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Ochoa, Ruben was born in 1974 in Oceanside, California, United States.
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Ruben Ochoa
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Ruben Ochoa, American artist. Recipient Institutional Research award, University California, 2002; Durfee Foundation grant, 2004, Visual Arts grant, Creative Capital Foundation, 2005, Emerging Artist fellowship, California Community Foundation, 2004, Media Arts fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 2006, Guggenheim fellowship, 2008.
Education
Ochoa studied at the University of California, Irvine (Master of Fine Arts, 2003), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1997), and the Parsons School of Art and Design, New New York
Career
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 Artist 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 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, Charles H. Scott gallery at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2009) and SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2009). Ruben Ochoa is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
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United States
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Recipient Institutional Research award, University California, 2002. Durfee Foundation grant, 2004, Visual Arts grant, Creative Capital Foundation, 2005, Emerging Artist fellowship, California Community Foundation, 2004, Media Arts fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 2006, Guggenheim fellowship, 2008.Recipient Institutional Research award, University California, 2002. Durfee Foundation grant, 2004, Visual Arts grant, Creative Capital Foundation, 2005, Emerging Artist fellowship, California Community Foundation, 2004, Media Arts fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 2006, Guggenheim fellowship, 2008.