Marina Zurkow

1962–

Marina Zurkow is a media artist focused on nature and culture intersections, and fostering intimate connections between humans, other species, and planetary agents. Her work spans gallery installations and unconventional public participatory projects. Her work has been shown internationally, and recent exhibitions include Parting Worlds, including the Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow, at the Whitney Museum of American Art and WHAT IF? at MoMA’s Creativity Lab, New York City; Antroposcenes, Lo Pati Centre d’Art, Amposta, Spain; The Breath Eaters, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami; Underfoot/Overhead, Wasserman Projects, Detroit; and Can the Substrate Speak? Festival Art Souterrain, Montreal, Canada. Zurkow was a 2022 fellow at the Environmental Media Lab, Princeton University; and received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rice University, NYFA, NYSCA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She resides in the Hudson Valley, New York, and teaches at New York University.

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Introduction

Marina G. Zurkow (born December 19, 1962) is an American visual artist based in New York City who works with media technology, animation and video. Some of the less traditional mediums are known to be dinners, life science and bio materials. Her subject matter includes individual narratives, environmental concerns, and reflections on the relationship between species, or between humans, animals, plants and the weather. Her artworks have been seen in solo exhibitions at DiverseWorks in Houston Texas and at FACT in Liverpool. Zurkow is the recipient of a Creative Capital grant and has had fellowships from the Guggenheim and the Rockefeller Foundation.