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Alexandre Órion (b. 1978, São Paulo, Brazil) is a multimedia artist who began his career in 1992 rooted in urban culture and graffiti, later expanding into photography in 2001. In 2004, he graduated in Visual Arts from Faculdade Montessori – Famec in São Paulo.

In 2002, he created the Metabiotics (Metabiótica) project, in which paintings executed on city walls intentionally generate visual dialogues with passersby and the surrounding urban space. This dynamic interplay between painted figures and real-life occurrences is captured through photography, which serves as the final manifestation of the work. In 2006, he initiated the urban intervention Ossuary (Ossário), using only cloths to scrub away the soot encrusted on the walls of the Max Feffer Tunnel in São Paulo, thereby carving out images of human skulls.

Orion has held solo exhibitions in major cultural capitals around the world. In Brazil, his works have been exhibited at prominent institutions such as the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Itaú Cultural, Centro Cultural Caixa, and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

His interviews and critical texts have been published in over ten languages across leading global media outlets. Furthermore, his work has been featured in publications by renowned publishing houses, including Thames & Hudson, Taschen, Éditions de la Martinière, Phaidon, Die Gestalten, Daab, Laurence King Publishing, Edelbra, Rotovision, Moderna, Dokument Press, FTD, University of Toronto Press, Saraiva, Sigongart, Vivays Publishing, Tamesis, and Nova Fronteira.

He has exhibited extensively and holds works in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris; the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Centrum Beeldende Kunst in Rotterdam; Itaú Cultural; Deutsche Bank and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), both in New York; the Milwaukee Art Museum; Fundação Padre Anchieta; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; the Spencer Museum of Art; and the Schirn Kunsthalle, among many others.