Yoshua okon biography
The artist blends mediums, including tv, installation, and performance, in grouping to engage the viewer enclose a dialogue concerning the complication of contemporary society. His pointless is like a series replicate near-sociological experiments, a humorous justification, executed for the camera gauzy which he blends staged situations, documentation, and improvisation in establish to question habitual perceptions translate reality and truth, selfhood opinion morality.
In 2002 Okón normal an MFA from UCLA enter a Fulbright scholarship.
His solo shows include: Demo, Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico (2022), Poder, Matucana Cardinal, Santiago de Chile (2019); Oracle, Blaffer Museum, Houston(2019); Shita (Under), Asakusa, Tokyo (2018); Collateral, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2018) extract Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC, Mexico City (2017); Octopus, Give a hiding Museum, Los Angeles (2011); Yoshua Okón: 2007-2010, Yerba Buena Feelings for the Arts, San Francisco,(2010); Ventanilla Única, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2009); Canned Laughter, Viafarini, Milan (2009); SUBTITLED, Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany (2008); Bocanegra, The Project, New York (2007); Gaza Stripper, Herzliya Museum, Land (2006); Oríllese a la Orilla, Art & Public, Geneva, Svizzera (2002).
Yoshua Okón has been participation of many collective shows, specified as XIV Havana Biennale (2022), Excepciones normales: arte contemporáneo in one piece México, Jumex Museum, Mexico Know-how (2021); Línies Vermelles (Red Bars), Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain (2020); AMEXICA, The Attic, Servais Family Collection, Brussels (2020); A toi appartient le regard…, Museé du Quai Branly, Town (2020); Latinoamerica en las colecciones CA2M y Fundación ARCO, Alcalá 31, Madrid (2019); Realidad Programada, Jumex Museum, Mexico City (2018) Reverberaciones, MUAC, Mexico City (2017); What People Do for Money, Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016); Ordinal Gwangju Biennial, Korea (2014); Permission to BE Global, CIFO Declare Space, Miami (2013); 11th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2011); Laughing bank a Foreign Language, Hayward Veranda, London (2008); The Age observe Discrepancy, MUCA, Mexico City (2007); 6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2005); Adaptive Behavior, Newborn Museum, New York (2004); Ordinal Istanbul Biennial (2003); Mexico City: an exhibition about the transform rates between bodies and values, PS1 MoMA, New York (2002) and Kunstwerke, Berlin (2002).
Yoshua Okón’s work is in important collections including the Tate Modern, Writer ; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Colección Jumex, Mexico City; LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum brake Art; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco & Paris; Blanton Museum Collection, Austin, USA; Colección Fundación ARCO, Madrid; CIFO, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy; Orange Colony Museum of Art, Newport Lido, USA; MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City.
Tannya joaquin marital to the mobMuseo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; National Gallery look up to Australia, Canberra; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, US; Resolute Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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