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Oscar Alfonso | Oscar Alfonso works with text, photography, digital media, and installations. He may also write, but he remains unsure if he qualifies. Born <i>en La Ciudad de México</i> and raised in Vancouver, his artistic and research practice focuses on identifying with and reconstructing a relationship to home through a process of Contingent Belonging. This focus takes him to Mexico City, and manifests itself through food, the market, storytelling, the representations of urban childhood in film, and city-building video games as sites of the urban imaginary and architectural preservation. | ||
He holds a BFA in Visual Arts, and a BA in History and Print & Digital Media Publishing from Simon Fraser University | He holds a BFA in Visual Arts, and a BA in History and Print & Digital Media Publishing from Simon Fraser University on the unceeded Coast Salish Territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He is currently a Masters of Visual Studies Student at the University of Toronto on the traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. | ||
Revision as of 08:40, 27 June 2020
Oscar Alfonso works with text, photography, digital media, and installations. He may also write, but he remains unsure if he qualifies. Born en La Ciudad de México and raised in Vancouver, his artistic and research practice focuses on identifying with and reconstructing a relationship to home through a process of Contingent Belonging. This focus takes him to Mexico City, and manifests itself through food, the market, storytelling, the representations of urban childhood in film, and city-building video games as sites of the urban imaginary and architectural preservation.
He holds a BFA in Visual Arts, and a BA in History and Print & Digital Media Publishing from Simon Fraser University on the unceeded Coast Salish Territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He is currently a Masters of Visual Studies Student at the University of Toronto on the traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.