Cristina Ochoa

Category: Drawings

  • Street Herbaries

    Exposition name: Street Herbaries
    Locations: Colombia y México: Bogotá, Pereira, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Cuernavaca, Nayarit, Ciudad de México, among others…
    Type: Collection of vegetables samples, paintings and drawings.
    Materials: Collage on paper dry part of plants, flowers and leafs
    Dimensions: 21 cm x 28 cm & 1 m by 70 cm
    Date: 2019 – 2020

    Description: Explores the intersection of art, botany, and consciousness through a collection of vegetable samples, paintings, and drawings. The series Street Herbaries includes over 50 samples of entheogenic plants gathered from sidewalks in cities across Colombia and Mexico—Bogotá, Pereira, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Cuernavaca, Nayarit, and Mexico City—mounted on colored paper sheets (21 x 28 cm), produced between 2019 and 2020. Plants such as Brugmansia, Ginseng, Ipomoea, Argemone Mexicana, and the Lisergic Rose are featured. The work HER (2021) continues this exploration with a 1 x 0.70 m collage composed of dried plant parts, flowers, and leaves collected from the streets, arranged on paper as a reflection on psychotropical biodiversity and everyday botanical encounters.

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  • Sketches for Cemonial Vases

    Exposition name: Ceremonial Sculptures & Plates (Pharmakon)
    Location: Galeria del Agua Altzayanca. Tlaxcala
    Date: 2021
    Dimensions: Variable
    Material: Clay, ceramics & glass

    Description: Ceremonial Vases to consume sacred plants. Variable dimensions.

  • Bhang

    Exposition name: Bhang
    Location: Multiple, México City
    In collaboration with: Ariel Orozco
    Date: 2021

    Description: The Pharmakon Psychotropical Garden project brought together visionary art, ancient plant knowledge, and experimental cooking in a multisensory exploration of altered states and healing traditions. Among its highlights were the Paintings Under Four Grams, created during guided experiences with San Isidro mushrooms in collaboration with artists Ariel Orozco and Izq, capturing the intricate visions and emotional landscapes induced by psilocybin. Alongside this, the garden featured Cannabic Recipes, including Shiva’s Beverage, one of the oldest known cannabis preparations traced back to the Vedas over a thousand years before Christ. According to legend, Shiva, after a quarrel with his wife Pavarti, retreated to rest beneath a ganja tree; upon awakening, he was soothed and uplifted by the plant’s effect. Enchanted by its calming power, he incorporated it into all his recipes, starting with Bhang—a sacred drink traditionally made from crushed Indian nuts, yak milk, and cannabis. This preparation remains a ritual offering during Maha Shivaratri, the annual celebration in honor of the deity, and serves as a cultural anchor for the ongoing dialogue between plants, spirit, and creative expression explored in this psychotropical initiative.

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  • Apothecary and consultation performance 

    Exposition name: Apothecary and consultation performance 
    Location: Tamayo Museum, México City
    Curator: Kit Hammonds
    Date: 2022

  • Pharmakon: Street Herbaries

    PHOTO: PHARMAKON AT SOMERS GALLERY 2023 LONDON

    Exposition name: Pharmakon: Street Herbaries
    Location: Multiple: London, Vienna, Mexico City, Barcelona…
    Date: 2023

    Description: Pharmakon explores the blurred boundaries between cure and poison, medicine and drug. Through a vibrant collection of more than 50 entheogenic plant specimens gathered from urban sidewalks across Colombia and Mexico—mounted on colorful papers—and a series of drawings and paintings, the work opens a critical dialogue around pharmacology, ancestral herbalism, and the political and spiritual dimensions of substances. Conceived as an experimental laboratory, the project reclaims Indigenous and popular knowledge systems, positioning the vegetal world as a site of healing, resistance, and psychotropical hope.