Okón was born in 1970 in Mexico City. He creates video works that meld fiction and reality, weaving documentary techniques together with scripted and improvised performances. In 1994 he graduated from Montreal’s Concordia University, and in 2002 he obtained an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions in California’s Torrance Art Museum, Mexico’s Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), the Colby Museum of Art, and elsewhere. In addition, he has exhibited works at Manifesta 11 and the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art.