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Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Canadian, b. 1974
Dzama was born in 1974 in Winnipeg, Canada. Dzama received his BFA in 1997 from the University of Manitoba. He has been represented by David Zwirner since 1998 and has had many solo exhibitions. Dzama has exhibited widely in solo and group presentations throughout the United States and abroad. Marcel Dzama: An End to the End Times was on view through August of 2021 at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Georgia. Also in 2021, the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland will present a solo exhibition of the artist’s work entitled Marcel Dzama: Tonight We Dance. In 2018, the solo exhibition Ya es hora was presented at Galería Helga de Alvear in Madrid and A Jester’s Dance was shown at University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2017, La Casa Encendida in Madrid exhibited Drawing on a Revolution, a solo show of the artist’s work. In 2015, the artist’s film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance) was presented alongside related two- and three-dimensional work in a solo show at the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis. In 2010, a major survey of the artist's work was held at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in Montreal. In 2016, the artist created the costume and stage design for New York City Ballet’s The Most Incredible Thing, a performance based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. Coinciding with the performance, Dzama also created an installation in the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater as part of the New York City Ballet Art Series, titled The tension around which history is built. Work by the artist is held in museum collections worldwide, including the Dallas Museum of Art; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Dzama lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Artist: Marcel Dzama
Cowboy Shooters
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, as comical as it is otherworldly, Marcel Dzama is one of Canada's most internationally successful artists. Dzama's works ar...
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Evolution of Man
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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Even More Friends of Jason, including Dzama, from Estate of Jason Polan, Signed
By Marcel Dzama
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Dzama Even More Friends of Jason, including Dzama, from the Estate of Jason Polan, double sided work with self portrait on the back, 2019 Mixed media collage with ink, waterco...
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1990s Pop Art Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Graphite

Self-Posession
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Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, as comical as it is otherworldly, Marcel Dzama is one of Canada's most internationally successful artists. Born in Winnipeg...
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1990s Surrealist Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Some of the Many Friends of Jason, including Marcel Dzama, Hand Signed, Framed
By Marcel Dzama
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Dzama Some of the Many Friends of Jason including Marcel, from the Estate of Jason Polan, 2019 Mixed media collage with ink, watercolor and graphite on colored paper Signed an...
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2010s Contemporary Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Graphite

Critiques Dard
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, as comical as it is otherworldly, Marcel Dzama is one of Canada's most internationally successful artists. As with most of ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Untitled (Double-Amputee with Gun)
By Marcel Dzama
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Double-Amputee with Gun) Signed, l.r. Ink, watercolor, and root beer on paper 12.5 x 9.75 inches, image This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Over/Under
By Marcel Dzama
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What the Prophecy Failed to Mention
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Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, as comical as it is otherworldly, Marcel Dzama is one of Canada's most internationally successful artists. As with most of ...
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2010s Surrealist Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Scared Wolfman
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Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, Marcel Dzama is one of the most internationally successful Canadian artists. Born in Winnipeg in 1974, Dzama had an intern...
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1990s Contemporary Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media

Untitled (Too Tired, Shelly)
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, Marcel Dzama is one of the most successful contemporary Canadian artists. Born in Winnipeg in 1974, Dzama had an internation...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Marcel Dzama Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media

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Located in Toronto, Ontario
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New Look
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, Marcel Dzama is one of the most internationally successful Canadian artists. Born in Winnipeg in 1974, Dzama had an international reputation by the time he was 30. In the 1990s, as one of the founding members of the Royal Art Lodge, Dzama contributed to the renaissance of figurative art and simultaneously put Winnipeg on the map as a center for Canadian creativity. Dzama's works are instantly recognizable for their subject and style. He often takes banal scenes or characters and injects them with menacing, eerie, or twisted details that can border on the absurd. This work features two possibly identical women standing side by side. The woman on the left, depicted topless, looks away from the second woman who is adorned in a feathery yellow costume. With an ambiguous expression, the woman in costume appears to be charging towards the woman on the left, whose nudity and unassuming nature hints at her vulnerability. Often depicting uniforms and costumes from popular culture, it isn’t hard to imagine that Dzama took inspiration from Sesame Street’s Big Bird when creating this piece. With this in mind, the contrast between one woman's nudity and and the cutesy/bizarre ensemble is exemplary of Dzama’s playful contemporary Surrealism. Today Marcel Dzama's work can be found in a host of prestigious public and private collections including Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the MoMA, Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He is particularly favored by celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey and Steve Martin. Untitled ("New Look...
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