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 Buenos Aires, Argentina at which he took first place honours. In 2007 the Lux Art Institute of San Diego, CA 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, 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.
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