[3] Ocampo had been drawing since age ten, but the family’s economic needs led his father to send him to study commerce.
[3] Ocampo remained in Mexico City throughout his life and during his career, dying in his home at age 72 from cardiac arrest.
[3] In 1932, he left San Carlos to work at the state-run publisher Editorial Imprenta Cultural, where he illustrated twenty-eight books over seven years, also producing lithographs, etchings and woodcuts.
Despite the conflicts, his work was included a 1946 TGP publication called “Mexican People” and participated in the group’s three shows in the United States.
[1] Ocampo had his first formal exhibition of his work in 1941 along with Gonzalo de la Paz Pérez and Raúl Anguiano.
[3] For a number of years he exhibited his work with the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, of which he was a member, and participated in inter-American Biennials in engraving and painting.
[1] His formation as an artist was shaped by the then-dominant Mexican School of Painting, or Muralism Movement, with its emphasis on art as a political and social force.
Both his graphic and easel works are Expressionistic, especially those with themes related to struggle, injustice, and ping along with popular scenes.