Jorge Pardo
JORGE PARDO
Untitled, 2003
Medium and dimensions vary Installation at Lever House, New York
Jorge Pardo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1963 and studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago and received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including \"4166 Sea View Lane,\" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Fundació \"la Caixa,\" Barcelona (2004); \"House,\" Miami MoCA North (2007), traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2008); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2009); and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2010). Architectural projects and non-art specific spaces have included creating a café for the Leipzig Messe in Germany, a restaurant for the K21 Museum, and the re-design of the installation for the pre-Columbian collection at LACMA. His work is part of numerous public collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London. Jorge Pardo lives and works in Los Angeles.
