16-33 (www.fieldsmagazine.com)
2018 “Understanding the free fall in Reality at Leedy - Voulkos” November (informalityblog.com)
2018 Sight Lines: Art, Culture, News & Ideas “Dreaming of Our Abuelitos: “YLA 23” at Mexic-Arte Museum Explores Border Identity, August 2018, (www.sightlinesmag.org)
2018 Glass Tire “Top Five: June 28th, 2018” June 2018 ( www.glasstire.com)
2018 Fields Magazine “In Review: Young Latinx Artists 23, “Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges” August 2018, ( www.fieldsmagazine.com)
2018 “Amid Kansas City's First Friday Festivities, Guerrilla Docents Try To Actually Talk About Art” June 2018, ( http://www.kcur.org)
2016 Kansas City Flat file and Digital file Zine, Kendell Harbin “ A love letter to the budding curator” June 2016, (www.kcai.edu/artspace.com)
2013 Bad At Sports, Jamilee Polson-Lacy, “Kansas City Wishes You Were Here (And Everywhere Else)”, March 2013, ( www.badatsports.com)
Professional Employment
2026 Teaching Fellow, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT
2024-Current Senior Studio Coordinator, NYU, School of Art and Art Professionals, New York, NY
2023 Teaching Fellow, Film and Media Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2022-2024 Central Shop Monitor, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019-2022 Site Supervisor, RHD: Imagine That KC, Kansas City, MO
2017-2019 Direct Support Professional, RHD: Imagine That KC, Kansas City, MO
2015-2019 Instructor, Kansas City Art Institute-Continuing Education, Kansas City, MO
2013-2017 Admissions Counselor, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2012 James Woodfill Studio Intern, Kansas City, MO