Brian Orozco is a poet and artist from Portland, Oregon who works in the still and moving image. He is interested in fathers, grand strategy, mathematics, melancholy, interpersonal relationships, pretenses, and provenances. He holds a BA in American Studies from Yale University where his academic work focused on Visual Culture and Photography, investigating the construction of national identity in order to deconstruct notions of home and belonging. He received his MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art. He was the recipient of the Mary Hotchkiss Williams Travel Fellowship in the Visual Arts from the Yale University Art Gallery in 2016. He received the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship in the spring of 2019.