zansky@optonline.net
Selected Vitae
EDUCATION
Hunter College, 1978-80
Boston University, BFA, School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts, 1969
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Herron Galleries/Indiana University, Deep in the Shallows, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Stefan Stux Gallery, A Vacation on Mars with God, New York, NY
Mana Contemporary Art, Giants and Dwarfs, Jersey City, NJ
Yellowstone Museum of Art, Insomnia, Billings, MT
Ewing Gallery/University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Giants and Dwarfs, Knoxville, TN
2012 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Dance of the Cuckoos, Boca Raton, FL
Hampden Gallery/UMASS Amherst, American Panopticon, Amherst, MA
2010 Ice Box Gallery, The Reincarnation of Michael Vick (As a Dog), Philadelphia, PA
2009 Lab Gallery for installation and Performance Art, Strangelove, New York, NY
2008 Nicholas Robinson Gallery, Michael Zansky: Western Lands, New York, NY
Lab Gallery for installation and Performance Art, Washington & End Times, New York, NY
2006 Briggs-Robinson Gallery, History as Ruin, New York, NY
Edsvik Konsthall, American Panopticon, Stockholm Sweden
2005 Gigantic Art Space, American Panopticon, New York, NY
Gigantic Art Space/ARCO, Black Box, American Panopticon, Madrid, Spain
2003 Briggs-Robinson Gallery, Ten Extra Seconds, New York, NY
2002 Universal Concepts Unlimited, Still in Motion, New York, NY
2000 Universal Concepts Unlimited, In Human Life, New York, NY
1999 Gallery Camino Real, Giants and Dwarfs, Boca Raton, FL
1996 Berry-Hill Galleries, Manifolds, New York, NY
1993 Berry-Hill Galleries, Traces, New York, NY
1991 Berry-Hill Galleries, Recent Work, New York, NY
1990 Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1988 Dranoff Fine Art, New York, NY
1987 Harm Boukart Gallery, New York, NY
1985 White Columns, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 American University Museum Washington D.C. Mortality a Survey of Contemporary Death Art
2019 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Beyond the Cape! Comics & Contemporary Art,
Boca Raton, FL
2019 Blueríder Art, US 3: Robert Cottingham, Richard Meier, & MIchael Zansky,
Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Aldrich Museum Richfield Conn. “Undercover” 2018
2018 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, E/AB Fair, New York, NY
2017 Garnerville Arts Center, Transposing Perception, Garnerville, NY
2015 ARStronomy, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2014 Art Basel Miami, Mana Monumental, Miami, FL
808 Gallery, Convergence: Boston University Alumni Exhibition, Boston, MA
Stefan Stux Gallery, Burning Bright: Tiger, tiger, New York, NY
2013 Mirus Gallery, Dreamtime: New Surrealism, San Francisco, CA
2012 Mana Contemporary Art, The Originals, Jersey City, NJ
The Active Space, Quantum Effects, Brooklyn, NY
Mayson Gallery, Adult Contemporary, New York, NY
2012 Westport Arts Center, Toy Stories, Westport, CT
2011 Able Fine Art NY, Kerosene Garden, New York, NY
Exit Art, Outer Space, New York, NY
2010 Artjail, Lost Horizon, New York, NY
SICA, Nature Calls, Long Branch, NJ
Roger LaPelle Galleries, Portraits: Yuri Makoveychuk & Michael Zansky, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Schmidt Center Gallery/Florida Atlantic University, INT Project, Boca Raton, FL
The Drawing Center/Governor’s Island, Formative Lines/Working, New York, NY
2008 Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Apocalyptic Pop, Long Island City, NY
Corn Exchange Gallery, Scales, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sandy Carson Gallery, American Landscape Photography, Denver, CO
Aldrich Museum, Aldrich Undercover, Ridgefield, CT
White Box, The Dream of the Chamber Masquerade, New York, NY
Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Bóm: How art can disrupt, reorient or destroy, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Kasia Kay Art Projects, INT Project, Chicago. IL.
Museum of New Art, INT Project, Detroit, MI
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Surrealism – Europe and America: Unconscious Discoveries and Conscious Creations, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Art Cologne, Sculpture Guild, Cologne, Germany
Omega Institute, Fear is a Four Letter Word, New York, NY
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, INT Project, New Canaan, CT
Luxe Gallery, Nightly News, New York, NY
Fieldgate Gallery, Latitude, London.
2006 Soo VAC Gallery, Quantum Circus, Minneapolis, MN
Elizabeth Foundation, Everybody Dance Now, New York, NY
Silvermine Guild, Waxworks, New Canaan, CT
Aldrich Museum, Landmine, Ridgefield, CT.
Michael Steinberg Fine Art, Every Day is Different, New York, NY
Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Revisionist History, Brooklyn, NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Speed Limit, New York, NY
Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Transmutations, Long Branch, NY
Soap Factory, 8x8x8, Minneapolis, MN
Lab Gallery, Synthetic Aesthetic, New York, NY
Edsvik Konsthalles, Time, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Lab Gallery, Quantum Zoo, New York, NY
Exit Art, Other America, New York, NY
University of Pennsylvania, Revolt of the Bees, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Deborah Colton Gallery, Touch and Temperature, Houston, TX
Rockland Center for the Arts, Digital and Beyond, West Nyack, NY
Future Perfect, Gifted, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Slought Foundation, Unconventional Three-Dimensional, Philadelphia, PA
Rockland Center for the Arts, De Jong, Ousler, Zansky: Installations, West Nyack, NY
White Columns, Mamma’s Boy, New York, NY
Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
White Box Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Drawing Center, NY Selections Benefit Show, New York, NY
Westport Art Center, The Endurance of Art, Westport, CT
Islip Museum, Body, Art, New York, NY
2001 Norton Museum, Burn, West Palm Beach, FL
Florida Atlantic University, Natural History, Boca Raton, FL
Clifford Smith Gallery, Kidsart, Boston, MA
2000 John Michael Kohler Art Center, Blurry Line, Sheboygan, WI
Universal Concepts Unlimited, Remote Experience Dependency, New York, NY
Exit Art, Neo, New York, NY
Exit Art, The End, New York, NY
1999 Central Fine Arts, Another Planet, New York, NY
Exit Art, Monumental Drawings, New York, NY
Cavin-Morris Gallery, Metaforms: Contemporary Choices, New York, NY
1998 Central Fine Arts, Modular Composite, New York, NY
Aldrich Museum, Pop-Surrealism, Ridgefield, CT
1996 Hunterdon Museum, Tough Art, Clinton, NJ
Cavin-Morris Gallery, The Widening Gyra , New York, NY
1995 Detursa Galerie, Madrid, Spain
Cavin-Morris Gallery, Pure, New York, NY
Boston University Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Dranoff Fine Art, Big Ideas, New York, NY
Rockland Center for the Arts, Masks, West Nyack, NY
1993 Cavin-Morris Gallery, Masks, New York, NY
1990 Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, NY
White Columns Gallery, Brut 90, New York, NY
Cavin-Morris Gallery, Inchoate Forces, New York, NY
1989 Cavin-Morris Gallery, The Good and Evil Show, New York, NY
Salena Gallery, Currents in Abstraction, Long Island University, NY
1988 The Drawing Center, Selections 41, New York, NY
1986 The Mount Aramah Exhibition, The Art of Orange & Rockland, Arden, NY
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
White Columns Gallery, Update 85-86, New York, NY
1980 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, CAPS, Troy, NY
1978 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014 McCoy, Ann, MICHAEL ZANSKY: A Vacation on Mars with God, The Brooklyn Rail
2013 Weintraub, Mark, The Art of Michael Zansky: Deep in the Shallows of the World, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Zaza, Tony, Burning Man: The Work of Michael Zansky, NY Arts
2009 Hrbacek, Mary, Apocalyptic Pop: Dorsky Gallery, M Magazine
Wilson, Michael, Apocalyptic Pop, Time Out New York
Goncharov, Kathleen, Apocalyptic Pop, Exhibition Catalog, Dorsky Gallery, NY, NY
2008 Lombardi, D. Dominick, Land of Shadows, NY Arts
Chambers, Christopher Hart, Michael Zansky, Flash Art
Goncharov, Kathleen, The Western Lands, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog
2007 Lombardi, D. Dominick, Michael Zansky, Sculpture Magazine
Vail, Amanda, Quantum Circus: The INT Project, NYARTS
Murphy, Jay, Michael Zansky, Contemporary 21
Lombardi, D. Dominick, Waxworks, NY Arts
2006 Hough, Jessica, Land Mine, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, Exhibition Catalog
Lombardi, D. Dominick, Artists Curating Artists, DART International
Vail, Amanda, Seductive, Repulsive: Quantum Circus at SooVAC, Mnartists.org
Kuspit, Donald, Michael Zansky: Bizarre Beauty, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY, Exhibition Catalog
Koza, Christopher, Quantum Circus, PulseTC.com
Lombardi, D. Dominick, New York Art Scene, & magazine
2004 Glueck Grace, Terrorvision, Exit Art, The New York Times
Raymond, Jon, Mama's Boy, White Columns, Artforum
Epstein Edward, Unconventional Three Dimensional, Art Papers
2003 Chambers Christopher, Still in Motion, Universal Concepts, Sculpture Magazine
Sozanski, Edward, Unconventional Three Dimensional, Philadelphia Inquirer
McEvilley, Thomas, Ten Extra Seconds, Exhibition Catalog, Briggs Robinson, NY
2002 Faulds, Rod, Natural Histories (Artists Forge in Science and Nature) Catalog
2001 Watson, Neil, Burn (Artists Play with Fire), Norton Museum Publication
Creps, Bob, Fieldings Dictionary of American Painters
2000 Budzynski, Scott, NEO New Approaches to Artmaking, NY Arts
Nahas, Dominique; Monumental Drawings, Exit Art, Art on Paper
Hanks Victoria, Studio Visit, Michael Zansky, NY Arts
Nahas, Dominique; Monumental Drawings, Exit Art, NY Arts
1999 Bower Bell J., Monumental Drawings, Exit Art, Review Magazine
Murphy, Jay, Pop Surrealism, World Art
Murphy, Jay, Pop Goes Surrealism, Art Papers
1998 Meyers, Melissa, New Season in New York, Gannett Newspapers
Henry, Gerrit, Michael Zansky: Recent Work, Cavin Morris Gallery, NY, Art in America
Nahas, Dominique, Michael Zansky: Recent Work, Cavin Morris Gallery, Review Magazine
Meyers, Melissa, Adding by Subtraction, Gannett Newspapers
1997 Endick, Kenneth, Tough Art, Express Times
Rig, Victoria, Art As Experience, Hunterdon County Democrat
Bischoff, Dan, Tough Art, The Star Ledger
Accola, Kristen, Tough Art, Hunderton Art Museum, Exhibition Catalog
Michael Zansky, Manifolds, Berry Hill Galleries, Exhibition Catalog
1995 Hurwitz, Sidney, Alumni Drawings, Boston University Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalog
1994 Henry, Gerrit; Zansky, Michael "Traces", Berry Hill Gallery, NY, ART News
1993 Dunning, Jennifer, Philadanco Tease and Payoff, The New York Times
McEvilley, Thomas, Traces, Exhibition Catalog, Berry Hill Gallery
1990 Raynor, Vivian, The Rockland Connection, The New York Times
Harris, Ned, The Rockland Connection, Rockland Center for the Arts,Exhibition Catalog
1987 Arning, Bill, Michael Zansky: Recent Paintings, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, NY, Exhibition Catalog
1986 Arning, Bill, Update 85-86, White Columns, NY, Exhibition Catalog
AWARDS
2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Intelligent Design Project
1980 C.A.P.S Fellowship/Painting
1978 Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship (Peru)
1978 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
COLLECTIONS
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Biocraft Laboratories
Fortune Magazine
Inter American Development Bank
Prudental Life Insurance Company
Bill Arning
Gininna Brachi
Shari Cavin
Wolf Dieter
Mark Gould
Fred Hill
Jenette Kahn
Julio Larraz
Randall Morris
Dr Roland Moses
Tess O’dwyer
Bradley Rubenstein
Dean Taucher