OSCAR TUAZON
( biography ) ( works )
Born 1975, Seattle, Washington
Lives and works in Paris
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Die, Power Station, Dallas
2010 Sex Booze Weed Speed (with Garder Eide Einarsson), Rat Hole Gallery, Japan
Sex, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
My Mistake, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Oscar Tuazon, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York
One of My Best Comes, Parc St. Leger, France
2009 Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre internationale d’art et du paysage Ile de la Vassivière, France
Against Nature, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
F.T.W., Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
That’s Not Made For That, David Roberts Foundation, London
ASS TO MOUTH, Balice Hertling, Paris
Untitled (Leave Me Be), Standard, Oslo
I Was A Stranger, “Berlin-Paris”, Balice Hertling with Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
2008 Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner / Fortescue Avenue, London
A Vow of Poverty, Maccarone, New York
Kodiak (with Eli Hansen), Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington
This World’s Just Not Real To Me (with Eli Hansen), Howard House, Seattle, Washington
2007 Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Module Palais de Tokyo, Paris
I’d Rather Be Gone, Standard, Oslo
Oscar Tuazon / Mike Freeman, castillo/corrales, Paris
Voluntary NOn vUlnerable (with Eli Hansen), Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2011 The Language of Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger), 54th Venice Biennial, Venice
Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Fragments Americana (curated by Heidi Slimane), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
The Art of Narration Changes With Time, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin
After Images (curated by Fionn Meade), Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Dystopia, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Art In The City, Art Brussels, Brussels
Under Construction, SAKS, Geneva
Light In Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
Poste Restante (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Artspeak, Vancouver
Tableaux, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
You and Now, Balice Hertling, Paris
2010 Displaced Fractures, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartkunst, Zurich
The Way It Wasn’t (Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo & Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Art Public (with Balice Hertling / Standard Oslo), Art41 Basel, Basel
Rehabilitation, WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Foundation Moscow
When Do You See Yourself in Ten Years?, Standard (Oslo), Oslo
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
Box With The Sound Of Its Own Making, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
The Nice Thing About Castillo/Corrales..., castillo/corrales, Paris
Les Sculptures Meurent Aussi, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2009 Wood, Maccarone, New York
Of Vagrant Dwellers in the Houseless Woods (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Or Gallery, Vancouver
Utopie et Quotidiennete, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Geneva
Genneriello, Balice Hertling, Paris
Sauvagerie Domestique, Galerie Eduard-Manet, Genevilliers, France
Free As Air and Water, Cooper Union, New York
Use It For What It’s Used For (with Eli Hansen), Temporary Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
L’image Cabrée, 11? Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
Display with Sound, IPS, Birmingham, UK
Evento, Bordeaux, France
Insiders : praqtiques, usage, savoir-faire, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, castillo/corrales, Paris
Mirrors (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), MARCO, Vigo. Spain
2008 Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri
September Show, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
Rendez-Vous Nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
The Station (curated by Shamim Momin), Miami, Florida
Sack of Bones (Los Angeles), Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Sommerakademie, Paul Klee Zerntrum, Bern
Suddenly : Where We Live Now, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2007 A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
We Have Never Met Before [...], Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Exposition N°1, Balice Hertling, Paris
Documenta 12 Magazine Projects, under the auspices of Metronome, Kassel, Germany
2006 The Elementary Particles (The Paperback Edition), Standard, Oslo
Minotaur Blood, Fortescue Avenue/Johnathan Viner, London
Just Move On, project for CLUI Wendover, Wendover, Utah
Down By Law, The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
An Open Operation, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
For Death, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Metronome no. 10, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Living Underground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
2005 Secret Room, Kanazawa, Japan
Baroque Geode, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles
Bridges, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
2004 Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, New York
Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany and “Halle 14”, Leipzig, Germany
Human, Fucking Human, Lofoten International Art Festival, Bergen, Norway
Adaptations, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago
Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Princeton School of Architecture, New Jersey
The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York
Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York
Adaptations, with Richard Fischbeck, Apex Art, New York
Wight Biennial, with Richard Fischbeck, UCLA, Los Angeles
24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2003 Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program, Galapagos, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program (with Bea Schlingelhoff), New York
Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein, Münich
Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apex Art, New York
City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York
Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2002 STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
Museum of the White Man, New York / Suquamish, Washington
2001 Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York
Landlords Instant Cash!, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York
EDUCATION
2002-03 Program/Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture/Urban Studies Program, New York
2001-03 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York
1995-99 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
PUBLISHED PROJECTS
2009 “vonu”, artist edition with May Revue, Paris
2005 “Downlow”, Metronome, Paris
2004 “An Introduction to the Randome”, Bridges Mathematical Conference Proceedings, Hungary
2003 “What is a Tool?”, Cabin Magazine 03, Kent Institute of Art, England (with Gardar Eide Einarsson)
“Planning Alternative Space”, RepublicArt.net
“Guerilla War in the USA, 1965-70”, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, New York
2002 “City Without a Ghetto”, Artists Space, New York
“Refuse to be Burnt Out”, UKS Forum for Samtidkust #2/3/4: Architecture, Oslo
“DomeHome”, New York
“Empire Within”, Everything Magazine, London
1999 “KYGL Guide to Urban Objects”, Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Structural Tension, by Julian Rose, in Artforum, December
Artist of the week 98 : Oscar Tuazon, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian, July
«Oscar Tuazon» by Mike Freeman in Dynasty, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Arc, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
«Oscar Tuaon & Eli Hansen», in Palais, n°12, Palais de Tokyo, CNAP, Paris
«Oscar Tuazon, points de rupture» by Richard Leydier, in Art Press, n°369, Paris
Flash Art by Sonia Campagnola
«Art in Review», by Karen Rosenberg, in New York Times
2009 The Artist’s Artist, Artforum, December
Frog, by Julien Fronsacq
Frieze, by Vivian Rehberg
Art in America, by Vivian Rehberg
Liberation
Vitamin 3D, Phaidon Press.
Les Inrockuptibles, by Claire Moulène, September
Les Inrockuptibles, by Jean Max Colard, September
Mousse Magazine, Interview with Francesca di Nardo. January
2008 Modern Painters, Oscar Tuazon + Gardar Eide Einarsson, December
Beaux Arts, Stéphanie Mosidon,
Paris,L.A. , Interview with Dennis Cooper, November
2007 Numéro, Interview with Nicolas Tremblay, October
2004 “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, Aug 13
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, Howard Halle, Time Out New York
“Adaptations”, Craig Buckley, Adaptations Catalogue, ApexArt, New York
“Adaptations”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Jan 30
2003 “Sculpture Forever”, Flash Art International, Aug.
“Exhibit Visits Urban Renewal’s ‘Scenes of Crime’”, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Metropolis, Oct.
“After the Utopian Refl ex”, Kirsten Everberg, The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalogue,
Department of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles
2003 “Body and the Archive”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Feb 14
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