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 and Two Person Exhibitions

2020

"Ruben Ochoa," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2017

“Sampled and Surveyed,” Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA (Link)

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)

2014

"MATRIX 169: Ruben Ochoa, 'Cloudless Day,'" The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (Link)

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

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)

"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)

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)

“Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Space,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2016

"Artworks for Change," Online Exhibition (Link)

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)

2013

California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow, Mid-Career Artist (Link)

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

Bibliography

2023

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2022

"Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

2021

Miranda, Carolina. "Newsletter: How artist Nari Ward uses castoffs to create charged worlds at Deitch gallery," LA Times, July 3 (Link)

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2020

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2019

Fernandez, Javier. "Beauty at the Border: A collection of Art in Architecture pieces at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry," GSA, August 5 (Link)

Delson, Susan. "Playful Riffs on Fact and Fiction," Wall Street Journal, July 26 (Link)

2018

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2017

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Goldberg, Vicki, “Mean Streets, Kind Cameras,” New York Times, July 28 (Link)

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)

Wilcox, Larry, “Ruben Ochoa at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” ArtReview, Summer (Link)

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)

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)

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

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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)

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

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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

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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. Museum of Art hires guest curator for biennial, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, February 11

Lacavo, Richard, The Simple Life, Time, March 13

Cohn, Marilyn, The Big Apple: Whitney Biennial, For Your Art, March 13

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MJ, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Transparenz durch Trugbilder, Taz.de, January 16

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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

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2006

Westerbeck, Colin, Photo Synthesis: Fwy Wall Extraction, West Magazine, Los Angeles Times, December 24

Kim, Clara, Ruben Ochoa: Extracted, Contemporary, Issue 88, p.73

West, Kevin, The Van Man, WWDscoop, September, p. 60

Myers, Holly, Freeways connect and divide, Los Angeles Times, September 15, p. E22

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Satorius, Katherine, Ruben Ochoa at LA><ART, Artweek, November, p. 17

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2005

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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

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2002

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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