(b. Havana, Cuba, 1963).
Jorge Pardo currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at the University of Illinois in Chicago and received a BA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Pardo incorporates design and architecture to create a form of functional sculpture that takes the shape of furniture and accessories within architectural spaces. In his work, space and object are treated as a functional, harmonious whole, of an aestheticized reality aligned with utopian projects of the historical avant-guard. For a project with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles entitled Jorge Pardo. 4166 Sea View Lane, Pardo conceived and built a house and studio in the Mount Washington neighborhood of the city. Referred to by the artist as "a sculpture that is also a house," the house and studio were built between 1994 and 1998 and then opened to the public as a MOCA exhibition. The project addresses definitions of public and private space by dissolving the bound
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