Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama (born May 4, 1974) is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings.

Education

Dzama received his BFA from the University of Manitoba.

He was the inspiration for Deco Dawson's 2001 short film '' FILM(dzama)''.Robert Enright
"Art Deco: The Films of Deco Dawson"
'' Border Crossings'', August 2008.

Dzama's work has been used on the covers of numerous record albums, notably ''The Else'' by They Might Be Giants, '' Guero'' by Beck and ''Reconstruction Site'' by The Weakerthans. He also provided the cover art for literary critic Sianne Ngai's 2005 book ''Ugly Feelings'', published by Harvard University Press. His costume designs can be seen in music videos for the Bob Dylan song, "When the Deal Goes Down", the N.A.S.A. song, "The People Tree", and the Department of Eagles song, " No One Does It Like You", which he also co-directed. McSweeney's has published two collections of his work, ''The Berlin Years'' in 2003 (reprinted in 2006) and a follow-up, ''The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All'', in 2008.

In 2010, composer Ed Bennett created "Dzama Stories", a piece of music inspired by Marcel Dzama, featuring Decibel and Paul Dunmall. It is music for amplified ensemble, electronics and improviser.

Special 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 has drawn 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.

Over the past decade, his work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including ''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); ''Sobey Art Award Short List'' at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2009); ''Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities'' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); ''In Me / Out of Me'' at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York and Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2007). 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. In the late 1990s, Dzama participated in 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 May 2016 at the Labs Gallery in Bologna was presented an exhibition of his works entitled "Masked Tales", in which also exposed an italian artist Vanni Cuoghi.

Collections

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
*the National Gallery of Canada
* The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
*the Tate Museum, London, UK

References

External links

Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner

Marcel Dzama at Sies + Höke

Selected Press at David Zwirner



Marcel Dzama: Even the Ghost of the Past at Strand Bookstore


"Drawn to Trouble"


"Drawing power: Marcel Dzama"

BBC Collective
Video tour of show at Ikon Gallery, interview, image gallery

BBC Imagine
Exquisite corpse to which Dzama contributed

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1974 births
Artists from New York City
Artists from Winnipeg
Canadian contemporary artists
Canadian graphic designers
Living people
University of Manitoba alumni