Yoshua Ok\u00f3n was born in Mexico City in 1970 where he currently lives. His work, like a series of experiments executed for the camera, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His solo shows exhibitions include: Yoshua Ok\u00f3n: Collateral, MUAC, Mexico City and Amparo Museum, Puebla; Yoshua Ok\u00f3n, Ghebaly Gallery, LA; Yoshua Ok\u00f3n: In the Land of Ownership, ASAKUSA, Tokio; Sal\u00f3 Island, UC Irvine, Irvine; Piovra, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan; Poulpe, Mor Charpentier, Paris; Octopus, Cornerhouse, Manchester and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and SUBTITLE, St\u00e4dtische Kunsthalle, Munich. His group exhibitions include: Manifesta 11, Zurich; Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Antes de la resaca, MUAC, Mexico City; Incongruous, Mus\u00e8e Cantonal des Beux-Arts, Lausanne; The Mole \u0301s 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, Hammer Museum, LACMA, Colecci\u00f3n Jumex and MUAC, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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