PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST: OSCAR TUAZON OSCAR TUAZON (B. 1975, SEATTLE) LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES. ENGAGING DIFFERENT METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, OSCAR TUAZON FREQUENTLY USES WOOD, CONCRETE, GLASS, STEEL, AND PIPING AS MATERIALS TO CREATE HIS STRUCTURES AND INSTALLATIONS. HIS WORKS HAVE ROOTS IN MINIMALISM, CONCEPTUALISM, AND ARCHITECTURE, AND HAVE A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTH THE SITE IN WHICH THEY ARE PRESENTED, AS WELL AS WITH THEIR VIEWER, OFTEN THROUGH PHYSICAL ENGAGEMENT. TUAZON SOLO EXHIBITIONS HAVE BEEN DEDICATED TO HIS WORK BY INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S.A. AND IN EUROPE, SUCH AS THE ASPEN MUSEUM OF ART (2020); BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE (2019); HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES (2016); LE CONSORTIUM, DIJON (2015) AND MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE (2014). HIS WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED IN NUMEROUS GROUP EXHIBITIONS AS THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL (2019), SKULPTUR PROJEKTE MÜNSTER (2017), ATHENS (2017) AND THE VENICE BIENNALE (2011). OSCAR TUAZON IS PART OF THE CELINE ART PROJECT COLLECTION. HIS LARGE-SCALE WORK MOBILE FLOOR WAS CREATED IN 2019 FOR THE CELINE STORE IN PARIS, RUE DE GRENELLE, WHERE IT IS ON PERMANENT DISPLAY. TUAZON IS REPRESENTED BY LUHRING AUGUSTINE (NEX YORK), CHANTAL CROUSEL (PARIS) AND GALERIE EVA PRESENHUBER. #OSCARTUAZON #CELINEBYHEDISLIMANE