Yoshua Okón
Like a series of experiments executed for the camera, Yoshua Okón's work blends staged situations, documentation and improvisation, and questions habitual perceptions of reality and truth, selfhood, and morality. In 2002 he received an MFA from UCLA with a Fulbright scholarship. His solo exhibitions include: Oráculo, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City; Yoshua Okón: Collateral, MUAC, Mexico City and Amparo Museum, Puebla; Yoshua Okón, Ghebaly Gallery, LA; Yoshua Okón: In the Land of Ownership, ASAKUSA Tokyo; Salò Island, UC Irvine, Irvine; Piovra, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan; Poulpe, Mor Charpentier, Paris; Octopus, Cornerhouse, Manchester and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and SUBTITLE, Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich. His group exhibitions include: Manifesta 11, Zurich; Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul; Havana Biennale, Cuba; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Antes de la resaca, MUAC, Mexico City; Incongruous, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; The Mole's Horizon, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre; Amateurs, CCA Wattis; San Francisco; Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London; Adaptive Behavior, New Museum, NY and Mexico City: an exhibition about the exchange rates between bodies and values, PS1, MoMA, NY, and Kunstwerke, Berlin. His work is included in the collections of Tate Modern, London; Hammer Museum and LACMA, Los Angeles; Colección Jumex and MUAC, Mexico City and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, among others.