Zak Prekop was born in 1979 in Chicago
Lives and works in Red Hook, NY
Education
2009
GE, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2001
BA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Basho Revelations, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2021
Mirrored Weeks, Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, NY
2019
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, NY
2016
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, NY
Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2011
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
2010
Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Harris Lieberman Project Room, New York, NY
2008
Shane Campbell Gallery - Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2022
File Under Freedom, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2021
New Space / New Works, Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo, Japan
2020
When Sun Comes Out, Blank Forms, New York, NY
2016
Conversation Between a Mirror and the Sea, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Maximum Minimum in Unum, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2015
Civilization and Its Discontents: SAIC Alumni Exhibition, Selections from 1985–2015, curated by Scott Reeder and Tyson Reeder, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Painting at the Edge of Art, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
ESSEX STREET @ ESSEX STREET, Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, NY
Heather Guertin, Eberhard Havekost, Peter Mandradjieff, Charles Mayton, Zak Prekop, Torben Ribe, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Colony Room, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
paintings, Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Peter Mandradjeff, Zak Prekop, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Equilibrium, Ritter/Zamet, London, United Kingdom
Painter, Painter, curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Long Instant Short Hour, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Modern Talking, curated by Nicola Trezzi, Cluj Museum, Romania I Think and That Is All I Am, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Four Rooms, curated by Nicola Trezzi, CSW Zamek, Warsaw, Poland
Haley Melin/Olivier Mosset. Untitled, New York, NY
Pittsburgh Biennial. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Dienstag Abend. Ve.Sch, Vienna, Austria
Expanded Painting. Prague Biennial 5, Prague, Czech Republic
Modern Abstract and Minimal. Conduits, Milan, Italy
Tax Day News and Smoke. Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
2010
It’s All American. New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, Ashbury Park, NJ
Shape Language. Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Process/Abstraction. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Greater New York. PS1, Queens, NY
What Where. Sutton Lane, London, UK/Paris, France
Spontaneous Generation. Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Untitled (Painting). Shaheen Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2009
John Pestoni and Zak Prekop. Lisa Cooley Gallery - New York, NY
Richard Aldrich, Zak Prekop, Lesley Vance. Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Still Life. The Caribic, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
2008
Varda Caivano, Matt Connors, Thomas Hylander, Zak Prekop. Karin Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting. Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Cregswell Crags. Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY
Bianca Beck, Josh Brand, Matt Connors, Zak Prekop, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins. Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Re-presentation. New York City Pilsen, Chicago, IL
Bauhaus Art Show. Guertin’s Graphics, Chicagio, IL
2007
More or Less: Rodney Carswell and Zak Prekop. Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago, IL
The Nature of Disruption. Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Greater Brooklyn. CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Greater Brooklyn, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Projects
2010
The Art of the Hurrays/Skeksis Head. Harris Lieberman Project Room, New York, NY
2009
From a Position. Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
What Was the Idea. Devening Projects and Editions - Chicago, IL
2008
Rotations. Rowley Kennerk Gallery - Chicago, IL
2007
No Legs. Alogon - Chicago, IL
2006
Ring the War Home. Elizabeth Dee Gallery/QED, NewYork, NY/ Los Angeles, CA
Hurray. The Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA
The Fact Abstract. Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NY
2005
Hurray. Nicole Klansbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Bibliography
2021
“Zak Prekop: Mirrored Weeks,” TheGuide.Art, March 2021
2018
Zak Prekop, New York: ESSEX STREET and Hassla 2018 (catalogue)
2016
Girson, Matthew. “Zak Prekop,” THE SEEN, November 2016
MacMillan, Kyle. “Zak Prekop,” Art in America, December 2016, pp. 124–125.
2015
“Zak Prekop,” The New Yorker, October 25, 2015, p. 8.
Hudson, Suzanne. “About Painting,” in Painting Now, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015, pp. 6, 194–195.
Prekop, Sam and Zak Prekop. “One billion tiny dots, a modular synthesizer, and Japanese ceramics,” BOMB Magazine, May 14, 2015
Proctor, Jacob. “Zak Prekop,” Artforum, January 2015, pp. 218–219.
2013
Abbe, Mary. “Painters return to Walker in a new show,” Star Tribune, February 8, 2013.
Thomas, Jonathan. “Painter Painter,” Frieze, June–August 2013.
2012
Hudson, Suzanne. “Zak Prekop.” Artforum, May 2012
Fee, Brian. “Excavating Abstraction.” New American Paintings, March 2012. Fiske, Courtney. “Critics’ Picks: Zak Prekop.”, March 2012.
2011
Byers, Daniel. “Zak Prekop.” Flash Art, October 2011.
2009
John Pestoni and Zak Prekop. Montreuil, Gregory. Flash Art, November-December 2009
2008
Zak Prekop. Orendorff, Danny. New City, December
Cregswell Crags. Smith, Roberta. New York Times, September
Bianca Beck, Josh Brand, Matt Connors, Zak Prekop, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins.
Wenzel, Erik. Art Slant, June
2007
The Nature of Disturbance. Wenzel, Erik. Time Out Chicago, February
2005
Greater Brooklyn. Smith, Roberta. New York Times, July 2005
2006
Top Ten. Keegan, Matt. Artforum, February
Visiting Artist Lectures
2011
Artists Present at Noon. Guest Lecturer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Visiting Artist, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Artist in Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, OH
Awards
2010
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2008
Joan Mitchell M.F.A. Grant Nominee
2006
Trustee Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago