Marcel Dzama

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Marcel Dzama with make-up 2010

Marcel Dzama (* 1974 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian draftsman , object artist and filmmaker .

biography

Marcel Dzama studied at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and has worked as an artist in New York and Winnipeg since 1996 . He is co-founder of the Royal Art Lodge , a Canadian artists' association and is represented by the Sies + Höke gallery in Düsseldorf and the David Zwirner Gallery in New York.

Dzama created album covers for the musicians Beck ( Guero and Guerolito ), The Weakerthans ( Reconstruction Site ) and the EP cover for the band They Might Be Giants ( Bed, Bed, Bed ). He also plays in a band called Albatross Note , for whose album covers (including The Art Lodge Tapes ) he is also responsible.

He worked with director Spike Jonze on the film Sad Ghost .

style

Marcel Dzama is known for his small-format ink and watercolor drawings, which mainly depict the merging of humans and animals. In addition to drawing, his artistic work also includes video installations, sculptural art and polyptych works.

Exhibitions (selection)

1998

  • David Zwirner, New York

2002

  • La Biennale de Montréal 2002, Montreal

2003

  • The Royal Art Lodge - Ask the Dust Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • The Royal Art Lodge - Ask the Dust The Power Plant, Toronto
  • The Royal Art Lodge - Ask the Dust Drawing Center, New York

2004

  • Central Station - The Harald Falckenberg Collection La Maison Rouge, Paris
  • Diaries and Dreams Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal
  • Bears in My Room - Works on Paper by Marcel Dzama Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville
  • Strips & Characters - Art under the influence of Comics Kunstverein Wolfsburg

2005

  • Funny Cuts - cartoons and comics in the contemporary art Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

2006

  • Into Me / Out Of Me, Kunst-Werke Berlin
  • The Wonderful Fund, Collecting Art for the New Millennium, West Sussex
  • Marcel Dzama - Tree with Roots, CCA - Center for Contemporary Art , Glasgow
  • Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica CA
  • PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
  • Parallel Visions II - Outsider and Insider Art Today, Galerie St. Etienne, New York
  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco CA
  • National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

2007

  • Behind The Seven Mountains, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad

Publications (selection)

Marcel Dzama (presents) Opposition and Sister Squares Reconciled (Edition Ex Libris No. 20), Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89770-950-8 .

  • Paintings & Drawings, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-88375-842-6 .
  • The Course of Human History Personified, New York, David Zwirner 2006, ISBN 0-9769136-1-5 .
  • The Berlin Years, McSweeneys, San Francisco 2006, ISBN 1-932416-74-9 .
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin issue '46' 2008 special issue with a picture cycle

Awards

1996

  • Indiflix Award, Winnipeg, Canada

1997

  • Namta Award, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Watercolor Award, University of Manitoba, Canada

2000

  • New Artist Award, Cologne

2004

  • The Sobey Art Award, Canada
  • Viewers Choice Award, Canada

source

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personal data
SURNAME Dzama, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian draftsman, object artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada