Ruben Ochoa lives and works between Mexico City and San Diego, CA. He studied at the University of California, Irvine (MFA), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (BFA), and the Parsons School of Art and Design, New York City.
Whether sculpture, photography, site-specific installation or public intervention, Ruben Ochoa’s work is a manifestation of the urban environment he is surrounded by in the Southern California landscape, where he was born and raised. Using vernacular building materials collected from hardware stores, construction sites, and family businesses—even employing the labor skills of relatives for production—Ochoa recalls the concrete, dirt, and rebar of his Los Angeles landscape with a sophisticated-yet-playful elegance. In exploring the geography and physicality of the city, Ochoa addresses the boundaries of the space—curbs, freeways, chain-link fences—all marks of contention, displacement, and division of social classes, which ultimately speak to the social and economic climate of the city.
Ochoa has exhibited in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America, with key shows in NY, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and LA as well as an ongoing cycle of exhibitions the country of his birth, Mexico.
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November 27, 2019
