Oscar Tuazon’s work has roots in minimalism, conceptualism, and architecture, and has a direct relationship with both the site in which it is presented, as well as with the viewer, often through physical engagement. Although he identifies primarily as a sculptor and his work is informed by minimalist strategies, Tuazon’s practice occupies a position between architecture and activism, and his concern is with relationality and presence over purity in form. Made with a combination of industrial and natural materials such as wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping, his works, often large-scale installations, consist of structures that foreground their own means of construction.
Oscar Tuazon lives and works in Los Angeles. Tuazon was included in the Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. He has been commissioned for numerous public art works including Light Rings for Noor Riyadh in Saudi Arabia in 2023; Growth Rings for Central Wharf Park in Boston in 2019; a large-scale installation Une colonne d’eau in the Place Vendôme, Paris in 2017; Burn the Formwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany and Un pont sans fin for Nouveaux Commanditaires, Belfort, France, amongst others.