CLAIRE ZAKIEWICZ
www.clairezakiewicz.com

Born London UK 1978. Lives and works in New York and London

EDUCATION

2011 MA (by Project) in Fine Art, Sir John Cass School of Art, London, UK
2000 BA Hons in Fine Art (Printmaking) Cambridge College of Art, Cambridge, UK
1997 Btec Nat Dip in Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 (Forthcoming) The Aesthetics of Failure, 58th Venice Biennale, ART3160,
Venice,Italy
2018 Perspectives in Motion, Off-site 16th Architectural Biennale, ARIi3160, Venice
2017 Out of the Mothership, Off-site project, 57th Venice Biennale, ARTI3160, Venice
2016 100 Grand Street, Residency Exhibition, New York, USA
2015 Phases, Hardy Tree Gallery, London, UK
2013 Vegan Vista. Collaboration with chef Rachel Dring, London, UK
2010 Sonic Drawings, FivePLUS Project Space London, UK
2007 New Constructions, Prague Bar Gallery, London, UK
2005 Scissor Paper Stone, Terrace, London, UK
2004 Views of the Charismatic and Catastrophic, The Lotus Gallery, Bath, UK
2003 Nothing and Everything II, Bricklayers Arms, London, UK
Nothing and Everything I, Café Africa Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2002 Portraits of Power, Foundation for Human Development, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Eminent Domain, Chelsea, New York, USA
2017 Itinerant Performance Art Festival, The Last Frontier, New York, USA
2015 PointB Virtual Exhibition Space, PointB Worklodge, New York ,USA
18 x 8 From Point A to PointB and back again, PointB Worklodge, New York, USA
2014 Ride The Judd, Act 3, Hardy Tree Gallery, London, UK
2012 Tracey Moberly Curates: Label, Tate Britain, London, UK
Tracey Moberly Curates: Tweet Me Up!, The Tanks at Tate Modern, London, UK
2011 One More Time: An Exhibition and Symposium, London Metropolitan University
2007 Lie of the Land, Et Cetera Gallery, London, UK
Garage Art Debut Show, Garage Art Gallery, London, UK
2006 Christmas Art Fair, The Empire Gallery, London, UK
H Hammer Art Auction, Terrace, London, UK
Time Flies, Terrace, London, UK
... is somewhere, Terrace, London, UK
2005 Glimpses of the Sacred, St. Katherine Cree, London, UK
Summer Art Auction, 291 Gallery, London, UK
2004 Shoot the One Trick Pony,
The Lotus Gallery, 10 Chapel Row, Bath, UK
2003 Sensational Figures & Landscapes, Vertigo at 491 Gallery, London, UK
2002 Mirrored Vision II, 491 Gallery, London, UK
Mirrored Vision I, The Scala, London, UK
2001 Accepting the Unacceptable, Red Gate Gallery, London, UK
2000 APU Show, Candid Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2018Assembly: Perspectives in Motion Off-site 16th Architectural Biennale, ARTI3160, Venice, Italy
Assembly, The Mothership August Salon, New York, USA
Noumena: Initiation, Curated by Yannah Paradise, Plaxall Gallery, New York, USA
Itinerant Performance Art Festival, The Last Frontier, New York, USA
2017 Out of the Mothership, (in collaboration with Meaner Pencil), Off-site project, 57th Venice Biennale, ART3170, Venice, Italy
2016 Performing Colour, (in collaboration with Cornelius Byrd), New York, London
Claire Zakiewicz Plays, Kings Head, London
2015 Pulses, (in collaboration with Kuljit Bhamra), River Quarter Kitchen, London
The Bath, (in collaboration with Alwynne Pritchard and John Schanck),
PointB Worklodge, New York
2014 Process Patterns II, (in collaboration with Meaner Pencil), PointB Worklode, New York
Process Patterns I, (in collaboration with Meaner Pencil, (curated by Michael Hart),
PointB Worklodge, New York
Canvas Soundscapes,(with Laurie Carter)
Hardy Tree Gallery,
London UK
2011 Weep you no more sad fountains (Performance with ensemble, Fig.) Rad #3,
The Courthouse, Bergen, Norway
One More Time: An Exhibition and Symposium, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Weep you no more sad fountains, (Performance with ensemble, Fig.), 
PointB Worklodge, New York, USA
Engastromyths, Quakers & Shamans,
 (Performance by ensemble, Fig.), for Ny Musikk, Landmark, Bergen, Norway
2010 Performing live with ensemble Fig. The Late, Lute Breakfast Show with Tracey Moberly Resonance FM, London
Chaos Caberet I, II, III & IV ,The Foundry, London, UK
Open Studios at Sara Lane (with Matt Lewis and Alwynne Pritchard), London, UK
2009 Ear to Eye, (in collaboration with Alwynne Pritchard) Sara Lane Studios, London, UK
2008 Fat Battery Summer School Concert, USF, Bergen, Norway

LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS

2018 A presentation on the philosophy of improvisation for 30th Newcastle Jazz Festival
UK - curated by Andy Hamilton, professor of philosophy at Durham University
The Mothership May Salon, USA - Zakiewicz presents her work on the Aesthetics of Imperfection
2017 The Mothership November Salon, USA - Zakiewicz talks about her recent exhibition in Venice
The Mothership May Salon, USA – Zakiewicz presents her work on movement in painting and dance
2014 PointB Worklodge, USA – presentation on relationships between sound and drawing
2013 PointB Worklodge, USA - Zakiewicz presents her work on her drawing lexicon
2011 One More Time: An Exhibition and Symposium, London Metropolitan University, London – Zakiewicz presents her recent video and performance work, gives 2 performances and gives a presentation on the process and research behind the work

RESIDENCIES

2018 The Mothership, New York, USA
2017 The Mothership, New York, USA
2016 Bill Young’s Dance Studio, New York, USA
2013-2014 PointB Worklodge, New York, USA
2012 Fat Battery Summer School, USF, Bergen, Norway

PRIZES

2008 Shortlisted for the Celeste Painting Prize
Shortlisted for John Moores contemporary painting prize, UK

BROADCASTS

2010 Interview with Fig. The Late, Lute Breakfast Show with Tracey Moberly Resonance FM, London
2009 Interview for Chaos Caberet The Late, Lute Breakfast Show with Tracey Moberly Resonance FM, London

PRESS/EDITORIAL

2019 Top Ten NYC Artists Now
2018 Struggle and Surrender: Process and Material in Painting by Elisabet Dijkstra
Dispatch: Art Out of the World by Lenna Pierce
2016 Interview. with. the. artist. Claire. Zakiewicz by William Kherbek
6 Questions by Jez Riley French
2015 Verdure-Engraved by Jez Riley French

downloadable CV