Jorge Orta (artist)

Jorge Orta (born 1953) is a Paris-based, Italian-Argentinian contemporary visual artist.

Orta began his career as a painter, winning numerous awards for his work. In response to the increasing censorship of the Argentine military regime, he shifted to more avant-garde and alternative forms of visual communication, such as mail art and action-performance, working in underground artist collectives. He was also lecturer in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, and a member of the Argentinean national council for scientific research, until 1984, when he received a scholarship to the Sorbonne and relocated to Paris.

In Paris, Orta began experimenting with the technology for large-scale image projection and painted and illuminated sites of cultural and historical significance around the world. In 1993, he founded Les Moulins with his wife Lucy Orta. The pair collaborate as a team known as Lucy + Jorge Orta on major artworks that often explore environmental sustainability and urgent humanitarian crises.