Daniel Ochoa

Overview
Daniel Ochoa

Daniel Ochoa uses growing up with a Mexican father and American mother in California as fuel for the emotional imagery and exploratory media of his work. He has exhibited from New York City to Los Angeles for the past 12 years, with pieces in permanent collection in Madrid’s Colección SOLO.

Ochoa paints in layers, with masking techniques that jumble abstraction and realistic representation. He explores the very complexity of identity, and how perception is always fragmented and relative. With images from Google Street View, the NASA API, and social media networks, Ochoa traces the effect technology has on the construction of images. Where simulation wags the tail of reality. He is suggesting there is a pluralistic reality filled with ambiguity and obscurity at play with every image.

“With a constantly shifting sense of identity, I construct imagery through my work that is informed by images, technology, and memory.”

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Daniel Ochoa

EDUCATION

2008    MFA, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

2002    B.A. Art, Gonzaga, University, Spokane, WA

 

EXHIBITIONS

2022   Body WORKs, Group Figurative Show, StudioShop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2020   Pop Up Show Daniel Ochoa at Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2019    Booth Gallery Winter Small Works Exhibition, New York, NY

           Paintguide group show at Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA

           Dialogues Group Show, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018    Fantasia Paintguide group show at Spoke Art, San Francisco, CA

            Disrupted Realism Group Exhibit Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2017     Pence Gallery Group Exhibit, Davis, CA

            SUPER Natural, A Survey of Figurative Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2016    Pretty Portal Gallery, Group Show, Düsseldorf, Germany

           Jessup Cellars Gallery New works, Yountville, CA

            San Diego Art Fair, by Julie Nester Gallery, San Diego, CA

            Toronto International Art Fair, by Stricoff Fine Art, Toronto, Canada

            Julie Nester Gallery, Self Portraits, Group Exhibition, Park City, UT

            Blue Gallery, Mixed Perceptions, Kansas City, MO           

2010    San Francisco Art Fair, with Julie Nester Gallery, San Francisco, CA

           Next Chicago Art Fair, with Cain Schulte Contemporary, Chicago, IL

           Hallway Gallery, Group Show, Bellevue, WA

           Cain Schulte Contemporary, ID Redux, Group Show, San Francisco, CA

           Julie Nester Gallery, The Cuarto, Solo Exhibition, Park City, UT

2009    Julie Nester Gallery, Fall Group Show, Park City, UT

            Blue Gallery, Portrait Invitational, Kansas City, MO

            Octavia Gallery, Group Show, Bath, United Kingdom

            Affordable Art Fair with Julie Nester Gallery, New York, NY

            Academy of Art University Spring Show, San Francisco, CA

            Pasadena Museum of California Art, Group Show, Pasadena, CA

            San Diego Art Institute 50th International Exhibition, San Diego, CA

            MFA Thesis, Academy of Art University Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008    Hang Art, Hueliday, San Francisco, CA

            Hang Art, 'Do I know You', San Francisco, CA

            Studio Gallery SF, Group Show, San Francisco, CA

            San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Immediate Future, San Francisco, CA

            Wendt Gallery, Bay Area Influence, Laguna Beach, CA

            Pasadena Museum of California Art, Group show, Pasadena, CA

2005    San Diego Art Institute, Regional Exhibition, San Diego, CA

2002    San Diego Art Institute, Regional Exhibition, San Diego, CA

           Jundt Art Museum, Senior Exhibition, Spokane, WA

 

ART FAIRS

2023   Art Market, San Francisco, Studio Shop Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2022   Art Market, San Francisco, Studio Shop Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017    Scope Basel with Aureus Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland

2016    Art Market, San Francisco, Julie Nester Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015    Art Silicon Valley with Hespe Gallery, CA

2014    SCOPE Art Fair NYC, with Arcadia Gallery, N.Y, NY

2013    Art Market, San Francisco, Julie Nester Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

AWARDS

2009    1st Place in Figurative Painting, Academy of Art University Spring Show

            THE magazine Los Angeles - Editors’ Award

            Grand Price, San Diego Art Institute 50th International Exhibition

2008     Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in Fine Arts, 2008

             1st Place in Abstract painting, Academy of Art University Spring Show

 

ARTICLES / PRESS

2016    Artist Booklet Daniel Ochoa

2013     Singular Art Magazine 

2012     The Park Record: Painters Overton and Ochoa Influenced by Change by Scott Iwasaki

            The Salt Lake Tribune: Art Exhibits by Ben Fulton

2010     Poets and Artists: 'In Pursuit’

            ReView: from Emphasis from Fragments by Adelia Ganson

            The Salt Lake Tribune: Portraits of the Artists by Ben Fulton

            Poets and Artists: Artist Profile

            15 Bytes: Shared languages by Geoff Wichert

2009    The Salt lake Tribune: Visual Art Notes

            Kansas City Star: Face the Artist by Nick Malewski

            Artworks Magazine: Daniel Ochoa by Erin Clark

2008    SFLUXE: Emerging Artists at AAU by Lucia Hey Yoon Joo

2006    Pasadena Star, Learning Curves by Pricillla Fleming Vayda

2005    North Park News: No Still Lives in these Paintings of South Park Homes by

            Terence J. Burk

 

INTERVIEWS

2016    Daniel Ochoa on Art and Life: an Interview

 

NOTABLE BLOGS

2017    Arte Novus

           Paintings by Daniel Ochoa from Sonoma County California

2014    Creative Paper Artist Profile

           Bleaq Profile. Fragmented portraits by Daniel Ochoa

2012    The Art Out There: Daniel Ochoa

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