Zach Blas
- Year of birth, place
- 1981, Gallipolis, USA
- lives and works in
- London, UK
- Biography
- Zach Blas is an artist and writer whose work engages technology, queerness, and politics. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. After graduating from Master in Fine Art and Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008, Zach Blas earned his Ph.D at the Graduate Program in Literature at the Duke University, Durham.
Blas has exhibited and lectured internationally, most recently at ZKM; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; e-flux, New York; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; New Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; the 2014 Dakar Bienniale; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; transmediale, Berlin; and Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool.
Recent residencies include Eyebeam in New York, The Moving Museum in Istanbul, and the Delfina Foundation in London.
Currently, Blas is producing a body of artwork that responds to technological control and refusals of visibility.
Stand: December 2015
