Marina Zurkow Nicking the Never

Marina Zurkow

Marina Zurkow makes psychological, animated narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. These have taken the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, cartoons, and interactive mobile works. Since 2000, Zurkow has exhibited at The Sundance Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, The Seoul Media City Biennial, Ars Electronica, Creative Time, The Kitchen, The Walker Art Center, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, and Eyebeam, along with other venues. She has been a NYFA Fellow and a Rockefeller New Media Fellow. Zurkow is on faculty at NYU’s Interactive Technology Program (ITP) and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York.

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Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2012

    Film Seminar

    Zurkow’s work is featured in the 2012 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

  • 2011

    Solo exhibition

    Zurkow has major solo exhibition Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies and Others at Montclair Art Museum

  • 2011

    Award

    Zurkow receives Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2010

    Residency

    Zurkow is artist-in-residence at Yaddo for the month of August

  • 2009

    Residency

    Zurkow is fall resident at Eyebeam in New York City

  • 2010

    Residency

    Zurkow is artist-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony for the month of June

  • 2002

    Residency

    Zurkow attends a residency at Eyebeam Atelier in New York

  • 2002

    Grant

    Zurkow receives Jerome Foundation grant

  • 2003

    Fellowship

    Zurkow receives Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship

  • 2005

    Fellowship

    Zurkow receives New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in computer arts

  • 2005

    Grant

    Zurkow receives Individual Artist Grant from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)

  • 2007

    Grant

    Zurkow receives Finishing Funds from the Experimental Television Center

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