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Ruben Ochoa
Image001Ruben Ochoa, Zoned Out in the 90045,
2007, C-print, wenge frame, Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
© Courtesy of the Artist & Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA
Laxart_install_frontRuben Ochoa, Extracted, 2006,
site specific installation at LAXART, Concrete, metal, plywood, burlap, chicken wire and decomposed granite; 12' x 20' x 30', Approx. 2.5 Tons , Photo by Leslie Moon
© Courtesy of the Artist
Extracted_other_side__2_Ruben Ochoa, Extracted, 2006,
Site-specific installation at LA><ART, Concrete, metal, plywood, burlap, chicken wire and decomposed granite; 12' x 20' x 30', Approx. 2.5 Tons, Photo by Leslie Moon
© Courtesy of the Artist
Ochoa2Ruben Ochoa,
What if walls vanished from the freeway, would it make a sound?,
2007, Lenticular print , Photo by Lutz Bertram
© Courtesy of the Artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA
Woulditmakeasound02Ruben Ochoa,
What if walls vanished from the freeway, would it make a sound?,
2007, Lenticular print , Photo by Lutz Bertram
© Courtesy of the Artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA
Woulditmakeasound03Ruben Ochoa,
What if walls vanished from the freeway, would it make a sound?,
2007, Lenticular print, Photo by Lutz Bertram
© Courtesy of the Artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA
Ochoa_133_amalgamatedinfraction01_loresRuben Ochoa, from A Recurring Amalgamation,
2007, site specific installation at Susanne Vielmetter LA, Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
© Courtesy of the Artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA
Installationview04Ruben Ochoa, from A Recurring Amalgamation,
2007, site specific installation at Susanne Vielmetter LA, Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
© Courtesy of the Artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA
Ideal_disjuncture1Ruben Ochoa, An Ideal Disjuncture ,
Installation views from Whitney Biennial 2008, Concrete, wooden palettes, chain link, rebar, tie wire, dirt; Approx. 14’ x 13’ x 7’, Photo by Bill Orcutt
© Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Ideal_disjuncture2Ruben Ochoa, An Ideal Disjuncture,
Installation views from Whitney Biennial 2008, Concrete, wooden palettes, chain link, rebar, tie wire, dirt; Approx. 14’ x 13’ x 7’ , Photo by Bill Orcutt
© Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
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> QUICK FACTS
BIRTHPLACE:  
Oceanside, CA
BIRTH YEAR:  
1974
LIVES IN:  
Los Angeles, CA
WORKS IN:  
Los Angeles, CA
SCHOOLS:  
UC Irvine, 2003, MFA
Otis College of Art and Design, 1997, BFA
Parsons School of Design, 1996
REPRESENTING GALLERIES:  
SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS, SUSANNE VIELMETTER Berlin Projects
> STATEMENT

Ruben Ochoa's works can be viewed at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, SWAP: LACMA On-Site in collaboration with Mark Bradford at Charles White Elementary School, and Phantom Sightings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, LAX><ART in Los Angeles, and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY.  Select group exhibitions include the 2004 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland.

In March 2008, Ochoa was selected as a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Additional previous awards include a Creative Capital Foundation Visual Arts Grant for his Fwy Wall Extraction project in 2006, a Rockefeller Foundation: Renew Media Fellowship, and a California Community Foundation fellowship.  His works are in several public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in NY.  

Ochoa is currently preparing for an upcoming group show in Tel Aviv, curated by Alma Ruiz.

EDUCATION

2003        MFA, University of California, Irvine

1997        BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

1996        Parsons School of Art and Design, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009   SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (in progress)

2008   "Fall of the Wall [paper]", Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin

2007   "A Recurring Amalgamation", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles

             "Clastic Rupture", Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2006    "Extracted", LA>

              "Freeway wall next to a...", Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles

2005     "Borrowed Ladders", ESL Ι Esthetics as a Second Language, Los Angeles

2004     "Greyscale", Voz Alta Projects, San Diego

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007-08  "Swap" LACMA On-Site, collaboration with Mark Bradford, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2006   "Storage", collaboration with Marco Rios, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles

             "Embryonic Loop", collaboration with Marco Rios, LA>

2005    "Caltransposed" with Peter Tavera, Gallery 727, Los Angeles

2004    "Rigor Motors", collaboration with Marco Rios, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA

              "Projects by Ruben Ochoa and Michael Queenland", The Project, Los Angeles (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008   WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

             "Phantom Sightings", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (curated by Rita Gonzalez)

             "Arte Contemporeano, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

2007-08 "Multifaceted Lens", Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN

2007   "Performance Z-A", 25th Anniversary for the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

             "Viva Mexico!" Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Magda Kardasz,  traveling to BWA Warsaw - Contemporary Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

             "Latitude", Artcore, Los Angeles (organized by Pilar Tompkins)

             "Range", d.e.n Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Kristi Lippire)

2006   "Mexicali Biennial", La Casa de la Tia Tina, Mexicali, Mexico

             "The Newsstand Project", newsstands throughout Los Angeles (organized by Dan Bayles)

             "Agent Once", Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles (organized by Jason Keller)

             "25 Bold Moves: Emerging Artists Exhibit", House of Campari, Los Angeles

             "An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life", REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles

             "Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art", Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles

2005    "Happenstance", Harris-Lieberman Gallery, New York (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)

              "Drive by and relax", UPSPACE, Los Angeles (curated by Chris Sicat)

              "Borderless Dreams", Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA

              "Drive Time", Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

              "Empire.Style", ART2102, Boyle Heights, CA (curated by Peter Zellner)

              "passerby", Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Cassandra Cobelentz)

2004     "FREEWAVES_Inter-State: Video on the Go", REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles

               "2004 California Biennial", Artist-in-Residence, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

               "Land of the Free: Americana", City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (curated by Tyler Stallings)

2003     "¡Picarte! Photography Beyond Representation", Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

               "Recess", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Brienne Arrington and Dan Bayles)

               "Happy Beautiful Desirable", Track 16, Santa Monica, CA

2002      "Better Look Twice", Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA

               "Whacked", Los Angeles (curated by John Souza)

 OTHER PROJECTS

2006-07  

  • "Fwy Wall Extraction", 10 fwy eastbound below Soto St and Marengo Blvd intersection, Los Angeles (produced by Creative Capital Foundation and LA>

2006   

  • "Disrup", LA>
  • "ain't that revolutionary", LA>

2001-05   

  • "CLASS: C", mobile artist space featuring over 75 artists, curators, and collaborators throughout Southern California

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008

  • Gonzalez, Rita, Howard N. Fox, and Chan A. Noriega, "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement" LACMA Publications, March
  • Schjeldahl, Peter, "Lessness: The Whitney Biennial", New Yorker, March 17
  • Lacayo, Richard, "The Simple Life",­ Time, March 13
  • Cohn, Marilyn, "The Big Apple: Whitney Biennial", For Your Art, March 13
  • Schuker, Lauren A.E., "The Fine Art of Less", The Wall Street Journal, March 7
  • Dalton, Trinie, "2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue", The Whitney Museum of American Art, March
  • Dockary, Sean and Hugo Hopping. "Social Studies: An Art and Social Engagement", X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring
  • MJ, " Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Transparenz durch Trugbilder", Taz.de, January 16

2007       

  • "Viva Mexico," Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa 2007
  • Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory", New York Times, November 16
  • "Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial", Artforum.com, November 16
  • Campagnola, Sonia, "Live from Los Angeles", Flash Art, November/December
  • Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential", artnet, October 12
  • "Continuing and Recommended: Ruben Ochoa's ‘A Recurring Amalgamation' at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Art Scene, October
  • Mizota, Sharon, "Ruben Ochoa: ‘A Recurring Amalgamation' at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Artforum.com, September 22
  • Gray, Emma, "Emma Gray's Top 10 Shows in Los Angeles this Month", Daily Magazine, Saatchi Online, September
  • Khuri, Elizabeth, "Public Art Angel: Lauri Firstenberg gets art out of museums and into the streets", West: LA Times Magazine, September 16
  • Myers, Holly, "When nature and urban life conflict", Los Angeles Times, September 14
  • Becker, Jack; Slade, George, "Multifaceted Lens: Photography and Public Art", Public Art Review, Spring/Summer
  • Freeman, Tommy, "The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life at the Sweeney Art Gallery", Artweek, May
  • Allsop, Laura; Alizarin Harvey, Polly; Lawley, Alanna, "Consumed", ArtReview, June, p. 42
  • Szupinska, Joanna, "Ruben Ochoa", Artillery, Volume 1, No. 4, March

2006       

  • Westerbeck, Colin, "Photo Synthesis: Fwy Wall Extraction", West Magazine, Los Angeles Times, December 24
  • Kim, Clara, "Ruben Ochoa: ‘Extracted', Contemporary, Issue 88, p.73
  • West, Kevin, "The Van Man", WWD Scoop Magazine, September, p. 60
  • Myers, Holly, "Freeways connect and divide", Los Angeles Times, September 15, p. E22
  • Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential", Artnet, October 13
  • Satorius, Katherine, "Ruben Ochoa at LA>
  • Campagnola, Sonia, "Focus Los Angeles: A Survey of Contemporary Los Angeles Art", Flash Art,    January/February, page 73
  • Finkel, Jori, "Recipe for Revolution: Take 11,000 Photos", New York Times, January 29, section 2-32
  • Isenberg, Barbara, "Otis College of Art and Design: The First 88 Years", Otis: Nine Decades of Art (catalogue), p. 14
  • Pollack, Barbara, "Happenstance", Time Out New York, Issue 536, January

2005       

  • Gonzalez, Rita, "Strangeways Here We Come", Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from the 90s to Now, published by JRP Ringier
  • Cotter, Holland, "Happenstance", New York Times, December 30, p. B37
  • Willis, Holly, "State of the Art: A Field Guide from Acken to Zittel", LA Weekly, October 28, p. 52
  • Tumlir, Jan, "California Biennial", Artforum, February, p. 168

2004       

  • Pincus, Robert L., "Turning in to the O.C.: ‘Biennial' belly laughs", The San Diego Union-Tribune,  November 7
  • Knight, Christopher, "Biennial arrives, and so does a museum", Los Angeles Times, October 13, p. E1, E7
  • Armstrong, Elizabeth and Hofmann, Irene, "The Big Sweep: Paradox in Paradise", California Biennial (catalogue), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, p. 12-21, 92-95
  • Cavallo Collins, Gina, "Through the Lens Violently", Phoenix New Times, January 15 

2002       

AWARDS

2008        John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

2006        Rockefeller Fellowship: New Media

2005        International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency (ISCP-NYC), Aug-Nov 07

                 Creative Capital Foundation: Visual Arts Grant

2004        Nimoy Foundation, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art: Artist-in-Residence

                 California Community Foundation: Emerging Artist Fellowship

                 The Durfee Foundation: Artists' Resource for Completion Grant

2002        University of California Institutional Research Award (UCIRA)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

The UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Musuem of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
> EXHIBITED WITH THESE ARTISTS
Andrew Armstrong
Luis G. Hernandez
Steven Bankhead
Gustavo Herrera
Jesse Benson
Timothy Hutchings
Heimir Björgúlfsson
Matt MacFarland
Cindy Santos Bravo
Kayo Nakamura
Annie Buckley
Ruby Neri
Juan Capistran
Mike Rogers
Ginny Cook
Ben Shaffer
Carla Danes
Carly Steward
Rashell George
Macha Suzuki
Ed Gomez
> EXHIBITED AT THESE VENUES
AndrewShire Gallery
SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts
d.e.n. contemporary art
> RACKROOM
May, 2008 Interview with Ruben Ochoa
by Nico Machida
 
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> EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Past Exhibitions and Events
Oct, 2008 In the Round
AndrewShire Gallery
 
Oct, 2007 LATITUDE
LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts
 
Sep, 2007 A Recurring Amalgamation
SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
 
Jan, 2007 Range
d.e.n. contemporary art
 
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