BIOGRAPHY
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| OSCAR TUAZON | |
| 1975 | Born in Seattle, DC |
| Lives and works in Paris, F and Tacoma, DC | |
| Education | |
| 1995 | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY |
| 2001 | Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Program/Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture/Urban Studies Program, New York, NY |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Shaman/Showman, Karl Holmqvist – Oscar Tuazon, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, F |
| Scott Burton, by Oscar Tuazon, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, I | |
| Manual Labor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH | |
| Action, Jonathan Viner, London, UK | |
| We're just in it for Money(with Elias Hansen), Balice Hertling, Paris, F | |
| Oscar Tuazon, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva, CH | |
| 2011 | Die, The Power Station (Aldon Pinnell), Dallas, TX |
| STEEL, PRESSURE-TREATED WOOD, OAK POST, OFFICE CHAIR, INDUCTION STOVETOP, ALUMINUM, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, N | |
| America is my Woman, Maccarone, New York, NY | |
| 2010 | Sex Booze Weed Speed, (with Garder Eide Einarsson), Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, J |
| Sex, Jonathan Viner, London, UK | |
| My Mistake, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK | |
| Oscar Tuazon, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH | |
| My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York, NY | |
| One of My Best Comes, Parc St Leger - Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Pougues-les-Eaux, F | |
| 2009 | Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre internationale d’art et du paysage Ile de la Vassivière, F |
| Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, D | |
| F.T.W., Dépendance, Brussels, B | |
| That’s Not Made For That, David Roberts Foundation, London, UK | |
| Ass To Mouth, Balice Hertling, Paris, F | |
| Untitled (Leave Me Be), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, N | |
| Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, N | |
| 2008 | A Vow of Poverty, Maccarone, New York, NY |
| Kodiak (with Eli Hansen), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, DC | |
| Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner / Fortescue Avenue, London, UK | |
| This World’s Just Not Real To Me (with Eli Hansen), Howard House, Seattle, DC | |
| 2007 | Where I Lived And What I Lived For, Module, Palais the Tokyo, Paris, F |
| I'd Rather Be Gone, Standart (OSLO), Oslo, N | |
| Oscar Tuazon, Mike Freeman, Castillo, Corrales Gallery, Paris, F | |
| Voluntary Non vulnerable (with Eli Hansen), Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver, CDN | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Nina Beier, Berry Patten, Pamela Rosenkranz, Oscar Tuazon and Emily Wardwill: Deliquesce, curated by Emma Astner and Laura McLean-Ferris, Jonathan Viner, London, UK |
| Deftig Barock, Von Cattelan bs Zurbaràn, Manifeste des prekär Vitalen, (curated by Bice Curiger) Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH | |
| Art and the City, Ein Festival für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Zurich, CH | |
| Heart in Hand, Swiss Institute, New York, NY | |
| Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Winston-Salem, NC | |
| Into the Corner, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, D | |
| 2011 | Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH |
| The Language of Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL | |
| The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, D | |
| ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger), 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, I | |
| The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part 1, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | |
| Tableaux, Le Magasin, Grenoble, F | |
| THE WAY IT WASN'T, Culturgest, Porto, P | |
| After Images (curated by Fionn Meade), Musée Juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, B | |
| Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, I | |
| Fragments Americana (curated by Hedi Slimane), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, B | |
| Dystopia, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, F | |
| Art In The City, Art Brussels, Brussels, B | |
| Under Construction, SAKS, Geneva, CH | |
| Light In Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington, DC | |
| Poste Restante (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Artspeak, Vancouver, CDN | |
| You and Now, Balice Hertling, Paris, F | |
| 2010 | Displaced Fractures – Über die Bruchlinien in Architekturen und ihren Körpern, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH |
| The Way It Wasn’t (Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN | |
| Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo & Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, F | |
| Art Public (with Balice Hertling/Standard (Oslo)), Art41 Basel, Basel, CH | |
| Rehabilitation, WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, B | |
| Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Foundation, Moscow, RUS | |
| When Do You See Yourself in Ten Years?, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, N | |
| The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, I | |
| A Basic Human Impulse, GC.AC, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, I | |
| Mutinity Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, I | |
| Box With The Sound Of Its Own Making, Western Bridge, Seattle, DC | |
| The Nice Thing About Castillo/Corrales..., castillo/corrales, Paris, F | |
| Les Sculptures Meurent Aussi, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, F | |
| Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, F | |
| 2009 | Evento, Bordeaux, F |
| Insiders : praqtiques, usage, savoir-faire, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, F | |
| Prix Ricard, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, F | |
| Display With Sound, IPS, Birmingham, UK | |
| LMCC Sculpture Park, New York, NY | |
| Free As Air And Water, Cooper Union Houghton Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Wood, Maccarone, New York, NY | |
| Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris, F | |
| I was a Stranger, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, D | |
| Mirrors (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), MARCO, Vigo, E | |
| Of Vagrant Dwellers in the Houseless Woods (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Or Gallery, Vancouver/BC, CDN | |
| Utopie et Quotidiennete, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Geneva, CH | |
| Sauvagerie Domestique, Galerie Eduard-Manet, Genevilliers, F | |
| Use It For What It’s Used For (with Eli Hansen), Temporary Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY | |
| L’image Cabrée, 11? Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, F | |
| Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, castillo/corrales, Paris, F | |
| 2008 | Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO |
| September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, D | |
| Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island, NY | |
| Sommerakademie, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, CH | |
| You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle, DC | |
| Transformational Grammar, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, I | |
| Sack of Bones (Los Angeles), Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Group show, Dependance, Brussels, B | |
| Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Reed College, Portland, OR | |
| Rendez-Vous Nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, E | |
| The Station (curated by Shamim Momin), Miami, FL | |
| Suddenly : Where We Live Now, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| 2007 | A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH |
| Exposition N°1, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, F | |
| Documenta 12 Magazine Projects, under the auspices of Metronome, Kassel, D | |
| 2006 | The Elementary Particles (The Paperback Edition), Standart (OSLO), Oslo, N |
| Minotaur Blood, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London, UK | |
| Just Move On, project for CLUI Wendover, Wendover, UT | |
| Down By Law, The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| An Open Operation, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, GB | |
| for Death, Halle 14, Leipzig, D | |
| The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Weimar, D | |
| Metronome no. 10, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR | |
| Living Underground, Siuslaw National Forest, OR | |
| 2005 | Secret Room, Kanazawa, J |
| Baroque Geode, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Bridges, University of Colorado, Denver, CO | |
| 2004 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, NY |
| Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany and Halle 14, Leipzig, D | |
| Human, Fucking Human, Lofoten International Art Festival, Bergen, N | |
| Adaptations, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel, D | |
| Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY | |
| Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago, IL | |
| Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ | |
| The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY | |
| Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York, NY | |
| Adaptations, with Richard Fischbeck, Apex Art, New York, NY | |
| 2003 | Wight Biennial, with Richard Fischbeck, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, SLO | |
| Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY | |
| Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York, NY | |
| Whitney Independent Study Program, Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York, NY | |
| Whitney Independent Study Program, with Bea Schlingelhoff, New York, NY | |
| Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein Munich, D | |
| Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apex Art, New York, NY | |
| City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York, NY | |
| Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, A | |
| 2002 | STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK |
| Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY | |
| Museum of the White Man, New York and Suquamish, WA | |
| 2001 | Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY |
| Landlords Instant Cash!, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY | |
| Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY | |
| Special Projects | |
| 2009 | Vonu, artist edition with May Revue, Paris, F |
| 2005 | Downlow, Metronome, Paris, F |
| 2004 | An Introduction to the Randome, Bridges Mathematical Conference Proceedings, H |
| 2003 | What is a Tool?, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Cabin Magazine 03, Kent Institute of Art, UK |
| Planning Alternative Space, RepublicArt.net | |
| Guerilla War in the USA, 1965-70, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York, NY |
| Refuse to be Burnt Out, UKS Forum for Samtidkust #2/3/4: Architecture, Oslo, RUS | |
| DomeHome, New York, NY | |
| Empire Within, Everything Magazine, London, UK | |
| 1999 | KYGL Guide to Urban Objects, Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York, NY |
