Statement

I construct imagery for 2D works and new media projects that are informed by experience, technology and imagination. Painting in layers, I use masking techniques to jumble formal qualities such as abstraction and realistic representation. I source imagery from mapping platforms, API's and social media networks as a way to trace the effect technology has on the construct of perception. The combination of divergent elements suggests a pluralistic visual experience bridging the historical framework of painting, self and the influence of technology on image making.

Bio

Daniel Ochoa was born in 1980 in Santa Rosa, California. He is currently living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Exhibitions

PARALLEL 2025
Collectiva VI 2025
Barjola an apocryphal portrait 2025
Tondo Group Exhibition at Harman Projects 2023
body W.O.R.K.S. Group Show 2022
Pop Up Show Daniel Ochoa at Studio Shop Gallery 2020
Booth Gallery Winter Small Works Exhibition 2019
Paintguide group show at Thinkspace Projects 2019
Dialogues Group Show 2019
Fantasia Paintguide group show at Spoke Art 2018
Disrupted Realism 2018
Pence Gallery Group Exhibit 2017
Super Natural A Survey of Figurative Contemporary Art 2017
Jessup Cellars Gallery New works 2016
Stitched Images, Solo Show at Julie Nester Gallery 2014
Julie Nester Gallery, Aguafiestas, Solo Exhibition 2012
Figurative Perspectives Exhibition at Julie Nester Gallery 2010

Articles

Artist Booklet Daniel Ochoa 2016
The Salt Lake Tribune: Art Exhibits by Ben Fulton, 2012 2012
Ochoa influenced by change 2012
Shared Languages Daniel Ochoa at Julie Nester Gallery by Geoff Wichert 2010

Art Fairs

Art Market San Francisco with Studio Shop Gallery 2023
Art Market San Francisco with Studio Shop Gallery 2022
Scope Basel with Aureus Contemporary 2017
Art MRKT San Francisco, Julie Nester Gallery 2016
Art Silicon Valley with Hespe Gallery 2015
Realisme Art Fair with Morren Galleries 2014
Art Wynwood with Arcadia Contemporary 2014
LA Art show with Arcadia Contemporary 2014
SCOPE Art Fair NYC, with Arcadia Gallery 2014
ArtMarkt San Francisco 2013
Affordable Art Fair with Stricoff Fine Art 2011
Toronto International Art Fair With Stricoff Fine Art 2010
Next Chicago Art Fair with Cain Schulte Contemporary 2010
Affordable Art Fair with Julie Nester Gallery 2009

Press

Arte Novus 2017
Paintings by Daniel Ochoa from Sonoma County California. 2017
Creative Paper Artist Profile 2014
Bleaq Profile. Fragmented portraits by Daniel Ochoa 2014
The Art Out There: Daniel Ochoa 2012
Artist a Day Profile Artist Daniel Ochoa 2010

Awards

Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission 2008

Interviews

Daniel Ochoa on Art and Life: an Interview 2016

Collections

Collection Solo 2016

Education

MFA Academy of Art University 2008
B.A. Studio Art, Gonzaga University 2002