Collaborators: Duke University Colab & DesignHub, Duke University Artistic Research Initiative & FHI Social Practice Lab
Specialists: Isaac Rattey, Sara Canale, Emma Maddock, Jake Mann, Swetha Sekhar, Devi Yuliarti
Consultant: Michael Faber

Pedro Lasch is a visual artist and Duke University professor, born and raised in Mexico now residing in the US. He is the Social Practice Lab director at The Franklin Humanities Institute, director of Duke’s Artistic Research Initiative, supported by the Mellon Foundation. Laschs creative repertoire spans painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation, experimental pedagogy, and socially engaged art. His work critically engages with global decolonial struggles, migration, racial justice, collective memory, and a critique of eurocentric aesthetic norms. His solo and group exhibitions have been featured in venues and evetns such as MoMA PS1, the National Palace Gallery in Mexico, Documenta 13 and 15, and the 56th Venice Biennale. Lasch has authored six books, and his work has appeared in journals like October Magazine, Art Forum, ARTnews, and The New York Times.

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