Born in 1974, Winnipeg, Canada. Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, B.F.A. (first class honors)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Celluloid Ceremony, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Moving Picture, Timothy Taylor, London, United Kingdom [catalogue]
Marcel Dzama, Magnus Karlsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Marcel Dzama: Tree With Roots, IKON, Birmingham, England [itinerary: Centre for
Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland] [catalogue]
Marcel Dzama, The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis, Davis,
CA
2005 The Course of Human History Personified, David Zwirner, New York, NY [catalogue]
The Lotus Eaters, Centre d’art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain [itinerary: Le Magasin
Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France]
2004 Marcel Dzama, Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d'Artistes, Paris, France
The Albatross Note, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
The Last Winter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England [catalogue]
Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany [catalogue]
Marcel Dzama, Olga Korper, Toronto, Canada
Marcel Dzama, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Bears in My Room: Works on Paper by Marcel Dzama, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville,
VA
2003 Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Marcel Dzama, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Marcel Dzama, Rizziero Arte, Pescara, Italy
Daily Apocalypse: One Drawing by Two Artists, Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
[catalogue]
Drawings by Marcel Dzama: From the Bernardi Collection, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor,
Ontario [catalogue]
2002 Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany [catalogue]
Drawings for Dante, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK [catalogue]
2001 More Famous Drawings, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada [itinerary: Olga
Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada;
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada; Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary,
Canada; Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchwan, Canada; Laforet Galleries, Tokyo,
Japan] [catalogue]
Marcel Dzama: New Drawings, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Marcel Dzama, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Marcel Dzama, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
Marcel Dzama, Galleria No Code, Bologna, Italy
Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller, Santa Monica, CA
Marcel Dzama, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Marcel Dzama, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Marcel Dzama, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
More Famous Drawings, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada [Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
University of British Columbia, Canada] [catalogue]
Zeichnungen + Video, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
1999 Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Marcel Dzama, Greene Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Marcel Dzama, Casa Triagulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marcel Dzama, Espaco p Producoes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 Marcel Dzama, Espace Purplex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marcel Dzama, Casa Triangulo, San Paulo, Brazil
Marcel Dzama, ArtPace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Marcel Dzama, ArtForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Marcel Dzama, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Marcel Dzama, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
1997 Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller, Santa Monica, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Hinter den Sieben Bergen, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
5 rencontres d’artistes, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY [itinerary: Kunst-Werke Berlin
e.V. – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; MACRO Museo d’Arte
Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy] [catalogue]
Since 2000: Printmaking Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Parallel Visions II: “Outsider” and “Insider” Art Today, Gallerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
New Prints 2006, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Down By Law, 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Peer Pleasure 1: Royal Art Lodge, Space 1026 and Instant Coffee, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, CA
2005 Take Two. Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
Always Crashing in the same Car, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany
Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York, NY
Eccentric Modern, The Foundation To-Life, NY
The Gallery, Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Germany
Max Ernst and the tradition of the Modern, StäDtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Drawing Narrative: Laylah Ali, Will Crow, Marcel Dzama, Drew King, Craig Kuica, Elaine Lynch,
Chirs Oliveria, Robyn O'Neil, Jane South, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster,
OH.
Tres O Cuatro Historias, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain.
Dear New Girl or whatever your name is, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA [catalogue]
New Work/New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Security Check: Painting after Romanticism, Arndt & Partner, Zurich [catalogue]
Le Melange des Genres: Creatures Hybrides et Mysterieuses, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen,
Rouen, France
The Royal Art Lodge: Serpentine Musings, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland [catalogue]
pensieri dei serpenti by The Royal Art Lodge, Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy [catalogue]
Surface, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY
The Royal Art Lodge: Venetian Works at Caffé Florian, Caffé Florian, Venice, Italy [catalogue]
2004 The Royal Art Lodge: Hypothermia, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Strips & Characters, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich, Germany [itinerary: Kunstverein
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2005] [catalogue]
The Royal Family, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [catalogue]
Diaries and Dreams: Drawings, Ursula Bickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany [catalogue]
Huts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland [catalogue]
Paradiso e Inferno, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Dorsoduro, Italy
À Fripon, Frion et Demi, Pour une École Buissonnière, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon,
France
Dessins et des autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
The Royal Art Lodge: Pride in Workmanship, The Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Nieva Negro, PhotoEspaña2004 International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
Bande Annonce, Véronique de Bellefroid & Bernard Prévot, Brussels, Belgium
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart,
Germany
Works on Paper, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
Die ungeschriebene Nachkriegsgeschichte der Zeichnung, Galerie Heubner, Frankfurt, Germany
[catalogue]
2003 Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, The Drawing Center, New York, NY [itinerary: Power Plant,
Toronto; De Vleeshal and De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands;
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA] [catalogue]
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[catalogue]
The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Odd Fellows, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Sweet Tooth, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Zwischenbilanz, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
MosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, The Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2002 Fantasyland, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
ONE THOUSAND WORDS, John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Fantasy Underfoot, Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [catalogue]
Expect: Art, The What to Expect Foundation, New York, NY [catalogue]
La Biennale de Montreal 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Short Stories, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada [catalogue]
2001 I ・ NY, David Zwirner, New York, NY
I ・ NY, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Spaghetti Western, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
[catalogue]
Read All about it, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Ziviler Ungehorsam, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hanover. Germany
The Royal Art Lodge, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy [catalogue]
Artpile: The Royal Art Lodge, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
The Royal Art Lodge: Amounts of Blood, Artcore, Toronto, Canada
Paperview, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain [catalogue]
IN FUMO, Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy [catalogue]
Amused: Humor in Contemporary Art, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL [catalogue]
W5: Five Winnipeg Artists Spanning Five Generations, Art Gallery of Southwestern Mantioba,
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada [catalogue]
2000 Canada 2 Perspectives, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada [catalogue]
Dr. Wings, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, France
Fall Survey, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton/Vancouver, Canada
Babylon, Galleri Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Selections from The Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Double Whammy, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Garage Video, North Dakota Museum, Grand Forks, ND
Garage Video, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Drawing Show, Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
The Drawing Show, Lizbeth Oliviera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone, New York, NY [catalogue]
The Royal Art Lodge Presents, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Royal Art Lodge Drawings, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Canada 3 Perspectives, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy [catalogue]
1999 Greetings from Winnipeg, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN [catalogue]
Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
Castelli di Carte, Galeria Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy
Sit(E)ings: Trajectories for a Future, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
[catalogue]
1998 Selections Spring ’98, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
For the Birds, The Figures, Great Barrington, MA
Laughing, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1997 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New Fun Video Show #7, Espace Purplex, San Paulo, Brazil
Wood Inc., Off-Ice Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Fresh Popped, Plug in Gallery, Anti-Chamber, Winnipeg, Canada
Gallery 1.1.1., Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Art for Healing, Walker Theater, Winnipeg, Canada
The Royal Art Lodge, Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, TX
1996 Fite Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
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CATALOGUES AND BOOKS
2007 London, England. Timothy Taylor Gallery. Moving Picture, 2007.
2006 New York, NY. Distributed Art Publishers. Painting People: Figure Painting Today, 2006. Text
by Charlotte Mullins.
2005 Barcelona, Spain. Fundació Trenta Quilòmetres Per Segon, Armpit of the Mole, 2005.
Cologne, Germany. Walter Konig. Marcel Dzama: Paintings and Drawings, 2005. Text by Catrin
Lorch.
Dublin, Ireland. The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Serpentine Musings, 2005.
London, England. Phaidon Press. Vitamin D, 2005. Text by Emma Dexter.
New York, NY. McSweeney’s. Dear New Girl Or Whatever Your Name Is, 2005.
New York, NY. David Zwirner. The Course of Human History Personified, 2005. Texts by Jason
Rosenfeld & Jason Tougaw.
Padova, Italy. Perugi artecontemporanea. Pensieri dei serpenti, 2005. Text by Guido Bartorelli.
Paris, France. La Maison Rouge, Paris and Fage Editions, Lyon. Central Station: Collection Harald
Falckenberg, 2005. Text by Laurence Dreyfus.
San Antonio, TX. Artpace. Artists Salute Artpace, auction catalogue, 2005.
Zurich, Switzerland. Arndt & Partner Zurich. Security Check: Painting After Romanticism, 2005.
Texts by: Amélie von Heydebreck, Florian Illies and Silke Hohmann.
2004 Dublin, Ireland. The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Huts, 2004. Texts by Michael Hinds and John
Hutchinson.
Frankfurt, Germany. Galerie Hubner. Die Ungeschriebene Wachkriegsgeschichte Der Zeichnung,
2004. [includes image CD]
Ipatinga, Brazil. Insituto Cultural Usiminas. Perfil de una coleção, 2004. Text by Bruce Chatwin.
Meunchen, Germany. Kunstraum Meunchen and Kunstverein Wolfsburg. Strips & Characters,
2004, ill.
New York, NY. Tate. American Patrons of the Tate: Annual Report 2004, 2004.
Santa Monica, CA. Richard Heller Gallery. The Royal Family, 2004. ill.
London, UK. Timothy Taylor Gallery. Marcel Dzama: The Last Winter, 2004.
Cologne, Germany. Sies + Höke. Marcel Dzama: Paintings and Drawings, 2004. Text by Catrin
Lorch.
Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Vancouver Art Gallery. For the Record: Drawing
Contemporary Life, 2003. Text by Daina Augaitis.
Madrid, Spain. PHE04 Historias, International Festival of Photography and the Visual Arts, 2004.
2003 Bologna, Italy. Hybris S.r.1., Animal Appeal: Uno Studio Sul Teriomorfismo, 2003. Texts by
Roberto Marchesini and Karin Andersen.
Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany. Ursula Blickle Stiftung. Diaries & Dreams: Arbeiten auf
Papier, 2004.
New York, NY. The Drawing Center. Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust Dictionary of Received Ideas,
2003. Text by Wayne Baerwaldt, Joseph R. Wolin & Lytle Shaw.
Padova, Italy. Perugi artecontemporanea. Marcel Dzama and Neil Farber: Daily Apocalypse, 2003.
Text by Daniela Lotta.
Pescara, Italy. Rizziero Arte. Welcome to Winnipeg, 2003.
San Francisco, CA. McSweeney’s Books. Marcel Dzama: “The Berlin Years,” 2003. Introductions
by Sarah Vowell and Viggo Mortensen.
Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver Art Gallery. For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, 2003.
Text by Daina Augaitis.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Art Gallery of Windsor. Drawings by Marcel Dzama: From the
Bernardi Collection, 2003. [ill.]
2002 Corcoran Gallery of Art. Fantasy Underfoot – The 47th Biennial Exhibition, 2002. Texts by Jonathan
P. Binstock and Adam Lerner.
London, UK. Timothy Taylor Gallery. Drawings for Dante, 2002.
New York, New York. The What to Expect Foundation. Expect: Art, 2002.
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. Fantasy Underfoot, 2002. Texts by Jacquelyn Days
Serwer, Jonathan P. Binstock, Billy Collins, and Adam Lerner.
Winnipeg, Canada. The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Short Stories, 2002. Text by James Patten.
2001 Bergamo, Italy. Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art. IN FUMO, 2001. Text by Giacinto Di
Pietrantonio.
Brandon, Canada. Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. W5: Five Winnipeg Artists Spanning
Five Generations, 2001. Essay by Chris Reid
Chicago, IL. Carrie Secrist Gallery. Amused, 2001.
Madrid, Spain. Galeria Espacio Minimo. Paperview, 2001.
New York, NY. Zing Magazine. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Spaghetti Western, 2001.
Padova, Italy. Perugi Artecontemporanea. The Royal Art Lodge. 2001. Text by Guido Bartorelli.
2000 Toronto, Canada. Art Core Gallery. Canada 3 Perspectives, 2000. Text by Gary Michael Dault.
Minneapolis, MN. Minneapolis College or Art and Design. Greetings from Winnipeg, 2000. Texts
by Robert Enright and Brian Szott.
New York, NY. Barbara Gladstone Gallery. Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2000.
Text by Klaus Kertess.
1999 Canada. Plug In Editions. More Famous Drawings, 1999.
Canada. Winnipeg Art Gallery. Sit(E)ings: Trajectories for a Future, 1999. Texts by Shirley
Madill, Serena Keshavjee, Cliff Eyland, Rafael G. Moriana, Vera Lemecha, and Libby
Cardinelle.
1998 Los Angeles, CA. College of Neglected Science. Ribot 6: over 60 under 30, 1998.
Santa Monica, CA. Smart Art Press. Famous Drawings Present: Marcel Dzama, 1998. Text by
Wayne Baerwaldt.
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
2003 They Might Be Giants. Bed Bed Bed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
2002 Henderson, Lee. The Broken Record Techniques. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada, 2002.
Hornby, Nick. Songbook. San Francisco, CA: McSweeney's Books, 2002.
Rushkoff, Douglas. Exit Strategy. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2002.
2001 Fusselman, Amy. The Pharmacist’s Mate. New York: McSweeney’s Books, 2001.
MEDIA PROJECTS
1996 Slideshow, Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
AWARDS
2004 Sobey Art Award, Manitoba, Canada
2000 New Artist Award, Cologne, Germany
1997 Namta award, University of Manitoba, Canada
Watercolor award, University of Manitoba, Canada
PUBLICATIONS, SPECIAL PROJECTS, AND REPRODUCTIONS OF ARTWORK
CD cover for Beck; "Guero." 2005
Cover art for: Ngai, Sianne. Ugly Feelings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Illustrations for: Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Elliott, Stephen. Looking Forward to It. New York: Picador Press, 2004.
LP and CD: Albatross Note: "I Love New York." 2003.
CD Design for Bridge: Stories and Ideas. Vol. 1, No. 3, (Fall/Winter 2001), back cover.
CD cover for The Weakerthans; “Reconstruction Site.”
“The Royal Art Lodge – Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, and Neil Farber”. Uovo, N. Drawings, (2005),
pp. 9, 90-111.
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Andy Warhol Foundation, New York, New York
Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
Concoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts