Caleb Stein (b. 1994, UK) is a multimedia artist. His conceptual, documentary work often takes the form of photographic installations, multi-channel video works, and artist books that engage with questions around the collective, community, and the relationship between photography, perception, and memory. Stein’s work is held in major public and private collections including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and The Nguyen Art Foundation. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at FOAM, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Deichtorhallen, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Red Hook Labs, PHMuseum, Webber Gallery, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and Vincom Center for Contemporary Art.
Stein often works as an artist duo with Andrea Orejarena (b. 1994, Colombia). Orejarena & Stein received the 2024 FOAM Talent Award, the 2024 Center for Photographic Art Artist Grant, and were nominated for the Hariban/Benrido Award by Yasufumi Nakamori. Stein has been nominated for awards including the Anne Wilkes Tucker Young Photographer Award at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a LensCulture nomination by Legacy Russell, and the 2025 PHMuseum Photography Grant.
Artist books include Long Time No See (Jiazazhi Press, 2022, made as a duo with Orejarena with text contributions from Forensic Architecture and Do Tuong Linh), American Glitch (Gnomic Book, 2024, made as a duo with Orejarena with an introduction by David Campany and a text booklet with contributions from 36 writers, artists, and curators on conceptions of glitch in contemporary society), and How to Move a Mountain (Luhz Press, 2024 with an introduction by David Campany). These artist books are held in several special collections, including at MoMA, The Met, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, The Rijksmuseum, and Center for Book Arts.
Orejarena & Stein’s first solo museum exhibition, Viral Hallucinations: Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein’s Tactics & Mythologies, was recently on view at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich. The exhibition will travel to PhotoForum Pasquart in Switzerland for a second installation curated by Amelie Schüle opening in the summer of 2025.
