Born 1976 in Mabalacat, Philippines, Lan Tuazon is a Chicago based sculptor making tools, sculptures, and installations as test-sites for collectivity, resilience, and a reimagination of the present. Tuazon's current test-site projects are five chances to test and transform aesthetic practice with ecological imperatives - making art with the instinct of survival in our changing social and planetary conditions. For the inaugural 2025 Public Art Boston Triennial, Tuazon's 3rd test-site project is to test what happens when life and our needs enter art and become the very subject of monumentality. Her "test-sites" are designed to stage a set of actions and behaviors that amount to belief where the individual and collective become the change agents in the term, climate change. Lan Tuazon is the 2024 Rome Prize Fellow in the Terra Foundation Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Headlands Art Center Civitelli Ranieri and Scloss Solitude. Solo exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Storefront for Art and Archtecture, Visual Arts Center, Hyde Park Art Center and with group exhibitions includeing the Hammer Museum, Bucharest Biennale, Redcat, Sculpture Center and Artist Space. She is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Profile caption: 2024 Rome Prize Fellow Profile image by: Claudia Gori
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Bloodless Diamond, rock and gold.
Featured Artworks
Architectures of Defense in Black
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Presented at Storefront for Art & Architecture
Iron and enamel
Assorted Drives: Flash, Hard and Shared.
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Presented at Rhona Hoffman
Plexiglass video game inspired composition on various memory drives in computing.
Assorted Drives in Flash, Hard and Shared
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Plexi-glass panel compositions of vairous memory drives in computing.
Army Park
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On view at Soho House Chicago
Ink on paper.
New York City Bargraph
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Presented at Storefront for Art & Architecture
150 wood models of NYC skyscrapers organized by type of building
Antipathy: Investigative Tool
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Presented in the Egyptian permanent collection at the Brooklyn Museum
Black marble
Future Fossil: Geode
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Geode, resin and plastic
Future Fossils: False Fruit
Presented at the Visual Arts Center in Austin Texas
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Archive of plastic containers