BIO

Pablo V Cazares (b. 1989, California) creates sculpture, sound, and installation works to explore emergent consciousness and transformative experiences. Through the use of iterative casting and found materials, his pieces engage with the shifting nature of memory and experience. Building primitive radios and non-digital sound machines, the work interrogates narrow definitions of technology. His practice emphasizes agency, calling attention to our capacity for transformation. Pablo considers his work a form of alchemy, exploring alternative routes to transcendence through matter.


Pablo will be participating in the European Cultural Centre's Personal Structures 2026 show in Venice through the DOM Artist Residency. His work has been shown in the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology’s Invitational at Oregon Contemporary and at the Yale Graduate Conference in Religion & Ecology. Pablo will receive his MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in May 2026, and received a Bachelor’s of Science in Art Practices from Portland State University. Pablo has been awarded The Ford Foundation Critical Conversations Grant and the McGlassen Prize for Textile Arts.


Contact him at PabloVCazares@gmail.com or on instagram @pabloVcazares

STATEMENT

I am an artist working in themes of emergence and consciousness informed by transformative experiences. At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, I drove out into the Sonoran Desert and spent my time in isolation with a small group of others, living in a cave and outdoors over a period of two years. As the rest of the world became more connected to devices and digital material, my experience of nature and time deepened and lengthened, an experience only emphasized by my simultaneous gender transition. This experience with a real and embodied physical alchemy defined and made distinct my perspective, and is something I carry directly into my art practice.


Central to this practice is making objects that, while flickering between reality and unreality, are fundamentally approachable. I seek, quoting Plutarch, to create work “like images of the sun in drops of water”. While my work is centered in sculpture, this year I’ve begun to shift toward sound, using collaborative voice, constructed drone instruments, and primitive radios to create altered states.


My radical agenda is the gentle subversion of consensus reality. I believe that glimpses of elsewhere blended with authentic points of human connection are key to reasserting our significance, particularly in the face of a culture of disposability and cultivated passivity. This exercise prioritizes connection, while offering glimpses of other worlds and other ways of being.