Zurkow is a media artist focused on near-impossible nature and culture intersections, and fostering intimate connections between humans, other species, and planetary agents. Her work spans gallery installations and unconventional public participatory projects.

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  • “A Liquid Wanting,” for City of Water Day

    July 12, 2025
    Oceanic Sound Seminar 2: Sounds of the Sea for Solidarity
    South Street Seaport Museum
    Throughout the Museum and aboard the historic 1885 tall ship Wavertree
    Eugene Lew, Suzanne Thorpe, Cal Fish, Becca Rodriguez, Marina Zurkow & Anna Rose Hopkins, and Dylan Gauthier 

  • Feeding Our Demons

    May 3 – June 15
    1053 Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY
    Featuring works by Eva Davidova, Sarah Grass, Alexandra Hammond,
    Abigail Simon & Marina Zurkow (The Iceberg)
    Special live Iceberg events May 25 and June 15

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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
    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

    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.
    Marina Zurkow and James Schmitz
    Sound design: Sarah Rothberg
    Courtesy bitforms gallery
    Documentation photos: Yi Hsuan Lai

    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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