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John Zurier

(American, born 1956)

John Zurier

Ambiguous Argument about a Spring Cloud, 2021

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John Zurier

Steps and Snow, 2021

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John Zurier

Untitled (Umbra), 2021

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John Zurier

Untitled (Bolagil), 2021

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John Zurier

The Future of Ice, 2012

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John Zurier

Given, 2016

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John Zurier

Esjuberg 5, 2019

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John Zurier

Hafravatn, 2018

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John Zurier

Untitled (LarsHertervig), 2023

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John Zurier

Sketch for Winter II, 2023

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John Zurier

Tíu Dropar (Ten Drops), 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1956: Born in Santa Monica, CA
1979: BS Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley
1982: MA Painting, University of California at Berkeley
1983: Eisner Award in Fine Art, University of California at Berkeley
1984: MFA Painting, University of California at Berkeley
: Best of Show Award, Hayward Area Forum of the Arts Annual, Hayward, California
1988 - 2005: Adjunct Faculty, California College of the Arts
1989 - 1991: Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco State University
1991 - 1997: Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
1996 - 1997: Adjunct Faculty, Santa Rosa Junior College
1999: Gerbode Faculty Foundation Grant, California College of Arts and Crafts, California
2001 - 2003: Visiting Professor, Stanford University
2002 - 2005: Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
2006: Eminent Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
2010: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

Exhibitions

2019: John Zurier Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
North from Here, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Places and Things, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (solo exhibition)
2018: John Zurier Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Etchings and Monotypes, Borch Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
A Mind of Winter, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Sometimes (Over me the mountain), BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland (solo exhibition)
George's First Print Show, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blå (Blue), BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmark
Black & White, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kind of Blue – Winter Exhibition, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
In Series: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA
2017: John Zurier Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Stars Without Distance, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
At the very end of the blue sky, THE CLUB, Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition)
John Zurier, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (solo exhibition)
Dust and Troubled Air, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
#currentmood, Berg Contemporary, Reykjavik, Iceland
SottoPelle (under the skin), Galleria Annarumma, Naples
THE STAND, P! Gallery, New York, NY
2016: John Zurier Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
The Last Summer Light, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
John Zurier, Summer Book, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin (solo exhibition)
John Zurier and Friends, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
Recent Watercolors, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas (solo exhibition)
East, Galerie Nordenhacke, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Traces of Water, Hafnarbjorg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Painting, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Once we were next door neighbours, Hreinn Fridfinnsson and John Zurier, Listasafn ASI, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015: John Zurier Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
John Zurier: Watercolors, Galleri Gangur (The Corridor), Reykjavik, Iceland (solo exhibition)
Between North and Night, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (solo exhibition)
"West of the Future," Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
A Studio in Iceland, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paper Trail: Contemporary Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2014: John Zurier exhibitions in 2014:

Recent Paintings, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, texas, USA (solo exhibition)
2013: John Zurier exhibitions in 2013:

Knowledge is a blue naiveté, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, GERMANY (solo exhibition)
A spring a thousand years ago, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)
Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
2012: John Zurier exhibitions in 2012:

Drawing A Line In The Sand, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Heat Waves, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2011: John Zurier exhibitions in 2011:

Paintings and Watercolors, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
John Zurier, Jason Fox, Richard Allen Morris, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York, USA
El Genet Blau (The Blue Rider), JiM Contemporani, Barcelona, SPAIN
2010: John Zurier exhibitions in 2010:

White Paintings and Night Paintings, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, New York, USA (solo exhibition)
Nordic Paintings, Galería Javier López, Madrid, SPAIN (solo exhibition)
2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, New Port Beach, California, USA
Black and White, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Le Tableau, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, New York, USA
ARRAY ( [ + ] PRINTS ), Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Informal Relations: Contemporary works on paper, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art- iMOCA, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
2009: John Zurier exhibitions in 2009:

John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, California, USA
TRANS: form I color, Meridian Gallery (curated by Peter Selz), San Francisco, California, USA
2008: John Zurier exhibitions in 2008:

John Zurier: Night Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (solo exhibition)
Pintura Abstracta, Galeria Javier López, Madrid, SPAIN
“Infinite Light” in "to:Night”, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York, USA
The 7th Gwangju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report, Gwangju, SOUTH KOREA
Night, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, New York, in conjunction with Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
To Be Looked At.., Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2007: John Zurier exhibitions in 2007:

John Zurier: Paintings, Galeria Javier López, Madrid, SPAIN (solo exhibition)
John Zurier: Paintings Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (solo exhibition)
X-tra: Kunstler der Galerie, Galerie Claus Semerak, Munich, GERMANY
Trans: Abstraction, Weltraum, Munich, GERMANY
CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA
Color/Construct: John Zurier / Tomas Vinson, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, USA
Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Col College Museum of Art, Waterville, Massachusetts, USA
2006: John Zurier exhibitions in 2006:

Line and Surface: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York, USA
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
Some Light, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2005: John Zurier exhibitions in 2005:

John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
John Zurier: New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (solo exhibition)
2004: John Zurier exhibitions in 2004:

Specific Light, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Array, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Gallery Artists, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2003: John Zurier exhibitions in 2003:

John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
John Zurier: Oblaka, Peer, London, ENGLAND (solo exhibition)
Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfillment, Curated by David Austin, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, ENGLAND
2002: John Zurier exhibitions in 2002:

Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
John Zurier, Robert Ryman, Joseph Marioni: Painting, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New Selections: A Changing Survey of New Work By Gallery Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
XXL, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
2001: John Zurier exhibitions in 2001:

John Zurier, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition)
John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
Minimalism: Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
2000: John Zurier exhibitions in 2000:

John Zurier: Paintings 1997–1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
1999: John Zurier exhibitions in 1999:

A Quiet Storm, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1998: John Zurier exhibitions in 1998:

Undercurrents and Overtones: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA
Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
1996: John Zurier exhibitions in 1996:

Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
1994: John Zurier exhibitions in 1994:

John Zurier: Abstract Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
1993: John Zurier exhibitions in 1993:

Drawing First, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud, San Francisco, California, USA
Chad Buck, Dan Connally, John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
1992: John Zurier exhibitions in 1992:

Three Painters: Donald Feasel, Philip Morsberger, John Zurier, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
1990: John Zurier exhibitions in 1990:

Chain Reaction Six, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Fifteen Artists of Gallery Paule Anglim, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, California, USA
1989: John Zurier exhibitions in 1989:

John Zurier: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
Invitational Print Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Disabilities, Richmond, California, USA
1986: John Zurier exhibitions in 1986:

John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA (solo exhibition)
Gallery Artists, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
ProArts Annual, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
1984: John Zurier exhibitions in 1984:

Pick Four, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
MFA/UCB/1984, University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA

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Public Collections

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA

Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, USA

Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, Washington, USA

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

University of California, San Francisco at Mission Bay, San Francisco, California, USA

Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, USA

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Literature

2011
Baker Kenneth, You Must Remember This, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 October

Caitlin Williams Freedman and SFMOMA’s latest edible art offering, Los Angeles Times, 13 October

2009
Baker, Kenneth, Abstracts Commingle Well at Meridian, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 November

Fazzolari, Bruno, John Zurier & John Beech, Stretcher Reviews, San Francisco, CA Stretcher.org

Feldman, Melissa, John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, Frieze, Issue 125, September

2008
To: Night (Contemporary Representations of the Night) (catalog), curated by Joachim Pissarro, Mara Hoberman, Julia Moreno

The 7th Gwangju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report (catalog), curated by Okwui Enwezor, et al.

John Zurier Night Paintings: 2007-2008 (catalog), Larry Becker Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA

Newhall, Edith. A Larry Becker Show Hail the Hue, The Philadelphia Enquirer, 25 July

Night Paintings, The Philadelphia Enquirer, 20 March

2007
Baker, Kenneth. Good, Bad, Ugly at Langton, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 February

Smith, Roberta. John Zurier: Paintings, The New York Times, 18 May

Newhall, Edith. Paint in a Bottle, The Philadelphia Enquirer, 15 April

Jayavant, Prajakti. John Zurier, New Paintings at Gallery Paule Anglim, Stretcher.org

2005
John Zurier New Paintings 2005 (catalog), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Baker, Kenneth. Zurier at Anglim, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June

Fyfe, Joe, John Zurier at Larry Becker, Art in America, November

2003
EXODUS: between promise and fulfillment (catalog), Essay by Anthony Downey, Kettle’s

Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Arnatt, Matthew, and David Molin, 100 Reviews, Alberta Press, London, England, April

Baker, Kenneth. Zurier’s Quiet Brush, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 October

Searle, Adrian. Lost in Space, The Guardian UK, 15 July

Smith, Roberta. Bad News for Art at the Whitney Biennial, The New York Times, 31 March

Vicente, Mercedes. La Biennal de Whitney, La Vanguardia, 7 March

Sozanski, Edward. Three Painters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 March

Saltz, Jerry. American Bland Stand, Village Voice, 7 March

Princenthal, Nancy. Whither the Whitney Biennial, Art in America, June

Moutot, Michel. La Biennale du Whitney Museum descend dans Central Park, Agence France-Presse, 9 March

Baker, Kenneth. The Possibility of an Image, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 December

Aronowitz, Al .Column Seventy, The Blacklisted Journalist, 1 April

2002
Whitney Biennial 2002, (catalog), Lawrence Rinder et al., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2001
Baker, Kenneth. Louise Fishman/John Zurier, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 April

Hamlin, Jessie. John Zurier Captures Joy in Fields of Color San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April

2000
John Zurier Paintings 1997-1999 (catalog), Interview with Lawrence Rinder, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Baker, Kenneth. Painting’s Move Toward the Vanishing Point, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 January

Bonetti, David. John Zurier’e New Work at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco Examiner, 12 January

1999
Baker, Kenneth. Zurier’s Wavering Lines of Uncertainty, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 March

Martin, Victoria. Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction at the Armory Center for the Arts, Artweek, April, Vol. 29, No. 4

Frank, Peter. Essence in Purity, Practice and Process, LA Weekly, 27 March -2 April

1998
Ten Takes on Painterly Abstraction, San Francisco Examiner, 11 August

Bonetti, David. Abstraction is Back, San Francisco Examiner, 22 October

1996
Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters (catalog), Introduction by Keith Lachowicz, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

Bonetti, David. Return of the Abstract at Mills College, San Francisco Examiner, 6 December

Bretthauer, Laurie. Charting Butterfly Politics, NY soho Arts Magazine, November, No. 4

1994
John Zurier at Anglim, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 August

Baker, Kenneth. Reviews: John Zurier at Paule Anglim, Artnews, October, Vol.93, No.8

1993
Baker, Kenneth. Abstract Painting at Anglim, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 January

1992
Baker, Kenneth. Three Painters at Oakland Show, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 December

1990
Baker, Kenneth. Zurier’s Monotypes at Bank of America, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 September

1989
Baker, Kenneth. Forthright, Bold Abstracts, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June

1986
Vitality Spills Out from Canvases of Young Bay Artists, Oakland Tribune, 4 February

1985
Shere, Charles. Pro Arts Stages Welcome Revival of Juried Annual, Oakland Tribune, 24 December

Solnit, Rebecca. A Familiar Future, Artweek, 13 July, Vol.16, No. 25

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John Zurier

(American, born 1956)

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

John Zurier

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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