Joe Fletcher Orr

Joe Fletcher Orr (b. 1991, Birkenhead, UK; lives and works in Liverpool, UK) works with a wide range of media, creating pieces that initially seem like quips or one-liners. However, they reveal a complex relationship between himself, his family, and the artworld. Often collaborating with family members, Orr’s sculptures, performances, and installations employ humor to challenge the seriousness of the art scene and the authority of the art object. He credits his ability to poke fun at his own work and contemporary art to visits with his father to art galleries as a young boy, where he learned to laugh at the works on display.

Solo Exhibitions include: The END, Existential House (2022); A Flamingo, a Camel and an Owl walk into a Gallery, SABOT, Cluj-Napoca (2017); Mummy’s Boy, The International 3, Manchester (2016).

Group exhibitions include: Squad Goals / Collection Spotlight, The Grundy, Blackpool (2024); Survey, Bluecoat, Liverpool (2019); We are where we are, Baltic 39, Newcastle (2018); Looking North, Walker Art Gallery (2018); Original Fake, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2017); This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2016); A Journey from a sweeping gesture to a lasting effect, Vitrine, Basel (2016); Adventures in Clay, Bronze & Stone, Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo (2015); I refuse to participate in failure, SPREEZ, Munich (2015); SMALL ROME, Frutta, Rome (2015)