Oscar Tuazon Artist Talk

Thu Sep 11 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-06:00

20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Utah 84101 | Salt Lake City

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Publisher/HostUtah Museum of Contemporary Art
Oscar Tuazon Artist Talk
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Join us for an artist talk with Oscar Tuazon under the open sky at the Salt Lake Water School, an open, modular architectural installation located next to UMOCA on Abravanel Hall Plaza. As the latest iteration of Tuazon’s ongoing Water School project—with existing sites in California, Minnesota, and Michigan—the Salt Lake Water School extends a national conversation into the urgent realities of the Great Salt Lake.
Designed as a space for formal and informal learning, the Water School connects local concerns about water and land with broader social and environmental issues, serving as a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and community stewardship. Tuazon—whose work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, MAXXI in Rome, the Aspen Art Museum, and Kunst Museum Winterthur—will discuss his practice and the ideas behind the Salt Lake Water School. The program continues with a live Zoom conversation between Tuazon and Delaine and Rick Spilsbury of the Ely Shoshone Tribe, highlighting Indigenous perspectives on land, water, and community resilience.
Oscar Tuazon’s Artist Talk is made possible with support from Powder Art Foundation.
Oscar Tuazon: Salt Lake Water School was commissioned by UMOCA, presented in collaboration with Wake the Great Salt Lake, and made possible by generous support from Wake the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Art Challenge, Powder Art Foundation, Salt Lake County Arts & Culture, Emerson Collective, Courtesy of Luhring Augustine.
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