Oscar Tuazon

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. ==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. == Exhibitions==

• 2008, Kodiak (with Elias Hansen), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle • 2010, My Mistake, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London • 2011, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy • 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago • 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City • 2016, Hammer Projects: Oscar Tuazon, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles • 2016, Shelters, Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris • 2016, Ariana Reines & Oscar Tuazon, Modern Art Gallery, London • 2017, Gardar Eide Einarsson & Oscar Tuazon, Maureen Paley Gallery, London • 2018, Works by Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, and Michael Williams, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 941 North Street, Greenwich, Connecticut; curated by Allison Brant • 2019, ‘…and other such stories', Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago • 2024, Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Morán Morán, Los Angeles ==References==