Nationality American Name Oscar Tuazon | ||
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Oscar Tuazon is an American artist based in Los Angeles who works in sculpture, architecture, and mixed media.
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- Public art fund oscar tuazon the new school for public engagement
- Oscar tuazon studio une exposition du consortium centre d art dijon
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Exhibitions
- Prizes
- References
Oscar tuazon studio une exposition du consortium centre d art dijon
Early life
A native of Seattle, he attended Deep Springs College, Cooper Union, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. 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.
Career
Professionally, he began his career working in the Studio Acconci of architect/artist Vito Acconci. After moving to Paris in 2007, he began exhibiting widely in Europe. 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.
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." 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."
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."
Exhibitions
Prizes
Nominated for the Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard in 2009.