RUBEN OCHOA is a Los Angeles–based artist whose practice engages space as both a concept and form. Sourcing from construction materials associated with inherent histories, Ochoa’s works expose the ideological and broader sociopolitical and economic relationships that facilitate the way in which the spaces we inhabit and move through are assembled. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, and SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, and in numerous group exhibitions, including at the 54th Venice Biennale Collateral Event (The Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition), Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York. His work is in many public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In 2019, Ochoa completed Mis Marcadores, his first public art commission located at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry for GSA Art in Architecture program. He has been the recipient of a Creative Capital Foundation Grand, California Community Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design and his MFA from University of California, Irvine.
