January 2025 Audain Visual Artist in Residence: Oscar Tuazon

The SFU School for the Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome Los Angeles-based artist Oscar Tuazon as the January 2025 Audain Visual Artist in Residence. During his time in Vancouver, Tuazon will run a workshop with SCA Graduate Students that will focus on ideas around a web of relationships that includes place-based communities, ecosystems, water systems, and trees. This workshop will lead to the production of a sculptural installation that will form the basis of an exhibition titled What Trees Need. On January 16th, Tuazon will give a public lecture on his art practice which will be followed by the opening of What Trees Need in the Audain Gallery.

Events
AVAIR artist talk: January 16, 2025, 6pm.
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver.

AVAIR artist exhibition: Oscar Tuazon: What Trees Need
Opening: January 16, 2025 7pm / Exhibition dates: January 17–February 15, 2025. Audain Gallery, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver.

Biography
Oscar Tuazon has exhibited widely with selected solo exhibitions such as fjk3—Contemporary Art Space in Vienna, Bergen Kunsthall, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Place Vendôme in Paris, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, ICA London, Kunsthalle Bern, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Seattle Art Museum, and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2018, Oscar founded the Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), an educational centre that studies our relation to water and how it functions as a connective tissue between people and their surroundings. In 2011, he designed one of four para-pavilions at the 54th Venice Biennale.

About AVAIR
The Audain Visual Artist in Residence (AVAIR) program brings artists and practitioners to Vancouver who have contributed significantly to the field of contemporary art and whose work resonates with local and international visual art discourses. Past residences have included Iman Issa, Ming Wong, Kota Ezawa, Irena Haiduk, Jackson Polys, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Heba Y. Amin, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jeremy Deller, Sanja Iveković, Charles Gaines, Samson Young, Alejandro Cesarco, Raven Chacon, Sarah Pierce, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Hito Steyerl, and many others. The visiting artists interact with the students and faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts as well as the broader visual arts and cultural communities. In keeping with the experimental nature of the School for the Contemporary Arts the terms of engagement are open and change from artist to artist. The cornerstone of the residency is the sharing of artistic research.

The AVAIR program is generously funded by the Audain Foundation Endowment Fund. For more information about the SCA’s AVAIR program and to see the past participants in the program, please visit here.