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Zoe Koke

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Born 1989, Calgary, Canada

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

2019

MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2013

BFA, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2025

Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada (forthcoming)

Palingenesis (with Ben Borden), 12.26, Dallas, TX

2024

Unchained Melody, Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA

In the office, april april, Brooklyn, NY

2023

the second space, Mai36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2019

American Myth, Washer/Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City, UT

The Butterfly Effect, SPACE, Vancouver, Canada

22nd Century, MoMAPS311, Ottawa, Canada

2016

Becoming, The Valley, Montréal, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Open Door to the Sun, april april, Pittsburgh, PA

2024

NADA Miami with Franz Kaka, Miami, FL

On Alchemy, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Actions, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Art Toronto with april april, Toronto, Canada

Everywhere it Goes, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2023

fuckgirl collapse, room 3557, Los Angeles, CA

Adaptation, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada

the serpent’s tail (with Rike Droescher), Alice Amati, London, United Kingdom

The Shape of Time, Lindon&Co, London, United Kingdom

Agony/Serendipity (with Nicholas Campbell), Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA

2022

Re/flex, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2021

Fever Dream, One Trick Pony, Los Angeles, CA

Doesn’t whine by blue moon, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2019

UCLA Chancellor’s Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA

UCLA MFA Thesis Exhibition #3, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Tout ce qui arrive, arrive dans les verbes, Pop Montréal, Studio Rialto, Montréal, Canada

By And By, Durden And Ray, presented by Soil Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Made to Look Natural (with Ben Borden), Smart Objects, Landers, CA

2016

Four Fours, Performance for The Newsstand Project for Ocean of Images

(with Hannah Gross), MoMA, New York, NY

2015

Forced Air: les ventilateurs, Les Territoires, Montréal, Canada

Scholarships, Grants, Residencies

2023

Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant

2021

Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant

2018

Fine Arts Trust Award (Travel Grant), School of Art And Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles

2017

Graduate Division Award, University of California, Los Angeles

2016

Céline Bureau Resident, Montréal, Canada

2016

Jeunes Volontaires Grant, Gouvernement du Québec, Montréal, Canada

2015

Mappe Program Résidence, Les Territoires, Montréal, Canada

Vidéographe Resident, Montréal, Canada

Curating/Jurying

2019

the wind will pay, the cold will pay, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2013

Well and Truly Over, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Canada

Combine Exhibition, FOFA, Montréal, Canada

2012

Assemblage, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Canada

We leave as we arrive, Degrowth Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

In Our Time, Blue Cat Boxing Studio, Montréal, Canada

Person, Place, [Time and Space], Art Matters, The Darling Foundry, Montréal, Canada

Writing/Publications

2022

Contributing artist to n+1

Contributor to ti-TCR 19, The Capilano Review

2014-

Contributing Editor for The Editorial Magazine

2014-20

Freelance writer for Topical Cream, The Peripheral Review, Aftertastes, CUJAH, FOFA gallery

Speaking/Screenings

2022

every last penny for you, girl, poetry book launch, Bug, Los Angeles

2018-19

Artist talk at University of California, Los Angeles

2018

Refusing Intimacy with the Present Moment, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany

Teaching Experience

2020

Teacher for Bookmaking, ST.ART Program, The University of Texas, Austin, TX

Professor of Photography, The Art Institute, Austin, TX

2019

Exhibitions Teaching Assistant for California State Summer School for The Arts, CalArts, Valencia, CA

2018-19

Teaching Assistant for Advanced and Introductory Photography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Teaching Assistant and Discussion Leader of Modernism since 1950, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Teaching Assistant for Artists’ Writings (Art History course), University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Other

2019

Costume Designer, photographer and video editor for Task, Ground Series,

Dance Collective

2018-19

Coordinator for the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of California, Los Angeles

2013

Art Programmer for the International Degrowth Conference of the Americas, Montréal, Canada

2012

Art Matters Festival co-director, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Select Press

2023

Feature, The Editorial Magazine

2021

Feature, Black Flash Magazine

Feature, The Peripheral Review

2020

Interview, The Editorial Magazine

Review, Topical Cream

Review, The Editorial Magazine