Warnock Artist in Residence at the University of Utah: Ernesto Pujol

Acclaimed international installation and performance artist Ernesto Pujol was selected as the first Warnock Artist in Residence at the University of Utah, where he will work with visual arts and dance students in the creation of a new public performance in Salt Lake City this spring.

Pujol is known for works that explore historical memory, the state of the American body, our environment and spirituality. Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Pujol studied in Spain, and has lived and worked as an artist and graduate instructor in New York City for two decades.

Since 2006, Pujol has been exploring the notion of Visiting Artist and Artist-in-Residence projects as ephemeral schools-in-the-field for training graduate and post-graduate art students. The artist is very interested in writer Carol Becker’s notion of the artist as citizen, the citizenship of museums as public bodies, and the citizenship of art itself in the evolution of American democracy. Pujol strives to reclaim public spaces from clutter, noise, and fast transit, generating silence and solitude, transforming them into sites for interiority, if not the awakening of consciousness.