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 |
|---|---|---|
| Request Deferred | Essay | Request Deferred was an intervention in the digitization process of the Israel State Archive. |
| 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. |
| Merge Conflicts | System | Staged as a series of video tutorials, Merge Conflicts engages a process of unlearning settler colonial pedagogy through using Git, a software tool for managing multiple versions of digital documents. |
| Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East | System | I made a cut in Israeli history textbooks and things started to spill out. |