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Oscar Lara
Oscar Lara (born 1977) is an artist based in Stockholm and Lima. He holds a Master of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, Australia and is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Lara was born in Lima, Peru. He is known for the social engagement of his art projects that often aim to achieve structural changes outside the art field, and for his uses of ethnographic material such as the Paracas textiles, and Moche erotic ceramics.

His project Within Heritage Movements, gathered a group of Swedish textile experts and reproduced two pieces from a Peruvian heritage collection known as the Gothenburgs Paracas Collection. On 2008 He participated in the A Stolen World exhibition in Gothenburg with his installation, Robberies by Request. The A Stolen World exhibition became later the excuse that the Peruvian government used for reclaiming the textile collection back to Peru.