PDF cv Born in 1979, Union, NJ
  PDF bio Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY
     
    Education
  2009 M.F.A. Hunter College
  2008 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
  2001 B.A. Drew University
 
    Solo Exhibitions
  2012 Weekend Warrior, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
    Every Inch a Man, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
  2011 Brass Arms Upper Eyelid, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
  2010 Open Brain Case and Forceps, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
    Full Dinner Pail, Galeria On, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
  2009 Dry Bones Can Harm No Man, Horton Gallery (Sunday L.E.S.), New York, NY
    Atomic Burger Flipper, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  2007 80 Year War, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
  2006 Washington Crossing the Meadowlands, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
     
    Selected Group Exhibitions
  2012 Jesturing, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY
    Family Talk, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
  2011 You are Free, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
    Shift, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
    Liquid Matter, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
    Fighting Kissing Dancing, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
    Not the Way You Remembered, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
    Postmiseria, Y Gallery, New York, NY
    Objects of Devotion and Desire, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
  2010 Fighting Kissing Dancing, De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
    NADA Art Fair, with Y Gallery, Miami, FL
    Mediations Biennale 2010, Poznan, Poland
    Beside Himself: Exhibiting Male Anxiety, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
    In.flec.tion, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
  2009 That’s All Folks, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
    My Gay Uncle, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
    Haffner, Porcella, Zanisnik, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
    Young Curators, New Ideas II, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
    New Insight, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
    T.error – Your Fear is an External Object, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY
  2008 T.error – Your Fear is an External Object, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
    MetroPoles, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
    Picturing America, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
    Corpus Kinetics, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
    This Land is Your Land, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
    Sprawl, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
    Aïeules, Galerie RDV, Nantes, France
  2007 Red Badge of Courage, National Newark Building, Newark, NJ
    First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
    Scodown, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
    Good Morning City Noise, Soemardja Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia
  2006 Watch It, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
    The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
    Emerge 7, Aljira, Newark, NJ
    60 Seconds of Play, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
    The Drop, Exit Art, New York, NY
    High Roads & Low Roads, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
  2005 Multiplex, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
    I Am 5, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY
    True Mirror, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
    Video Salon, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
  2004 In/Out, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    Underexposed 6, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
    The Mouth Breathers, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  2003 Food For Thought, Sumei Arts Center, Newark, NJ
    Momenta Art Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
  2002 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
    The Brewster Project, Brewster, NY
 
    Screenings and Performances
  2012 The Double, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
    The Double, Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
    Drinking Practice, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
    The Valley of Ben Hinnom, Agape Enterprise, Brooklyn, NY
  2011 Block Party, The Kitchen, New York, NY
    HVCCA Auction, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
    Yve Laris Cohen and Bryan Zanisnik, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
    School Nite, Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York, NY
  2010 Now Playing, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
    Trixie, Brut Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
    Kim Kino, Riga International Film Forum, Riga, Latvia
    Art in Odd Places, New York, NY
    The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
    Kurye International Video Festival, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
    Domestico, Y Gallery, New York, NY
    #Class, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
    You are Free, Tape Club, Berlin, Germany
    Crash-Crush, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, France
  2009 Seven Easy Steps, Horton Gallery (Sunday L.E.S.), New York, NY
    Crash-Crush, Todaysart Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands
    Hollow Man Levitate, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
    Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    Videospace, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  2008 HVCCA Auction, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY
    Salad Days III, Artists Space, New York, NY
    Performance Laboratory, Broadway 1602, New York, NY
    Unfurl Me, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
  2007 BoundLES, University Settlement, New York, NY
    George Kuchar and Bryan Zanisnik, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
    For the Fun of It, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
  2006 Spark Video, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
    60 Seconds of Play, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
    New Media/New Work (CAA), Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
  2005 Teknikunst Film Festival, Kaleide Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
    This Insane World, California State University, Northridge, CA
     
    Awards and Residencies
  2011 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, New York, NY
    Artist in Residence, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
  2010 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, New York, NY
    Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
    Artist in Residence, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
    Artist in Residence, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
  2008 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
  2007 Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY
    Artist Fellowship, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ
    Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College, New York, NY
  2005 Emerge Fellowship, Aljira, Newark, NJ
    Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation, New York, NY
     
    Selected Bibliography
  2012 Colby Chamberlain, “Baseball Card as Madeleine,” Triple Canopy, April 30, 2012 [Link]
    Royal Young, “Bryan Zanisnik on Hoarding, Philip Roth and the Absurdity of Failure,” The Lo-Down, April 10, 2012 [Link]
   

Dan Duray, “Philip Roth Attempts to Halt Performance Piece,” Gallerist NY, April 4, 2012 [Link]
   

Rachel Corbett, “Philip Roth Tells Artist to Stop the Show,” Artnet Magazine, April 3, 2012 [Link]
    Every Inch a Man, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY (catalogue) [Link]
    Christine Smallwood, "Return to the Meadowlands," Triple Canopy, February 2, 2012 [Link]
  2011 Shift, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (catalogue)
    Nie Yiting, "Critics' Pick," Artforum.com, August 19, 2011 [Link]
    Wan Jing, "10,000 RMB in China," Southern Weekly, August 18, 2011, p. 28 [Link]
    Liu Jie, "Perspective of Things," Contemporary Art & Investment, Issue 56, August, 2011, p. 50 - 52 [Link]
    Lee Ambrozy, "Diary: Shift," Artforum.com, July 18, 2011 [Link]
    Chen Yu-Kun, "Bryan Zanisnik Builds the American Museum in China," Yangcheng Evening News, July 15, 2011, p. B-11 [Link]
    Objects of Devotion and Desire, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY (catalogue)
    Amanda Schmitt, "Featured Artist: Bryan Zanisnik," Artcards Review, January 21, 2011 [Link]
    Natalie Hegert, "Agitation, Aggression, Compulsion, Regression," Artslant, January 16, 2011 [Link]
    Jess Wilcox, "Artist's Space: Bryan Zanisnik," ...Might Be Good, Issue 160, January 7, 2011 [Link]
  2010 Ruijun Shen, "Bryan Zanisnik," City Pictorial China, Issue 266, October, 2010, p. 48 - 51 [Link]
    Mediations Biennale: Accompanying Programme, Poznan, Poland (catalogue)
    Jordan Bartel, "Whartscape Artists Pick Their Faves," The Baltimore Sun, July 22, 2010, p. bfreedaily-19 [Link]
    Kate Stone Lombardi, "13 Artists, and Just as Many Themes," The New York Times, July 11, 2010, p. WE-9 [Link]
    Sarah LaDuke, "HVCCA - in.flec.tion," WAMC / NPR, March 30, 2010 [Link]
    David Duncan, "Bryan Zanisnik at Sunday L.E.S.," Art in America, January, 2010, p. 118 - 119 [Link]
    In.flec.tion, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (catalogue)
    That’s All Folks, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium (catalogue)
  2009 Joseph R. Wolin, "Critics' Pick," Artforum.com, November 3, 2009 [Link]
    Ernest Loesser, "Artist Bryan Zanisnik: The Heeb Interview," Heeb Magazine, October 29, 2009 [Link]
    Kim Levin, "Young Curators, New Ideas II," ARTnews, October 2009, p. 124 [Link]
    Joseph R. Wolin, "Young Curators, New Ideas II," Time Out New York, Issue 725, August 20 - 26, 2009, p. 40 [Link]
    Charlie Schultz, “Separate But Equal,” Artslant, August 16, 2009 [Link]
    Roos van der Lint, "De spaghetti-eters," Kunstbeeld, August 14, 2009 [Link]
    Lily Rose, "Previews August 6," Whitewall Magazine, August 6, 2009 [Link]
    Yaelle Amir, "Fight the Pasta," Artslant, July 24, 2009 [Link]
    Atomic Burger Flipper: Bryan Zanisnik, Gup Magazine, Issue 19, Spring 2009 [Link]
    Evelyn Austin, “Lost & Found in de Waag: Film in de 21ste eeuw,” Cut-Up Magazine, Issue 46, April 2009 [Link]
    Joyce Youmans, "Play: A Group Show at Spruill Gallery," Burn Away, April 1, 2009 [Link]
  2008 Mary Logan Barmeyer, “Corpus Kinetics,” Paper Magazine, July 3, 2008 [Link]
    Martin Bromirski, "Bryan Zanisnik...Plus," Anaba, May 29, 2008 [Link]
    James Yood, "This Land is Your Land at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago," Art on Paper, May/June 2008, p. 86 - 87
    Carrie Ruckel, “The Museum of Contemporary Photography: This Land is Your Land,” Chicago Access Network Television, Winter 2008 [Link]
    Sprawl, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)
    Robert Knafo, “Bryan Zanisnik: Studio Visit,” NewArtTV.com, Winter 2008 [Link]
  2007 Joyce Manalo, "Ukraine in the Brain," Brooklyn Art Project, December 5, 2007 [Link]
    James Wagner, "Bryan Zanisnik @ Priska Juschka," JamesWagner.com, October 19, 2007 [Link]
    Martin Bromirski, "Bryan Zanisnik," Anaba, October 12, 2007 [Link]
    Critics' Pick, New York Magazine, October 1, 2007, p. 98 [Link]
    Jennifer Melick, “Marsh Madness,” NJ Monthly, August 2007, p. 84 [Link]
    Yaelle Amir, “Studio Visit: Bryan Zanisnik,” Whitehot Magazine, Number 4, Summer 2007 [Link]
    Georgette Gouveia, “Modern Muses,” The Journal News, April 5, 2007, p. 1D [Link]
    Catherine Spaeth, "Giving New Artists a Place to Be Noticed," The New York Times, February 25, 2007, p. WE-8 [Link]
  2006 Jill P. Capuzzo, "Reframing New Jersey," The New York Times, October 8, 2006, p. NJ-12 [Link]
    Mitchell Seidel, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Jersey,” The Star-Ledger, October 6, 2006, p. 23 [Link]
    Benjamin Genocchio, "Tristate Talent Search Hits a High Note," The New York Times, August 6, 2006, p. NJ-10 [Link]
    Mary Birmingham, "On a Thought Voyage," The Jersey Journal, June 30, 2006, p. 24 [Link]
    High Roads & Low Roads, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (catalogue)
  2005 Benjamin Genocchio, "Searching for an Identity in Newark," The New York Times, March 20, 2005, p. NJ-10 [Link]
  2003 Micaela Giovannotti, “Dumbo Art Under the Bridge,” Tema Celeste, Number 95, January – February 2003, p. 113 [Link]
     
    Published Projects
  2011 "Beyond Passaic," Triple Canopy, Issue 15: Negative Infinity, December, 20111 [Link]
     
    Teaching and Lectures
  2013 Performative Acts in Video and Film, College Art Association, New York, NY
  2012 Part-Time Graduate Faculty, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
    George Washington University, Washington, DC
    Anna Lundh and Bryan Zanisnik in Conversation, The Armory Show, New York, NY
  2011

Visiting Scholar, The Steinhardt School, New York University, New York, NY
    Part-Time Faculty, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
    Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
    City College of New York, New York, NY
    Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
  2010 Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
    The Gallatin School, New York University, New York, NY
    Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
    California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
    The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  2009 Suny Purchase, Purchase, NY
    Panel Discussion, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
    Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
  2008 Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  2007 Drew University, Madison, NJ
    Long Island University, Long Island, NY
    New York Studio Program, New York, NY
    Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
  2006 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
    Drew University, Madison, NJ