Juan M. Ocampo
Nacimiento, 2026
Oil on Linen
8 x 10 in.
Bio
Juan Manuel Ocampo (b. North Chicago, IL) is a Chicago-based, Mexican-American artist working across oil painting, sculpture, installation, and print media. His work explores themes of post-ironic desensitization in the digital age, alongside contemporary activist projects addressing immigration, erasure, and culture. His art centers on imagery that questions what will be taken seriously as irony increasingly shapes the upcoming generation's sense of agency & Identity. He is currently an undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Statement
Birth is a thematic in both of these works "Nacimiento" is a critique on the rituals that revolve around catholicism growing up in a catholic house-hold, shame was a very deep rooted idea ingrained in the heads of believers, the paint palette on the side expresses vulnerability within the painting and what the painting was versus what it became. "LittleBabyMan" was a piece reflecting on crucial years in my own development & events that unfolded that created a new sensation that became inexpressible.
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