Havana, Cuba, 1963
Lives and works between Merida, Mexico and New York, USA
Jorge Pardo synthesizes sculpture, painting, design and architecture into an eclectic practice that combines craftsmanship, technology and aesthetics. Pardo often creates public and private environments in which color, texture, pattern, material and scale come together to form an immersive whole that blurs the distinction between fine art and functionality.
Pardo has had solo exhibitions at th SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, 2023); Museum of Art & Design, Miami Dade College (2021); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2021); Pinacoteca de Estado São Paulo (2019); Musée des Augustins (Toulouse, 2014); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2010); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008); and Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami, 2007).
The artist has made numerous projects for the public space as well as permanent installations at Landcraft Garden Foundation (Mattituck, 2024); University of Houston (2021); Hammer Museum Restaurant (Los Angeles, 2019); L’Arlatan (Arles, 2018); New Collegiate Church St. Trinitats (Leiptzig, 2015) or Alexander Hotel (Indianapolis, 2013). His work is part of numerous public collections including the Centre Pompidou (Paris); Tate Modern (London); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); Boijmans van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam); Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami); Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo) among others. Jorge Pardo has been the recipient of many awards including the MacArthur Fellowship Award (2010); the Smithsonian American Art Museum Lucelia Artist Award (2001); and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995).
