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Lan Tuazon

Chicago, Illinois

Matters of Consequence is a public sculpture composed of architectural details including a wall with shelves, small stairs, a desk-like shape, and shaped cutouts resembling the grout of stone work, flanked by an arch with cutouts, on a concrete stage with a ramp, and grass and trees in the background.

Matters of Consequence

2025

Over Your Head and Under the Weather is an installation formed of a wall with a rounded opening and a side stair composed of blue and grey plastic modular brick containers. Inside the wall is a metal rolling table with an industrial shredder, flanked by a row of black containers with recycling signs.

Over Your Head and Under the Weather

2024

Future Fossils: SUM is an exhibition of a full-scale, single family house cut open and filled with the “sum” of things consumed and disposed of in a human lifetime. Viewed from above, with no ceiling, walls are framed in wood and blue and grey plastic containers, and artworks hang on the wall.

Future Fossils: Sum

2018

Future Fossils: No Nouns Left Whole is an installation of 6 rolling angled shelf displays, each holding rows of colorful bisected mass-produced plastic containers, some in the shape of bottles, other in the shapes of fruits and plants.

Future Fossils: No Nouns Left Whole

2016 - ongoing

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Lan Tuazon

Lan Tuazon stands outdoors with stone stairs visible in the background. She is a woman with Filipino heritage, and had long dark hair laced with grey and asymmetrical bangs. She wears a navy blazer and colorful button up underneath.
Photo by Claudia Gori, courtesy of the American Academy in Rome

Lan Tuazon (b.1976, Philippines) is a sculptor who lives and works in Chicago as Associate Professor of Sculpture at the School of Art Institute in Chicago. Her national exhibitions include Hammer Museum in 2024 and Boston Triennial in 2025. Solo exhibitions of her work include Visual Arts Center in Texas, Brooklyn Museum and Storefront of Art and Architecture in New York, and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Lan Tuazon has exhibited internationally at Neue Galerie in the Imperial Palace of Austria, Bucharest Biennale 4, the WKV Kunstverein in Germany, and the Lowry Museum in London. She has been awarded artist-in-residence fellowships at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Headlands Art Center, and Civitella Ranieri in Italy. Tuazon has participated in group shows in multiple venues including 8th Floor Rubin Foundation, Artist Space, Redcat Gallery, Canada Gallery, Sculpture Center, Apex Art, Exit Art, and Kunstlerhaus in Stuttgart Germany.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2025

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“ I make sculptural tools and spaces for social and ecological practices that are not yet or no longer established. Building installations as a proposal of reality is my way of reimagining our social present where art is made with the instinct of survival.”