Urban Invites Artist: Ernesto Pujol
Exhibition: The Water Carrier’s Journey
Organizing Institution: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA
Dates: June 23-October 8, 2007
UrbanGlass project: Blown vessels in the shape of Boston Harbor Islands
Ernesto Pujol is a New York-based conceptual artist with a multimedia and interdisciplinary art practice. During the 1990s, Pujol became known for site-specific ephemeral installation projects addressing individual and collective memory, and, more recently, for pressing ecological issues, war and mourning. The artist is very interested in the future of the American body on the land and within architecture, reclaiming public space as an environment for silence and meditation.
Pujol has exhibited extensively, including representing the United States in the Second Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa, the Second Saaremaa Biennial, Estonia, and the Sixth Havana Biennial, Cuba. He has taught at Cooper Union, NY; La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; and been the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships. From 2006 to 2007, he served as a Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Art through the Sculpture Department, Graduate Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.