# Ruben Ochoa

URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/ruben-ochoa/
Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles

Ruben Ochoa 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 how the spaces we inhabit and move through are assembled. Ochoa’s photographs, sculptural installations, and performative sculptures invite the viewer to question their surroundings. His works investigate objects and materials that can easily be glossed over as mundane or merely pragmatic: concrete freeway walls, wooden ladders, ficus trees, tortillas, and vendor carts. He transforms these materials into large-scale installations through which he considers issues of social class and identity. His work regularly references Los Angeles, dealing with social issues that remain pressing. He recently reconfigured his family’s old work van into an informal, mobile art space that regularly traveled throughout LA. Another recent project draws upon personal, familial, and community histories by using a recognizable figure in Los Angeles—a fruit vendor and their cart—to tell interwoven, intergenerational stories. He draws attention to the region’s familiar fruit carts, paleteros, and flower stands, sponsoring new vendor carts and creating artwork around the project to call for solidarity with vendors.

Ochoa also uses everyday materials in two-dimensional works, where he approaches rust as a pigment and his compositions take full advantage of the unpredictable nature of the medium. Iron oxide’s effect on the canvas echoes the visible deterioration and class boundaries of a city. The end effect is trademark Ochoa—striking at the outset, and after close inspection, seething with undercurrents of biting commentary of today’s class and racial divisions.

Ruben Ochoa was born in 1974 in Los Angeles and continues to live and work there. Ochoa received his MFA in 2003 from the University of California, Irvine. In 2019, Ochoa completed Mis Marcadores, his first public art commission located at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry for the GSA Art in Architecture program. He has been the recipient of a Creative Capital Foundation Grant, California Community Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; The Austin Contemporary, Austin, TX; and Locust Projects, Miami, FL. Group exhibitions have been at the Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA. He was featured in 2008 Whitney Biennial and the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

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.

## Exhibitions

- [Andrea BowersGenevieve GaignardRuben Ochoa inDay-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/andrea-bowers-genevieve-gaingard-ruben-ochoa-day-to-day-2026.md): July 5, 2026 — January 3, 2027 · Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA · Artists: Andrea Bowers, Genevieve Gaignard, Ruben Ochoa
- [Church for Sale | with Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian and Ruben Ochoa](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/church-for-sale.md): November 28, 2021 — June 19, 2022 · Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin · Artists: Rodney McMillian, Edgar Arceneaux, Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/ruben-ochoa-greenhouse-2021.md): April 17 — 24, 2021 · Greenhouse · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson
- [The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/the-sorcerers-burden-contemporary-art-and-the-anthropological-turn.md): September 14, 2019 — February 2, 2020 · The Contemporary Austin · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Sculpture](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/sculpture.md): June 1 — August 3, 2019 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Mary Kelly, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: SAMPLED y SURVEYED](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2017-09-ruben-ochoa-sampled-y-surveyed.md): September 9, 2017 — January 17, 2018 · Art + Practice, Los Angeles · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: Tripping the Light Fantastick](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2016-03-ruben-ochoa-tripping-the-light-fantastick.md): March 12 — April 16, 2016 · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: MATRIX 169: Ruben Ochoa](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2014-06-ruben-ochoa-matrix-169-ruben-ochoa.md): June 5 — September 7, 2014 · The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: Dislocated Masses](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-11-ruben-ochoa-dislocated-masses.md): November 9 — December 21, 2013 · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: Nasher XChange](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-10-ruben-ochoa-nasher-xchange.md): October 19, 2013 — February 16, 2014 · Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: Cores & cutouts](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2011-11-ruben-ochoa-cores-cutouts.md): November 12 — December 31, 2011 · Locust Projects, Miami, FL · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-10-ruben-ochoa-the-artist-s-museum-los-angeles-artists-1980-2010.md): October 31, 2010 — January 31, 2011 · Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-10-ruben-ochoa-future-generation-art-prize-exhibition.md): October 30, 2010 — January 9, 2011 · Pinchuk Art Centre · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: grounded](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-09-ruben-ochoa-grounded.md): September 10 — October 30, 2010 · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần
- [Ruben Ochoa](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-03-ruben-ochoa-ruben-ochoa.md): March 26 — June 20, 2010 · Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Inaugural Group Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/culver-city-inaugural-group-exhibition.md): January 23 — March 6, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Jedediah Caesar, Olga Koumoundouros, Wangechi Mutu, Ruben Ochoa, The Estate of Steve Roden, Amy Sillman, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson
- [Ruben Ochoa: Ruben Ochoa: Crooked Under the Weight](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2009-06-ruben-ochoa-ruben-ochoa-crooked-under-the-weight.md): June 13 — September 6, 2009 · SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Whitney Biennial 2008](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-03-ruben-ochoa-whitney-biennial-2008.md): March 6 — June 1, 2008 · Whitney Museum of American Art, New York · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: Fall of the Wall [paper]](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-01-ruben-ochoa-fall-of-the-wall-paper.md): January 11 — February 23, 2008 · Berlin · Artists: Ruben Ochoa
- [Ruben Ochoa: A Recurring Amalgamation](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2007-09-ruben-ochoa-a-recurring-amalgamation.md): September 8 — October 20, 2007 · Artists: Ruben Ochoa

## Biography

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

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

  2020 "Ruben Ochoa," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2017 “Sampled and Surveyed,” Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](https://artandpractice.org/exhibitions/ruben-ochoa/)) 2016 "Tripping the Light Fantastick," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  “Ruben Ochoa: watching, waiting, commiserating,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA ([Link](https://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/ruben-ochoa-watching-waiting-commiserating)) 2014 "MATRIX 169: Ruben Ochoa, 'Cloudless Day,'" The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT ([Link](https://thewadsworth.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/WA-MATRIX-169-Brochure-web1.pdf)) 2013 "Dislocated Masses," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2011 "Cores and Cutouts", Locust Projects, Miami, FL 2010 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA 2009 Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  "Crooked Under the Weight," 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  Clastic 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 and Three Person Exhibitions**

  2018 "Forty and Nine," 49 South Van Ness Forum Sculpture Public Art Project, San Francisco, CA 2013 "Duet: Ruben Ochoa and B.J. Vogt", Duet St. Louis, MO, curated by Daniel McGrath 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)

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

  2026 "Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2023 "Outside: In," Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL  "The Land of Milk and Honey / La tierra queue mana leche y miel," Organized by the MexiCali Biennial, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 2022 "Lonesome Crowd West: Works from MOCA's Collection," The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2021 "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany  "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA ([Link](https://www.lamag.org/portfolio_page/cola-2021/))  "Church for Sale," Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany 2020 "South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA  "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art After Chicanismo," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA 2019-2020 " Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA  "Open Space," BACKSPACE, Los Angeles, CA  "The Sorcerer’s Burden," The Contemporary Austin, Texas 2019 "Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "Centennial: 100 years of Otis College Alumni," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA  "Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community," Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA ([Link](http://www.museum.ucsb.edu/news/feature/742)) 2018 "Maker Faire San Diego," San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2017 “Vantage,” Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA  “Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC ([Link](http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2017/streets/))  “Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Space,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 2016 "Artworks for Change," Online Exhibition ([Link](http://www.artworksforchange.org/portfolio/ruben-ochoa/)) 2015 "Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to the Menil Collection, Houston, TX 2013 Nasher XCHANGE: 10+ Celebration, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Jeremy Strick  "Reverberations," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA  "Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 2012 Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA  "no desaster: sammlung haubrok bei falckenberg," Phoenix-Hallen, Harburg, Germany  The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown, Jacobs Building, San Diego, CA   "my.LA," haubrok foundation, 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  2010 Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA  The Artists 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  Collectors XXIV, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA  Dibujar es Pensar Proyecto Magenta, Monterrey, Nuevo Len, Mexico 2008 "it's 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 Contemporneo 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)

**Selected Projects**

  2006-2007 Fwy Wall Extraction, 10 fwy eastbound below Soto St and Marengo Blvd intersection, Los Angeles (produced by Creative Capital Foundation) 2006 Disrup, LA><ART Billboard Project, La Cienega Blvd between Venice and Washington, Los Angeles  aint 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

**Awards, Grants and Fellowships**

  2021 COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](https://www.lamag.org/portfolio_page/cola-2021/)) 2013 California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow, Mid-Career Artist ([Link](http://my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/gallery/year-2013/ruben-ochoa/)) 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  Creative Capital Foundation: Visual Arts Grant 2004 Nimoy Foundation, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art: Artist-in-Residence  California Community Foundation: Emerging Artist Fellowship  The Durfee Foundation: Artists Resource for Completion Grant 2002 University of California Institutional Research Award (UCIRA)

**Teaching Experience**

  2018 Associate Professor of Practice, USC Roski School of Art and Design

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"Locust Projects Turns 20: Remembering Its Most Memorable Exhibits," Miami New Times, December 4 ([Link](https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/locust-projects-most-memorable-exhibits-in-20-year-history-10922060))  Safari, Ida, “Ruben Ochoa at Art + Practice,” Artillery, January 2 ([Link](http://artillerymag.com/ruben-ochoa/)) 2017 Shang, Danielle, “Collectors of Color on the Importance of Supporting Under-Recognized Artists,” Hyperallergic (web), November 28 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/413758/collectors-of-color-on-the-importance-of-supporting-under-recognized-artists/))  Zellen, Jody, “Ruben Ochoa at Art + Practice,” Art and Cake (web), October 7 ([Link](https://artandcakela.com/2017/10/07/ruben-ochoa-at-art-practice/))  Goldberg, Vicki, “Mean Streets, Kind Cameras,” New York Times, July 28 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/arts/design/review-smithsonian-american-art-museum-latino-.html))  Jacobson, Louis, “At the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, a Fresh Look at Urban Photography,” Washington City Paper (web), July 21 2016 Miranda, Carolina, “Last chance to see Ruben Ochoa’s latest twist on his urban landscape obsession: Giving rust new life,” Los Angeles Times (web), April 13 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-last-chance-ruben-ochoa-susanne-vielmetter-20160412-column.html))  Wilcox, Larry, “Ruben Ochoa at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” ArtReview, Summer ([Link](https://artreview.com/magazine/2016/summer_2016/))  Buscemi, Lauren, “Report: San Diego,” art ltd., August  Peterson, Karla, “Test Drive: Night at the museum,” The San Diego Union-Tribune (web), November 19 2015 Knight, Christopher, Review: Apparitions at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world, Los Angeles Times, February 13 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-knight-hammer-frottage-review-20150211-column.html)) 2014 Hickson, Patricia, "Nothing But Blue Skies," brochure for "Ruben Ochoa: Matrix 169, 'Cloudless Day,'" published by Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT  "Best Bets: June 2014," Hartford Magazine, June ([Link](http://hartfordmag.com/article-1956-best-bets-june-2014.html))  Smith, Anna M., "Nasher XChange: Ruben Ochoa," exhibition catalog to "Nasher XChange", published by The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX 2013 Ruben Ochoa: Flock in Space, Trinity River Audubon Center, Exhibition Pamphlet for Nasher XCHANGE: 10 Years, 10 Artists, 10 Sites, Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, October  Nasher Sculpture Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary, CBS Dallas-Forth Worth, October 18  Herren, Michael, "7 LA Artists to Watch," LA Confidential, October  100 Best Fall Shows, Modern Painters, September  Nasher Sculpture Center launches ambitious project to turn all of North Texas into an outdoor museum, Dallas Voice, August 23   Bentley, Alex, Nasher Sculpture Center unveils plans for first Nasher Xchange sculpture at Trinity River Audubon Center, Culture Map Dallas, June 14  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](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/contemporary-art-prize-moca-pinchuk.html))  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, LAs 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 Vallartas Not Just for Tourists, its 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 Clich, ArtScene, May 1  Miles, Christopher, LACMA East: Phantom Sightings Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism, LA Weekly, April 30  Chang, R, O.C. 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Noriega, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement LACMA Publications, March 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. 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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 <http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issue/2004-01-15/art.html/print.html> 2002 Contreras, V. Wade, CLASS C: Ruben Ochoa Rolls Over Artistic Barriers, September <http://beyondmainstream.com/index.php3?inc=arts/artist_ruben_ochoa.php>

**Public Collections**

   Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY  Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA  Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida  Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY