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Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (b. 1987, Santo Domingo) is a storyteller from the Dominican Republic. Working primarily on video, animation and drawing. He was granted a full year scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton's Design Research center, in Treviso, Italy in 2013. Tomás received his BFA in Art and Media at Parsons, the New School of Design in 2010. And his AA degree in fine arts, at Altos de Chavón, in 2008. Pichardo's work has hints of magic realism. Evoking the colorful, surreal and sometimes disorienting experience of growing up in the Caribbean. His world is personal and intimate, with characters full of colors and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone. Recent solo exhibitions include CasaQuien (DR), Centro de la Imagen (DR) and Fabrica Features (Lisbon, Portugal). And he has had work included in group exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano (Italy), Museum for Contemporary Art, (México) and Annecy Animation Film Festival (France).

On screen

  • El Club de Chichiguas
  • El Regreso al Planeta M
  • Floating Islands
  • Línea Confín

Behind the camera

  • When did we start using passports?
  • Olivia & the Clouds
  • One of the most dangerous men in American history
  • The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
  • Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
  • What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
  • The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
  • Can Love and Independence Coexist?
  • El Club de Chichiguas
  • The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
  • Asterisco
  • The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
  • El Regreso al Planeta M
  • The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
  • Midnight's Children
  • Short Stories About Loneliness
  • Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
  • Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
  • The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
  • Divine Comedy
  • The 1937 Haitian Massacre
  • The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Waiting for Godot
  • El Camino Interminable
  • El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
  • The science of skin color
  • What is abstract expressionism?
  • Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
  • The Neuroscience of Imagination
  • Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
  • Malvao
  • Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
  • Who was Confucius?
  • Cumbia de Piedra
  • Dante
  • Floating Islands
  • AstroLunar
  • Línea Confín
  • Where the Bees Sleep

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