Pedro Lasch

Pedro Lasch (born 1975 in Mexico City, based in the U.S. since 1994) is a visual artist, Duke University professor, and Social Practice Lab director at The Franklin Humanities Institute. He is also director of Duke's Artistic Research Initiative, with support from the Mellon Foundation (2023-2026).
Lasch conceives of his work as a means to politicize forms and thus imbues objects, as well as process-based artworks with the capacity to function as tools for consciousness-raising, to address the systems that underpin social, political, and economic relations. His work occupies a liminal space between engagement and autonomy, traditional genre and experimental process, national identity, and anarchist self-regulation.