Oscar Tuazon

Oscar Tuazon
Born 1975
Nationality American
Education Cooper Union, Whitney ISP
Known for Installation art, Sculpture
Patron(s) Charles Saatchi

Oscar Tuazon is an American artist based in Los Angeles who works in sculpture, architecture, and mixed media.

Early life

A native of Seattle, he attended Deep Springs College, Cooper Union, and the Whitney Independent Study Program.[1] In 2001 he served as a founding board member at the Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York with his former Deep Springs classmate Damon Rich.[2][3]

Career

Professionally, he began his career working in the Studio Acconci of architect/artist Vito Acconci. [4] After moving to Paris in 2007, he began exhibiting widely in Europe. [5] He has since then exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, and many group and solo shows throughout the world, and is in major art collections such as Saatchi's.[6] [7]

A critic in the art magazine Frieze wrote in 2013 that "like his heroes, from Gordon Matta-Clark to wilderness survivalists, Tuazon’s non-conformist approach to artistic practice plays at the juncture of architecture, sculpture and performance."[8] A New York Times review described his work as "haunting ... pit[ting] Mr. Acconci's robust ego against Mr. Tuazon's raw and fragile subjectivity." [9]

Personal life

In 2013, he moved from France to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles with his three children and wife Dorothée Perret, a former editor at Purple Magazine who now helms the art magazine "Paris, LA."[10][11]

Exhibitions

2007[12]
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

Prizes

Nominated for the Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard in 2009.

References

  1. ↑ How do I look?: Oscar Tuazon, artist, 35, The Independent, June 26, 2010
  2. ↑ Center for Urban Pedagogy: People, Accessed April 18, 2015
  3. ↑ "City Without a Ghetto, Center for Urban Pedagogy", Bomb Magazine Spring 2004
  4. ↑ "Artist of the week 98: Oscar Tuazon," The Guardian, July 26, 2010
  5. ↑ "Rencontre avec Oscar Tuazon à la Biennale de Venise," Paris Vogue
  6. ↑ " The First Artists on the Waterfront," The Stranger, March 26, 2014
  7. ↑ 2012 Whitney Biennial Exhibitions
  8. ↑ "Oscar Tuazon," Frieze, April 2013
  9. ↑ "Oscar Tuazon: ‘My Flesh to Your Bare Bones’," New York Times, April 16, 2010
  10. ↑ "Dorothée Perret: Saint Laurent designer Hedi Slimane isn’t the only French expat to put down roots in Los Angeles," W Magazine, November 21, 2013
  11. ↑ "At Home With Oscar Tuazon, artist, and Dorothée Perret, editor," Sight Unseen, January 25, 2012
  12. ↑ Saatchi Gallery Artists Page for Tuazon
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