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Marcel Dzama

(Canadian, born 1974)

Marcel Dzama

Snowflake Defense, 2007

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Untitled, 2000

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Untitled, 2000

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Yesterday the deer had been asking the others about snowmen, 2001

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Yesterday the deer had been asking me about the gator, 2001

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Today the deer had been asking the others about snowmen , 2001

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Untitled (Lion and goat), 2001

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Scared of his own ghost, 2008

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Untitled (Double-Amputee with Gun)

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Biography

Timeline

1974: Born in Winnipeg, Canada
1994 - 1997: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, B.F.A. (first class honors)
1997: Recipient: Watercolor Award (for achievement in painting), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
: Recipient: Namta Award, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2000: Recipient: New Artist Award from Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2004: Finalist, Sobey Art Award
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2019: Marcel Dzama Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Marcel Dzama: Crossing the Line, David Zwirner, Hong Kong [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
HIGHLIGHT: Gramercy, The National Arts Club, New York
The Last Waltz (For Leon), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp [catalogue]
Work on Paper, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen [catalogue]
2018: Marcel Dzama Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Marcel Dzama: A Jester’s Dance, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan (solo exhibition)
Marcel Dzama: Ya es hora, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo exhibition)
Always Trust the Artist, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
Autofiktionen – Zeichnung der Gegenwart, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany [catalogue]
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art, David Zwirner, New York [organized in collaboration with Nicholas Hall] [catalogue]
Hand Drawn Action Packed, St Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans, England [itinerary: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales] [organized by Hayward Gallery Touring]
Highlight: Chelsea, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
2017: Marcel Dzama Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Marcel Dzama: Revolution Blues, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (solo exhibition)
Marcel Dzama: Drawing on a Revolution, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (solo exhibition)
10th Anniversary, Gallery Target, Tokyo
10th Anniversary: Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Drawing Prize, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Doublethink: Double vision, Pera Museum, Istanbul [catalogue]
Highlight: New Canaan, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont
Juxtapoz: Surf Craft, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
Una Fresta de Possibilidades Dos Coleciones en Dialogo, Fundaçao Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
2016: Marcel Dzama Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon: Forgetting the Hand, David Zwirner, New York [limited edition zine Dzama/Pettibon]
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon: Let us compare mythologies, David Zwirner, London [limited edition zine]
Marcel Dzama: A Flower of Evil, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (solo exhibition)
Drawing Conclusions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Figure/Ground, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
Ready for the Stage/Act 1 (1900-2016), Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
Shaping Ideas: Sculptures, Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania [part of ArtVilnius’16: International Contemporary Art Fair] [exhibition publication]
Snacks, Power Station of Art, Shanghai [exhibition publication]
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
2015: Marcel Dzama Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Campeonato de Guadalajara: Marcel Dzama and Eduardo Sarabia, Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara
Marcel Dzama: The Fallen Fables, Crown Point Press, San Francisco (solo exhibition)
Marcel Dzama: Mischief Makes a Move, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri [exhibition brochure](solo exhibition)
Marcel Dzama: Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester’s Dance), Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (solo exhibition)
Artists For Ikon, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England [catalogue]
Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden [organized in collaboration with Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
Drawing, Je t’aime: Selections from the AGO Vaults, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Dusk to Dusk: Unsettled, Unraveled, Unreal, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles [organized by Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania]
Walk The Line. New Ways of Drawing/Neue Wege der Zeichnung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany [catalogue]
2014: Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance), David Zwirner, New York, London, UK (solo)
: Hollow Laughter, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland (solo)
2013: A Trickster Made this World, Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Time Waits for Us, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
: Unreal, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, Canada (solo)
: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets, David Zwirner, London, UK (solo)
: A Game of Chess, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
: The End Game, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, USA (solo)
: A Touch of Evil/Un toque de maldad, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Zapopan, Mexico (solo)
2012: Con razón o sin ella/With or Without Reason, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain (solo)
: Death Disco Dance, Isolation Room, St. Louis, USA (solo)
2011: Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA
All Cannibals!, la maison rouge, Paris, France
From the Collection: Unreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Marcel Dzama: Behind Every Curtain, David Zwirner, New York, USA (solo)
Marcel Dzama: A Game of Chess, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
The Never Known into the Forgotten, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (solo)
2010: Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Triennale Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
THE FATE OF IRONY, KAI 10 Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
Krieg und Frieden, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Münster, Germany
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Monster, West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver Canada
Marcel Dzama: Delila’s Dance, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2009: Wonderland, KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Even the Ghost of the Past, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell: Life Experiences in Art from the MUSAC Collection, Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Jardín Botánico Culiacán, Culiacan, Mexico
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2008: Even the Ghost of the Past, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Marcel Dzama, Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico (solo)
Edition 46, Marcel Dzama, In cooperation with Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (solo)
The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, USA
2007: Royal Art Lodge- Whrere is Here?, Winnipeg Art Lodge, Winnipeg, Canada
Moving Picture, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, Mexico (solo)
Running Around the Pool, Museum of Fine Arts, College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Cult Fiction, New Art Galolery, Walsall, England
Hinter den Sieben Bergen, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
5 rencontres d’artistes, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
Celluloid Ceremony, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2006: Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Marcel Dzama: Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA
Tree With Roots, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
Since 2000: Printmaking Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Parallel Visions II: “Outsider” and “Insider” Art Today, Gallerie St. Etienne, New York, USA
Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
New Prints 2006, International Print Center, New York, USA
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Down By Law, 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Peer Pleasure 1: Royal Art Lodge, Space 1026 and Instant Coffee, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis, USA (solo)
2005: Surface, Lucas Schoormanns Gallery, New York, USA
Tres o cuatro historias, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Funny Cuts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Emergencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Lyon, France
Aus der Serie, Teil III, K4 galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
Strips & Characters – Kunst unter dem Einfluss von Comics, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Central Station: The Harald Falckenberg Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Security Check, Painting after Romanticism. Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Eccentric Modern, The Foundation To-Life, New York, USA
The Gallery, Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Max Ernst and the tradition of the Modern, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Drawing Narrative, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, USA
Dear New Girl or whatever your name is, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
La Melange des Genres, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France
Pensieri dei serpenti by The Royal Art Lodge, Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
The Royal Art Lodge: Venetian Works at Caffé Florian, Caffé Florian, Venice, Italy
The Lotus Eaters, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain; Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (solo)
Tres O Cuatro Historias, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
The Royal Art Lodge: Serpentine Musings, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Course of Human History Personified, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2004: Marcel Dzama, Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes, Paris, France (solo)
The Last Winter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
Nieva Negro, PhotoEspana2004 International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
Bears in My Room: Works on Paper by Marcel Dzama, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, USA (solo)
The Royal Art Lodge: Pride in Workmanship, Houldsworth Gallery, London, England
Marcel Dzama: Screenprints and action figures, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Albatross Note, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Olga Korper, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2003: For the Record: Drawing Contemorary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Odd Fellows, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA
Sweet Tooth, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, USA
Zwischenbilanz, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
MosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Rizzero Arte, Pescara, Italy (solo)
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada (solo)
Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, Drawing Center, New York, USA; Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; De Vleeshal and De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Elaine L. Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Daily Apocalypse: One Drawing by Two Artists, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy (solo)
2002: Fantasy Underfoot, the 47th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Marcel Dzama, Sies + Hoke, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Drawings for Dante, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
Fantasyland, Dámelio Terras, New York, USA
One Thousand Words, John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, USA
Fantasy Underfoot, Corcoran Biennal, Washigton D.C.
2001: The Royal Art Lodge: Amounts of Blood, Atycore, Canada
IN FUMO, Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
W5: Five Winnipeg Artists Spanning Five Generations, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada
Ziviler Ungehorsam, Die Sammlung Falckenberg, Hannover, Germany
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Monica de Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
I love NY, David Zwirner, New York, USA
The Royal Art Lodge, Perugi Artcontemporanea, Padova, Italy
2000: Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
More Famous Drawings, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at University of British Columbia, Canada (solo)
Zeichnungen + Video, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Wings, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, France
Fall Survey, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton/Vancouver, Canada
Babylon, Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Selections from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Double Whammy, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Garage Video, North Dakota Museum, Grand Forks, USA
Garage Video, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Greetings from Winnipeg, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, USA
Drawing Show, Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, USA
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
1999: Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, USA
Greene Gallery, Genf, Switzerland (solo)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Castelli di Carte, Galeria Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy
Sit(E)ings: Trajectories for a Future, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1998: Selections Spring 98, Drawing Center, NewYork, USA
For the birds, The Figures, Great Barrington, Canada
Laughing, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Espace Purplex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
Casa Triangulo, San Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Art Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA (solo)
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1997: Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Wood Inc., Off-Ice Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Fresh Popped, Plug In Gallery, Anti-Chamber, Winnipeg, Canada
Art for Healing, Walker Theater, Winnipeg, Canada
Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
The Royal Art Lodge, Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, USA
1996: Fite Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Public Collections

: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, NY
: Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Paris
: Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
: Fundación Helga de Alvear, Madrid - Cáceres, Spain
: Colección Jumex, Mexico City
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Art Institute of Chicago
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
: Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
: The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada

Literature

2011: Nashville, Tenessee. Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, 2011. [catalogue forthcoming]
“20 Questions for Artist Marcel Dzama.” artinfo.com (March 8, 2011) [ill.] [online]
Lindquist, Greg. “Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner.” ARTnews (April 2011): 114 [ill.]
Frankel, David. “Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner.” Artforum (April 2011): 284 [ill.]
Coggins, David. “Stranger Than Fiction: The Fantastic Worlds of Marcel Dzama.” huffingtonpost.com (March 1, 2011) [ill.] [online]
2010: Marcel Dzama(Text by Mark Lanctôt, and Jennifer Allen). Montreal, Canada: Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, 2010 (catalogue)
2009: Marcel Dzama. Düsseldorf, Germany: Sies + Höke, 2009 (catalogue)
Culiacan, Mexico. Jardín Botánico Culiacán. 2009
New York, New York. The Museum of Modern Art. Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. Texts by Connie Butler, Gary Garrels, Christian Rattemeyer, Harvey Shipley Miller
Tel Aviv, Israel. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 2009
2007: Moving Picture. London, England: Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2007(catalogue)
2003: Marcel Dzama: The Berlin Years, 2003(Introductions by Sarah Vowell and Viggo Mortensen). San Francisco, CA: McSweeney’s Books, 2003
Marcel Dzama and Neil Farber: Daily Apocalypse, 2003(Text by Daniela Lotta). Padova, Italy: Perugi Artecontemporanea, 2003
Drawings by Marcel Dzama: From the Bernardi Collection, 2003(Text by Glen E. Cumming, Wayne Baerwaldt, James Patten). Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Art Gallery of Windsor, 2003
2002: Expect: Art, 2002. New York, NY: The What to Expect Foundation, 2002
Drawings for Dante. London, England: Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2002
2001: The Royal Art Lodge(Text by Guido Bartorelli). Padova, Italy: Perugi Artecontemporanea, 2001
2000: Famous Drawings Present: Marcel Dzama (Text by Wayne Baerwaldt), Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2000

Marcel Dzama

(Canadian, born 1974)

Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama

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Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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