Paccarik Orue (b. 1976, Lima, Peru) resides in Santa Clara, California.
He earned a BFA from the Academy of Art University in 2011 and has been documenting struggling cities and their inhabitants both in the Bay Area and in his native Peru.
Orue has had solo shows at Blue Sky Gallery, SFO Museum and Book & Job Gallery. His work has been selected to participate in numerous exhibitions including Jenkins Johnson Gallery, SF Camerawork, Center for Photographic Art and Rayko.
His images have been featured in The New York Times, PDN, Juxtapox, KQED/PBS, Conscientious and Lenscratch, among others.
He was selected by PDN as one of the 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2016 and has been awarded En Foco’s New Works Photography Fellowship Award (2013-2014.) Orue is the recipient of Duke University’s 2016 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for Documentarians of Color.
His first book, There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, was published by Owl & Tiger in 2012.
EDUCATION
2011 BFA, Photography, Academy of Art University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 El Muqui, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA
2017 El Muqui, Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 El Muqui, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
VIII Premio ArtexArte, ArtexArte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Insight/Incite, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2022
Scavando si impara: la lezione peruviana, Lab 27, Treviso, Italy
2021
Extraction: Art On The Edge of The Abyss, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2020
8×10 Fundraising Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2019
8×10 Fundraising Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2018
Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Photoworks Presents: Collaborate, Free Range, London, UK
2017
There Is No Alas Where I Live, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, CA
2015
Status Update, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Field Study, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Artists-In-Residence, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2014
En Foco’s New Works #17, President’s Gallery, City University of New York, New York, NY
2013
Unfolding Images, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Cover to Cover, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2012
A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks, Indie Photobook Library, Photoville, NY; Foto Week DC, Washington DC; Carte Blanch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Boundaries, Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Transient States, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Unfamiliar, Carte Blanche Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
American Life, Lishui Photography Festival, Indie Photobook Library, Lishui, China
2010
Quiet Lands, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Spring Show, Academy of University, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2016 PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
2016 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for Documentarians of Color, Duke University, Durham, NC
2013 New Works Photography Award #17 Fellowship, En Foco, New York
2013 Jury’s Choice, Cover to Cover exhibit, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2013 Local Lens Award, Open Show SF, San Francisco, CA
+COLLECTIONS
Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, DC
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Amon Carter Museum of American Arts Library, Fort Worth, TX
Tate Library and Archive, London, UK
Museum of Fine Arts Hirsch Library, Houston, TX
UC Berkeley Libraries, Berkeley, CA
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT
Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
Contemporary Arts Center Library, New Orleans, LA
University of Cincinnati Langsam Library, Cincinnati, OH
RESIDENCIES
2019 Facebook, San Francisco, CA
2016 3rd Street Studios Program, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2015 Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2012 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
BOOKS
2012 Bayview Times, Owl & Tiger Books
2012 There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, Owl & Tiger Books
ONLINE
Extraction: Art on The Edge of The Abyss
SFO Museum
PDN’s 30
KQED
New York Times
Juxtapoz Magazine
SMBH Magazine
Verve Photo
Fototazo
Lenscratch
Aint-Bad Magazine
Juxtapoz
“eñe, 54/Perú,” La Fabrica, Madrid, August 2018: Cover, pgs. 49, 81.
“2016 PDN’s 30,” Photo District News, New York, NY, April 2016: pg. 58.
“Status Update, Paccarik Orue, There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here + Trocas,” Catchlight, Berkeley, CA, November 2015: Cover, pgs. 68-75.
“Paccarik Orue, Documenting Community and Social Justice in The Andes,” Sounds and Colours Perú, London, England. June 2015: pgs. 7, 82-88.
“Find Rangers #7, Portraits,” Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 2015: pgs. 52-62.
“From Here On,” Aint-Bad Magazine, Savannah, GA, March 2015: pg. 125.
“Mine Tears Andean City,” International New York Times, Jan 15, 2015: pg. 2.
“New Works Photography Fellowship Awards #17, Paccarik Orue,” Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, New York, NY, September 2014: Cover, pgs. 3-15.