Born 1988 in Mill Valley, CA
Lives and works in Mill Valley, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Solo exhibition, Almine Rech, Upper East Side, NY (Forthcoming)
2022
ADAA, Almine Rech, New York, NY
Meridians, Art Basel Miami Beach, Almine Rech, Miami, FL
2020
A Case Against Reality, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
2019
Meta-Myths, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece
2018
The Fourth Wall, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2017
Meta Species, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Art Athina, Ochi Projects,Athens, Greece
Residency, Maeght Foundation, France
2016
Bernard Gwilliam & The Quantum Modernism, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA
To Arrive at the Truth, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
The Deformation, Sky Art Foundation, Kiyev, Ukraine
The Hall of Mirrors, Solo Installation at UNTITLED Art Fair, Ochi Projects, Miami Beach, FL
No Commission, Swiz Beats Art Project, Berlin, Germany
2015
The Psyche's Gestures, SOZE Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Painting is the Pattern, Jules Maeght, San Francisco, CA
Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
The Creative Dialect, A.R.4.T Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Open Source Hieroglyphs, New York, NY
2014
Intuitivism, Le QuiVive, Oakland, CA
Et In Arte Ego, Antonio Colombo, Milan, Italy
2013
Chasing Singularity, A.R.4.T Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
The Infinite, Gallery 81435, Telluride, CO
Chaos/ Clarity, Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Lost Illusions, Project Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Group Shows
2023
The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso, Malaga, Spain (Forthcoming)
2018
California Love, Gallery Droste, Germany
Interference, pt. 2, Oakland, CA
2017
Daniel Gibson and Zio Ziegler, Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy
2016
No Commission, Swiz Beats Art Project, Berlin, Germany
Momento Mori, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Collectors Forum, Istabul, Turkey
2015
No Commission, Swiz Beats Art Project, Art Basel Miami, FL
Conditions, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland, CA
With Love From Cali, Antonio Colombo Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2014
Beams Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Carta Canta, Antonio Colombo Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Winter Group Show, Stolen Space Gallery, London, UK
Neu-Folk, LeQuivive Gallery, Oakland, CA
Confluence, 5024SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Complex Gallery, Portland, OR
Santurce es Ley, Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Young Americans, Gajah Gallery, Singapore, Indonesia
FlashBang, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Primeval, Carmichael Gallery, Culver City, CA
and Chromatic: An Undeniable Experience, Roll-Up Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Public Collections
Rubell Museum, Miami
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai
Colleción Solo, Madrid, Spain
Public Sculptures
Beirut, Lebanon
Istanbul, Turkey
Shanghai, China
Toronto, Canada
Mill Valley, CA
Murals
Ostend, Belgium
United Nation, Oakland, CA
Mill Valley, CA
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cozumel, Mexico
Arcevia, Italy
9th & Avenue C, Manhattan, NY
Irvine, CA
Napa, CA
Nashville, TN
Tokyo, Japan
Oceanside, CA
Maui, HI
Kauai, HI
San Francisco, CA
Milan, Italy
Rome, Italy
London, Great Britain
Berlin, Germany
Seoul, South Korea
The Branson School, Ross, CA
US Surf Open, Huntington Beach, CA
NRG, San Francisco, CA
LeQuiVive, Oakland, CA
Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas, NV
Shanghai, China
Zio Ziegler
Ziegler paints from a meditative state, drawing from his subconscious a personal interpretation of the world around him. For him, painting is an act of self-exploration and a radical expression of vulnerability. “Painting is my attempt at self-understanding - rather than finding a concept and executing it in a linear fashion, I react to my questions, life, and awareness,” he claims. The focus of Ziegler’s practice aims to illuminate the process of creating instead of isolating the final result. His images of monumental figures set in motion serve as a portal of sorts for the viewer, inviting them to perceive the work in their own way, and in turn creating an active exchange between the artist and the audience.
Using primarily oil-stick, Ziegler works with textures that fuse the raw oil pigment with external materials such as sand, soil, and pumice. His sources of inspiration, though ever-changing, include early 20th-century abstraction, Italian Futurism, and Cubism, and call to mind the likes of Francis Bacon, Kazimir Malevich, and Constantin Brancusi.
Ziegler studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Brown University, receiving his BFA from RISD in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Meta Myths at Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece (2019); The Fourth Wall at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (2018); Bernard Gwilliam and the Quantum Modernism at Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2017); Meta Species at Ochi Gallery, Idaho, CA (2016); and Et in Arte Ego at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2014). Ziegler has been commissioned by the United Nations for a 70th anniversary commemorative mural in Oakland California, and has been teaching at Stanford University since 2019.
