Yoshua Okón was born in Mexico City in 1970, where he currently lives. He received his BFA from Conordia University in Montreal, Canada in 1994 and his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 with a Fulbright scholarship. Okón founded the artist-run space La Panadería in 1994 and the artist-run space and school SOMA in 2009, both in Mexico City. Okón’s work has been presented in one-person exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Galería Gabriela Mistral in Santiago, Chile; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, Mexico; Viafarini, Milan, Italy; Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA; Lothringer 13 – Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany; Galería Revolver, Lima, Perú; The Project, New York and Los Angeles; Herzeliya Museum, Herzeliya, Israel; Galleria Francesca Kaufmann in Milan, Italy; and Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland. Okón has been included in numerous thematic exhibitions such as The Workers, Mass MOCA, West Adams; Amateurs, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, The Age of Discrepancy, MUCA, Mexico City, Mexico; Mercosur Bienial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Pantagruel Syndrome, Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; The Virgin Show, the Wrong Gallery, New York; Adaptive Behaviour, New Museum, New York; Don’t Call It Performance, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain and Museo del Barrio, New York City; Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; ICP Triennial, New York; Terror Chic, Sprüth/Magers, Munich, Germany; and Mexico City: an exhibition about the exchange rates between bodies and values, PS1, MoMA, New York, and Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany.