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