Ruben Ochoa
Biography
1974
Born in Oceanside, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
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
Collapsed, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, March 19 - May 9 (extended through July)
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, CA
Classic Rupture, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2006
Extracted, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Freeway wall next to a…, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Borrowed Ladders, ESL Ι Esthetics as a Second Language, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Greyscale, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego, CA
Two Person Exhibitions
2007-08
Swap, collaboration with Mark Bradford, LACMA: On-Site, Charles White Elementary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Storage, collaboration with Marco Rios, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Embryonic Loop, collaboration with Marco Rios, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Caltransposed with Peter Tavera, Gallery 727, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Rigor Motors, collaboration with Marco Rios, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, CA
Projects by Ruben Ochoa and Michael Queenland, The Project, Los Angeles (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Collector’s XXIV, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2008
It’s All About Sculpture, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, Germany
From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curated by Alma Ruiz (catalogue)
In the Round: The 90th Anniversary of OTIS College of Art & Design, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporáneo 08, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (organized by Pilar Perez)
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (curated by Rita Gonzalez, Howard Fox and Chon Noriega) travelling to: Tamayo Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Museum Alamdea, San Antonio, TX, Guadalajara, and El Museo del Barrio / Americas Society, New York, NY
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, NY
Viva Mexico! Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Magda Kardasz, traveling to
BWA Wrocław - Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, 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, CA
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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 a Go, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2004
California Biennial, Arist-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, Phoeniz, 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 LAXART)
2006
Disrup, LAXART Billboard Project, La Cienega Blvd between Venice and Washington, Los Angeles ain’t that revolutionary, LAXART Billboard Project, corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA (in conjunction with the exhibition “An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life”, REDCAT, Los Angeles)
2001-05
CLASS: C, mobile artist space featuring over 75 artists, curators, and collaborators throughout Southern California
Selected Bibliography
2009
Von Taube, Annika, “Los Angeles”, Sleek Magazine, Winter
2008
Place, Vanessa, “Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement”, X-Tra Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter
Young, Paul, “The Radar Art”, Angeleno, October
Ruiz, Alma, “Interview with Ruben Ochoa”, From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles,
The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September - November
Kotz, Liz, “Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement”, Modern Painters, September
Guha, Rohin, “Ruben Ochoa @ LAMCA”, Blackbook.com, August 7
Dambrot, Shana, “Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades”, Art Ltd, July
Ezrha Jean, “LA’s Cultural art (r)evolution”, Artillery, July/August
Danto, Arthur C., “Unlovable”, The Nation, May 26
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, “Review: Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement”, Art Forum, Summer
Johnson, Reed, “Puerto Vallarta’s Not Just for Tourists, it’s for Artists too”, Los Angeles Times, June 4
“Guggenheim Fellows of 2008”, Art In America, June/July
Canning, Susan, “Whitney Biennial: New York”, Art Papers, May
Machida, Nico, “Interview with Ruben Ochoa”, ArtSlant, May 19
Dabkowski, Colin, “New at the Knox”, The Buffalo News, May 11
Vikram, Anuradha, “The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June
Gleason, Mat, “Beyond Expectations: How ‘Phantom Sightings’ Defeats Cliché”, ArtScene, May 1
Miles, Christopher,” LACMA East: ‘Phantom Sightings’ Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism”, LA Weekly,
April 30
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
Lacavo, 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,” (Exhibition Catalogue), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa
Paterson, Carrie, “Ruben Ochoa: A Recurring Amalgamation”, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall
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
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”, WWDscoop, 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 Hofman, 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
Contreras, V. Wade, “CLASS C: Ruben Ochoa Rolls Over Artistic Barriers”, September
Awards
2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) Investing in Artist Grant
2006
Rockefeller Fellowship: New Media
2005
International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency (ISCP-NYC), August-November 2007
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
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY