Ruben Ochoa (born 1974 in Oceanside, California, United States) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
[1] Ochoa, who is of Mexican American descent, studied at the University of California, Irvine (MFA, 2003), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (BFA, 1997), and the Parsons School of Art and Design, New York City.
Ruben Ochoa's interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, site-specific and site-responsive installations, photography, drawing, and public intervention.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, Charles H. Scott gallery at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2009) and SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2009).
In 2008 he was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and in 2005 he was awarded a Creative Capital Grant for his Fwy Wall Extraction project.