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.”