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TOMÁS
OCHOA
Born in Ecuador
Studied Language and Literature in Cuenca University
Visual Arts in UNAM Mexico.
Lives and works in Switzerland
and Spain
ANDRIANA MEYER
Born in Switzerland
– Parsons School Of Design Paris & New York, 1990 - 94, BFA
– In year 2000 Andriana Meyer teamed up with Tomas Ochoa
Lives and works in Switzerland and Spain
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BIENNALE
& EVENTS
2008
International Film Festival Oberhausen / Germany
Arco Madrid/ Madrid, Spain
2007
– IKF Latin American Art Auction – Cisneros Art Foundation / Miami,
USA
Art Basel - Swiss Art Awards / Basel, Switzerland
2006
Singapore Biennale/ Singapore
LA Freewaves Film Festival / Los Angeles, USA
Swiss Film & Video Festival / Thun, Switzerland
2005
International Festival of Digital Cinema / Chile
Marcelino Botin Award / Santander, Spain
5 Points. - Art Basel - Swiss Art Awards / Basel, Switzerland
2003
Biennale di Venezia / Venice, Italy
2001
Políticas de la diferencia (Politics of Difference) - Iberoamerican
Art of the twentieth century;
Travelling Exhibition / Museos de la comunidad
Valenciana, España
Vll. International Biennale Cuenca / Ecuador
2000
International Biennale / Córdova-Argentina
1996
lV. International Biennale Cuenca / Ecuador
SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITION
2008
Miki
Wick Contemporary Art / Zurich, Switzerland
– "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
The Blind Castle, KurArt Gallery / San Sebastian, Spain
2002
Labyrinthi, MS Gallery / Quito, Ecuado
Estrangement, Plattform 22 / Zurich, Switzerland
2001
In 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
Encarnación (Incarnation), Instalacion/performance, El pobre
diablo
[en colaboración con P. Cardoso
y Palomeque] / Quito, Ecuador
1997
Bestiary & Heretic Procession (Performance), Casa de las Galerías
/ Cuenca, Ecuador
1994
Process, Carole Jones Gallery; Chicago, USA
Process, Museum of Modern Art / Cuenca, Ecuador
1991
Transiciones, David Perez MacCollum Gallery / Guayaquil, Ecuador
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2008
Marcelino Botín - Villa Iris / Santander, Spain
SESC / Sao Paulo, Brazil
Circulo de Bellas Artes/ Madrid, Spain
2006
Cact, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea / Ticino, Switzerland
Fri-Art, Centre d'Art Contemporain / Fribourg, Switzerland
Políticas del Arte - Seminarios / Múrcia, Spain
Casa Amèrica Catalunya / Barcelona, Spain
2005
Kunstmuseum Luzern / Switzerland
2004
Sad Co. – The Blind Castle / Artiade / Athens, Greece
2002
Mater Materia / Palazzio Mediceo; Seravezza, Italy
2001
City of Anger / Aksanat Gallery / Istanbul, Turkey
1998
Corps / Maison de la Amerique Latine / Paris, Francia
Rahn Gallery / Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Contemporary Ecuador / Casa de America / Madrid, Spain
Matrix (Installation) / Patrimonio Cultural / Cuenca, Ecuador
1993
Futuro Rupestre / Museo de la Academia de San Carlos / México
DF, 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
2004
Marcelino Botin Grant / Santander, Spain
2000
First Prize, Salon Nacional Fundación de Guayaquil / Quito,
Ecuador
1996
Mention of Honor, V Bienal de pintura / Cuenca, Ecuador
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 Pinturade Cuenca y USIS
(United
Staternational Services) / Washington, US
VIDEOGRAPHY
2008
Indios Medievales / One channel video, color, sound, 6 min.
La Casa Ideal/ One channel video, color, sound, 6 min.
2007
Ariadne PF-Z26/ One channel video, color, sound, 5 min.
2006
The Myth of Sisyphus / Two channel video, color, sound, 25 min.
Fähre / Documentary Film / Switzerland / color, sound, 35 min.
2005
Contagio / Two channel video, color, sound, 17 min.
– 5 points / One channel video, color, sound, 11 min.
2004
6m m3 The Darkroom / One channel video, color, sound, 30 min.
2003
Sad Co. The Blind Castle / Three channel video, color, sound,
27 min
2002
The Mirror Project / One channel video, color, sound, 10 min.
2001
The whole destiny by foot / One channel video, color, sound, 6 min.