Tony Orrico (b. 1979, US) works at the intersection of performance, drawing, and embodied systems. Their practice investigates mental and physical endurance, somatics, bio-geometrics, and emergent form through improvisation and durational process.

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Orrico has performed and exhibited internationally throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Their visual work is held in the permanent collections of the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico), Muzeum Susch (Switzerland), and the Stanley Museum of Art (Iowa), as well as in prominent private collections including Kablanc/Fundación Otazu (Spain), Bergmeier/Kunstsaele (Germany), Colección Ca.Sa (Chile), and Fundación Casa Wabi (Mexico).

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They have presented work at institutions including the CCCB, Centre Pompidou-Metz, the New Museum, and PopTech 2011: The World Rebalancing. In 2010, Orrico was selected to re-perform the work of Marina Abramović during her retrospective at Museum of Modern Art. A former member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Shen Wei Dance Arts, Orrico has performed at venues including the Sydney Opera House, Teatro La Fenice, the New York State Theater, and the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. In 2011, Orrico served as visual designer for CANYON by John Jasperse, which premiered in New York City as part of the Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music and continued to tour.

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Orrico is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Intermedia and Dance at the University of Iowa.

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Their work was featured in Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2020), a collection examining the relationship between drawing and performance, and will appear in the forthcoming The Theater of Drawing published by Performance Art Journal/MIT Press.