Born in 1984 in Cleveland, United States, Zach Bruder lives and works in New York, United States.
Zach Bruder’s metaphorical approach to painting and long-term interest in image collecting results in inventive compositions in which both pictorial and illusionistic space play a role. Often humorous and allegorical, his paintings involve animals, architecture, and anthropomorphism. His canvases revive and repurpose familiar motifs, referencing folklore while finding new metaphors in simple objects and creatures. The source material—archetypal and drawing from classical and vernacular mythology—is culled from the artist’s extensive archive of historic imagery. Addressing mythologies both cultural and personal, Bruder’s paintings offer multiple interpretations of religious and social narratives and urgent responses to the societal and political moment in which they were produced. Valentina Di Liscia writes, “Faced with one of Bruder’s canvases, the viewer takes an active role, deciphering the intertextuality between the multiple literary, historical, and folkloric references he often cites simultaneously.”
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Né en 1984 à Cleveland, United States, Zach Bruder vit et travaille à New York, United States.
Zach Bruder adopte une approche métaphorique de la peinture, nourrie par un intérêt de longue date pour la collecte d’images. Ses compositions inventives jouent sur l’espace pictural et illusionniste, créant des œuvres souvent humoristiques et allégoriques. Ses peintures intègrent des animaux, de l’architecture et des formes d’anthropomorphisme. Sur ses toiles, Bruder réinvente et détourne des motifs familiers, mêlant folklore et nouvelles métaphores à travers des objets simples et des créatures.
S’inspirant d’un vaste répertoire d’images historiques, son matériau de base, à la fois archétypal et issu des mythologies classiques et vernaculaires, reflète une exploration des mythologies culturelles et personnelles. Les œuvres de Bruder offrent des interprétations multiples des récits religieux et sociaux, tout en répondant de manière poignante aux enjeux sociétaux et politiques de leur époque. Valentina Di Liscia écrit : « Face à une toile de Bruder, le spectateur adopte un rôle actif, déchiffrant l’intertextualité entre les multiples références littéraires, historiques et folkloriques qu’il cite souvent simultanément. »
Selected Solo & Duo exhibitions
2023
Clear Arrears, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2022
Greeter, Harlan Levey, Brussels, BE
2020
Gone to Fair, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2018
Edening On, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2017
Hardscrabbled, Harlan Levey, Brussels, BE
2016
MONUMENT AROUND, galerie l’inlassable, Paris, FR
Plant in Repair, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Unwelcome Guest, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024
Felix Art Fair with Magenta Plains, Los Angeles, CA
2022
What A Long Strange Trip, Analog Diary, Hudson, NY
Leave a Light On, The Valley, Taos, NM
2021
Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Was/It/Ought, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, New York, NY
2018
Dallas Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Dallas, TX
NADA Miami Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Miami, FL
Upstairs Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Amagansett, NY
Still Lives, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
People, Places, Things…, Phillip Slein, St. Louis, MO
2017
Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Code Art Fair (with Monteverita), Copenhagen, DK
MICRO SALON #7, Galerie l’inlassable, Paris, FR
Landscape Modern Oil Painting Canvas Painting Abstract Oil Painting Wall Hanging, curated by Jir Sandel, Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, DK
The Present Tense: Zach Bruder & Louise Bourgeois, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
The Present Tense: Ben Peterson & Zach Bruder, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2016
Boundary Issues, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Record Lines This Summer, curated by Ellie Rines, Magenta Plains, NY
Tropicàlia, galerie l’inlassable, Paris, FR
2015
We agreed the paler tones would make a more subtle statement, curated by Dmitry Komis, Ida Schmid, Brooklyn, NY
Salon Society Edition 2 curated by Fabiola Alondra, Salon Society, Brooklyn, NY
Drift and Pop, curated by Olivia Smith, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
There is No Fact of the Matter as to Whether or Not P, 247365, New York, NY
Object of Magic, curated by Eneas Capalbo, Moiety, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Patterns of Interference, Showroom Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Greasy Pink, French Neon, New York NY