Marina Zurkow

artworks

Press

Biography

Exhibitions

Does the River Flow Both Ways?

Oceans Like Us: Love Me

Oceans Like Us: Milkcrate Plastisphere

Oceans Like Us: Bow Null

Whalewaste 040

Whalewaste 059

Whalewaste 082

Making the Best of It: Dandelion

Flight (IST, JFK, LAX, LHR)

MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans): India

Installation view

Dear Climate

Mesocosm (Times Square)

Immortal Plastics

Body Bag for Humans (Nylon Polymer)

Body Bag for Birds (Polyethylene Terephthalate / PET)

Body Bag for Deer (Polyisobutylene / PIB)

Body Bag for Rats (Ammonia)

Body Bag for Dogs (Polyvinyl Chloride / PVC)

Body Bag for Cats (High Density Polyethylene / HDPE), No. 2

HazMat Suits for Children

The Thirsty Bird

NeoGeo I

Wolf Warder Staff: Modulating High-frequency Emitter with Talismans

The Petroleum Manga

Not an Artichoke Nor From Jerusalem, January 16th

Mesocosm (Wink, TX)

Hydrocarbons

Cattle Armor System: Sound Collar with Cow Bell

Mesocosm (Northumberland UK)

Slurb

Elixir I

Boom! Darling

Karaoke Ice

Nicking the Never

PDPal

Hospital Poetry

Bury, Louis. “Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, Meant as an Omen, is Unexpectedly Buoyant,”
ARTnews, June 17, 2021
Angeleti, Gabriella. “San Diego will get an Institute of Contemporary Art in September,”
The Art Newspaper, March 15, 2021
Nguyen, Alice. “Spring Arts Guide 2021: Six art exhibits illuminate the past, present, and future,”
St. Louis Magazine, March 22, 2021
Editors. “Season 3 Ep 5 – Part 3: Planting Seeds for Change,”
Art + Technology Bloomberg, September 27, 2020
XR Panel. “Untitled, Art Online fair and Artland: vast data collecting capabilities and some great art,”
The Art Newspaper, August 7, 2020
Kent, Charlotte. “The Tree of Life, Curated by Claudia Hart,”
The Brooklyn Rail, July 9, 2020
O’Brein, Nicholas. “Problems of Showing Media Art and How Artists and Museums Can Fix Them,”
ARTnews, June 10, 2020
Steinhauer, Jillian. “2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home,”
The New York Times, June 10, 2020
Arcand, Rob. “Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow’s Aquacentric Worldview Gets Tangled in Tech,”
Art in America, March 11, 2020
Bury, Louis. “Digital Meditations on Water,”
Hyperallergic, March 7, 2020
Editor. “Bennington College announces 2019 Public Action MFA candidates,”
Bennington Banner, June 10, 2019
Vasques, Karla. “Exploring How to Eat in Response to Climate Change,”
KCET, May 29, 2019
Bury, Louis. “Coping with Climate Change,”
Hyperallergic, May 11, 2019
Editors. “Pratt exhibition looks at architecture of the Anthropocene,”
The Architect’s Newspaper, January 17, 2019
Lescaze, Zoë. “12 Artists On: Climate Change,”
The New York Times Style Magazine, August 22, 2018
Sengupta, Somini, Tiffany May, Zia ur-Rehman. “How record heat has wreaked havoc on four continents,”
The Seattle Times, July 30, 2018
Bury, Louis. “A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change,”
Hyperallergic, July 29, 2018
Feliciano, Cheryl. “Get A Sad Polar Bear And Other Free Climate Emojis,”
Futurity, July 5, 2018
Fishwick, Samuel. “World Oceans Day: why saving our planet starts with the right emojis,”
Evening Standard, June 7, 2018
O’Brien, Jan. “Climate change? There are emojis for that.,”
Yale Climate Connections, May 25, 2018
Editors. “Storm King Presents ‘Indicators: Artists on Climate Change’,”
ArtFix Daily, May 20, 2018
Safarzadeh, Anahita. “BITFORMS GALLERY LA,”
Flaunt Magazine, March 20, 2018
Editors. “‘Plastic Entanglements’ to open at Palmer Museum of Art,”
Penn State News, February 9, 2018
Chiu, Allison. “Anxious about climate change? There’s a cow-farting-methane emoji for that,”
The Washington Post, January 30, 2018
Vehslage, Evan. “NYU Professors and Students Mobilize Climate Change With ‘Climoji’,”
Washington Square News, January 30, 2018
Lord, Kate. “‘Literally Drowning’: Climojis Bring the Threat of Climate Change into Your Daily Texts,”
NYU Press, January 24, 2018
Strick, Katie. “Green screen: be on message with climoji,”
Evening Standard, January 15, 2018
Potenza, Alessandra. “What kind of emoji do you need to talk about climate change,”
The Verge, January 15, 2018
Pereira, Sydney. “Feel Like The World Is Ending? Climate Change Emoji Are Here To Help,”
Newsweek, January 12, 2018
Editors. “Introducing Climojis: NYU Faculty and Students Foster Conversations on Climate Change through a New Visual Language,”
NYU Press, December 11, 2017
Plaugic, Lizzie, and Kaitlyn Tiffany. “ A night at a dystopian dinner party eating like it’s the end of food,”
The Verge, September 19, 2017
Meier, Allison. “The Inaugural Triennial on New York’s Waterways Drops Anchor,” Hyperallergic, June 21, 2017
Thomas, Dylan. “Following a Green Line from sunset to sunrise,”
SouthWest Journal, June 5, 2017
Hegert, Natalie. “An Art “City Different”: What Santa Fe Has to Offer,”
Huffington Post, April 28, 2017
Joyner, April. “Design your own utopia (or dystopia) with this card game on Kickstarter,”
Technical.ly, February 13, 2017
Baumgardner, Julie. “A Guide to America’s Next Great Art Neighborhood,”
The New York Style Magazine, January 11, 2017
“Extended until March 4: bitforms fifteen-year anniversary exhibition at Minnesota Street Project,”
Art Daily, January 7, 2017
Pangburn, DJ. “Bitforms Gallery Celebrates 15 Years with a Retrospective in San Francisco,”
The Creators Project, November 8, 2016
Glentzer, Molly. “Rice’s solar-charged FotoFest installations stir up a storm. Three little pods. Powerful ideas,”
Houston Chronicle, April 12, 2016
Sutton, Benjamin. “An Artist Navigates the Capitalist Code of Global Shipping,”
Hyperallergic, March 25, 2016
Schenker, Dylan. “Everything & More & More – Marina Zurkow and Rachel Rose,”
Creative Applications, March 14, 2016
McLane, Michael, “Marina Zurkow’s ‘The Petroleum Manga’,”
Tarpaulin Sky, February 4, 2016
“Inner Climate Change: Interview with Marina Zurkow,”
Eyebeam, December 17, 2015
Kane, Peter Lawrence, “The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Sounds Like a Stock Exchange. But It’s an Arts Space,”
SF WEEKLY, December 1, 2015
Heather Davis & Etienne Turpin, eds. “Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies.,”
Michigan Publishing / Open Humanities Press, June 27, 2015 pp.317-326,
Glentzer, Molly, “Artist Brings Complex Issues to the Table,”
Houston Chronicle, March 28, 2014
Taubin, Amy, “Mash Media,”
Artforum, February 5, 2014
Leece, Christie and Marina Zurkow, “Gila 2.0: Warding off the Wolf,”
Arid: A journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology, April 2013
McQuaid, Cat, “What’s Up at Boston-area art galleries,”
The Boston Globe, March 12, 2013
“Fracking, Hazmat Suits And Body Bags for Deer: The Insidious Poetics of Marina Zurkow,”
The Creators Project, January 30, 2013
Kamerick, Megan, “ISEA artists explore Intersections of Nature and Technology”,
KUNM, November 19, 2012
Hooper, Rachel, “Interview: Marina Zurkow,”
…Might Be Good, Issue 188, April 2012
Campana, Joseph, “Black Gold: Petroleum By-products Fuel Marina Zurkow’s Provocative Necrocracy,”
Houston Culture Map, April 2012
Chaudhuri, Una, “Queering the Green Man, Reframing the Garden,”
Scapegoat Journal, Issue 2, 6-8, 2012
Schwendener, Martha, “An Uncomfortably Small, and Shrinking, World,”
The New York Times, November 20, 2011
Gat, Ort, “Artist Profile: Marina Zurkow,”
Rhizome, October 3, 2011
Bischoff, Dan, “Digital Art Floats into New Realm”,
The Star-Ledger, September 25, 2011
Oguss, Elizabeth, “Erasing the nature/culture divide”,
The Montclair Times Community, September 15, 2011
Gray, Katy, “Marina Zurkow”,
BOMBLOG, May 12, 2011
Zamudio, Raul, “[New York] Marina Zurkow: The Poster Children and Other Heroes of the Revolution”,
Eyeball, September 29, 2009
Gant, Michael S., “Tech Times, Shows at Quilts & Textiles and San Jose Museum of Art whet the appetite for 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in June”,
Metroactive, May 28 2008
Baker, Kenneth, “01SJ Lends High-tech San Jose an Artsy Air”,
Hearst Newspapers, June 6, 2008
Yablonsky, Linda, “Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars”,
The New York Times, July 8, 2007

b. 1962, New York
Lives and works in New York

Marina Zurkow is a media artist focused on near-impossible nature and culture intersections. She uses life science, materials, and technologies – including food, software, animation, clay and other biomaterials – to foster intimate connections between people and non-human agents.

Recent solo exhibitions of her work include bitforms gallery in New York; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Diverseworks, Houston; her work has also been featured at FACT, Liverpool; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wave Hill, New York; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Borusan Collection, Istanbul; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Creative Time, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Transmediale, Berlin; Eyebeam, New York; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; Rotterdam Film Festival, The Netherlands; and the Seoul Media City Biennial, Korea, among others.

Her public art engagements have been supported by Creative Time, New York; LACE, Los Angeles; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; The New Museum’s Ideas City, New York; Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis; The Artist’s Institute, New York; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California; Rice University, Houston; Boston University; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Baruch College, New York.

Zurkow is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. She has also been granted awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She is represented by bitforms gallery.

Download CV

World Wind Dec 15, 2022–Feb 18, 2023

DALL·E, Artificial Imagination October 26–Dec 29, 2022

NADA New York 2022 May 5–May 8, 2022

The Tree of Life, curated by Claudia Hart May 15–Sep 30, 2020

Wet Logic, Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow February 6–Mar 15, 2020

Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco Nov 5, 2016–Mar 4, 2017

Marina Zurkow, MORE&MORE February 14–Apr 3, 2016

Marina Zurkow, Necrocracy January 10–Feb 16, 2013

World on a Wire June 28–Aug 10, 2012

The Birdwatchers Dec 8, 2011–Jan 21, 2012

Claudia Hart, “BrAinGirl” + “e” + “pussy Weevil” May 15–Jun 19, 2003