Installation view, "Places and Things", 2019, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

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 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; and others. A catalogue surveying his work from 1981 to 2014 with an essay by Robert Storr was published in 2015.

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

Level Distance, 2021, oil on linen, 83.8 x 96.5 cm, 33 x 38 in

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

Drop, 2022, oil on linen, 60 x 65 cm, 23 5/8 x 25 5/8 in

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

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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.

Alternating Current, 2021, oil on linen, 228.6 x 139.7 cm, 90 x 55 in

Alternating Current, 2021, detail

Japanese Book (Utamaro), 2019, oil on linen, 38 x 53.5 cm

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

Street Singer, 2019, glue-size tempera on linen
71 x 89 cm

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

Untitled, 2018, water colour on sized Korean paper, 35 x 22 cm (framed: 57 x 45 cm)

Ainola (Sibelius), 2018, glue-size tempera and oil on linen, 66 x 86.5 cm

Late Summer 6, 2020, glue-size tempera on linen, 70 x 50 cm, 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in

Untitled (Reykjavík), 2018, glue-size tempera on linen, 40 x 50 cm

Sometimes, 2018, oil on linen, 55 x 35 cm

Untitled (Esjuberg), 2018, oil on linen, 198.1 x 121.9 cm

Installation view „A Mind of Winter“, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2018

Fåro, 2018, oil on linen, 200 x 250 cm

Installation view „A Mind of Winter“, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2018

Swimming in the Baltic, 2018, oil on linen, 200 x 250 cm
 

Installation view "John Zurier – Between North and Night", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2015

Seyðisfjörður (Fog), 2016, glue-size tempera on linen, 76.2 x 50.8 cm

For Bill Berkson, 2016 - 2017, oil on linen, 63.5 x 43.1 cm

Borgarfjörður Eystri 1, 2015, glue-size tempera on linen, 228.5 x 132 cm

Installation view "John Zurier – East", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2016

Bláfeldur, 2015, oil on linen, 63.5 x 73.5 cm

Reykjavík Folded 5, 2014, water colour on paper, 40 x 54 cm

Before Leaving, 2014, acrylic on linen, 45 x 65 cm

Installation view "John Zurier – MATRIX 255", Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley 2014, Photo: Sibila Savage

Untitled (Stefan Lochner), 2014, glue-size tempera on canvas, 198.1 x 132 cm

Night and Morning, 2013, distemper on jute, 65 x 50 cm

Lindenstrasse, 2013, oil on jute, 55 x 65 cm

Vatnshellir, 2013, oil on linen, 182.8 x 111.7 cm

Reykjavík Rain Book 1, 2012, water colour on paper, 32 x 50 cm (framed: 54 x 71 cm)

Hampstead Heath – Gainsborough, 2011, oil on linen, 243.84 x 152.4 cm

Untitled, 2010, distemperon linen, 50.8 x 60.96 cm