Born 1975, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Selected Press

Purple Fashion, “Oscar Tuazon: On Art and Political Resistance”, Caroline Gaimari, 2017
Parkett
, A Palpable Miss, Philippe Pirotte, October 2011

Education

2003

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Architecture/Urban Studies Program, New York, NY
Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture/Urban Studies Program, New York, NY

2002

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study, Studio Program, New York, NY

1999

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

1994

Deep Springs College, Big Pine, California

Residencies/teaching

2010

Artist in Residence, Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK

2009

Critic in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Beijing, China
The Feral, Limousin, France
Words for Water, Franz Josef Kai 3 Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2023

What We Need, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Building, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Water School, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

2021

PEOPLE, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA
L'École de l'eau, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

2019

Bonfire, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Oscar Hansen, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Fire Worship, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Collaborator, Bellvue Arts Museum, Bellvue, Washington, USA
Oscar Tuazon: Water School, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

2018

Oscar Tuazon, Geneva Biennale, Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennale, Parc Des Eaux-Vives, Geneva
Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom
Luhring Augustine, New York, USAThe Artist is Present, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

2017

UNE COLONNE D’EAU, part of Fiac 2017| Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris, France
Building Fire, Radio Athènes, Athens, Greece
See Through, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

2016

Oscar Tuazon: Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Shelters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
General Contractor, dépendence, Brussels, Belgium
Un Pont Sans Fin, Nouveaux Commanditaires, Belfort, France
Zome Alloy, Art Basel, Messeplatz, Basel, Switzerland

2015

Break the Glass, Kastro, Antiparos, Greece
Oscar Tuazon, T-Space, Rhinebeck, New York
This Won’t Take Long, Paradise Garage, Los Angeles, California
Studio, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

2014

Partners (Platform 15), deCordova Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Alone In An Empty Room, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
I Never Learn, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
A Home, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland

2013

Sensory Spaces 1, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Spasms of Misuse, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2012

People, Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY
Scott Burton, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
Action, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Manual Labor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Working Drawing, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Towards a Vernacular Architecture, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland

2011

America is my Woman, Maccarone, New York, NY
Steel, Pressure-Treated Wood, Oak Post, Office Chair, Induction Stovetop, Aluminum, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Die, The Power Station, Dallas, Texas

2010

Oscar Tuazon, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
My Mistake, ICA, London, United Kingdom
My Flesh to your Bare Bones, Maccarone, New York, NY
Sex, Jonathan Viner, London, United Kingdom

2009

Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre international d’art et du paysage, Île de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-lac, France
Ass To Mouth, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
That’s Not Made for That, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Untitled (Leave Me Be), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
I Was A Stranger, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
F.T.W., dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2008

A Vow of Poverty, Maccarone, New York, NY
Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner, London, United Kingdom

2007

Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
I’d Rather Be Gone, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Mike Freeman, castillo / corrales, Paris, France

Two Person Exhibitions

2022

Water Language, Oscar Tuazon and Shanai Matteson, Cibrián Gallery, San Sebastián, Spain

2018

Oscar Tuazon and Banks Violette (collection display), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

2017

Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom

2016

Ariana Reines and Oscar Tuazon: Pubic Space, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, United Kingdom

2014

Oh Brother, with Eli Hansen, Maccarone, New York, NY
Black Earth: Andreas Fogarasi / Oscar Tuazon, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, California

2012

We’re Just in It for the Money, with Elias Hansen, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Shaman/Showman, with Karl Holmqvist, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

2010

It Was One of My Best Comes, with Eli Hansen, Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
Sex Booze Weed Speed, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Rat Hole, Tokyo, Japan

2009

Use It For What It’s For, with Elias Hansen, Temporary Sculpture Park, New York, NY

2008

Kodiak, with Eli Hansen, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
This World’s Just Not Real to Me, with Eli Hansen, Howard House, Seattle, Washington
Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

2007

VOluntary Non vUlnerable, with Eli Hansen, Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2003

Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apexart, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2024

Interconnected Landscapes, Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Ocean Space (in partnership with Olson Kundig architects), Biennale, Venice, Italy
Composition for the Left Hand, Kode Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway

2023

Noor Riyadh Festival 2023: The Bright Side of the Desert Moon, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

La Cinquième Saison, Paris+, Art Basel, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London, UK
Transformations - Works From The Collection Of The Cooperative Mobilière, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Ir, Ir, Ir, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway

Building, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2022

Water by Design, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
Eclettica!, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Sculptures, Eva Presenhuber, New York, USA
Variations pour souterrains - Sors de ta réserve #3, Les Réserves, Romainville, France
Je suis la chaise, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Radiator, 019, Ghent, Belgium
Nature Doesn't Know About Us, Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Earthing, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Building and Dream, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
To Have Lost Something Unknown, Something Unguessable, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway

2021

Marble Moon, Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France
Land Art: Expanding the Atlas, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA
Blanc International Contemporary Art Space, Blanc International Contemporary Art Space, Beijing, China
Though it’s dark, still I sing, 34th Bienal de São Paulo 2021, São Paulo, Brazil (C)

2020

ALL IN ONE, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Ups & Downs – 15 Years of STANDARD (OSLO), Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway

2019

Foncteur d’oubli, FRAC – Ile-de-France – Le Plateau, Paris, France
Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA
In Plain Sight, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Washington, USA

2018

Lost Without Your Rhythm, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Sperm Cult, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, USA
General Rehearsal, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Geneva Biennale, Sculpture Garden, Parc Des Eaux-Vives, Geneva, Switzerland
She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales
Smooth Transitions, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Sculpture, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, NY, USA
Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon and Michael Williams, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Language: Art for Leonard Peltier, LAWS, Los Angeles Water School, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jay DeFeo, The Ripple Effect, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France (touring) Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado, USA (C)
Odradek, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

2017

Contemporary Art (collection display), Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
The Simple Life – Simply Life, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
MAXXI RE-EVOLUTION, MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Skulptur Projekte Münster, curated by Kasper König, Britta Peters, and Marianne Wagner, Münster, Germany
Indian Water, curated by Alessandro Possati, Ca’ Bembo, Venice, Italy
Urban Planning: Art and the City 1967-2017, curated by Kelly Shindler, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
The Transported Man, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The Queen Falls, curated by Anissa Touati and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Gallería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2016

The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France
Exquisite Corpse, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, California
Les Possédés, Frische La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Paper in Practice, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, California
Bea Schlingelhoff at Corner Door, Paramount Ranch, Agoura Hills, California
Sculpture on the Move, 1946 – 2016, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Paris – Bruxelles, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2015

Desire of the Other, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom
dépendance | Opposite the Other Side, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Second Autumn, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland
Andy Warhol sul comò, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
Dredgers on the Rail, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Borders, 5th Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Oostende, Belgium
Robert Overby, Oscar Tuazon, Marie Angeletti , Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Reads Like a Book, Cricoteka, Krakow, Poland

2014

Chez Perv, Team Gallery, New York, NY
The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, United Kingdom
Living In The Material World, Haus Lange and Haus Esters museum, Krefeld, Germany
The Promise, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
The Motorman, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture Show, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland
SPACE, Viana Art, New York, NY

2013

Anamericana, American Academy in Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy
Alchemy, Jonathan Viner, London, United Kingdom
Standard Escape Routes, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Folk Devil, David Zwirner, New York, NY
The Glass Show, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, United Kingdom
From Triple × to Birdsong (In Search of the Schizophrenic), Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, California
Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Not Yet Titled: New and Forever, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
De leur temps (4) – Nantes, Centre d’Art Le Hangar á Bananes, Nantes, France
Hello Goodbye Thank you, Again, And Again, And Again, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Le Pont, Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France
Sea Salt and Cross Passes, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
356 Sculptures, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, California
And Again, And Again, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Summer in Gstaad, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
The Writing is on the Wall, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Haptic Translations, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
Something about a Tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY
Dialogues, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

2012

Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Deftig Barok, Von Cattelan bis Zurbarán, Manifeste des prekär Vitalen, Kunsthaus, Zürich and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada
Sense and Sustanibility, Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, Biscay, Spain
Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Heart to Hand, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Foundation, Miami, Florida
Lost (in L.A.), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Fruits of Passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
If There Would Be A Face, This Would Be A Cat, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Art and the City, Das Festival für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Zürich, Switzerland
Deliquesce, Jonathan Viner, London, United Kingdom
Ab in die Ecke!, Städtishe Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Paperless, Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Bouvard and Péruchet’s Compendious Quest for Beauty, Curator’s series #5, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Surface to Surface, Jonathan Viner, London, United Kingdom
Monochrome, S.A.L.T.S., Birsfelden, Switzerland
New Acquisitions, Kunsthous, Zürich, Switzerland
Into the Corner, Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Oscar Knows Gardar. Gardar Knows Matias. Matias Knows Fredrik. Fredrik Sort Of Knows Gardar. Gardar Knows Marius…, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Surplus Authors, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Deliquesce, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Scott Burton, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy

2011

ILLMInations, 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Language of Less (Then and Now), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Sculpture Now, Eva Presenhuber Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Elias Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Fragments Americana, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Tableaux, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
It’s Great To Be In New Jersey, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
The Medicine Bag, Maccarone, New York, NY
The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part 1, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again and Again, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Books on Books, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Dystopia, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Poste Restante, Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Art In The City, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The Way Is Wasn’t (Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
Light In Darkness, Westernbridge, Seattle, Washington
Under Construction, SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland

2010

Displaced Fractures – Über die Bruchlinien von Architekturen und irhen Köpern, Migros Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
You And Now, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
The Way It Wasn’t (Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
When Do You See Yourself In Ten Years?, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
Dynasty, Musee d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Do, Redo, Undo, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
Perpetual Battles, Balbakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Les Sculptures Meurent Aussi, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France
A Basic Human Impulse, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
The Nice Thing About castillo/corrales…, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Rehabilitation, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
Box With the Sound of Its Own Making, Westernbridge, Seattle, Washington
Munity Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giulani, Rome, Italy

2009

Utopie et Quotidienneté, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Sauvagerie Domestique, Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts – Galerie Edouard Manet, Genevilliers, France
Insiders: pratiques, usages, savoir-faire, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union Houghton Gallery, New York, NY
Display with Sound, International Project Space, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Wood, Maccarone, New York, NY
L’image cabrée, 11e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Of Vagrant Dwellers in the Houseless Woods, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Genneriello, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Evento, Public Art Festival, Bordeaux, France

2008

27 November – 21 January 2009, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Rendez-vous nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York
Suddenly: Where we live now, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Dragged Down into Lowercase, Sommer-akademie, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
Transformational Grammars, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Sack of Bones, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California
September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
We never met before, but it’s with great anticipation of your understanding that I’m writing you and I hope you will in good faith give a deep consideration to my proposal below, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
A Town (Not a City), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Société Anonyme, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Suddenly: Where we live now, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California
Espejos/Mirrors, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporànae, Vigo, Spain
Transformational Grammar, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Entrechambrage horizontal, Galerie Bastide and dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2007

Documenta 12 Magazine, with Metronome, Kassel, Germany
Exposition No. 1, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Hello Goodbye Thank You, castillo/corrales, Paris, France

2006

The Elementary Particles (The Paperback Edition), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Minotaur Blood, Jonathan Viner, London, United Kingdom
Down By Law, The Wrong Gallery at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
An Open Operation, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Die Kultur der Angst/The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Metronome no. 10, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
For Death, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany

2005

Secret Room, Kanazawa, Japan
Baroque Geode, Sundown Salon #19, Los Angeles, California
Bridges, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado

2004

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, NY
Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany
Human, Fucking Human, Lofoten International Art Festival, Bergen, Norway
Adaptationen, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago, and Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ
The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY
Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York, NY
Adaptations, Apexart, New York, NY

2003

Wight Biennial, University of California, Los Angeles, California
24/7, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York, NY
Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York, NY
Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apexart, New York, NY
Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

2002

Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
Museum of the White Man, New York, NY and Suquamish, Washington

2001

Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
LIC: Landlords, Instant Cash!, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY

Public Commisions

2024

DSMLA at Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Seattle Waterfront, Seattle, Washington, USA

2019

Celine Paris Grenelle, Paris, France
Growth Rings, Central Wharf Park, Boston, MA, USA

Audio and Visual Interviews

2014

KunstBewusst-Talk: Oscar Tuazon, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 11 February 2014

2013

Jorge Pardo & Oscar Tuazon, MOCAU, Los Angeles, USA, 23 May 2013

Talks and Events

2024

Artist talk with Peter Sandbichler, fjk3 – Contemporary Art Space, Vienna, Austria

2023

Plattform: Oscar Tuazon in conversation, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (and online)

Colloque Thanks for nothing, Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France

2021

Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic, Expo Chicago, virtual symposium (online)

2020

Seventh Annual ArtBites: Oscar Tuazon, Lauren Taschen & Julia Watson, SF MoMA, San Francisco, USA, 17 January 2020

Publications

2023

Oscar Tuazon: Building, Los Angeles, DoPe Press, 2023

Vinciane Despret, Les morts à l'oeuvre, La Découverte, Paris, France

2020

Diaz, Eva; Tuazon, Oscar; 'Water School', DoPe Press, Co-published by DoPe Press, Los Angeles, with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, USA

2015

Tuazon, Oscar, 'Break the Glass', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

2014

Brohm, Anna; Kaiser, Philipp; Kwon, Miwon; Perret, Dorothée; Ed. Tuazon, Oscar; 'Oscar Tuazon: Volumes 1 & 2: Live', DoPe Press

2011

Eide Einarsson, Gardar; Tuazon, Oscar; 'SexBoozeWeedSpeed', Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010

Tuazon, Oscar; 'I Can't See', Paraguay Press, DoPe Press, Paris, France

Bibliography

2024

Kearns, Sarah, Dover Street Market LA Is Hosting a Pop-Up Shop at the Felix Art Fair, hypebeast.com, 28 February 2024
—–, Dover Street Market LA Joins Felix Art Fair: Exclusive Collaborations Unveiled, bnnbreaking.com, 28 February 2024
—–, Fashion and art are interconnected. These 11 items from Felix X Dover Street Market prove it, latimes.com, 28 February 2024
Westall, Mark, Felix Art Fair + Dover Street Market reveal artist collaborations for debut partnership, fadmagazine.com, 25 February 2024
Durón, Maximilíano, LA’s Felix Art Fair, Dover Street Market Tap David Hammons, KAWS, Sterling Ruby, Lauren Halsey, and More for Collaborative Projects, artnews.com, 20 February 2024

2023

Westall, Mark, Felix LA & Dover Street Market partner-up for 2024, fadmagazine.com, 30 November 2023
Chikhoune, Ryma, EXCLUSIVE: Dover Street Market Teams With Felix Art Fair in L.A. for 2024 Edition, Opening Feb. 28, wwd.com, 30 November 2023
Ghassemitari, Shawn, Dover Street Market Will Partner With Felix Art Fair to Create Joint Installation, hypebeast.com, 30 November 2023
Herbert, Martin, Oscar Tuazon: What we need, Art Monthly, no.470, October 2023
Bülskämper, Jens, Architektur im letzten Hemd, monopol-magazin.de, 4 October 2023
—–, This Week in Culture: Living in a Material World, Cultured, 14 August 2023
Dronen, Live, Oscar Tuazon: Bergen Kunsthall, Artforum, Vol. 61, No. 10, Summer 2023
Moss, Alison, Thanks for Nothing se mobilise pour l’environnement, Le Quotidien de l'Art, N°2604, 9 May 2023, p.4
Télex 26.04, Le Quotidien de l'Art, N°2597, 26 April 2023, p.4
—–, Week in Review: Oscar Tuazon at Bergen Kunsthall, contemporaryartdaily.com, 9 April 2023
Christensen, Susanne, The Future is Taupe, kunstkritikk, 22 March 2023
Giangregorio, Taylor, ALAC Returns to Celebrate its 10th Anniversary, flaunt.com, 20 March 2023
Loho, Petra, Sculptor Oscar Tuazon Radically Deconstructs Architecture, metropolismag.com, 9 March 2023
William Shelton, Chief, Oscar Tuazon über einen FIGURATIVEN HAUSPFOSTEN (um 1912), Monopol, March 2023, p. 24
Bordier, Julien, Le commun des mortels, The Art Newspaper, N°50, March 2023, p.39
Tumyr Nilsen, Torbjørn, Vannskole i Bergen, Arkytektnytt, 14 February 2023
—–, “Building” an exhibition by Oscar Tuazon, purple.fr, 27 January 2023

2022

Yerebakan, Osman Can, Olson Kundig Opens Its First East Coast Office in New York, metropolismag.com, 30 June 2022
Beren James, Reuben, Oscar Tuazon, émergent magazine, N°08, June 2022, p.31-52
Rea, Naomi, What I Buy and Why: Borlem Prize Founder Roberto Toscano Shares Rita Ackermann’s Moving Tribute to His Late Wife, news.artnet.com, 4 April 2022

2021

Bumpus, Jessica, Ceramics Are In Fashion, nytimes.com, 5 April 2021
Burbank, Megan, Meet the Indigenous, all-women team bringing new art to Seattle’s waterfront, seattletimes.com, 26 January 2021
Diner, Eli, Bobby Jesus Launches Post-American Fine Arts, A New Gallery Project in Sydney, culturedmag.com, 17 March 2021
–––, Expo Chicago Announces Schedule And Line Up For Virtual Symposium Of Arts Leaders Confronting Climate Crisis, broadywayworld.com, 13 January 2021
–––, Jay DeFeo, The Ripple Effect, Catalogue Perpétuel, No. 3, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France, May 2021, pp. 157, 174 - 175, 185
–––, São Paulo Bienal Announces Artist List, artforum.com, 27 May 2021
–––, Steven L. Bridges Promoted to Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs of MSU Broad Art Museum, artfixdaily.com, 6 May 2021
–––, The Nevada Museum of Art Commemorates 50 Years of Land Art, hyperallergic.com, 22 June 2021

2020

Clemans, Gayle, Henry Art Gallery exhibition shows why its senior curator is kind of a big deal in the contemporary art world, seattletimes.com, 6 January 2020.
Mehta, Meghna; Tuazon, Oscar, (Interview), Los Angeles Water School by Oscar Tuazon traces how water connects communities, stirworld.com, 18 February 2020.
–––, FOG Design+Art Draws Largest Crowd to Date for Seventh Edition of Fair, artfixdaily.com, 22 January 2020.

2019

A. Miranda, Carolina, Oscar Tuazon’s water and ‘hippie outlaw architecture’ obsessions began with a dome, latimes.com, 21 November 2019.
Allen, Lila, Chicago Architecture Biennial Preview: Rights to Resources, metropolismag.com, 13 September 2019.
Anne Proctor, Rebecca, As part of FIAC Hors les Murs, Kusama transforms the Place Vendôme into a playful vegetable garden, harpersbazaararabia.com, 20 October 2019.
Cascone, Sarah, See Highlights From Art Basel Miami Beach’s New ‘Meridians’ Section, Where the Fair’s Biggest (and Best) Artworks Shine, news.artnet.com, 4 December 2019.
Guthrie, Tessa, Aspen Art Museum unveils four new exhibits, AspenDailyNews.com, 7 June 2019.
Haddad, Natalie, Oscar Tuazon’s ‘Water School’ Targets Pollution and Climate Change, frieze.com, 30 May 2019.
Hawkins, Laura, Style findings: September dispatches from the Wallpaper* fashion team, wallpaper.com, 13 September 2019.
Miranda, Carolina A., Oscar Tuazon’s water and ‘hippie outlaw architecture’ obsessions began with a dome, latimes.com, 21 November 2019.
Needham, Alex, Hedi Slimane gets creative at Celine, theguardian.com, 27 September 2019.
Serafin, Amy, Heidi Slimane’s store designs ramp up retail at Celine, wallpaper.com, 24 May 2019.
Tashjian, Rachel, The Coolest New Gallery Is Your Local Celine Store, gq.com, 8 October 2019.
Teyssou, Charles, Pure Aesthetic Fiction? Hedi Slimane’s Celine Art Project, spikeartmagazine.com, 30 July 2019.
Volner, Ian, Beyond buildings: the expanded vision of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, wallpaper.com, 1 October 2019.
Welsh, Gabrielle, Water School: Oscar Tuazon, theseenjournal.org, 18 April 2019.
–––, A Photo Guide to Boston’s Growing Public Art Scene, bostonmagazine.com, 14 November 2019.
–––, Chicago Architecture Biennial Reveals 2019 Contributors, artforum.com, 23 May 2019.
–––, Bon, Lauren; Tuazon, Oscar, (Interview), Lauren Bon and Oscar Tuazon, bombmagazine.org, 13 March 2019.

2018

Barnes, Andrew, East End exhibitions – five of the best for July 2018, hackneycitizen.co.uk, 3 July 2018.
Cardoza, Kerry, EXPO 2018: Critic’s Picks, art.newcity.com, October 2 2018
Troncy, Eric, Des Hippies De a La Place Vendome, Numero Art, Spring 2018, pp. 132-136.
Zahm, Oliver; Tuazon, Oscar, (Interview), A Sculpture is a Hole in the World, Purple Magazine, Purple 76, Issue #29, Spring/Summer 2018, online: purple.fr, 2018.
–––, Oscar Tuazon, “Fire” at Maureen Paley, London, moussemagazine.it, 24 July 2018.
–––, Must See: Oscar Tuazon, Fire, artforum.com, 7 June 2018.
–––, Oscar Tuazon at Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, blouinartinfo.com, 25 May 2018.
–––, Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect, les presses du reel, May 2018.

2017

Baann Asdal, Kristin, Maureen Paley brings together the work of Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, norwegianarts.org.uk, 15 March 2017.
Bataille, Clovis, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon’s exhibition at Maureen Paley, London, purple.fr, 21 March 2017.
Forrest, Nicholas, FIAC International Art Fair Reveals Tantalizing 2017 Program, blouinartinfo.com, 13 July 2017.
Hegert, Natalie, 10 Outstanding Solo Exhibitions to Experience in London in April,
mutualart.com, 5 April 2017.
Herbert, Martin, Ten Shows to See, artreview.com, 25 February 2017.
Herbert, Martin, Preview, Art Review, March 2017, pp. 37-42.
–––, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon at Maureen Paley, London, blouinartinfo.com, 21 March 2017.
–––, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, mutualart.com, March 2017.
–––, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, wsimag.com, 14 April 2017.
–––, Maureen Paley’s Ten Top Exhibitions, galleriesnow.net, 28 July 2017.

2016

Bürgi, Mendes, Sculpture on the Move 1946 – 2016, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2016, pp. 166/167.
Corbett, R, Six Wild, Western Projects at L.A.’s Least Stuffy Art Fair, The New York Times, January 29 2016.
Dillon, B, Ariana Reines & Oscar Tuazon. Pubic Space, ArtReview, May 2016, p. 108.
Erhard, A, Die Auster auf dem Messeplatz, NZZ, 13 June 2016.
Forrest, N, Oscar Tuazon’s New ‚Zome Alloy’ Installation for Art Basel in Basel 2016, Blouinartinfo, 2 May 2016.
Galerie Chantal Crousel (ed) 2016, Oscar Tuazon. Shelters, exhibition brochure, March 5 – April 16, 2016, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Paris: Galerie Chantal Crousel, 2016.
Jansen, C, Pipe dreams: Oscar Tuazon emulates LA’s aqueducts in his latest body of work, Wallpaper*, 10 February 2016.
Lavin, S, Conversation, www.moca.org, 1 July 2016.
Manthey, S, Sculpture on the Move – Auftakt im erweiterten Kunstmuseum, Kunstbulletin, June 2016, pp. 104/105.
Rosenstock, A, L.A. artist Oscar Tuazon will recreate Steve Baer’s Zome House at Art Basel, The Architects Newspaper, 2 May 2016.
Simon, A, Beatnik-Blobs in Basel, Hochparterre, 13 June 2016.
Subotnick, Ali, Oscar Tuazon. Exhibition Brochure. February 6 – May 15, 2016, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum.
Subotnick, Ali, Hammer Projects: Oscar Tuazon, Hammer UCLA, February 2016.
Tang, J. Oscar Tuazon, Artforum, March 2016.
Teyssou, C, Oscar Tuazon. Chantal Crousel/ Paris, Flash Art, May 2016, p. 100.
Troncy, E, Zoom sur l’artiste Oscar Tuazon à l’occsion de son exposition „Shelters“ à la galerie Chantal Crousel’, Numero 732, March.
–––, Art Basel presents a new installation by Oscar Tuazon this June, artdependence.com, 2 May 2016.
–––, Art Basel will present a new Messeplatz installation by Oscar Tuazon in Basel this June, www.altertuemliches.at, 2 May 2016.
–––, Oscar Tuazon „Shelters“ exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, purple.fr, March 8, 2016.
–––, Une Oeuvre d’Oscar Tuazon au Coeur d’Art Basel, Le Quotidien de l’Art, N. 1057, May 3, p. 4.
–––, Valdoie: L’Artiste Oscar Tuazon a imaginé „Le Point Sans Fin, L’Est Républicain, March 21.
–––, Was, wenn Kunst uns weiterbringt? Kunst & Nachhaltigkeit, vol. 6, Die Mobiliar: Direktion Bern, 2016.

2015

Corsaro, M, Oscar Tuazon: Break the Glass, Art Review, 67(6), September 2015, p.144.
Duroux, X, Oscar Tuazon at Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Daily, 28 April 2015.
Gat, O, Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen: “Oh Brother”, Spike, Number 42, pp. 174-175.
Tillieux, Laure-Anne and Eva Vandepitte, Beaufort Buiten de Grenzen, Beaufort Buiten de Grenzen, 2015, p 19.
Troncy .E, Oscar Tuazon. Frog, Fall/ Winter 2015-16, N15, p.146-151.

2014

Tolley, Stuart, Collector’s Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics, Thames&Hudson, pp. 196-197, 2014.
Brohm, A, Oscar Tuazon: Live. Köln: DoPe Press/ Walther König, 2014.
Franke, A, Oscar Tuazon: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Frieze, May 2014, pp. 132-133.
Morgenroth, R, Oscars Räume, welt.de, 19 February 2014.
–––, Five Questions about Los Angeles. Flash Art, Jan-Feb 2014 (Vol 294), p. 81.
–––, Oscar Tuazon: Alone in an empty Room, opens at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, artdaily.com, 18 February 2014.

2013

Curiger, B, De Cattelan a Zurbán: Barroco exuberante: Manifesto de la precariedad vital Guggenheim Bilbao, Snoeck Verlagsgeselschaft, 2013, pp. 37, 64-65.
Kreuk, Bert und Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Grensverleggend/ Transforming the Known. Collection Bert Kreuk, Den Haag: Gemeentemuseum, 2013, pp. 54-55.
Pardo, J, How To Build a House, Paris,La, Nr.10. August 2013, pp. 38 – 45.
Riedweg, Christoph, Discorsi d’attualità. Dal „postmoderno“ ai nuovi orizzonti della cultura, Rom: Carocci editore, 2013, p. 35.

2012

Besk, G, Oscar Tuazon: Steel, Oak Post, Office Chair, Crash, 62, Winter, 2012.
Blagojevic, Bosko, Social Register: Corresponding with Oscar Tuazon (A’99), cooper.edu, 8 March 2012.
Doran, Anne, Oscar Tuazon: Maccarone, Art in America, February 2012, p.104.
Doswald, Christoph, Art and the City, Vol. II, Zürich: Ringier, 2012, pp. 108/109.
Mackler, Lauren, Lost Art in LA, Los Angeles: Flax, 2012, p. 98.
Magnuson, E., Artist Interview: Oscar Tuazon creates sculptures you are supposed to play with, The Art Newspaper, 16 July 2012.
Montfort, Anne, Dynasty, Paris: Paris-Musées, 2010, pp. 150/151, 170.
Reust, Hans Rudolf, Oscar Tuazon: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Artforum International. Vol. 50, 9, May 2012, pp.322-323.
Roalf, P, Oscar Tuazon at Brooklyn Bridge Park, DART, 16 August 2012.
Stefan Olga, Oscar Tuazon, “Eva Presenhuber- Zurich”, Flash Art, Vol. XLV, 283, March- April 2012, p. 98.
Tuazon, Oscar, Oscar Tuazon,: Leave Me Be, DoPe Press, 2012.
–––, Oscar Tuazon: ‘Working Drawing’, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, Kunst Berlin, 1-2, 2012, p. 66.

2011

Tuazon, Oscar, Die, The Power Station, Dallas: Texas, 2011.
–––, Parkett Art, Parkett, , issue 89, October 2011.

2010

Bernard, P, Oscar Tuazon-Ass to Mouth, Balice Hertling, Frog, number 9, 2010, pp. 66-69.
Freeman, M, Oscar Tuazon, Dynasty, 2010.
Rose, J, Structural Tension, Artforum International, October, p.218.
Tuazon, Oscar, Making Books, The Social Life of the Book, ed. Castillo/corrales, Paraguay Press, 2010.
Willie, J, Adam Parfrey:’devil may care’ (interview), Paris LA, issue 5, pp.72-78.
–––, Mousse Magazine, Number 24, Summer, 2010, p. 195.
–––, Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen, Palais no. 12, Palais de Tokyo, CNAP, Paris, p. 60.

2009

Basta, Sarina, et al, Vitamin 3D, Phaidon Press: London
–––, The Artist’s Art, Artforum International, December, 2009.
–––, Interview with Francesca di Nardo, Mousse Magazine, December-January 2009.

2004

Cotter, H, Adaptations, The New York Times, 30 January 2004.
Smith, R, Slouching towards Bethlehem, The New York Times, 13 August 2004.

2003

Everberg, Kirsten, After the Utopian Reflex, The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalogue, 2003.
Tuhus-Dubrow, R., Exhibit Visits Urban Renewals ‘Scenes of Crime’, Metropolis, October 2003.
–––, Sculpture Forever, Flash Art, August 2003.

2002

Berwick, Carly, Damon Rich: Civic Boosters, Metropolis, February 2002.

Public Collections

Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Giuliani Foundation, Rome, Italy
Kagge Collection
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Saatchi Gallery Collection, London, United Kingdom
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Silvie Fleming Collection, London, United Kingdom
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom