Elena Ochoa
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Elena Ochoa

Spanish publisher and art curator

Elena Ochoa Foster, Baroness Foster of Thames Bank (née Elena Fernández-Ferreiro López de Ochoa) is a Spanish publisher and art curator, and formerly a professor of psychopathology. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Ivorypress.2

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Born Sep 24, 1958.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedComplutense University of Madrid3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of California, Los Angeles3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Cambridge3

Academic and media career

National Award for Scientific Research. Entidad Abelló, Spain, 1984

Joint Spanish-American Committee, Fulbright Scholarship, Spain, 1985.

Research Grant, Veterans Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health, USA, 1986.

Research Grant, National Fund for the Development of Scientific and Technological Research, Spain 1988.

European Award for Mass Media and Television, Premio Ondas, Spain, 1990.

National Prize of the Royal College of Psychology for the Best Communication in Mass Media. 1991, 1993 and 1995.

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Career

Occupation: publisher, psychologist, exhibition curator, gallerist, university teacher, editor, presenter.7

  • Date not recordedWorked at Complutense University of Madrid4
  • Date not recordedWorked at RNE4
  • Date not recordedWorked at Televisión Española4
  • Date not recordedFounded Ivorypress5
  • Date not recordedProfessor6

Film producer career

How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster?:

TCM Audience Award for Best Documentary at the European Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, 2010

First Prize of the Jury of Docville International Documentary Festival, Leuven, Belgium, 2010

Best Cinematography Award at the International Documentary section of the Sichuan TV Festival Chinese festival (SCTVF), 2011

Nominated for the Goya Awards in the category of Best Documentary, Madrid, Spain, 2011

Shooting the Mafia:

Audience Award Brussels International Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2019.

Best Documentary Award Batumi International ArtHouse Film Festival, Batumi, Georgia, 2019

Guerrilla Staff Award Biografilm Festival, Bologna, Italy, 2019

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Publisher and Curator career

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Gold Medal Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, USA, 2012

Real Fundación de Toledo Award in the 'Curator' category for the exhibition 'ToledoContemporánea', Spain, 2015

Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, Spain, 2016

Ibero-American Patronage Award, Spain, 2016

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Personal life

  • BornSep 24, 1958, A Pobra de Trives8
  • CitizenshipSpain9
  • SpousesLuis Racionero 1991 to 199410 11; Norman Foster married 199610

In 1996, Ochoa married English architect Norman Foster. In 1999, he was raised to the peerage giving her the title Lady Foster of Thames Bank.

She lives and works between Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedMontblanc Award12