Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Birthday: 1987-03-02
Birthplace: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Gender: Male

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).

Credits

Year Title
2025-06-19 Olivia & the Clouds
2023-02-07 One of the most dangerous men in American history
2022-05-17 The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
2021-10-14 Can Love and Independence Coexist?
2021-08-12 The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
2021-05-11 What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
2021-03-08 Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
2020-10-15 The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
2020-07-02 The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
2020-04-26 El Club de Chichiguas
2020-04-25 El Regreso al Planeta M
2020-04-13 Asterisco
2020-02-03 The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
2019-11-13 Short Stories About Loneliness
2019-10-10 Divine Comedy
2019-05-09 The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
2019-03-12 Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
2019-02-25 Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
2019-02-02 The Nutritionist
2019-01-19 Midnight's Children
2018-10-15 Waiting for Godot
2018-06-25 The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
2018-01-25 The 1937 Haitian Massacre
2017-05-18 El Camino Interminable
2016-12-12 The Neuroscience of Imagination
2016-09-09 Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
2016-09-08 Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
2016-04-28 What is abstract expressionism?
2016-02-16 The science of skin color
2016-02-06 El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
2015-10-27 Who was Confucius?
2015-07-28 Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
2015-02-17 Malvao
2014-09-01 Cumbia de Piedra
2013-09-19 Floating Islands
2013-03-02 Dante
2012-05-07 AstroLunar
2011-09-19 Línea Confín