OSCAR TUAZON
( biography ) ( works )
1975, Seattle, Washington
Lives and works in Paris and Tacoma
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
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Kunsthalle, Bern
Parc St Leger - Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
2009 Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart
Centre international d'art et du paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, France
Dependance, Brussels
David Roberts Foundation, London
Ass To Mouth, BaliceHerting, Paris
Standard, Oslo
2008 Michele Maccarone, New York
Kodiak, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Dirty Work, Jonatha Viner/Fortesqua Avenue, London
Oscar Tuazon, Howard House, Seattle
2007 Where I Lived And What I Lived For, Module, Palais the 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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2009 Evento, CAPC, Bordeaux
Prix Ricard, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
Display With Sound, IPS, Birmingham
LMCC Sculpture Park, New York
Free As Air And Water, Cooper Union Houghton Gallery, New York
Wood, Maccarone, New York
Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris
I was a Stranger, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Mirrors, Marco, Vigo. Spain. Curated by Gyonata Bonvicini.
2008 September Show,
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect,
Sculpture Center, Long Island
Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern
You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle
Transformational Grammar, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Sack of Bones (Los Angeles), Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Group show, Dependance, Brussels
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Reed College, Portland
Kunsthalle, St. Gallen
2007 Exposition N°1, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris
Documenta 12 Magazine Projects, under the auspices of Metronome, Kassel
Compound Values Affirming Denial, STANDARD, Oslo / Art Rotterdam
Hello Goodbye Thank You,
castillo/corrales, Paris
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
for Death, Halle 14, Leipzig
The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Weimar
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
Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany and “Halle 14”, Leipzig, Germany
Human, Fucking Human, Lofoten International Art Festival, Bergen, Norway
Adaptations, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel
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, Princeton, New Jersey
The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York
Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York
Adaptations, with Richard Fischbeck, Apex Art, New York, New York
2003 Wight Biennial, with Richard Fischbeck, UCLA, Los Angeles
24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program, Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program, with Bea Schlingelhoff, New York
Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apex Art, New York
City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York, New York
Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2002 STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
Museum of the White Man, New York and Suquamish, Washington
2001 Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Landlords Instant Cash!, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York
Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York
PUBLISHED PROJECTS
2005 "Downlow", Metronome, Paris
2004 "An Introduction to the Randome", Bridges Mathematical Conference Proceedings, Hungary
2003 "What is a Tool?", with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Cabin Magazine 03, Kent Institute of Art, England
"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
2009 Vitamin 3D, Phaidon Press.
Interview with Francesca di Nardo, Mousse Magazine, December/January
2004 Roberta Smith, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, The New York Times, Aug 13
Howard Halle, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, Time Out, New York
Holland Cotter, “Adaptations”, The New York Times, Jan 30
2003 “Sculpture Forever”, 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, Department of Art, UCLA
Holland Cotter, “Body and the Archive”, The New York Times, Feb. 14
2002 Carly Berwick, Damon Rich, “Civic Boosters”, Metropolis, February
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