Rubén Ochoa
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Ruben Ochoa is an artist who lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.[1] Ochoa's work is mainly large scale photographic, and uses adapted nineteenth-century techniques to develop onto materials such as wood and stone. The subject matter of his work varies greatly, from studies in architectural detail and vintage objects to epic representations of contemporary social and religious morality, and he employs a variety of media including photography, installations, artist books, adapted objects and spatial interventions. He is entirely self-taught, and his rise to international recognition has been rapid and recent.
Major projects
His work includes the series "Bestiary (or the New Deadly Sins)", a large scale series of seven photographs using adapted nineteenth-century techniques to develop the artist's contemporary tableaux of the seven deadly sins onto caliza stone from
Commissions, prizes and other projects
Ruben Ochoa has won various international photographic contests such as "Nopal Urbano", organized by the Mexico City Government, and the 12th Mercosur International Salon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at which he took first place honours. In 2007 the Lux Art Institute of San Diego, California, commissioned a piece for its private collection, for which Ochoa produced the REAL IMAGE project. His work was commissioned for exhibitions of "20 Iberoamerican artists", and he represented Mexico in the PhotoIreland Festival in 2010. Other commissions include the curation of "Dialogo de Bancas" exhibition at Indianilla cultural center in Mexico City and a study of the work of Leonora Carrington. Mexican sculptor Javier Marín invited him to participate in his catalogue book for his Casa de America's exhibition in Madrid, Spain, in 2007. He has collaborated with Mexican artists Marín, Vicente Rojo Almazán, Manuel Felguérez, José Luis Cuevas, Gabriel Macotela and Francisco Toledo. Ochoa completed an artistic residency at CACiS in Barcelona, Spain, in 2011 where he produced a sculpture installation at Calders, Spain, and the Almohada project, a series of photographs developed on stone and installed at the Centre d'Art Contemporani i Sostenibilitat El Forn de la Calç, a series of disused stone ovens converted into an exhibition space. He has lectured widely in Mexico and been invited to the juries of national artistic and photographic contests. Ochoa's work has been featured in the Saatchi Online "New Photography" and "Black and White" collections, curated by the Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Books and publications
Ochoa's publications include a project for
References
External links
- Official website
- Bestiary (or the new deadly sins)
- Video introduction to "Bestiary" and accompanying "Confessional" (in English)
- Video "You Get What You Deserve" to accompany the "Bestiary" exhibition
- The Walking Salvation Tool project at SONS Museum, Belgium
- The Land of the Sun project for Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City
- "Puntos Suspensivos" collaboration with Vicente Rojo
- Video of Ochoa's conference at the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros
- Video "Adios Nonino" projected at the CENART in Mexico City
- Ruben Ochoa's artistic residence at CACiS, Barcelona
- Indianilla cultural center, Mexico City
- Milenio review of "Hoy Como Nunca" artist book