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Oscar Tuazon

(American, born 1975)

Oscar Tuazon

Alloy (For Steve Baer), 2011

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Biography

Timeline

1975: Born in Seattle/WA, USA
1995 - 1999: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York/NY, USA
2001 - 2003: Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York/NY, USA
: Lives and works in Paris, France and Tacoma/WA, USA

Exhibitions

2012: Manual Labor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
: You and Now, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
: Poste Restante (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
: Light In Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington, USA
: Under Construction, SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
: Dystopia, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
: Fragments Americana (curated by Hedi Slimane), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
: Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
: Art In The City, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
: THE WAY IT WASN'T, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
: Tableaux, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
: The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part 1, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
: ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger), 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
: The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
: The Language of Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/IL, USA
2011: Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
: After Images (curated by Fionn Meade), Musée Juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
: When Do You See Yourself in Ten Years?, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
: The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
: A Basic Human Impulse, GC.AC, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy
: Mutinity Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
: Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
: The Nice Thing About Castillo/Corrales..., castillo/corrales, Paris, France
: Les Sculptures Meurent Aussi, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
: Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
: Box With The Sound Of Its Own Making, Western Bridge, Seattle/WA, USA
: Rehabilitation, WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
: Displaced Fractures – Über die Bruchlinien in Architekturen und ihren Körpern, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
: Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo & Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
: The Way It Wasn’t (Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis/MN, USA
: One of My Best Comes, Parc St Leger - Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Pougues-les-Eaux, France (solo)
: My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York/NY, USA (solo)
: Oscar Tuazon, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
: My Mistake, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain (solo)
: Sex, Jonathan Viner, London, Great Britain (solo)
2010: Sex Booze Weed Speed, (with Garder Eide Einarsson), Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
: Art Public (with Balice Hertling/Standard (Oslo)), Art41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
: Wood, Maccarone, New York/NY, USA
: Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
: I was a Stranger, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
: Mirrors (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), MARCO, Vigo, Spain
: L’image Cabrée, 11? Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
: Utopie et Quotidiennete, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
: Sauvagerie Domestique, Galerie Eduard-Manet, Genevilliers, France
: Use It For What It’s Used For (with Eli Hansen), Temporary Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York/NY, USA
: Free As Air And Water, Cooper Union Houghton Gallery, New York/NY, USA
: Of Vagrant Dwellers in the Houseless Woods (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Or Gallery, Vancouver/BC, Canada
: LMCC Sculpture Park, New York/NY, USA
: Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, castillo/corrales, Paris
: Prix Ricard, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
: Display With Sound, IPS, Birmingham, Great Britain
: Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
: F.T.W., Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: That’s Not Made For That, David Roberts Foundation, London, Great Britain (solo)
2009: Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre internationale d’art et du paysage Ile de la Vassivière, France (solo)
: Untitled (Leave Me Be), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway (solo)
: Evento, Bordeaux, France
: Insiders : praqtiques, usage, savoir-faire, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
: Ass To Mouth, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (solo)
: Transformational Grammar, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
: Suddenly : Where We Live Now, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland/OR, USA
: The Station (curated by Shamim Momin), Miami/FL, USA
: Rendez-Vous Nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
: Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Reed College, Portland/OR, USA
: Group show, Dependance, Brussels, Belgium
: Sack of Bones (Los Angeles), Peres Projects, Los Angeles/CA, USA
: You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle/WA, USA
: This World’s Just Not Real To Me (with Eli Hansen), Howard House, Seattle/WA, USA (solo)
: Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner / Fortescue Avenue, London, Great Britain (solo)
: Kodiak (with Eli Hansen), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle/WA, USA (solo)
: A Vow of Poverty, Maccarone, New York/NY, USA (solo)
: Sommerakademie, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Switzerland
: Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island/NY, USA
: September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2008: Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis/MO, USA
: Documenta 12 Magazine Projects, under the auspices of Metronome, Kassel, Germany
: Voluntary Non vulnerable (with Eli Hansen), Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver/BC, Canada (solo)
: Oscar Tuazon / Mike Freeman, Castillo / Corrales Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
: Exposition N°1, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
: Where I Lived And What I Lived For, Module, Palais the Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
2007: A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
: I'd Rather Be Gone, Standart (OSLO), Oslo, Norway (solo)
: The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
: Metronome no. 10, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland/OR, USA
: Living Underground, Siuslaw National Forest/OR, USA
: for Death, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
: Minotaur Blood, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London, Great Britain
: Down By Law, The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
: Just Move On, project for CLUI Wendover, Wendover/UT, USA
2006: The Elementary Particles (The Paperback Edition), Standart (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
: An Open Operation, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scottland
2005: Secret Room, Kanazawa, Japan
: Baroque Geode, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles/CA, USA
: Bridges, University of Colorado, Denver/CO, USA
: Adaptations, with Richard Fischbeck, Apex Art, New York/NY, USA
: The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York/NY, USA
: Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton/NJ, USA
: Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago/IL, USA
: Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York/NY, USA
: Adaptations, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
: Human, Fucking Human, Lofoten International Art Festival, Bergen, Norway
: Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany and Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
2004: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York/NY, USA
: Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York/NY, USA
: City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York/NY, USA
: Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apex Art, New York/NY, USA
: Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
: Whitney Independent Study Program, with Bea Schlingelhoff, New York/NY, USA
: Whitney Independent Study Program, Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York/NY, USA
: Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York/NY, USA
: 24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, Slovenia
2003: Wight Biennial, with Richard Fischbeck, UCLA, Los Angeles/CA, USA
: Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York/NY, USA
2002: STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, Great Britain
: Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York/NY, USA
: Museum of the White Man, New York and Suquamish/WA, USA
: Landlords Instant Cash!, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York/NY, USA
2001: Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York/NY, USA
: Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York/NY, USA

Literature

2012: Oscar Tuazon: 'Working Drawing', Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève
2011: Oscar Tuazon: 'DIE', Hrsg. Rachel Bohan, The Power Station, Dallas, TX
: Parkett Art, Issue 89, October, pp.
: Oscar Tuazon: 'Making Books', in The Social ife of the Book, Hrsg. castillo/corrales, Paraguay Press, Paris
: Mousse Magazine #24, Summer Issue, Milan, p. 195
: 'Oscar Tuazon & Eli Hansen', in Palais no. 12, Palais de Tokyo, CNAP, Paris, p. 60
: Mike Freeman: 'Oscar Tuazon', in Dynasty, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Arc, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
: Paul Bernard: 'Oscar Tuazon - Ass to Mouth, Balice Hertling', Paris, in Frog, no. 9, pp. 66-69
: Jodi Willie, Adam Parfrey: 'devil may care' (Interview), in Paris LA, Issue 5, pp.72-78
: Philippe Pirotte: 'Oscar Tuazon's Abstract Violence', in The ICA's Magazine, Issue 6, pp. 6-10
2010: Julian Rose: 'Structural Tension', in Artforum International, October, pp. 218-225
: Oscar Tuazon, Thomas Boutoux, Pierre-François Letué, Dorotheé Perret: 'Oscar Tuazon – I can’t see', Do.Pe. Press/Paraguay Press, Paris.
2009: Vitamin 3D, Phaidon Press.
: 'The Artist's Art', in Artforum International, December
: Interview with Francesca di Nardo, in Mousse Magazine, December/January
2004: Roberta Smith: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, in The New York Times, Aug 13
: Howard Halle: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, in Time Out, New York
: Holland Cotter: Adaptations, in The New York Times, Jan 30
: Department of Art, UCLA Holland Cotter: Body and the Archive, in The New York Times, Feb. 14
2003: Sculpture Forever, in Flash Art International, August
: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow: Exhibit Visits Urban Renewal’s 'Scenes of Crime', Metropolis, October
: Kirsten Everberg: After the Utopian Reflex, The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalogue
2002: Carly Berwick, Damon Rich: Civic Boosters, Metropolis, February