Ybarra has won broad international recognition for his site-speci c urban interventions that bring to light little-known aspects of a particular location’s cultural history, such as his solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (2008) and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2007), as well his contributions to the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008), the Prague Biennial 3 (2007), the Tate Modern (2007) and the Serpentine Gallery (2006), both in London.