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Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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 schol…
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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).
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2026
When did we start using passports?
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2025
Olivia & the Clouds
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2024
Roots
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2023
One of the most dangerous men in American history
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2022
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
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2021
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
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2021
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
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2021
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
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2021
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
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2020
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
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2020
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
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2020
El Club de Chichiguas
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2020
El Regreso al Planeta M
Movie Niño
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2020
Asterisco
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2020
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
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2019
Short Stories About Loneliness
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2019
Divine Comedy
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2019
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
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2019
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
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2019
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
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2019
Midnight's Children
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2018
Waiting for Godot
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2018
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
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2018
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
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2017
El Camino Interminable
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2016
The Neuroscience of Imagination
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2016
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
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2016
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
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2016
What is abstract expressionism?
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2016
The science of skin color
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2016
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
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2015
Who was Confucius?
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2015
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
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2015
Malvao
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2014
Cumbia de Piedra
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2013
Floating Islands
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2013
Dante
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2012
AstroLunar
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2011
Línea Confín
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Where the Bees Sleep
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