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).
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
El Club de Chichiguas
Midnight's Children
Dante
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Who was Confucius?
Malvao
The science of skin color
Short Stories About Loneliness
Asterisco
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Cumbia de Piedra
Línea Confín
Floating Islands
What is abstract expressionism?
AstroLunar
