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Lan Tuazon

Sculptor
2021 Make a Wave
Visual Arts

Born 1976 in Mabalacat, Philippines, Lan Tuazon (she/her) 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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Found pebble mounted on a 14 carat gold ring Bloodless Diamond, rock and gold.

Featured Artworks

  • An installation of a blue building with red interior. The building has no roof and is made inside as part of an art installation. Future Fossils: SUM, 2021 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
  • Blue blocks made up a wall inside a white walled gallery. The wall has holes in it where you can see the setup of recycling bins. Over Your Head and Under the Weather, 2024 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • A blue iron sculpture sits outside on a concrete floor. Matters of Consequence, 2025 The Public Art Boston Triennial, Mattapan, Boston
  • A blue iron sculpture sits outside on a concrete floor.
  • A blue iron sculpture sits outside on a concrete floor.
  • Lan Tuazon artwork Architectures of Defense in Black Iron and enamel. At Storefront for Art & Architecture
  • Sculpture panels made with shredded plastics Assorted Drives: Flash, Hard and Shared. Plexiglass video game inspired composition on various memory drives in computing. At Rhona Hoffman
  • Ink on paper drawing of all statues on horseback in NYC collected as a single army Army Park Ink on paper. On view at Soho House Chicago
  • 150 wood models of NYC skyscrapers organized by types of building New York City Bargraph 150 wood models of NYC skyscrapers organized by type of building. At the Storefront for Art & Architecture
  • Lan Tuazon artwork Antipathy: Investigative Tool Black marble. At the Egyptian permanent collection at the Brooklyn Museum
  • Geode, facial lotion container, and plastic gem nested in resin Future Fossil: Geode Geode, resin and plastic
  • Lan Tuazon artwork Future Fossils: False Fruit Archive of plastic containers. Presented at the Visual Arts Center in Austin Texas