Ruben Ochoa
Ruben Ochoa is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Life and work
Ochoa, who is of Mexican American descent, studied at the University of California, Irvine, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, and the Parsons School of Art and Design, New York City.He was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the 2004 California Biennal at the Orange County Museum of Art.
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 works in a range of media, mostly including basic building materials such as rebar and concrete.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, Charles H. Scott gallery at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Ruben Ochoa is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles.