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Robert Storr: John Zurier. Painting Between Autumn and Spring, in: John Zurier Paintings 1981-2015, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2015
Apsara DiQuinzio: John Zurier, Matrix 255, University of California, Berkley Art Museum, 2014
A Conversation Between Lawrence Rinder and John Zurier, California, 1999

Installation view "Level Distance", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin 2022

John Zurier

John Zurier was born in 1956 in Santa Monica, California and lives and works in Berkeley, California and Reykjavik, Iceland.

Selected museum exhibitions include Stavanger Art Museum; The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik; Gagosian, London (all 2023); UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2022, 2018, and 2014); Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö (2021); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe (2016); Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (2015). He has also exhibited at the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012); California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2010); 7th Gwangju Biennial (2008); and the Whitney Biennial (2002).

In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the UC Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; Farnsworth Museum, Rockland; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Oakland Museum of California. A catalogue surveying his work from 1981 to 2014 with an essay by Robert Storr was published in 2015.

Midsummer, 2024, oil on linen, 60 x 65 cm, 23 5/8 x 25 5/8 in

Tysvær, 2024, glue-size tempera on linen, 200 x 132 cm, 78 3/4 x 52 in

Untitled 1, 2024, glue-size tempera and oil on linen, 147 x 97 cm, 57 7/8 x 38 1/4 in

Installation view, "The mountain the cloud and the springs", 2024, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Installation view, "The mountain the cloud and the springs", 2024, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Early Morning, 2023, oil on linen, 198.1 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm, 78 x 48 x 1 in

Love Letter, 2022, glue-size tempera on linen, 228.6 x 141 cm, 90 x 55 1/2 in

Installation view "BLINK - Trond Mohn Art Collection", Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway, 2023. Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen

To Linger Still, 2023, oil on linen, 50 x 60 cm, 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in

Glimpse, 2023, glue-size tempera and oil on linen, 49.8 x 60 cm, 19 5/8 x 23 5/8 in

Installation view "Level Distance", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, 2022

Installation view "Level Distance", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, 2022

Places and Things, 2019, oil on linen, 198.2 x 132 cm

Installation view, "John Zurier – Places and Things", 2019, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Installation view, "John Zurier – Places and Things", 2019, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

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John Zurier in conversation with artist Jordan Kantor on the occasion of Zurier's solo exhibition "A Mind of Winter" at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, November 23, 2018.