John Zurier

John Zurier was born in 1956 in Santa Monica, California and lives and works in Berkeley, California and Reykjavik, Iceland. Most recently, he participated in the "artist as curator" exhibition 'The Artist's Eye: Tammy Roe Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, John Zurier' at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2022). A solo exhibition of recent paintings, "Far Again," was presented at Moderna Museet Malmö in 2021. Selected museum exhibitions include UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2018 and 2014); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2016); Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Mexico (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.