Ernesto Pujol
Ernesto Pujol is a site-specific performance artist and public choreographer with a socially engaged practice. His work consists of durational group performances as the complex psychic portraits of people and places, in the Jungian sense. Pujol pursued undergraduate work in humanities and visual arts, followed by studies in philosophy and Western monasticism, plus graduate work in education, media theory, and art therapy. Pujol has an MFA in interdisciplinary studio practice from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. In 1997, Pujol represented the United States in the Second Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa, the Second Saaremaa Biennial, Estonia, and the Sixth Havana Biennial, Cuba. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, |
the Cintas Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and ArtMatters. He has served with the New York State Council on the Arts, the Academy for Educational Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. Pujol is the author of Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice (McNally Jackson Books, SOHO).
www.ernestopujol.org
www.ernestopujol.org