About the Artists:

Oscar Tuazon (b. 1975, Seattle) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Works for Water at FJK-3 Contemporary Art Space, Vienna, Oscar Tuazon: Fire Worship at the Aspen Art Museum; Oscar Tuazon: Collaborator at Bellevue Arts Museum; Oscar Tuazon: Water School at MSU Broad Museum. In 2025, MAXXI, Rome hosted an expansive exhibition curated by Tuazon, Something in the Water. In 2023, a major mid-career retrospective of the artist’s work, Oscar Tuazon: Building, was exhibited at Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, which concurrently hosted Oscar Tuazon: Water School in early 2023, and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, which also exhibited Oscar Tuazon: All We Need later that year. A comprehensive monograph on the artist’s work, Oscar Tuazon: Building, was jointly published by DoPe Press for all three exhibitions. Tuazon was included in the 2021 Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil and the 2019 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 in 2017; and Un pont sans fin for Nouveaux Commanditaires, Belfort, France in 2016.

Having once described his art as “sculpture in love with furniture,” Scott Burton (b. 1939, Greensboro, Alabama, d. 1989, New York) is remembered as an artist, critic, and curator. He spent his formative years in Washington, DC, and received a B.A. degree from Columbia University (1962) and an M.F.A. from New York University (1963). His critical writing appeared regularly in ARTnews and Art in America and in exhibition catalogues, including that for Harald Szeeman’s landmark Postminimalist exhibition, Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969). By the early 1970s, Burton was exhibiting in New York City, first with like-minded artists on the street, then in galleries and museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, P.S. 1, and, in a solo exhibition, Artists Space. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Burton created an array of performances, furniture as sculpture, and public art environments that were inspired by his studies of body language, art history, and design. He also curated the inaugural exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art’s now-lauded Artist’s Choice series. Burton died of an AIDS-related illness in 1989. His work is in dozens of collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate, and the Walker Art Center.