Oscar Tuazon

Oscar Tuazon
Born
Oscar Hansen

1975 (age 50–51)
Indianola, Washington, U.S.
Education
Known forInstallation art, sculpture, mixed media art
Spouse(s)Lan Tuazon (div.)
Dorothée Perret
Children3
RelativesElias Hansen (brother)

Oscar Tuazon (né Oscar Hansen; born 1975) is an American visual artist, who works in sculpture, installation art, architectural art, and mixed media art. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Early life and education

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. They grew up on the Port Madison Reservation, land governed by the Suquamish Indian Tribe. Their parents were Anna Linzey, and John Hansen, and both were book binders.

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

Career

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

Tuazon began his career in 2003 working in the Studio Acconci, of architect and artist Vito Acconci. He exhibited his work "City Without a Ghetto," at the group exhibition, Float (2003) held at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Queens, New York City.

After moving to Paris in 2007, he began exhibiting widely in Europe. He has since then exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and many group and solo shows throughout the world.

Tuazon was awarded in 2007 the Betty Bowen Award, by the Seattle Art Museum.

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."

Personal life and name change

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.

In January 2013, Tuazon moved from Paris, France to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles with his three children and his second wife Dorothée Perret, a former editor at Purple magazine.

Exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 Miranda, Carolina A. (November 24, 2019). "'Hippie outlaw architecture'". The Los Angeles Times. pp. F5. Retrieved April 2, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 Seattle Office of Arts & Culture King County. "Tuazon, Oscar (b. 1975)". HistoryLink.org.
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  11. 1 2 Dobey, Peter (September 24, 2011). "Seeing Through the Crowds at the 2011 Venice Biennale Part I: The Giardini and Pavilions". Hyperallergic. Retrieved April 2, 2026. One memorable example of this execution is Oscar Tuazon's "Venice Project Models" which are lovely fragile rooms divorced from their homes.
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