Paul Pescador

Paul Pescador (born in 1983) is an American contemporary artist who works in film, photography, and performance.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Pescador was born in Indio, California.[4] Pescador received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005 from the University of Southern California and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2012 from the University of California, Irvine.[4]

Career

Pescador is known for their playful photographic use of color and composition, and for their short film narratives that follow both personal experience and fiction.[5][6]

Pescador has shown widely in Los Angeles and other areas of California, including exhibitions at the University of California, Los Angeles, the REDCAT theater at the California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California, Berkeley. Their films have screened at the Machine Project, Human Resources, the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, and the Durham Studio Theater at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pescador also works in curation and has organized shows at the Hammer Museum and The Pit in Los Angeles.[7][8]

In 2015, Pescador was the grant recipient of the California Community Foundation's Emerging Category.[9]

Personal life

Pescador lives and works in Los Angeles.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "CV Paul Pescador". paulpescador.com. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  2. ^ McQuaid, Kate. "What's Up at Boston-Area Art Galleries". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Mizota, Sharon (December 13, 2014). "Review Paul Pescador's Layered Images Riff on Consumer Overload". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Darling, Nikki (December 9, 2013). "Paul Pescador and the Dark Side of Intimacy". KCET. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Cline, Elizabeth. "A Conversation Between Elizabeth Cline and Paul Pescador". paulpescador.com. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Cox, Akina. ""3,4,5" "&8"". theartbookreview.org. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  7. ^ "Hammer Lectures Charles Atlas: Revenge of the New Puritan". Hammer Museum. March 10, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  8. ^ Ahn, Abe (October 19, 2015). "Forging Queer Identity with Abstraction". hyperallergic.com. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  9. ^ "Paul Pescador". California Community Foundation. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
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