Oscar met and married Lan Tuazon in New York 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.[5] His brother and frequent collaborator, Elias Hansen, is also an artist.[6][7]
Career
Professionally, he began his career working in the Studio Acconci of architect/artist Vito Acconci.[8] After moving to Paris in 2007, he began exhibiting widely in Europe.[9] He has since then exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, and many group and solo shows throughout the world, and is in major art collections such as Saatchi's.[10][11]
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."[12] 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."[13]
Oscar Tuazon is represented by galerie dépendance,[14] Morán Morán,[15]Luhring Augustine,[16] Galerie Eva Presenhuber,[17] and Galerie Chantal Crousel.[18]
Personal life
In 2013, he moved from France to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles with his three children and wife Dorothée Perret, a former editor at Purple Magazine who now helms the art magazine "Paris, LA."[19][20]
