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b. 1991 Manhattan, New York. Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia.

 

EDUCATION

2024 Masters of Contemporary Art, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn, Estonia

2013 BFA Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

AWARDS & HONORS

2022 Silver Medal, Young Sculptors Award Competition (NSPN) | Tallinn, Estonia

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025 God's Acre | Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2025 Dark Cheugy | NSFW Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (with Freena Kirppu)

2024 The Under-Earths Spin | Tallinn Art Hall (FKA Kuku Klubi) Tallinn, Estonia

2022 Mousetrap | DOM Galerija, Riga, Latvia

 

RESIDENCIES

2022 Kuš! Comics Residency | Riga, Latvia

2021 Tarantula Hill | Baltimore, MD

2018 No Rent Records (musician in residence) | Philadelphia, PA

2016 Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) | Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

INTERNSHIPS

2018 James Hyde Studio [Multimedia painter] Brooklyn, NY

2016 Karl Ekdahl/KNAS [Modular Synthesizer Manufacturer] Baltimore, MD

 

CURATORIAL

2022 Vent Space [Student-run exhibition space] Member of administrative team | Tallinn, Estonia

2018 Why Are Rodeo | Festival for New and Experimental Music & Art, Philadelphia, PA

2012-2015 SDF America | DIY showspace for experimental music, Baltimore, MD

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Mnemosyne Atlas | Studio PRÁM, Prague, Czech Republic

2024

Esoteric Diesel | Pitted Dates Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Come On In, The Water Is Fine | Culterim Gallery Veterinary, Berlin, Germany

Enter Woodland Spirits | Museum of Natural History, European Capital of Culture 2024, Tartu, Estonia

2023

Trance: Tallinn Photomonth Main Exhibition | Tallinn Art Hall Lasnamäe Pavilion, Tallinn, Estonia

Entropy Gauntlet | EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

The City Is Your Eighth Finger, Your Forehead Is Canopy | NSFW Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden

Staying in the Compost: Ghosts & Monsters of the Anthropocene | Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn, Estonia

2022

Border as a Place | Druskininkai City Museum, Druskininkai, Lithuania

Rebel Rebel - 15 Years of Kuš! | Low Gallery, Riga, Latvia

Young Sculptor Award Exhibition | ARS Projektiruum, Tallinn, Estonia

Conscious, Subconscious, (Collective) Unconscious | Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

Ideations of the World | ULM Space, Tallinn, Estonia

2021

Flag Show | Trixie Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands

Paths of Desire | Paljassaare, Tallinn, Estonia

2019

Landscape Summer Opening | Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY

Living Room | Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY

Closing Ceremony | The Glove, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Chakras | Museum of Sex, Manhattan, NY

Maiden Form | Andrew Edlin Gallery, Manhattan, NY

Inauguration | No Land Beyond, Baltimore, MD

Freak Master | The Rats Nest, Portland, ME

2017

Article Compile | Ohm Space, Berlin, Germany

Join/Die | Auxiliary Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016

Berserktown | Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Love Me & Delete Me | Essex Gallery, Catonsville, MD

MAPS | Trans Pecos, New York, NY

Murdered Word | EMP Gallery, Baltimore, MD

zburke12@gmail.com for all inquiries

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