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Oscar Tuazon

Oscar Tuazon (né Hansen) is an American artist based in Los Angeles who works in sculpture, architecture, and mixed media.

Early life

Oscar Tuazon was born as Oscar Hansen on July 9, 1975, in Indianola in Kitsap County, Washington. His brother is Elias Hansen, he is an artist and a frequent art collaborator.

He attended Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California, the Cooper Union in New York City, and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City.

In 2001 he served as a founding board member at the Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York with his former Deep Springs classmate Damon Rich.

Oscar met and married artist Lan Tuazon in New York City in the mid-90s, and changed his name from Oscar Hansen to Oscar Tuazon. The couple would later be divorced, but he kept the last name.

Career

Professionally, he began his career working in the Studio Acconci of architect and 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's.

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[ting] Mr. Acconci's robust ego against Mr. Tuazon's raw and fragile subjectivity."

Oscar Tuazon is represented by galerie dépendance, Morán Morán, Luhring Augustine, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, and Galerie Chantal Crousel.

Personal life

In 2013, he moved from France to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles with his three children and wife Dorothée Perret, a former editor at Purple Magazine, who now helms the art magazine "Paris, LA."

Exhibitions

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 Elias Hansen), Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver
2008
  • Kodiak (with Elias Hansen), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
  • Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner, London
  • This World’s Just Not Real To Me (with Elias Hansen), Howard House, Seattle
2009
  • Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière, France
  • Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany- Ass 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, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
  • My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York City
  • One of My Best Comes, Parc St 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 City
  • ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
2012
  • Shaman/Showman (with Karl Holmqvist), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
  • Scott Burton, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
  • Manual Labor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
  • Action, Jonathan Viner, London
  • 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
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, Zürich
  • Oh Brother, Maccarone, New York City
2016
2017
  • Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster
2018
  • Oscar Tuazon, Luhring Augustine, New York City
2021
  • People, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York City
2023
  • Water School, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
  • Building, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur
2024
  • Words for Water, fjk3, Vienna
  • Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Morán Morán, Los Angeles
2025
  • What Trees Need, Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
  • Written on Water, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Prizes

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