Lorena Ochoa

Lorena Ochoa’s (b. 1983, Santa Ana, Ca) practice is an act of defiance–defiance of binary thinking, of art-historical hierarchies, of political borders that separate cultures and families. Ochoa received their BA in Visual Arts with a minor in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California Los Angeles and their MFA from the University of California San Diego. Ochoa has been awarded the Cota Robles Fellowship, the Oceanids Fellowship, UCLA Undergraduate Award in 2018 and 2019, the Hoyt Memorial Scholarship, the Weissman Travel Fund and the Michael Coomes Memorial Award. Lorena Ochoa was also an Artist in Residence at the Guapamacataro Hacienda in Michoacan in 2022. Ochoa’s work was recently included in ICA San Diego’s NextGen 2023 exhibition.