Ruben Ochoa

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1974 Born in Oceanside, CA

Lives and works in Los Angeles

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

2011

"Cores and Cutouts", Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2010

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

Ruben Ochoa, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA

2009

Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

“Collapsed”, Peter Blum, Soho, New York, NY

“three the hard way”, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY

2008

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

2007

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

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

2006

“Extracted”, LA><ART, 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

2011

“Beta-Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2009

ArtBasel Miami, two person presentation with Tam Van Tran, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Booth

2007

“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, LA><ART, 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)

Group Exhibitions

2012

“my.LA”, haubrokshows, Sammlung-Haubrok, Berlin, Germany

2011

“Greater LA”, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY

“The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice” Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice , Italy

“Lustwarande 2011-Blemishes”, Fundament Foundation, Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tillburg, The Netherlands

2010

“Summer Group Show”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

“The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCenter, Kiev, Ukraine

“Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

“Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection”, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

“Invisible City”, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain (Curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles) traveling to: Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, India; Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany; Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo, Japan

2009

“Counter Intelligence”, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA

“Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions”, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

“Collector’s XXIV”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

“Dibujar es Pensar “ Proyecto Magenta, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

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; El Museo del Barrio / Americas Society, New York, NY; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico

2007

“Multifaceted Lens”, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN

“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)

Bibliography

2012

Einspruch, Franklin, “Ruben Ochoa”, Art in America, March 8

2010

Boehm, Mike, “New art prize nets winner $100,000 from billionare collector Victor Pinchuk”, The Los Angeles Times, December 10 (link)

Burge, Russell, “Critics’ Pick: Ruben Ochoa”, artforum.com, May

Pincus, Robert L., “Echoes of Duchamp at the MCASD”, San Diego Union Tribune, April 11

Johnson, Ken, “Art Review: Phantom Sightings”, The New York Times,

Myers, Holly, “Ruben Ochoa: In a construction zone”, Los Angeles Times, March 7

2009

Adlmann, Jan Ernst, “Santa Fe”, Art In America, December

Momin, Shamim, “Ruben Ochoa” essay in Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculptures and Installation, Phaidon Press

“Art & Space: Ruben Ochoa”, BOB International Magazine of Space Design, Issue #062, Fall

Davis, Kathryn M., “Santa Fe”, Art Ltd., July

Cotter, Holland, “Ruben Ochoa: ‘Collapsed’”, the New York Times, July 17

Fairfield, Douglas, “Art In Review”, Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, July 10

Fischer, Zane, “Pssst! Hey, Mom: SITE has an art exhibition that mothers (and others) will love”, Santa Fe Reporter, July 8

Tobin, Richard, “Critical Reflections: Ruben Ochoa/ Crooked Under the Weight”, THE Magazine, July 2009

Weideman, Paul, “Four Off the Floor”, the New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 26

“Exhibitions: Ruben Ochoa”, SITE magazine, Summer

Dault, Julia, “Critics’ Pick: New York, Ruben Ochoa at Peter Blum”, Artforum, May

“Galleries-Downtown: Ruben Ochoa”, The New Yorker, April 13

Saltz, Jerry, “This Road Goes Somewhere”, New York Magazine, April 6

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

Chang, Richard, “A Broader Biennial”, Orange County Register, October 26

Chang, Richard, “California Biennial reaches beyond the Golden State”, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, October 24

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

Chang, R, “O.C. Museum of Art hires guest curator for biennial”, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, February 11

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><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

2002

Contreras, V. Wade, “CLASS C: Ruben Ochoa Rolls Over Artistic Barriers”, September

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

The Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Other Projects

2006-2007

“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)

2001-2005

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

Grants/Awards/Residencies

2010

Future Generation Art Prize Nomination, Victor Pinchuk Foundation

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