Pedro Lasch

Who is Pedro Lasch?

Pedro Lasch is a visual artist born in Mexico City, and based in the U.S. since 1994. He produces works of conceptual art, institutional critique, social practice, and site-specific art, as well as paintings, photographs, prints, and works in traditional media. He has been regularly involved with the New York art and politics collective 16 Beaver Group since 2000. He studied art at the Cooper Union with Dore Ashton, Hans Haacke, Day Gleeson, and Doug Ashford, among others, and later completed an MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.

He has been at Duke University since 2002, where he teaches art and art theory in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, is graduate faculty for the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts, and was a fellow at the Franklin Humanities Institute.

During these years at Duke, Lasch’s work has developed in an intellectual environment that, among the List of Duke University people includes influential figures in critical theory such as Fredric Jameson, Katherine Hayles, and Mark Anthony Neal. His co-publications and direct artistic collaborations with colleagues there include projects with Esther Gabara, Walter Mignolo, Michael Hardt, Kristine Stiles, and Ariel Dorfman, as well as the staff of the Nasher Museum of Art, which opened to the public in 2005 in a new building designed by Rafael Viñoly.