Or Zubalsky
Bio
Or Zubalsky’s work asks what records can hold, what remains unrecorded, and how both shape knowledge, experience, and possibility. They make paintings, drawings, scores for viewing, and systems. Zubalsky is a 2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and was previously a resident at Pioneer Works (2023), NEW INC incubator member (2023), and C/Change R&D Lab fellow (2023). They live with their partner and child in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn).
Contact
- I share access to the work via a collective newsletter.
- I like getting messages at or@myawesomestudio.com.
- CV is available here.
Pieces on this page
| Title | Image | Image Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | Square painting with mostly pink on one side and mostly cream in the other. Teal separates some shapes from one another. Lines and smudges converge towards a point beyond where shapes meet. | |
| 2026-02-28 | Square painting with a saturated red background framed by blue and white scribbles and scratches. A hairy cartoonish figure with a long nose, two short legs, and no visible arms is drawn in dark purple slightly right of the center. A cylinder-like form, approximately the size of its nose, is centered behind it. | |
| 2026-06-09 | Rectangular painting in mostly reds, with some detail in pink, brown, teal, and orange. Some forms are recognizable, such as two roughly centered flower shapes, an oval or ring or opening or hat or a part of a container or who knows. Details are covered and revealed in all sorts of textured ways. | |
| 2026-07-04 | Rectangular painting in mostly blues. Pink lines add features that make it seem like the lower half of a cartoonish face with half a smile and stripy shirt. Thick textured outlines reveal traces and detail. There's also a yellowish smudge and three fingerprints. | |
| 2025-10-29 | Topless, muscular, and mustached cartoonish figure with long hair, a bandana, and a closed fist drawn in red lines from the belt up against a thick textured light greenish gray background. Peeking from behind the background is a part of a light skinned face with mostly swirly eye forms visible. |
Index (incomplete)
| Title | Medium | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Introducing: the figure | Score for Viewing | A selection of around 150 images of the figure I've spent time with since 2024. It's never too late for an introduction. |
| Select Works on Panel | Score for Viewing | A collection of pieces from the past couple of years. |
| Select Works on Paper | Score for Viewing | A collection of pieces from the past couple of years. |
| When a Reference to a Name is Lost | Performance and Video | Personal history, national narratives, code, and sound facilitate a debugging session of a memory leak: a type of software bug that gradually makes memory unavailable and depletes the system of resources. |