2009 | SCULPTURE ROOF – Oscar Tuazon
14 October 2009 – 9 January 2010
SCULPTURE ROOF commissions outdoor public sculpture on the gallery’s roof for extended periods.
IT WANTS US, 2009
Plexiglass, mirrored perpsex, timber, lightbulb and electrical wiring
90 x 30 x 90 cm
Installation view, SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
IT WANTS US, 2009
Plexiglass, mirrored perpsex, timber, lightbulb and electrical wiring
90 x 30 x 90 cm
Installation view (detail), SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
IT WANTS US, 2009
Plexiglass, mirrored perpsex, timber, lightbulb and electrical wiring
90 x 30 x 90 cm
Installation view (detail), SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
IT WANTS US, 2009
Plexiglass, mirrored perpsex, timber, lightbulb and electrical wiring
90 x 30 x 90 cm
Installation view (detail), SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
IT WANTS US, 2009
lnk on paper, scanned
Sketch for SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
Study for SCULPTURE ROOF (Wet Slab), 2009
Study for SCULPTURE ROOF (A Thing), 2009
OSCAR TUAZON
b. 1975
Lives and works in Paris
EDUCATION
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program/Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture/Urban Studies Program, New York, 2003
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York, 2002
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, 1999
Deep Springs College, 1994
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Sculpture Roof, CRISP LONDON LOS ANGELES, London
David Roberts Foundation, London
Untitled (Leave Me Be), STANDARD (OSLO)
Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tonsberg Norway
I Was a Stranger, Isabella Bartolozzi, Berlin
2008
A Vow of Poverty, maccarone, New York
Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner/Fortescue Avenue, London
Kodiak, Seattle Art Museum (with Eli Hansen), Seattle
This World’s Just Not Real to Me, Howard House, Seattle
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 Gallery, Paris
VOluntary Non vUlnerable, Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Re:Construction, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
Evento, Bordeaux, France
Vagrant Dwellers in the Houseless Woods, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Gennariello, BaliceHertling, Paris
2008
The Station, Miami
27 november – 21 january 2009, Catherine Bastide/ dependance, Brussels
We Haven’t Met Before […], Standard, Oslo
Transformational Grammars, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Sack of Bones, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Suddenly!, Cooley Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland
Rendevous Nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Vitoria, Spain
September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island
A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis
dragged down into lowercase, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern
You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Reed College, Portland
2007
Metronome no. 10, Documenta 12 Magazine Projects, Kassel
Exposition No 1, BaliceHertling, Paris
Hello Goodbye Thank You, castillo/corrales, Paris
Compound Values Affirming Denial, Art Rotterdam
2006
The Elementary Particles (The Paperback Edition), STANDARD (OSLO), Norway
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, California
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, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, (with Gernot Minke and Richard Fischbeck) (catalog)
Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York
Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago
Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ
The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York, New York
Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York, New York
Adaptations, Apex Art, New York, New York, (with Richard Fischbeck)
2003
Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, California (with Richard Fischbeck) (catalog)
24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania (catalog)
Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York
Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program, Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York (with Gardar Eide Einarsson)
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, New York (with Bea Schlingelhoff)
Totally Motivated, Kunstverein Munich, Germany (with Gardar Eide Einarsson)
Between the Lines, Apex Art, New York, New York (with Gardar Eide Einarsson)
City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York, New York
Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2002
STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England (catalog)
Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, New York
Museum of the White Man, New York, New York and Suquamish, Washington
2001
Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York
Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, New York
Landlords Instant Cash!, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY