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    Parting Worlds (Whitney Museum of American Art)

    2025

    Marina Zurkow and James Schmitz
    Animation: Ewan Creed
    Research: David Guzman
    Architectural installation: Blake Goble
    Mural Painting: Frey Stahler and Josiah McCloud
    Courtesy bitforms gallery
    Documentation photos: Yi Hsuan Lai

    Hyundai Artlab, Whitney Museum of American Art

    Marina Zurkow: Parting Worlds presents three digital works featured both inside the gallery and on the adjacent terrace, each of which explores the inextricable weave of ecological and societal systems. Mesocosm (Wink, TX) (2012) and The Earth Eaters (2025) focus on the environmental consequences of relentless resource extraction. Her installation for the Hyundai Terrace Commission, The River is a Circle (2025), is…

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    The River is a Circle

    2025

    Commissioned in 2025 for The Hyundai Terrace at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The River is a Circle is a generative animation that portrays the Hudson River as a layered scene, dividing the view between life above and below the water’s surface. The animated imagery continuously shifts based on algorithmic probabilities, incorporating real-time weather, seasonal…

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    The Earth Eaters

    2025

    Generative software animation, computer, monitors, custom plinth.

    The Earth Eaters is a software-driven animated “fairy tale” that imagines the ongoing cycle of extracting raw materials from the earth to produce weapons of war. In response to the ongoing characterization of ecocide as “collateral damage,” the generative algorithms behind the work create an ever-changing environment that feature islands forming and disintegrating, a menagerie of…

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    Cry, Landscape

    2024-ongoing

    Digital collage
    Prints on Epson Kozo paper
    52″x24″
    Edition of 5

    Cry, Landscape is a series-as-practice of imagining the sky crying, the land crumbling in a posture of grief. Anthropomorphism-adjacent, I seek to conjure into being other planetary subjectivities, and expressions of sadness by planetary constituents, rather than consider “the world” as indifferent and “resilient.”  These images were created using digital collage techniques. They fuse wonder…

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    Death Work (2024)

    2024

    Digital print on Kozo Thick 110 gsm paper, 90” x 36”

    Made in collaboration with Dall-e2 and Firefly

    Commissioned by Wasserman Projects, Detroit

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    Underfoot/Overhead (Wasserman Projects)

    2024

    Digital AI prints, generative software works

    Software works in collaboration with James Schmitz

    Exhibition presented by Wasserman Projects, Detroit, with generous support from the Knight Foundation,

    Wasserman Projects (link)

    Two-person show with Jasmine Murrell. Curation: Alison Wong Special thanks to Gary Wasserman, Ian Rummell, and John Charnota Photos by PD Rearick, courtesy Wasserman Projects

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    Can the Substrate Speak? (Dear Climate)

    2024

    Broadsheet posters, dimensions variable

    Dear Climate (Una Chaudhuri and Marina Zurkow)

    Art Souterrain Festival, Montreal. Heather Davis, Curator. Spring 2024

    https://festival2024.artsouterrain.com/en/environment-do-you-hear/
    This work is part of the project:

    Can the Substrate Speak?, a piece created for Art Souterrain, expands a key question in postcolonial studies (“Can the SubalternsSpeak?” Gayatri Spivak), to planetary environmental politics.

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    The Iceberg

    2024

    Deck of cards, gameboard, table, chairs

    THE ICEBERG is a card and conversation game created by Abigail Simon and Marina Zurkow that invites players to consider the beautiful trouble of complexity, with a particular focus on climate change. Like a tarot deck, the images on the cards of The Iceberg invite the user to consider a problem, give a voice to…

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    Desert FeelZ

    2023

    Risograph printed book, 96 pages. Signed. Edition of 250
    Published by the Desert Humanities Initiative, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University

    Editors: Ron Broglio and Marina Zurkow
    Drawings: Marina Zurkow

    Commissioned by the Desert Humanities Initiative, Arizona State University

    Desert Humanities (link)

    This contemplative field guide is “designed to help orient you to the desert, like yoga poses for being with the land.”

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    Breathless

    2023

    Cheap poster paper, wheat paste
    18″x24″ each

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    White Line Woodcuts (2023)

    2023

    White-line woodcuts
    Ink on archival paper
    Open edition variable

    White-line woodcuts are multicolor images printed from a single block of wood. Also called Provincetown prints, they hover between monoprints and Japanese-style multi-block woodcuts.

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    The Breath Eaters v2.0

    2023

    Custom software (color, silent)
    Edition of 5, 1 AP

    The Breath Eaters 2.0 is an an animated, custom software artwork that visualizes PM2.5 pollutants produced by wildfire and fossil fuel plant emissions. Inspired by an open source AI image of a World War II propaganda map and presented as a live, generative composition, the work demonstrates how particulate pollution is carried into the high atmosphere…

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    Linocuts (2023)

    2023

    Untitled 1 – 6
    Linocut, two-color
    12 x 9 in / 30.5 x 22.9 cm
    Open Edition Variable (OE)
    Caligo ink on Yasutomo Sketch

    2-color hand-carved linocut prints.

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    The Breath Eaters 2.0 (diptych)

    2023

    Custom software (color, silent)

    In collaboration with James Schmitz

    Commissioned by Visions 2030: Earth Edition for CalArts, 2023

    This version of The Breath Eaters (diptych) offers two varying views of the Earth using data. The work addresses human impact on earth systems, fire management practices, and the planetary poetics of wind.

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    Death Work (2023)

    2023

    Digital print on rice paper + NFT
    35.4 x 59.1 in
    Edition of 5 + 2 AP

    Made in collaboration with Dall-e

    Death 1 and Death 2 were originally commissioned by curator Linda Weintraub for Beyond Death, a special issue in the journal Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

    Death Work, entirely created with Dall-e, was originally commissioned by curator Linda Weintraub for Beyond Death, a special issue in the journal Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

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    The Dorises: Oystercraft from silicon to saltwater

    2023

    Custom software (color, silent)
    Generative, non-interactive
    93 editions, 6 artist editions, 1 publisher proof

    In collaboration with Ira Greenberg
    Oystercraft website design: Pat Shiu

    Part of the exhibition “Chain Reaction” on Feral File, curated by Christiane Paul

    Created for the online exhibition “Chain Reaction,” curated by Christiane Paul on the Feral File platform.

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    Plankto

    2022

    16″x12″
    Letterpress
    Variable Edition of 10

    Variable edition print produced at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York

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    World Wind (bitforms gallery)

    2022

    Digital prints, generative software works

    Software works in collaboration with James Schmitz

    Exhibited at bitforms gallery, New York

    bitforms gallery (link)

    World Wind is an exhibition featuring artworks by Marina Zurkow and collaborative, generative pieces by Zurkow and James Schmitz.

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    Animal Revolution

    2022

    25 drawings
    Charcoal on Legion Stonehenge archival paper
    18″x24″
    Also available as digital prints

    Ron Broglio, author. Illustrations, Marina Zurkow

    Commissioned by the author. Published by University of Minnesota Press

    Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, this book threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it.

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    #MSU: A Manifesto For A Multispecies Union

    2022

    Unpublished article

    At this moment of cascading and interconnected crises, a radically different politics is required. our essay is a provocation – part thought experiment, part call to action – that asks: what would it look like to organize a multi-species union? 

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