Zach Nader: Recollection

Zach Nader takes a kaleidoscopic approach to his practice, improvising structures to create rituals and friction around ideas of looking, memory, play, and home. His installations, photographic experiments, videos, and sculptures arise from the altering and interruption of photographic information through investigations into the feedback loop between images and our physical world. Treating all physical objects as a potential screen through which images may pour and stick, Nader reprograms them, creating sites that allow for a recalibration of vision and the networked image. Asking how an image can endure in this moment to tell stories, remain malleable yet sturdy, and engage with mystery, Nader generates systems that carry the marks of their making while resisting network assimilation.

Nader grew up in Dallas, Texas, and received his MFA in photography at Texas Tech University. He has participated in the Midnight Moment program in Times Square, a solo, month-long video installation across electronic billboards, and was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, as part of their Center for Art and Innovation Residency Program. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and screenings, including at Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Belgium; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Sara's, New York; and Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel.

He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY