Zoe Barcza
Zoe Barcza
b. 1984, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Stockholm, Sweden
Zoe Barcza’s paintings center on the human body as a site of investigation for various cultural, political, and social forces. The figures that dominate her canvases maintain a high degree of realism, pierced by caricature and the imagined impacts of cultural intercedents. Confrontational text often surrounds Barcza’s exaggerated figures, masquerading as corporate slogans, feminist mantras, teenage confessions and more, as the artist navigates various cultural niches with the playful balance between engagement and irreverence that engenders the precise humor of her oeuvre.
EDUCATION
| 2013 | HfBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2007 | BA, University of Toronto, Canada |
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | New Values, Derosia, New York, NY |
| 2023 | Inside Out, Outside In, with Liz Craft, Clearing, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2022 | Odradek Microplastic Geologic Time Park, Darren Flook / Freehouse, London, United Kingdom |
| 2021 | Haute Speech, Issues, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Birth Refusal, Bianca D’Allesandro, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2020 | Nukeface, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY |
| 2018 | Goblet, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria Big Boy Pants, Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen, Denmark Property Sex, Bonny Poon, Paris, France |
| 2017 | Mother’s Milk, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 2016 | DR. AWKWARD, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles Texas Liquid Smoke, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2015 | International Loner, Shoot The Lobster, New York |
| 2013 | A World of Pain(t), Vita Rosen, Gothenberg, Sweden |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Amnesia, Conditions, Toronto, Canada Tell Me What You Want, Bel Ami, Los Angeles |
| 2023 | King's Leap & Freddy, Freddy, Harris, NY Group exhibition, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL |
| 2021 | Minor Rationalism, curated by Eric Schmid, Baader-Meinhof, Omaha, NE Selficide Squad, Galerie Schmid, Chicago, IL |
| 2020 | Fade Into You, Anno Domini, New York, NY Zoe Gaia Blodsukker Sex Magi Kneipe, Haus der Kunst, Oslo, Norway |
| 2019 | But Doctor, I am Pagliacci, The Loon, Toronto, Canada OKEY-DOKEY III – Fenster, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne, Germany Digital Gothic, Centre d’art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme, Delme, France |
| 2018 | Solna Centrum, The Loon, Toronto, Canada |
| 2017 | Loneliness Of Leaders, Bonny Poon Paris, France Tu es Métamorphose, Galerie Pact, Paris, France Antifaratu, Galería Mascota, Mexico City Neuro Tribes, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden I Am Our Common Pronoun, SALTS, Basel I Am Our Common Pronoun, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Sweat Loaf Hallelujah, Soon.tw Gallery, Montreal, Canada Barcza, Boman, Norin, Pedan, Röhss & Thorell, Issues Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden The Love Object, Team Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2016 | Sour Grapes, Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki, Finland Le Bourgeois, 3236rls, London, UK Friends In Need, Carl Kostyál Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden I Am Not An Answer, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2015 | PLANES, Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI), Miami, USA Jazz Endured, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany NeverWinter: Borderlands, hosted by Andquestionmark at Dragon’s Lair, Stockholm, Sweden Basic Instinct, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK Hotter Than July 24th, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada Hotels, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2014 | FIGHT, Center, Berlin, Germany (duo show with Jennifer Chan) Meet Your Maker, Carl Kostyál Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2013 | Driving Fast Nowhere, Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czechia Say My Name, Say My Name. Absolventen der Städelschule 2013, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt, Germany YOGA Center @ Antagon, Titanik-Gallery, Turku, Finland Donaufestival, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria SenOren #6, Temporara Konsthallen, Stockholm, Sweden Judge Jurassic and Executioner, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2012 | It Starts with a Melody Then Come the Cockroaches, Hey it’s Enrico Pelazzo, Gothenberg, Sweden It Starts with a Melody Then Come the Cockroaches, WIP Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Nobody Knows You’re a Dog, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden |
| 2011 | Candles in the Mind-Game, Beige Cube, Frankfurt, Germany Rundgang, HfBK Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2010 | Too Fat Too Fit, NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany |
SELECTED PRESS
Intergalactic Psychedelia, Helen Korpak, Kunstkritikk, December 20, 2021
Lucas Zwirner: ‘Being an artist is a calling – you can’t just want to be one,’ Rosanna Dodds, Financial Times, October 2, 2021
Zoe Barcza at Bianca D’Alessandro, Francesca Astesani, Artforum, July 2021
Anxiety Is a Feeling of Unease, Antonia Marsh, Luncheon Magazine, Issue 10, AW 2020–2021, Print
Zoe Barcza, Anne Doran, Art in America, January 2020
Chinese Whispers, Noah Barker, Mousse Magazine, Issue 70, Winter 2020, Print
7 Standout Artists to Discover at miart 2018, Naomi Rea, Artnet News, April 13, 2018
Zoe Barcza, Zoë Lescaze, Artforum, June 2015
Zoe Barcza @ Ghebaly Gallery reviewed, Lauren MacKenzie Noice, Aqnb, December 5, 2016
Zoe Barcza: Dr. Awkward, Santi Vernetti, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, December 1, 2016