Jorge Pardo

Jorge Pardo (b. 1963, Havana, Cuba) explores the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture, transforming familiar objects into artworks with multiple meanings and purposes. Pardo employs a broad palette of vibrant colors, eclectic patterns, and natural and industrial materials. Mediating across scales, he treats entire public spaces as vast canvases, engaging viewers with works that produce great visual delight while questioning distinctions between fine art and quotidian design.

Pardo's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues including Pinacoteca de Estado São Paulo; Hacienda la Rojeña, Tequila, Mexico; Victoria Miro, London; Petzel, New York; joségarcía ,mx, Mérida, Mexico; David Gill Gallery, London; Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Gagosian Gallery, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. His work is held in numerous public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Pardo is the recipient of many honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Smithsonian American Art Museum Lucelia Artist Award, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Pardo studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and received his B.F.A. from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. He lives and works in Merida, Mexico.