About
Magali Duzant is an artist and writer based in NY and Zürich. Using photography, writing, time-based installations, and artist books her work explores the ways in which we describe, inhabit, and share experiences on intimate scales both large and small. Publishing is a large part of her output, with projects ranging from newsprint zines to image-text publications that often revolve around themes related to the metaphysical, the natural world, and counterculture, viewed through a lens of humor, poetics, and romanticism.
Education
Parsons New School of Design, NY, NY MFA in Photography & Related Media, 2014
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA BHA in Fine Art & Visual Culture, 2009
Selected Exhibitions ( Solo exhibitions ** )
2024
Old School, New Worlds, Smush Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
The Via Combusta, Fotografiska Shanghai, Shanghai, China (forthcoming)
The Via Combusta, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing, China (forthcoming)
2023
A Tree, A Garden, Antenna, New Orleans, LA **
Shared Storytelling: New Acquisitions from Franklin Furnace Archive, ISC Building, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Maribor Photobook Award 2023 exhibition, UGM Kabinet, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2022
Said To Be Dreaming, Olympia, New York, NY
Solstice, Governors Island, New York, NY
Under the Sun and the Moon, Humble Arts Foundation, online
2021
The Hours After, Gilman Barracks, Singapore
Clearing the Air, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
2020
Intimité, Imprimé, Collection, UQO Gallery, Gatineau, CA
Let’s Take This Outside, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Zone V : TSA PDF, online
Common Knowledge, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, DE
2019
Salón ACME No. 7, Proyecto Público Prim, Mexico City, MX
Delirium, RedLine, Month of Photography Denver Biennial, Denver, CO
Alarum, Soft Power Palace, Berlin, DE
Deep Space Laundry, Washer Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City, UT
Who Takes Care of New York?, Queens Museum, NY, NY
Light From The End of the Earth, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Alarum, PHmuseum, online
Bio26 : Common Knowledge, The 26th Design Biennial, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, SI
2018
I can see for miles, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, AU
The East Light : Live Streaming Sunrise, Mardin Biennial, Mardin, TR
S.T.E.P., Flux Factory & Queens Museum, Queens, NY, NY
2017
A Means To Measure, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA **
Arts Suzhou, Suzhou, CN
Webbiennial, Istanbul, TR
Tongue Tide, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, NY
Nature, or : What Are We Looking For? Gospel Flat, Bolinas, CA
Reconceived Notions, Stand, Brooklyn, NY
2016
A Shape In The Sun, Brooklyn Infusion Center, Brooklyn, NY **
Queens International 2016, Queens Museum, Queens, NYC, NY
LUMEN, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Constructing New Photographies, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Fung Wah Biennial, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
4RL, curated by Nati Hyojin Kim + Kat JK Lee, SPRING / BREAK Art Show, NY, NY
2015
Shortest Day Longest Sunset: Live Streaming Sunset, 12 hours, Local Project, Queens, NY **
Lift Off, Fridman Gallery, NY, NY
Open Door Discourse, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Interpretations, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
Unbound, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania, AU & Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney, AU
Work In Progress, Root Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Video Snack 5, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Salon, ( harbor ), NY, NY
#IRL, In Real Life, Aronson Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, NY, NY
Still Life and Man : Interpretations, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
A Process ( Der Greif ), Neue Galerie im Hohmannhaus, Augsburg, DE
Future Projections, Auckland Festival of Photography, Silo Park, Auckland, NZ
2013
2,906.6 miles or 3 hours, DUMBO Arts Fest, Brooklyn, NY
how to say for what i do not know, harbor, Brooklyn, NY
Re:Cinema, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, AU
Align, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Emergent Systems, Harbor, Brooklyn, NY
2012
MFA NOW, Siskind Gallery, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
A Life, Still, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Beijing Design Week 2012, CCD-05, RAWR!, Caochangdi, Beijing, CN
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, CN
Small Prints, Humble Arts Foundation, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA
Emerging Artists Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NY, NY
2011
Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Narrative, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2010
2010 Biennial, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Interstitial, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Art Scouts, curated by Kerry Skarbakka, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2009
Mapping Braddock, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA
Grade A, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
From the Vault, Regina Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Public and Print Commissions
2021 Theory of Blue, Syllabus Project
2020 Take What You Can’t Get exhibition publication, ABC No Rio, NY, NY
2019 Whole Queens Catalog, publication for Who Takes Care of New York, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2018 Solstice, super / collider, Ace Hotel, London, UK
2017 One If By Night, video night ride through NYC, Artists Alliance + BikeNY, NY
2017 What Is It, Then, Between Us, large scale vinyl mural installation, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2016 A Shape In The Sun / A Means To Measure, Light sensitive sculptures, Brooklyn Infusion Center, MSKCC, NY
2016 Light Tunnel, 12 piece chromatic light installation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
2016 Poem For A Pawn: I Was Seeking, Provident Loan Society, Bay Ridge SAW, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Presentations / Lectures
2023 Center for Photography at Woodstock, artist talk, Woodstock, NY
2023 Printed Matter, I Looked & Looked hardcover edition book launch and reading, NY, NY
2022 Marble Hill Camera Club, NY, NY + online
2020 Artist Talk, New York Public Library Picture Collection, online programming
2019 How We See Stewardship, Queens Museum + NY Urban Field Station, panelist, NY, NY
2019 Guest Critic, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Panel participant, Process, Publishing and the Photographer's Practice, SVA, NY, NY
2018 Seeing The Story: Creating Narratives in Visual Art, panel participant, moderated by Elyssa Goodman of VICE, Brooklyn Book festival, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Light Blue Desire, LES Book Fair @ Foley Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Visiting Artist Talk, CUNY College of Staten Island, NY
2017 Blue Across Tongues, In conversation with Xenia Diente for Tongue Tide, NYC
2017 Artist Talk, The Assembly at Rubber Factory, NY, NY
2016 Art In The Digital Age, panel participant, College Art Association Conference, DC
2015 Artist Talk, Parramatta Lanes & Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, AU
2015 Artist Talk, Photo Feast, The New School, NY, NY
2015 Artists In Conversation with Curator Elisabeth Biondi, Lift Off, Fridman Gallery, NY, NY
2014 Panel Member, Photographic Shifts: Ubiquity vs. The Sublime, Society for Photographic Education, Conference, Albany, NY
2014 Guest Lecture & Studio Visits, Professional Practices, Carnegie Mellon University, Pgh, PA
2013 Making a Living, Living Your Dream, BXA Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pgh, PA
2013 Focus & Motivation, Artist Presentation, Department of Art, Hunter College CUNY, NY, NY
2013 Parsons Pre-College Program, Parsons The New School for Design, NY, NY
Awards / Residencies / Grants
2021 Studio Verde Residency, Avigliano Umbro, Umbria, Italy
2020 New Work Grant, QCA, NYC
2018 New Work Grant, Queens Council on the Arts + DCLA, NYC
2018 Teaching Artist Residency, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2017-2018 Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, NY, NY
2016 LUMEN Residency, Atina, Italy
2016 SU-CASA Artist Grant & Residency, DCA, NY, NY
2015 NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, Live Streaming Sunset
2015 Queens Council on The Arts Grant, Live Streaming Sunset
2015 NARS Foundation, Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Parramatta Artists Studio, Short-term Residency, Sydney, AU
2014-2012 Dean’s Scholarship, Parsons The New School for Design
2013 Portfolio Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013-2012 BAYVAN Artist Registry
2012-2011 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Artist Book Publications
La vie is like that, Seaton Street Press, forthcoming, Spring 2024
A Tree Grows in Queens, Conveyor Editions, forthcoming, Winter 2024
The Dry Garden, Antenna Press, 2023
The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours : Notes On Subway Psychics, Conveyor Editions, 2019
Light Blue Desire, Conveyor Editions, 2018
I Looked & Looked, Conveyor Editions, 2015
Press / Reviews
McCarty, Lisa, Book Review:The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours, Lenscratch, June 2020
Steinhauer, Jillian Smashing Berries, Printable Shows, and Google Streets, NY Times, May 2020
Ricciulli, Valeria, Who takes care of New York? Curbed NY, September 2019
Eddi Jones, Gregory, In Their Own Words, In The In Between, June 2018
Van Wagtendonk, Anya, Art, Ecofeminism, and Community…, Bkylner, October 17, 2017
Larkin, Daniel, Playing With Words, Hyperallergic, July 20, 2017
BRIC TV, BK Live program, Interview on Poem For A Pawn commission, June 9, 2016
Voon, Claire, A Biennial On A Bus… Hyperallergic, March 2016
Heins, Scott, The Fung Wah Biennial Took Me On A Weird Art Trip, Gothamist, March 2016
ART F City, Week’s Picks, Shortest Day Longest Sunset, December 2015
Atallah, Lara. Interview & Feature, Manhattan Portage Lifestyle Site, January 2015
Holcomb, Lori. What’s Also Under the Bridge, The New York Times, September 2013
Shaw, Kurt. Westmoreland Biennial Review, Pittsburgh Tribune Review July 2010
Shaw, Kurt. Interstitial Exhibition Review, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, August 2010
Bibliography / Print & Web
Tree News Issue 4, interview, print, 2023
From Here On Out, Jenica Heintzelman and Magali Duzant in conversation, 2021
The Business of Fine Art Photography, Thomas Werner, Bloomsbury, expected 2021
NYPL Researcher Spotlight : Magali Duzant by Jessica Cline, 2020
Humble Arts Foundation ( web ), Reading Rebecca Solnit: 17 Photographers and Curators on Her Influence and Inspiration, 2017
For The Time Being, Conversations by David Chan and Troy Wong, 2016
Queens International 2016, Queens Museum exhibition catalogue, 2016 LINK http://queensmuseum.org/2016intl/
Raincoat In The Sky, 2016
Unbound Catalogue, essays by Jacqueline Millner and Kelly McDonald
Ein Prozess : A Process, Der Greif, 2014
Oranbeg Beta, 2014
Reframing Photography, Rebekah Modrak & Bill Anthes, 2013
In Bloom So Soon, 2013
Fashion Studies Journal, 2013
Netherworld Magazine, 2012
We Are Drifters, 2012
3200K Print Quarterly, Issue One, 2012
Feature Shoot, Road Trip, 2012
Musée Magazine, The Fears Issue, 2012
Ag Works: Making Something, Showing Something, Allen C. Benson, 2010
Relay Arts magazine, Fall 2009, “Mapping Braddock: works by Magali Duzant and Carolyn Clayton”