Marcel Dzama
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Marcel Dzama (born 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Lives and works in New York, NY) is an artist well known for his small-scale, ink and watercolour drawings of human figures, animals and imaginary hybrids which he has exhibited since 1996. A recent departure for Dzama is the move into larger polyptychs, video and sculpture. Three-dimensional piece characters relate to those inhabiting the drawings and appear in the video work take the form of animation interspersed with live action. There is a deliberate low quality effect in grainy black and white, recalling scenes from 1930s American comic book heroes and amateur dramatics. Since 1998, he has been represented by the David Zwirner Gallery in New York and in 2006 had an early career retrospective at the prestigious Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK which traveled to the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow. In 1996, he founded the artist collective known as the Royal Art Lodge, in Manitoba. In 2003, McSweeney's published a collection of his work, The Berlin Years.
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- Dzama is represented by the David Zwirner gallery
- [1] 2006 show at the Ikon Birmingham
- [2] Early work collected by the Tate
- An article on Dzama in the New York Times Magazine
- Some examples of Dzama's work
- A 2001 cover story on Dzama in Toronto's NOW magazine
- BBC Collective Marcel Dzama gives a video tour of his show Tree With Roots at the Ikon gallery, plus a gallery of images
