PAUL PESCADOR
Paul Pescador is an artist and artist organizer. His actions, gestures and performances deal with issues surrounding social disconnection and communal space. He is a Studio Art MFA candidate for the University of California, Irvine. He is the co-director of workspace, a project space in Lincoln Heights.
EDUCATION
2012 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, M.F.A
2005 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, B.A.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2010 Shangrila, Neon Gallery, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Thank You, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
2009 Gifts, workspace, Los Angeles, CA
PERFORMANCES/PROJECTS
2011 My body lies over the ocean. My body lies over the sea., Barkerhanger, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Eternal Telethon, Machine Projects
Crying over Spilled Milk, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Happy Endings, I am Bacchus, Los Angeles, CA
Perform Now, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Situating Ourselves with Them, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
Subtle Bodies, Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Eternal Telethon, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
Elysian Fields, Elysian Park Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Conversation between Strangers, Catalyst, Irvine, CA
2009 Scent, Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA
Breakup, Lyeberry, Los Angeles, CA
Meal, Washington Boulevard Concert, Los Angeles, CA
Conversation Between Backs, Workspace, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXIBITIONS (Selected)
2011 Rearwindow, Night Gallery, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
ne me quitte pas,: 2nd year graduate exhibition, UAG Gallery, Irvine, CA
Cell phone exhibition, Canal
2010 Record Shop, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
Private Investigations, Mastodon Mesa, Los Angeles, CA
Obsessive, Obsessive, Obsessed, Summer Camp, Los Angeles, CA
Distance, Stoke Newtington International Airport, London, UK
Workspace Selects, House of Genesee, Los Angeles, CA
Mastodon Maze, Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Performing Public Space , Casa de Tunnel, Tijuana, Mexico
2009 Shout! Festival, Birmingham Queer Open, Birmingham, England
Urban Plein Air, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
Drought, Koos Art Center, Long Beach, CA
2008 Exchange Rates, Convention and Attitudes, New York, NY
Circular Exhibition, Gallery Ho, Seoul, Korea
Circular Exhibition, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
Joint Custody Project, Found Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Turn, Shotgun Space , Los Angeles, CA
CURATED PROJECTS
2011 Hollowing, Notary Public, New York (forthcoming)
My body lies over the ocean. My body lies over the sea., Barkerhanger, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Hollowing, Infernoesque, Berlin
Crying over Spilled Milk, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Situating ourselves with them, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Duplex, Block Party, Los Angeles, CA
They Became What They Beheld, Bandit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
2010 Zog's Dogs Fellow
PUBLICATIONS/SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2010 Public Interest: Projects and Prototypes, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Tryharder, Los Angeles, CA
Daily 49er, Long Beach, CA
Fine Arts LA: Panel of the Muses, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Situating Ourselves with Them, Another Righteous Transfer, Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Melinda Guillien, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The New Gay, Los Angeles, CA
Notes on Looking, Fellows for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Performing Public Space, For Your Art: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Biola University, La Mirada, CA
They Became What They Beheld, Fine Art LA
They Became What They Beheld, Future Ship Wreck
2008 Joint Custody: Found Gallery, White Hot Magazine
COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
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2010 You’ve got problems, we got solutions, 323 projects, Los Angeles
Adrian Piper Gallery
2011 Welcome to Los Angeles, Collective Show, Los Angeles
2010 Waves
Elysian Park Museum of Art
2010 EPMOA, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Workspace
2010 Raidspace/Workprojects , Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Domestic, Block Party, Los Angeles, CA