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Raúl Ortega Ayala (1973, Mexico City) is a contemporary visual artist. His performance and sculptural work explores the politics of food, gardening and corporate culture. His methodologies often appropriate or mimic those of anthropological research. Ortega lives and works between Mexico City and Wellington, New Zealand. He is represented by Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City and Dürst, Britt and Mayhew in the Hague, Netherlands.

In 1999 Ortega Ayala was awarded a Rockefeller and Mac Arthur Grant and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores (FONCA) grant.

Early life and education
Ortega Ayala was born in Mexico City in 1973. He received his master of visual arts from Glasgow School of Art, UK, and Hunter College, New York, USA in 2003. He has a bachelor degree in Cultural Science from Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico (1996); a bachelor in Philosophy from Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (1998), and a bachelor in visual arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (ENPEG) “La Esmeralda”, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico in 2000.

Career
Ortega Ayala is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Art in Massey University (Wellington, New Zealand), and an active board member of Soma. His work has been exhibited museums and galleries internationally.

Select individual exhibitions

 * Living Remains, Stroom Den Haag, The Hage, Netherlands (2010)
 * Una etnografía sobre la jardinería, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico (2008)
 * Bureaucratic Sonata, The Economist Plaza, London, UK (2006)

Select Collections

 * David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
 * Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Lisser Art Museum, Lisse, Netherlands
 * Paisley Museum, Paisley, Scotland