Yoshua Okón

Yoshua Okón was born in Mexico City in 1970 where he currently lives and works. He has been an important figure in the Mexican and international art scene since the 1990s and his contribution has extended beyond his practice through his founding of paramount artist-run initiatives La Pandería and SOMA in Mexico City.

In 2002 he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Fulbright Scholarship. His solo exhibitions include Salò Island, University of California, Irvine; Piovra, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan; Poulpe, Mor Charpentier, Paris; Octopus, Cornerhouse, Manchester and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and SUBTITLE, Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich. His group exhibitions include Manifesta 11, Zurich; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Antes de la resaca, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; Incongruous, Musèe Cantonal des Beux-Arts, Lausanne; The Mole´s 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, New York; and Mexico City: an exhibition about the exchange rates between bodies and values, MoMA PS1, New York, and Kunstwerke, Berlin. His work is included in the collections of Tate Modern, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Colección Jumex and MUAC, among others.