Oscar Tuazon

Education

A native of Seattle, he attended Deep Springs College, Cooper Union, and the Whitney Independent Study Program.

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"son

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 Mr.

Acconci"s robust ego against Mr. Tuazon"s raw and fragile subjectivity."

2007

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 Maine (with Eli Hansen), Howard House, Seattle

2009

Bend lieutenant Till lieutenant Breaks, Centre international d"art et du paysage de Vassivière (France)

Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, GermanyAss 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, International Cooperation Administration, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York

One of My Best Comes, Parc Street 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.

Achievements

• Nominated for the Prix Fondation d"entreprise Ricard in 2009.