Marcel Dzama

Art Brokerage: Marcel Dzama Canadian Artist: b. 1974. Marcel Dzama is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings. Dzama works extensively in sculpture, painting, collage, and film. The artist is also known for his intricate dioramas and large scale polyptychs that draw from his talents across a range of media. Dzama works in multiple disciplines to bring his cast of human figures, animals, and imaginary hybrids to life, and has developed an international reputation and following for his art that depicts fanciful, anachronistic worlds. The artist is also known for his work with The Royal Art Lodge. Dzama's work has been used on the covers of a number of record albums, notably The Else by They Might Be Giants, Guero by Beck and Reconstruction Site by The Weakerthans. His costume designs can also be seen in music videos for both the Bob Dylan song "When the Deal Goes Down", the N.A.S.A. song "The People Tree" and the Department of Eagles song "No One Does It Like You", which he also co-directed. McSweeney's has published two collections of his work, The Berlin Years in 2003 (reprinted in 2006) and a follow-up, The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All, in 2008. Dzama has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (2010) and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2008). In 2006, he had an exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, which traveled to the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Scotland. Marcel Dzama cites Marcel Duchamp as one of his greatest inspirations and has drawn on the artist’s near-obsession with chess as a starting point for his video A Game of Chess, 2011, in which life-size Kings, Queens, Rooks and pawns duel for supremacy in a production brought to life in Guadalajara, Mexico. This film is currently featured at the National Gallery of Canada. Dzama's work is in the collections of major museums and public institutions, including the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, New York; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami, Florida; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island. Collectors of his work include Spike Jonze, Francios Pinault, Bennett Miller, Kevin Hearn, Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey, Leonard Nimoy, Viggo Mortensen, Gus Van Sant and Steve Martin. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.