Ruben Ochoa (born 1974 in

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, United States) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.

Life and work

Ochoa, who is of Mexican American descent, studied at the

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(MFA, 2003),

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, Los Angeles (BFA, 1997), and the Parsons School of Art and Design,

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. He was included in the 2008

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at the

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, and the 2004 California Biennal at the

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. Ruben Ochoa's interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, site-specific and site-responsive installations, photography, drawing, and public intervention. An aspect of his work touches upon the urban surrounding of the city, the tension between social classes, urban architecture, and nature. He mostly uses a range of materials including basic building materials such as rebar and concrete. He has had solo exhibitions at the

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, California, Charles H. Scott gallery at

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, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2009) and SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2009). Ruben Ochoa is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

Awards

In 2008 he was a recipient of a

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Fellowship, and in 2005 he was awarded a Creative Capital Grant for his Fwy Wall Extraction project. He also received California Community Foundation Grants 2004 and 2013

External links

General information on Ruben OchoaGeneral Information on Ruben Ochoa at Whitney Museum of American ArtGeneral Information on Ruben Ochoa at John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

References

"2008 Whitney Biennial"
# American artists American artists of Mexican descent 1974 births Living people People from Oceanside, California {{US-artist-stub