About Zoe
Zoe Zahava is a mixed media artist based in Brooklyn. Zahava’s work centers their personal experience as a queer person with disabilities. Working multidisciplinary, they use texture, sound, and text as a way to engage the audience in the experience of living in the city with a physical disability. Taking the viewer out of the comfort of their own knowing and understanding, zoe pushes the boundaries of the unknown.
Zoe graduated with a BFA in printmaking from Tyler School of Art and Architecture (22’). Zoe completed a summer internship at Marquis Studios in 19’. Their work was featured in a series of zines called Ablezine based in London, published in 2020. Summer 2021 Zoe interned at CFEVA (Center For Visual Artists) in Philadelphia, PA. In April 2022, Zoe was part of a student art show titled How to Read a Clock: three easy steps. Zoe worked at the Temple Contemporary as a ‘Conversationalist’ for the gallery from 2019-22. They received a CARAS grant from Temple University to be a panelist on the MAPC panel titled Removing Barriers in a Studio Practice chaired by Chelsea Clarke, held at Kent State University fall 22’. In November 2022, Zoe exhibited their senior thesis show titled Cemented, Stymied which was held at the Stella Elkins gallery in Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Since graduating their work has been featured in 3 group shown in NYC as part of Static Arts Collective. Currently Zoe is the head of the programming sub-group with Tyler; Access in Art and Design, a group of faculty and staff that are creating a more welcoming and accessible school environment for students with disabilities, creating real change within old institutions.
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