Daniel Ochoa

Daniel Ochoa

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''The experiences I had growing up in a bicultural family fuel the imagery, and emotional quality of my work. My father is an immigrant from Mexico, and my mother a white American. Overtime, I learned to perceive cultural dichotomies and accommodate conflicting viewpoints. The deconstruction of my identity is at the root of what I paint and how I paint. I explore personal experiences through my work that are informed by photos, emotions and memory. Working in layers, I use masking techniques to jumble formal qualities such as abstraction, realistic representation, pixel emulation, and written narrative. Combining divergent elements suggests a pluralistic reality, and the imagery demonstrates the difference of my bicultural perspective.''

Born 1980 in Santa Rosa, California.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Primary Gallery Representation
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT.
Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY

Awards and Honors
1st Place in Figurative Painting, Academy of Art University Spring show, 2009
THE magazine Los Angeles - Editors' Award, 2009
Grand Prize, San Diego Art Institute 50th International Exhibition, 2009
Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts, sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation, 2008
1st Place in Abstract painting, Academy of Art University Spring show, 2008



Education
MFA, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA. 2008
B.A. Art, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. 2002