Background
Osorio, Pepon was born in 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
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Pepon Osorio
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Student, University Inter-America, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1974. Bachelor of Science, Herbert H. Lehman College, 1978. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1985.
Career
Artist-in-residence El Museo del Barrio, New York City, 1989—1991, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Park Avenue Shelter Homeless Women, Artist/Homless Shelter, New York City, 1993, Museum Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1993, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1994, Center Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, 1996, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh. Artist in residence department visual arts Rutgers University, Center Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1998. Visiting artist department visual arts Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1995, Temple University, Tyler School Arts, Philadelphia, 1996.
Visiting artist Skowhegan (Maine) School Painting and Sculpture, 1998, University Hawaii, Honolulu, 1998. Visiting artist department fine public art California State University at Monterey, 1996. Visiting faculty Rhode Island School Design, Providence, 1993, Cleveland Art Institute, 1993.
Member advisory board Performance Space 122, New York City, 1989—1993, The New Museum, New York City, 1996—1998, Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños at Hunter College, New York City, 1996—1998. Lecturer in field.
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Puerto Rican
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Recipient New York Dance and Performance award, 1985, Louis Tiffany Comfort award, 1993, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Residency award, The Fabric Workshop, 1996, International Association of Art Critics award, 1996. Fellow Sculpture fellow, National Endowment Arts, 1988, Artist fellow in sculpture, New York Foundation Arts, 1988, 1995, Intercultural Film/Video fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, 1993, Artist's fellow, Joan Mitchell Foundation, 1996-1997, MacArthur fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1999. Krasner Pollack Foundation fellow, Theater Communications Group and National Endowment Arts fellow, 1990.Recipient New York Dance and Performance award, 1985, Louis Tiffany Comfort award, 1993, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Residency award, The Fabric Workshop, 1996, International Association of Art Critics award, 1996. Fellow Sculpture fellow, National Endowment Arts, 1988, Artist fellow in sculpture, New York Foundation Arts, 1988, 1995, Intercultural Film/Video fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, 1993, Artist's fellow, Joan Mitchell Foundation, 1996-1997, MacArthur fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1999. Krasner Pollack Foundation fellow, Theater Communications Group and National Endowment Arts fellow, 1990.