Education
Dzama received his BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1997.Work
Dzama works extensively in sculpture, painting, collage, and film. The artist is also known for his intricate dioramas and large scale polyptychs that draw from his talents across a range of media. He works in multiple disciplines to bring a cast of human figures, animals, and imaginary hybrids to life, and has developed an international reputation and following for his art that depicts fanciful, anachronistic worlds. The artist is also known for his work with The Royal Art Lodge. He was the inspiration for Deco Dawson's 2001 short film '' FILM(dzama)''.Robert EnrightSpecial projects
In 2016, Dzama created the costume and stage design for the New York City Ballet's ''The Most Incredible Thing'', a performance based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.Exhibitions
Dzama has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (2010) and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2008). In 2006, he had an exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, which traveled to the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland. Marcel Dzama cites Marcel Duchamp as one of his greatest inspirations and drew on the artist’s near-obsession with chess as a starting point for his video ''A Game of Chess'', 2011, in which life-size kings, queens, rooks and pawns duel for supremacy in a production brought to life in Guadalajara, Mexico. The film is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. His work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the group exhibitions ''Greetings from Winnipeg'' at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis and ''Contemporary American Realist Drawings, the Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection'' at The Art Institute of Chicago (both 1999). In 2006, he was included in the Whitney Biennial exhibition, ''Down By Law: Day for Night'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His work also featured in ''In Me / Out of Me'' at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York and Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2007); ''Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities'' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); ''Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection'' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); ''Moby Dick'' at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2009); and the ''Sobey Art Award Short List'' at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2009). In May 2016 the Labs Gallery in Bologna presented an exhibition of his works entitled "Masked Tales", which also featured the Italian artist, Vanni Cuoghi. In 2023, Dzama participated in Performa 23 where he presentedCollections
Dzama's work is in the collections of major museums and public institutions, including: * the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York * the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris * the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. * the Dallas Museum of Art * the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York * the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami * the Museum of Modern Art, New York * the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal *theReferences
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