23 YOSHUA OKON

Untitled (New Décor Series), 2003
c-print, 22 1/4" x 30"

“ Video artist, UCLA Grad, young professor, cultural provocateur, and co-founder (in 1994) of La Panaderia, one of Mexico City’s defining alternative spaces during the last decade, Yoshua Okon poses exciting new questions on the relation between performance and video, set and locations, voyeurism and participation. Almost everything he’s done adjudicated…so that the social commentary is laced with humor, irony medicated by self-reflexivity, and improvised action tangled up in webs of class and identity.” (John Welchman, Flash Art) Okon’s most recent solo exhibitions were at Galeria Enrique Guerro in Mexico City, The Project in Los Angeles and Galeria Francesca Kaufmann in Milan. He also was selected to exhibit at the Istanbul Biennial in Turkey and the First ICP International Triennial of Contemporary Photography in New York. Born in Mexico City, Okon now lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented locally by The Project.

courtesy of the artist and The Project,
Los Angeles and New York
value $4,600–5,200