Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama was born in 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. †He is represented by David Zwirner in New York. The artist’s work includes drawing, collage, sculpture, and video, which were all on exhibit for the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at David Zwirner in 2008. In conjunction with the exhibition, a fully illustrated catalogue was published by Steidl/David Zwirner. Over the last decade, Dzama has shown extensively throughout North America and Europe. He was recently the focus of a solo exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, for which he designed Edition 46 of the S ddeutsche Zeitung Magazine (2008-2009). His last major solo exhibition travelled from the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England to the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (2006). The artist’s numerous group exhibitions include Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2007); Cult Fiction, which traveled from The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England to four additional venues in the United Kingdom (2007); Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY and Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2006); and Down By Law: Day for Night, 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2006). Dzama’s latest solo exhibition at Sies + Hˆke in Dusseldorf opens on March 21, 2009.