1974     Born in Oceanside, CA

            Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION

2003     Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine

1997     Bachelor of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

1996     Parsons School of Art and Design, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2008     “Fall of the Wall [paper]”, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany

2007     “A Recurring Amalgamation”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles

             “Clastic Rupture”, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2006     “Extracted”, LA><ART, Los Angeles

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

2004     “Greyscale”, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego

TWO PERSON Exhibitions

2007-08 “Art Swap”, on-site collaboration with Mark Bradford, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2006     “Storage” with Marco Rios, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles

            “Embryonic Loop” with Marco Rios, LA><ART, Los Angeles

2005     “Caltransposed” with Peter Tavera, Gallery 727, Los Angeles

2004     “Rigor Motors” with Marco Rios, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Projects by Ruben Ochoa and

             Michael Queenland, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, The Project, Los Angeles

SELECTED Group Exhibitions

2008     “The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY

2008     “Phantom Sightings”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
                  (curated by Rita Gonzalez)

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

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

            “Viva Mexico!” Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

            “Latitudes”, Artcore, Los Angeles (organized by Pilar Tompkins)

            “Range”, Curated by Kristi Lippre, DEN Gallery, Los Angeles

2006     “Mexicali Biennial”, La Casa de la Tia Tina, Mexicali, Mexico

            “The Newstand Project”, newstands throughout Los Angeles, organized by Dan Bayles

            “Agent Once”, Organized by Jason Keller, Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles

            “25 Bold Moves”, Campari Emerging Artists Exhibit, Los Angeles

             “An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life”, REDCAT, Los Angeles

             “Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art”, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles

2005     “Happenstance”, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Harris-Lieberman Gallery, New York

            “Drive by and relax”, Curated by Chris Sicat, UPSPACE, Los Angeles

             “Borderless Dreams”, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside

             “Drive Time”, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga

             “Empire.Style”, Curated by Peter Zellner, ART2102, Boyle Heights

              “passerby”, Curated by Cassandra Cobelentz, Vox Populi, Philadelphia

2004     “FREEWAVES_Inter-State: Video on a Go”, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles

             “2004 California Biennial”, Artist-in-Residence, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport

             Beach

             “Land of the Free: Americana”, Curated by Tyler Stallings, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA

2003     “Picarte!: Photography Beyond Representation”, Heard Museum, Phoenix

            “Recess”, Curated by Brienne Arrington and Dan Bayles, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

            “Happy Beautiful Desirable”, Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica

2002     “Better Look Twice”, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena

            “Whacked”, Curated by John Souza, Los Angeles

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><ART)

2006     “Disrup”, LA><ART Billboard Project, La Cienega Blvd between Venice and Washington,
                  Los Angeles

            “ain’t that revolutionary”, LA><ART 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 

2007     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><ART”, Artweek, November, p. 17

            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
                 <http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issue/2004-01-15/art.html/print.html>

2002     Contreras, V. Wade, “CLASS C: Ruben Ochoa Rolls Over Artistic Barriers”, September
                 <http://beyondmainstream.com/index.php3?inc=arts/artist_ruben_ochoa.php>

 AWARDS 

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

             Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY