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Marcel Dzama    (Canadian, 1974)

 Marcel Dzama - Untitled (bear and cowboy shootout) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 12.6 x w: 9.9 in / h: 32 x w: 25.1 cm
Marcel Dzama
Untitled (bear and cowboy shootout) 1997
 
 Marcel Dzama - Untitled (bear ready to draw) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 12.6 x w: 9.9 in / h: 32 x w: 25.1 cm
Marcel Dzama
Untitled (bear ready to draw) 1997
 
 Marcel Dzama - Untitled (cowboy dodges) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 12.6 x w: 9.9 in / h: 32 x w: 25.1 cm
Marcel Dzama
Untitled (cowboy dodges) 1997
 
 Marcel Dzama - Untitled (cowboy shoots bird) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 12.6 x w: 9.9 in / h: 32 x w: 25.1 cm
Marcel Dzama
Untitled (cowboy shoots bird) 1997
 
  

Biography
1974 Born in Winnipeg, Canada
1994 - 1997 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, B.F.A. (first class honors)
Lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada and New York City

Exhibitions
2008 David Zwirner Gallery, New York (solo)
2007 Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (OPA), Guadalajara (solo)
2007 Celluloid Ceremony, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (solo)
2007 Moving Picture, Timothy Taylor, London (solo)
2007 'Hinter Den Sieben Bergen', Patricia Low Contemporary, Switzerland
2006 Marcel Dzama, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2006 Marcel Dzama, IKON, Birmingham, UK [catalogue]
2006 Marcel Dzama, The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2006 Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (solo)
2006 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
2006 Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2006 Tree with Roots, IKON Gallery, Brimingham, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (solo)
2006 The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis, Davis (solo)
2006 Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
2005 The Royal Art Lodge, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2005 ‘Lotus Eaters’, Centre d’art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2004 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes, Paris, France
2004 ‘The Albatross Note’, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
2004 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Olga Korper, Toronto, Canada
2004 ‘Marcle Dzama’, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Bears in My Room: Works on Paper by Marcel Dzama’, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
2004 ‘Strips & Characters’, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich, Germany [itinerary: Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2005]
2004 ‘The Royal Family’, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [catalogue]
2004 ‘Diaries and Dreams: Drawings’, Ursula Bickle Foundation, Germany
2004 ‘Paradiso e Inferno’, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Dorsoduro, Italy
2004 ‘À Fripon, Frion et Demi, Pour une École Buissonnière’, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
2004 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2004 ‘The Royal Art Lodge: Pride in Workmanship’, The Houldsworth Gallery, London
2004 ‘Nieva Negro’, PhotoEspana 2004 International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
2004 ‘Bande Annonce’, Véronique de Bellefroid & Bernard Prévot, Brussels, Belgium
2004 ‘Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art’, Staatsgalerie Stüttgart, Stüttgart, Germany
2004 ‘Works on Paper’, Sprüth Magers Projekte, München, Germany
2004 ‘Die ungeschriebene Nachkriegsgeschichte der Zeichnung’, Galerie Heubner, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 'Oddfellows: Marcel Dzama, Michael Dumontier, and Andrew JeffreyWright', Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
2003 ‘The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust’, The Drawing Center, New York. Travelling to: The Power Plant , Toronto; De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands; and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
2002 ‘Fantasy Underfoot’, the 47th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
2002 ‘Fantasyland’, D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA
2002 ‘ONE THOUSAND WORDS’, John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
2002 ‘Expect: Art’, The What to Expect Foundation, New York, USA
2002 ‘Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002 ‘Drawings for Dante’, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2001 ‘More Famous Drawings’, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada [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; Laforet Galleries, Tokyo, Japan; Spacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain]
2001 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA
2001 ‘I Love NY’, David Zwirner, New York, USA
2001 ‘I Love NY’, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA
2001 ‘Ziviler Ungehrosam’, Die Sammlung Falckenberg, Hannover, Germany
2001 ‘The Royal Art Lodge’, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
2001 ‘Artpile: The Royal Art Lodge’, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001 ‘The Royal Art Lodge: Amounts of Blood’, Artcore, Toronto, Canada
2000 Marcel Dzama, David Zwirner Gallery New York
2000 Marcel Dzama, Sies + Höke Dusseldorf, Germany
2000 ‘More Famous Drawings’, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada [Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada]
2000 ‘Zeichnungen + Video’, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
1999 Marcel Dzama, Greene Gallery Geneva, Switzerland
1999 Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller Gallery Santa Monica, California
1999 Castelli di Carte, Galeria Clausia Gian Ferrari Milan, Italy
1999 Draw, Ten in One Gallery Chicago
1998 Selections Spring '98, The Drawing Center New York
1998 For the Birds, The Figures Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1998 Marcel Dzama, Art Pace San Antonio, Texas
1998 Marcel Dzama, David Zwirner Gallery New York
1998 Marcel Dzama, Richard Heller Gallery Santa Monica, California
1998 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Espace Purplex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 ‘Marcel Dzama’, Casa Triangulo, San Paulo, Brazil
1998 ‘Marcel Dzama’, ArtForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1997 The Royal Art Lodge, Small Projects Gallery Houston, Texas
1997 Art for Healing, Walker Theater
1997 Fresh Popped, Plug In Gallery
1997 Wood Inc., Off-Ice Gallery University of Manitoba

Literature
2005 Galloway, David. “‘Central Station’”, Reviews: International.”
2004 Artnews (February 2005)
2004 Strips & Characters, Kunstraum Meunchen, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, (October 2004), ill.
2004 Dault, Julia. “A Bestiary Like No Other.” National Post, (February 12, 2004), p. AL6.
2004 Dzama, Marcel et al. The Royal Family, Richard Heller Gallery, 2004.
2004 Gavin, Francesca, ‘Gang Leader’, I-D, November 2004, issue 249, p.48
2004 Hackworth, Nick, ‘Bad Company’, with illustrations by Marcel Dzama, Dazed & Confused, vol.2, issue no.19, November 2004, pp.100-107
2004 ‘Art of darkness’, Esquire, November 2004, p.78
2004 ‘Marcel Dzama: The Last Winter’, Evening Standard, Metro Life, 8 October 2004
2004 ‘Marcel Dzama: Last Winter’, Guardian Guide, Frieze Art Fair edition, October 2004
2004 Mariuccia Casadio, Marcel Dzama, ‘The Worried World’, Italian Vogue, June 2004, no. 646
2004 Lack, Hannah, The Royal Art Lodge: ‘Their home is where their art is’, Dazed & Confused, 9 Jan, 2004 (vol. 2,issue no.9), p.104
2004 Stern, Steven, ‘Marcel Dzama/Jockum Nordström’, Time Out New York, no. 431, January 1- 8, 2004, p.53
2004 Kim, Olivia, ‘King of Art: Marcel Dzama’, Tokion, No.40, March/April 2004, pp.20-22
2004 ‘Marcel Dzama’, The New Yorker, Dec 12, 2004, p.16
2004 T.P. “Marcel Dzama.” Exit Express, No. 1, February 2004, p. 10.
2003 ‘The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust Dictionary of Recieived ideas’, The Drawing Center, New York. The Power Plant, Toronto; De Vleeshal, Middelburg; and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
2003 Gavin, Francesca, ‘Grin and Bare It’, Blueprint, July, No. 209, pp. 68-71
2003 Whyte, Murray, ‘Making Art Around the Hearth While Warding Off the Chill’, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, January 19th
2003 ‘Wanted; ‘Anonymous’ Canadian Art, Toronto Star, January 19th
2002 Hornby, Nick, ‘Songbook’, McSweeney’s Books. Art by Marcel Dzama
2002 ‘Marcel Dzama Drawings for Dante’, limited edition artist's book, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2002 ‘Expect: Art, 2002’, The What to Expect Foundation, New York, New York
2001 ‘The Royal Art Lodge’, text by Guido Bartorelli, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
2001 Dzama, Marcel. 'Top Ten.' Artforum, (October 2001), p. 59
2000 ‘Famous Drawings Present: Marcel Dzama’, text by Wayne Baerwaldt, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA
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