Yoshua
Okón
1970
BORN MEXICO CITY
EDUCATION
2000 MFA, U.C.L.A., New Genres Program
1990-94 BFA, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 "Yoshua Okon", Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City,
Mexico
2001 "Cockfight", Modern Culture at the Gershwin Hotel,
New York, NY
2000 "Orillese a la orilla", Centro de la Imagen, Mexico
City.
"Lo Mejor de lo Mejor", La Panadería, Mexico City.
1999 "Yoshua Okon", Espace d'Art yvonamor Palix, Paris,
France.
1998 "Rise & Fall", Brasilica, Vienna, Austria.
"Ballades a Annecy". Galerie BF-15, Lyon, France.
1997 "KOBLENZ", in collaboration with Gabriel Acevedo. La
Panadería, Mexico City.
"Beautiful Fluffy Stylish Hairy Butts". Chorus, Minneapolis,
US.
"A propósito" in collaboration with Miguel Calderón.
La Panadería, Mexico City.
1996 "Danesa 33". Ice cream shop "Danesa 33" Mexico
City.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 "Viology: Culutres of Violence/Violence of Culture,"
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA.
"Mesoamérica: oscilaciones y artificios," Centro
Átlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
"Visions of Mexican Art," Presidio Officers’ Club,
San Francisco, CA
"Políticas de la diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano fin de
siglo," Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires –
Colección Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ex. cat.
"2002 California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
2001 "Zoning", The Project, New York, NY
"City of Fictions", Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
"Buried Mirrors", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
New York, NY
2000 "Orillese a la orilla", Iturralde Gallery (Video Room),
Los Angeles, CA
"ACTION VIDEOS by Latin American artists", Artists Space,
New York City.
"c/o la ciudad", SAW Gallery, Ottawa, and Blackwood Gallery,
Toronto, Canada.
1999 "Sous la grisaille de Mexico", Passage de Retz, Paris,
France and Capella de l'antic Hospital de la santa creu, Barcelona,
Spain.
"Paradas Continuas", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
"Tierra", Museo Universitario Contemporaneo de Arte, Mexico
City.
1998 "Hiper", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
"JOTOSEPTIEMBRE", La Panadería, Mexico City.
"MEXELENTE", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,
US.
"OKON CALDERON OCAMPO", Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne,
Germany.
"Project Rooms", ARCO. International Contemporary Art Fair,
Madrid, Spain.
"Vidéos d’art du Mexique et des Etats-Unis"
Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France.
1997 "Nacimientos Navideños". La Panadería,
Mexico City.
"CAMBIO", curated by Kenny Schachter. 526W 26th Street,
New York, NY
"Material/Immaterial", No Name exhibitions at the Soap Factory.
Minneapolis, US.
"Video Instalación Canada-México", EX-Teresa/-Arte
Alternativo, Mexico City and Universidad de Guanajuato. Guanajuato,
Mexico.
"Switch-on Switch off". Galerie BF-15, Lyon, France and
Monterrey, México..
1996 "Somos Diferentes Pero Amigos de Verdad", Estancia
Infantil Topiltzin, Guadalajara, México.
"Selección de cine y video independiente", La Panadería",
Mexico City.
"Cien-to bonito", Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico
City.
1995 "Nuevas Prácticas Colectivas 2", Galería
Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
"Foto en la Panadería", La Panadería, Mexico
City.
"La liga de la Injusticia", La Panadería, Mexico
City.
"UMMAGUMMA, especies de indeterminación", parallel
to Expoarte-Guadalajara 95 and IV FITAC. Maestranza, Guadalajara,
México.
1994 "La Feria del Rebelde" La Panadería", Mexico
City.
Show to inaugurate "La Panadería", México
City.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 Baler, Pablo, "Visions of Mexican Art," Arte al Día,
July-August.
Cotter, Holland, "Pictures of You," New York Times, May
10.
Debroise, Olivier, Vivianne Loría, Carlos Sojo, Mesoamérica:
Oscilaciones y artificios, Ex. cat., Centro Atlántico de Arte
Moderno, Las palmas de Gran canaria, Ediciones del Umbral, Madrid,
2002.
Picard, Charmaine, "Art Chicago 2002," ArtNexus, No. 45,
v. 3.
2001 De la Torre, Monica, "Pull Over! The Art of Yoshua Okon,"
BOMB Magazine, Winter.
Helguera, Pablo, "Mexico City: Unmasked Contexts," Tema
Celeste, May-June.
"Joshua Okon," Art Nexus, No. 41, vol. 3.
2000 Okon, Yoshua, "Zoofilias," Revista Luna Córnea,
Mexico, No. 20.
Schneider, Enriquez, Mary, "Beyond the Border," ArtNews,
January.
Villareal, Rogelio, "De Politicas y Bailarines: Videos de Yoshua
Okon," Revista Curare, No. 16, Mexico.
1997 McLaren, Shawn Patrick, "Beatiful Fluffy Stylish Hairy Butts,"
CHORUS (s)crypt(s) 6.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994-2000 Co-founder and Director of "La Panadería",
an artist-run space dedicated to the discussion and exhibition of
contemporary art.
1998 Residency of one month at the School of Fine Arts of Annecy,
France.
Residency of three months at the BUNDESKANZLERAMT in Vienna, Austria.
LECTURES
2000 "Foto, video, videoinstalaciones: hibridaciones", La
Esmeralda/CENIDIAP, Mexico City
1999 "Espacios de Significación y experiencia estética",
II Jornadas Academicas de La Esmeralda. Aula Magna, CNA. México
D.F.
"How to start your own country", Track 16 Gallery, Santa
Mónica, California.
"El Actual Mercado del Arte en México", Universidad
Iberoamericana, México City.
1998 Post-Mexican: A Conversation with Yoshua Okon and Karen Fiss.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California.
"Projets Culturels indépendants a Mexico". Annecy
Fine Arts school, and BF-15 Gallery, Lyon, France.
"Evidencias Subinformáticas"Iniciativas estrafalarias
en la creatividad plástica de los años noventa."
Arte & Idea, México City.
GRANTS
1998 Fideicomiso para la Cultura México/USA. Joint Rockefeller
Foundation, Fundación Cultural Bancomer and Fondo Nacional
para la Cultura y las Artes.
1999 Fulbright.
"Jóvenes Creadores" (Young creators). Fondo Nacional
para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA).
2000 Fulbright Grant
