David Orr is an artist, curator, director, and poet. He has shown internationally, and is in public collections among such artists as Ansel Adams, Ruth Asawa, John Baldessari, Jim Dine, David Hockney, The Brothers Quay, Taryn Simon, Edward Weston, and Joel-Peter Witkin. His work has appeared in Art Daily, Harpers’, Hazlitt, Hyperallergic, Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought, Tricycle: the Buddhist Review, and VICTOR: The Hasselblad Magazine, among others. Independent film projects have aired on Channel 4 Britain and PBS, and screened internationally.
David speaks about his work regularly, and has presented at The Joseph Campbell Foundation, The Mütter Museum, The New School, Parsons School of Design, The Philosophical Research Society (where he established the contemporary arts program, served as curator, and founded the Hansell Gallery), The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Reed College, and Tibet House US, among other venues. He is a member of the Long Now Foundation.
