BIO
Pablo V. Cazares is a visual artist + designer building art and community wherever he goes. His work has been shown in Portland Oregon at the Afru Gallery, the Parallax Art Center, and Portland State University’s MK Gallery. He was awarded an artist’s residency at the Lookout Arts Quarry in April 2022. Community organizing features largely in his practice; he created and curates The t4t Art Collective to provide transgender artists an opportunity to show work and build community, spent two years living and working outdoors in the Sonoran Desert with Friends of the Four Tanks Canyon, and helped create a community sewing makerspace in Portland, Community Stitch PDX. Beginning his career in fashion design, he has worked with Hanna Andersson, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), innovated designs for transgender bodies with Both& Apparel, engineered self-inflating pillows with TravelWedge and won a design contest to show work in Portland Fashion Week. Pablo has been featured as a guest instructor with UniversityofFashion.com, at the Oregon City Service Learning Academy High School, and recently as a mentor-designer with Young Audiences Arts For Learning’s SH/FT project. Pablo holds an associates degree in Apparel Design, and is currently completing his B.S. in Art Practice at Portland State University.
