Born in Mexico in 1978, Camilo Ontiveros received an MFA from UCLA in 2009 and a BA from the UCSD in 2006. He is co-founder of Lui Velazquez, an artist residency program in Tijuana and co-founder of Imprenta, an alternative space in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. He has had solo exhibitions at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2009) and Steve Turner Contemporary (2009). He was the 2010 recipient of the Illy Prize at ARCO Madrid and had work in the 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art. Ontiveros explores issues relating to immigration, the border between Mexico and the United States, unofficial economies, labor and notions of value.