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]
- Where I lived and what I lived for, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- I'd rather be gone, Standard, Oslo
- Oscar Tuazon / Mike Freeman, castillo/corrales Gallery, Paris
- Voluntary Non vulnerable (with Eli Hansen), Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver
- 2008
- Kodiak (with Eli Hansen), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
- Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner, London
- This World’s Just Not Real To Me (with Eli Hansen), Howard House, Seattle
- 2009
- Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière (France)
- Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany- Ass To Mouth, Balice Hertling, Paris
- Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg (Norway)
- 2010
- Sex Booze Weed Speed, (with Gardar Eide Einarsson), Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
- My Mistake, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
- My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York
- One of My Best Comes, Parc St Léger - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux (France)
- 2011
- Die, The Power Station, Aldon Pinnell, Dallas
- STEEL, PRESSURE-TREATED WOOD, OAK POST, OFFICE CHAIR, INDUCTION STOVETOP, ALUMINUM, Standard, Oslo
- America is my Woman, Maccarone, New York
- 2012
- Shaman/Showman (with Karl Holmqvist), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
- Scott Burton, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
- Manual Labor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
- Action, Jonathan Viner, London
- 2013
- Sensory Spaces 1, Musée Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- Spasms of Misuse, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
- DÉPENDANCE, dépendance, Brussels
- 2014
- I never learn, Standard, Oslo
- Alone in an empty room, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
- A home, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Prizes
Nominated for the Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard in 2009.
References
- ↑ How do I look?: Oscar Tuazon, artist, 35, The Independent, June 26, 2010
- ↑ Center for Urban Pedagogy: People, Accessed April 18, 2015
- ↑ "City Without a Ghetto, Center for Urban Pedagogy", Bomb Magazine Spring 2004
- ↑ "Artist of the week 98: Oscar Tuazon," The Guardian, July 26, 2010
- ↑ "Rencontre avec Oscar Tuazon à la Biennale de Venise," Paris Vogue
- ↑ " The First Artists on the Waterfront," The Stranger, March 26, 2014
- ↑ 2012 Whitney Biennial Exhibitions
- ↑ "Oscar Tuazon," Frieze, April 2013
- ↑ "Oscar Tuazon: ‘My Flesh to Your Bare Bones’," New York Times, April 16, 2010
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "At Home With Oscar Tuazon, artist, and Dorothée Perret, editor," Sight Unseen, January 25, 2012
- ↑ Saatchi Gallery Artists Page for Tuazon