TOMÁS OCHOA b. Ecuador

EDUCATION Language and Literature in Cuenca University / Lengua y Literatura Universidad de Cuenca Visual Arts, Division of Postgraduate Studies. UNAM – México / Artes Visuales, División de Estudios de Post- grado. UNAM – México Cinematographic Direction, ECAM. Madrid – Spain / Dirección Cinematográfica. ECAM. Madrid España Lives and works in Colombia / Vive y trabaja en Colombia

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE & EVENTS 2019 LA Art Show / Los Angeles, USA 2018 Zona Maco Foto / Mexico 2016 ArtBo / EFG Bank & ArtNexus Acquisition Award for best Artwork / Bogota, Colombia 2015 Beyond the Tropics / Parallel exhibition to the Venice Biennale 2013 Bienal Sel Sur De Panamá 2013 Loop – Video Art 2013 / Barcelona, Spain 2011 XI. Biennale of Cuenca / Pecados Originales / curated by Fernando Castro / Cuenca, Ecuador 2010 VII. Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism/ Puntos de Fuga. Arquitecturas posibles / Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín / Colombia 2010 Loop – Video Art 2010 / Barcelona, Spain 2010 Foto Madrid 2010 / Spain 2009 Dojima River Biennale 2009: Reflection: The World Through Art directed by Fumio Nanjo Osaka, Japan 2009 Subversive Film Festival / Zagreb, Croacia 2008 Shanghai Art Fair 2008 2008 International Film Festival Oberhausen / Germany 2008 Arco – Expanded Box / Madrid, Spain 2006 Singapore Biennale/ Singapore 2006 LA Freewaves Film Festival / Los Angeles, USA 2005 International Festival of Digital Cinema / Chile 2003 Biennale di Venezia / Venice, Italy 2001 Vll. International Biennale Cuenca / Ecuador 2000 International Biennale / Córdova-Argentina 1996 lV. International Biennale Cuenca / Ecuador SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION

2016 Paraíso Línea negra / Duque Arango gallery / Medellín / Colombia 2015 Espejos con memoria / Museum Pumapungo / Host and Publisher : PRODUBANCO – Grupo Promerica / Cuenca / Ecuador 2014 La reposición del Aura / Galería La Cometa / Bogotá, Colombia 2014 Espejos con memoria / Arte Actual Flacso / Host and Publisher : PRODUBANCO – Grupo Promerica / Quito / Ecuador 2012 Retrospevtive / Relatos Transversales / curated by Maria Fernanda Cartagena / Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Quito / Ecuador 2011 Cineraria /Esquina Arte Contemporaneo / Madrid, Spain 2010 Cineraria / Arte Actual / FLACSO / Quito, Ecuador 2010 Cineraria / Proceso Arte Contemporáneo / Cuenca, Ecuador 2010 Cineraria / TK Galeria d’Art / Barcelona, Spain 2009 Virus / Katz Contemporary / Zurich, Switzerland 2008 Multitude / Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art / Zurich, Switzerland 2008 Indios Medievales / Centre Cultural Can Fabra / Barcelona, Spain 2008 Tribeca / Madrid, Spain 2005 Trans-fiction / Locus Caementitium Gallery / Cologne, Germany 2004 Ruins of the Future / Astrolavos Gallery / Athens, Greece 2004 The Blind Castle / KurArt Gallery / San Sebastian, Spain 2002 Labyrinthi / MS Gallery / Quito, Ecuador 2002 Estrangement / Plattform 22 / Zurich, Switzerland 2001 En Ausencia (In Absence) / Instituto Cultural de Providencia / Santiago, Chile 2000 Devenir Animal (Become Animal) / La Galería / Quito, Ecuador 1999 Devenir Animal (Become Animal), Museo de Arte Moderno / Cuenca, Ecuador 1998 Incarnation (Installation/performance) / El Pobre Diablo / Quito, Ecuador 1997 Bestiary & Heretic Procession (Performance) / Casa de las Galerías / Cuenca, Ecuador 1994 Process / Carole Jones Gallery / Chicago, USA 1994 Process / Museum of Modern Art / Cuenca, Ecuador 1991 Transitions / David Perez MacCollum Gallery / Guayaquil, Ecuador 1990 Hanan Urin / The French Alliance / Quito, Ecuador SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2016 The Americas Collection Gallery/ Miami, USA 2015 Art BO /International Art Fair of Bogota, Columbia 2014 Art BO /International Art Fair of Bogota, Columbia 2014 ‘IB ET NUNC’ / Sobre paradojas democráticas / Barcelona, Spain 2014 Museo Barjola, Tiempo de Progresso / Gijón, Spain 2013 Antioquias. Museo de Antioquia / Libres de toda mala raza / Medellín- Colombia 2013 Cosmovideografías. Videroarte latinoamericano/ Centro Nacional de las Artes/ México D.F 2011 Courtisane / Figures of Speech / Brussel, Belgium 2010 Sinergias / Macuf / La Coruna, Spain 2010 Sinergias / Meiac / Badajoz, Spain 2009 Endgame- Blue Gold / DARB 1718 – Contemporary Art and Culture Center / Cairo, Egypt 2009 MADATAC / Madrid Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts / Madrid, Spain 2009 Maritime Chronicles #2 / NAIRS / curated by Sarah Zuercher / Scuol, Switzerland 2009 Cultura, probeza y megapolis / Marcelino Botin / curated by Kevin Power / Santander, Spain 2008 – 2009 Madrid Mirada / Traveling exhibition throughout South America 2008 Low key / Marcelino Botín – Villa Iris / curated by Iria Candela / Santander, Spain 2008 Arquetypos / MAAC (Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo) Guayaquil, Ecuador 2008 Mao Dupla, SESC Paulista / Sao Paulo, Brazil 2008 Madrid Mirada / Circulo de Bellas Artes/ Madrid, Spain 2007 IKF Latin American Art Auction – Cisneros Art Foundation / Miami, USA 2007 Art Basel – Swiss Art Awards / Basel, Switzerland 2007 Scope / Basel, Switzerland 2006 CACT – Centro d’Arte Contemporanea / Ticino, Switzerland 2006 Stopover / Fri-Art – Centre d’Art Contemporain / Fribourg, Switzerland 2006 Políticas del Arte – Seminarios / Múrcia, Spain 2006 Casa Amèrica Catalunya / Barcelona, Spain 2006 Swiss Film & Video Festival / Thun, Switzerland 2005 Marcelino Botin / Santander, Spain 2005 Kunstmuseum Luzern / Switzerland 2005 Art Basel – Swiss Art Awards / Basel, Switzerland 2004 Sad Co. – The Blind Castle / Artiade / Athens, Greece 2002 Mater Materia / Palazzio Mediceo; Seravezza, Italy SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION 2001 Políticas de la diferencia (Politics of Difference) – Iberoamerican Art of the twentieth century; Travelling Exhibition / (by Kevin Power) / Museos de la comunidad Valenciana, España 2001 City of Anger / Aksanat Gallery / Istanbul, Turkey 1998 Corps / Maison de la Amerique Latine / Paris, Francia 1998 Rahn Gallery / Zurich, Switzerland 1997 Contemporary Ecuador / Casa de America / Madrid, Spain 1997 Matrix (Installation) / Patrimonio Cultural / Cuenca, Ecuador 1993 Futuro Rupestre / Museo de la Academia de San Carlos / México 1992 500 Years / Traveling Exhibition / Brussels, Amberes, Binches – Belgium 1991 Contemporary Salon of Latin American Painting / Piura, Peru 1990 Latin America Presents / National Museum of Fine Arts / Santiago, Chile

AWARDS 2015 Presea José Domingo Lamar / Cuenca, Ecuador 2013 Condecoración al Artista del año / Cámara de Comercio de Quito, Ecuador 2004 Marcelino Botin Award / Santander, Spain 2000 First Prize / Salon Nacional Fundación de Guayaquil / Quito, Ecuador 1996 Mention of Honor / V Bienal de pintura / Cuenca, Ecuador 1996 Mención de Honor / Salón de Octubre / Guayaquil, Ecuador 1992 Fist Prize / Salón Nacional de Arte “Fundación Exadra” / Quito, Ecuador 1991 Third Prize / Salón de Pintura Contemporánea Latinoamericana / Piura, Peru 1990 Third Prize / Salón Nacional de Octubre Guayaquil / Ecuador 1989 Scholarships Inte granted by II Bienal de Pintura de Cuenca y USIS (United States International Services) / Washington, US

VIDEOGRAPHY 2009 After Hitchcock – Micro Relatos / One channel video, color, sound / 4 min. 2008 Indios Medievales / One channel video, color, sound, 6 min. 16 sec. 2008 La Casa Ideal / One channel video, color, sound, 6 min. 2007 Ariadne PF-Z26 / One channel video, color, sound, 2 min. 2006 The Myth of Sisyphus / Two channel video, color, sound, 25 min. 43 sec. 2006 Fähre / Documentary Film / Switzerland / color, sound, 35 min. 2005 5 Dots / One channel video, color, sound, 11 min. 11 sec. 2005 Contagion / Two channel video, color, sound, 17 min. 12 sec. 2004 6m m3–The Darkroom / One channel video, color, sound, 30 min. 6 sec. 2003 Sad Co. – The Blind Castle / Three channel video, color, sound, 25 min. 44 sec. 2002 The Mirror Project / One channel video, color, sound, 1min. 45sec 2001 The Whole Destiny by Foot / One channel video, color, sound, 6 min. 2009 Grand Central Arts Center, Group exhibition, Santa Ana, CA 2006 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 2005 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 2005 Laguna College of Art and Design, Group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2003 The Woman’s Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Laguna College of Art and Design, Group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2003 LCAD Summer Gallery, Group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2002 LCAD Gallery, Juried exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2002 LCAD Summer Gallery, Group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2001 LCAD Gallery, Juried exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2001 LCAD Gallery, Group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2000 LCAD Gallery, Juried exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 2000 Otis Arts Center, Group exhibition, Washington, CA 1999 LCAD Gallery, Juried exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA 1998 LCAD Gallery, Juried exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

COLLECTIONS Hilbert Museum, Anaheim, California Private Collections throughout the United States

CURATION 2018 Curiosities Exhibition, Santa Ana, CA 2016 Small Works Exhibition, Santa Ana, CA 2015 Thomas Butler Exhibition, Santa Ana, CA

PUBLICATIONS 2018 Sp{a}ce Gallery Video 2018 Juxtapoz Magazine (Movement and Narrative) Poets and Artists, Abend Gallery 2017 Huffington Post, John Seed (12 Women Painting, 12 Studio Visits) 2016 Orange Coast Magazine by Jodie Tillman (Jung’s Dream) 2015 Huffington Post, F. Scott Hess (Art That Hurts) 2014 Huffington Post, F. Scott Hess (What Does It Take To Turn an Art School Education Into a Successful Career) 2014 Los Angeles Times, Rhea Mahbubani (Artist’s Work Show Her Yearning) 2014 Moorpark Student Voice, Jackie Stone (The Space Between) 2009 Women Painting Women 2006 L.A. Weekly by Joseph Piasentin (The Likeness)

VIDEO 2018 Sp{a}ce Gallery Video 2010 For Arts Sake

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2017-Current Part Time Faculty, Painting, Laguna College of Art and Design MFA program 2018 Office of Dr. Jacob Caldwell, Lecture and presentation (Art and Pain: How Art Can Maximize the Pla- cebo Effect 2009 Workshop, Grand Central Arts, Santa Ana, CA