Yoshua Okón was born in 1970, in Mexico City where he lives and works. In 1994 he founded La Panadería, an artist-run space in Mexico City. In 2002, he received an MFA from UCLA. His solo exhibitions include Ventanilla Única, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; SUBTITLED, Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich; and Bocanegra, the Project, New York. Okón is currently an artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum.

In conjunction with the exhibition Hammer Projects: Yoshua Okón.

The UCLA Department of Art's visiting lecture series is made possible through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund.