Paucar lives and works in Berlin and Peru. He studied philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, the London Institute Chelsea College of Art and Design and at the University of the Arts in Berlin (with Prof. Lothar Baumgarten and Rebecca Horn).

Since 2006 Antonio Paucar has exhibited in solo an group exhibitions in Europe, Peru, Japan und Mexico. He worked as a performance artists with Rebecca Horn and others.

In 2011 Antonio Paucar won the Zeitsicht-Kunstpreis and in 2013 the arts award of the Arts Foundation of the City of Bonn/Germany.

In 2013 Paucar won the LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) with a residency in Manila, Philippines with the Metropolitan Museum of Manila