About
Oscar Palacio is a Colombian-born, Boston-based artist whose photographic practice examines the American landscape as a site of layered memory, displacement, and history. He received his MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1998 and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1992. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Harvard Art Museums, Yale University Art Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Center for Creative Photography (University of Arizona), and Addison Gallery of American Art. Palacio was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art (2025), and has held residencies at Light Work (2008) and the Addison Gallery of American Art (2004, 2005). Recent exhibitions include Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 (Harvard Art Museums, 2021–22), American History Revisited (Harvard University Center for American Political Studies, 2019), Walden, Revisited (deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum), and Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photographs (Addison Gallery of American Art).