Bio

Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Worker, c-print, 2010

Transdisciplinary artist, with 50 exhibitions, screenings and festivals in Austria, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Puerto Rico, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and USA. Explores issues of liminality, identity, and public space through digital paintings, performance, video, photography and installation. Holds a Master of Fine Arts in New Media from Donau Universitat Krems, Austria and Transart Institute NYC. Artist residencies include: School of Visual Arts (New York), Wooloo (Berlin), Dia: Beacon (NY), Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR), etc. Recipient of a CEC Artslink Fellowship (NYC). Author of a book on artist interventions in public space.



Zoran Poposki
1974 born in Skopje, Macedonia
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

EXHIBITIONS - GROUP

2012
Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative, Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti, Glavni trg 24, 2380 Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

2011
Hacked Places / Hacked Faces, City Museum/Open Graphic Studio, Skopje
Interference-Schaduwspel, Breda, Netherlands (public screening)
Not so Distant Memory, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE, USA
CYBERFEST 11 International Cyber Art Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
6 AKTO Festival of Contemporary Art, Bitola, Macedonia
9 Art Stays Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenia
Festival Internacional de Videarte Proyestor 2011, Off Limits, Madrid, Spain
Skopje: between science and fiction, Open Graphic Studio/City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
The Joy of Living, Art Pavilion, Podgorica, Montenegro
The Joy of Living, City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
Brief Histories, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Upstart public art campaign, Dublin, Ireland
College Art Association 2011 Annual Conference Media Lounge, New York, USA
Not So Distant Memory, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
MYSELF: A Survey of Contemporary Portraiture, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

2010
III Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Camaguey, Cuba
By Way of Introduction, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland (OR)
SpecifyOthers, Sanctioned Array/Big Screen Project (public screening on 30 ft. x 16.5 ft. HD Format LED screen, 6th Ave and 29th Street), NYC
City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
ConcentArt, Berlin, Germany
Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia

2009
Center for Urban Culture Kino Siska & Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Museo de Arte de Ponce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
Kosovo Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

2008
City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, USA
Kargart Uluslararasi Video Festivali, Istanbul, Turkey
South Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
WooLoo New Life Gallery, Berlin

2007
“30 Macedonian artists”, Culture Center Ohrid

2006
Alpan International, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, New York (Juror: Donald Kuspit, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York (open studio)
Multimedia Cultural Center Dialma Ruggiero, La Spezia, Italy

EXHIBITIONS - SOLO

2008 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia
2007 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia
2007 Il Ramo D’Oro – Napoli, Italy (with Michele D’Alterio)
2007 National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia
2006 Culture Center Ohrid, Macedonia
2005 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia
2004 Culture Center Prilep, Macedonia
2003 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia

LECTURES AND TALKS

2011 Art Stays Summer Academy of Contemporary Art, Dom Kulture, Ptuj, Slovenia
2011 Working Conversation: Performance Lecture, SOHOinOttakring and Thyssen-Bornemisza 21 Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (with Victoria Hindley)
2011 Architecture of a Divided City, Panel, Museum of the City of Skopje
2010 MFA Art and Social Practice, Portland State University, Portland
2010 MFA CAP/Studio, Portland State University, Portland
2010 Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Communications, South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
2010 TransartCollective, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany
2010 Usurpation-Public Space-(Re)Contextualisation, City Museum, Skopje
2009 Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philology, Skopje University

EDUCATION

2011 ProArt PhD Summer Program in Art-Politics-Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
2008 MFA in New Media, Donau Universitat Krems, Linz, Austria and Transart Institute New York/Berlin
2006 School of Visual Arts, NYC - Division of Continuing Education

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2011 DAAD/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität ProArt Scholarship, München, Germany
2010 CEC ArtsLink Fellowship Award, New York
2010 DIA Beacon, New York, residency
2009 Young Visual Artist Award DENES 09, Contemporary Art Center Skopje & Civil Society Foundation New York City, finalist
2009 iD+consonni Sondika 09, Spain – Special Mention/Z+E+M Collective
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje Best Young Artist Award, shortlisted
2009 Publication Grant (Monograph), Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
2008 WOOLOO, Berlin, Germany, residency
2007/08 Foundation M Scholarship Award, Austria
2007 National Fellowship for Talented Young Artists, Ministry of Culture of R Macedonia