Yoshua Okón

Yoshua Okón (Mexico City, 1970) is a Mexican artist whose work is part of major art collections throughout the world. He is co-founder of La Panadería, an art space that operated between 1994 and 2002, and of SOMA, a contemporary art school.[1]

Yoshua Okón
Born1970
Mexico City
Alma mater
Awards
Websitehttps://www.yoshuaokon.com/

Education

Okón studied a BFA at Concordia University in Montreal. He later attended UCLA on a Fulbright scholarship where he received an MFA.[2]

Career

Okón has had solo exhibitions at Hammer Museum, MUAC, Museo Amparo, Viafarini, Galerie Mor Charpentier, ASU Art Museum, Blaffer Museum, Ghebaly Gallery, and Colby Museum, among others.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

His work has been collected by museums such as the Tate Modern, Hammer Museum, LACMA, Fundación ARCO, National Gallery of Victoria, Colección Jumex, and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo. He has participated in the biennials of Istanbul, Manifesta, and Havana, among others.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

In 1993, Okón co-founded La Panadería, an experimental art space, together with Miguel Calderón. This space had a profound impact in an emergent contemporary art culture in Mexico City.[22]

In 2009, he was one of the founding members of SOMA, an independent art school.[23][24]

References
  1. Malkin, Elisabeth (2016-03-11). "Art Scene Thrives on the Edges in Mexico City". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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  3. "Hammer Projects: Yoshua Okón | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  4. "Yoshua Okón". Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  5. MuseoAmparo.Puebla. "Yoshua Okón. Colateral | Exposiciones | exposiciones pasadas | Museo Amparo, Puebla". museoamparo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  6. officinebit.ch. "Yoshua Okón, Canned Laughter, None, VIAFARINI - organizzazione non profit per la promozione della ricerca artistica". www.viafarini.org. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  7. "Yoshua Okón - mor charpentier". Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  8. "ASU Art Museum presents new commissioned work by artist-in-residence Yoshua Okón". ASU News. 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  9. "Yoshua Okón: Oracle". Blaffer Art Museum. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  10. "François Ghebaly › Yoshua Okón". François Ghebaly. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  11. Santos, Julie Poitras (2018-04-27). "Questioning Oracle: Yoshua Okón at Colby College Museum of Art". The Chart. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  12. Tate. "Yoshua Okón born 1970". Tate. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  13. "Yoshua Okón | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  14. "Hipnostasis | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  15. "Yoshua Okón - Colecciones CA2M". Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  16. "Yoshua Okón | Octopus | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  17. "A propósito…". Museo Jumex (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  18. "Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo - Oríllese a la orilla". Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  19. "8th Istanbul Biennial, 2003: Yoshua Okon". universes-in-universe.de. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  20. "Manifesta 11". Lupita (in Spanish). 2016-07-04. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  21. "Yoshua Okón". www.wlam.cult.cu. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  22. Stromberg, Matt (2015-04-15). "Independent Art Spaces Thrive in Mexico City". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  23. SOMA-México. "Nosotros". somamexico.org. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  24. "Mexico City's art scene is booming, but even with deep roots, political uncertainty keeps it fragile". Los Angeles Times. 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2023-09-28.



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