Dzama, Marcel

Marcel Dzama is a Canadian artist living in New York City known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings of human figures, animals and imaginary hybrids. He typically uses a muted, melancholic color palette of browns and greens, drawing from nature and army textiles. In addition to ink and watercolor drawings, Dzama also creates collages. A recent departure for Dzama is the move into large-scale polyptychs, sculpture, and video. Dzama is also known for providing the cover art to a number of major record albums, notably The Else by They Might Be Giants, Guero by Beck and Reconstruction Site by The Weakerthans. Dzama's work is in the collections of major museums and public institutions, including The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Bass Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum. He is represented by the prestigious David Zwirner Gallery in New York City. Dzama's work is currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art's "Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration" exhibition (March 14-July 9, 2012).