Born in Oceanside, CA, Ruben Ochoa’s interdisciplinary practice spans three decades of engaging space as both a concept and a material. Ochoa’s works exposes the ideological and broader sociopolitical and economic relationships that facilitate the way spaces we inhabit and move through are assembled. In 2019, GSA Art in Architecture commissioned Mis marcadores, Ochoa’s first large scale permanent public installation at the US/Mexican Border, San Ysidro, California. In 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, Ochoa collaborated with LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives to produce an AR lens, ¡Vendedores, Presente!, in partnership with All City Inclusion and Community Power Collective, non-profit organizations to support LA street vendors. Solo exhibitions include: Sampled y Surveyed(Art + Practice, Los Angeles, 2018), Watching, Waiting, Commiserating (MCASD, San Diego, 2016), MATRIX 169: Cloudless Day (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, (2014), Cores and Cutouts, Locust Projects (Miami, FL 2011), Building on the Fringes of Tomorrow (MCASD, 2010), and Crooked Under the Weight (SITE Santa Fe, NM, 2009). Notable group exhibitions include: Church for Sale, Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2021), Down These Mean Streets (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., 2017), and The Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition (54th Venice Biennale Collateral Event, Venice, Italy, 2011), Phantom Sightings (LACMA, Los Angeles, CA and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008), and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY. Ochoa is a full time Angeleno who is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles. He enjoys teaching as a Roski Associate Professor of Practice in Art at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.