Amir Zaki

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amir Zaki
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Aug 27, 1974(1974-08-27)
Age	50
Birthplace	Beaumont
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Virgo

Amir Zaki Biography

Amir Zaki is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on August 27, 1974 in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

Amir Zaki (born 1974, Beaumont, California) is an American artist based in Southern California. He is best known for “hybridized” photographs using digital and analog technologies that explore the rhetoric of authenticity, vocabulary of documentary, and acts of looking and constructing images. His work often focuses on the iconography and landscape of Southern California, simultaneously celebrating the banal and vernacular and subverting its related mythology. Zaki has exhibited nationally and internationally, and been featured in shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Orange County Museum of Art (California Biennial, 2006), California Museum of Photography, and San Jose Museum of Art. His work is held in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, New Museum, and Whitney Museum, among many, and appears in the anthologies Vitamin Ph (2006), Photography is Magic (by Charlotte Cotton, 2015) and Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles (2015).

Zaki’s early “Photographs From” (1999) and “Various Recordings” (2001) series feature long-exposure images of depopulated Los Angeles night scenes whose rooftop vantage points call attention to the act of looking and suggest portent. Presented in tight, unconventional vertical formats that flatten and abstract the space, the images contain small, intensified bursts of color highlighting spare signs of life and mysterious, digitally excised absences. Critics described them as disconcerting, anticipatory moments “like held breaths” that conjured Edward Hopper and science fiction noir. Zaki’s “Valley Lake Hollywood Village” works (2003) take banal suburban homes and unnaturally squeeze them into turret-, castle- or spire-like forms placed in believable surroundings to startling effect. The later “A Question Marks the Spot” series (2007), engages semiology, with straight-on images of post-war strip mall architecture in which Zaki replaced identifying signage with a cryptic, invented iconography of symbols, squiggles, and emblems. Critic Martha Schwendener described them as “razor-sharp, formalist photographs that ripple with noirish undercurrents” and extend the Los Angeles street photography tradition associated with Ed Ruscha.

Amir Zaki Net Worth

Amir Zaki is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amir Zaki 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Zaki was born in Beaumont, California in 1974 and attended the University of California Riverside (UCR), where he double-majored in art and philosophy (BA, 1996) and studied photography with John Divola and Uta Barth. He did graduate work with James Welling at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), earning an MFA in 1999. Upon graduating, he actively exhibited locally (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and nationally (New Museum and Whitney Museum). Since 2000, he has had solo shows at the Mak Center at the Schindler House and the ACME, Roberts and Tilton, and Edward Cella galleries (Los Angeles), Perry Rubenstein Gallery (New York), and James Harris Gallery (Seattle), among others. In 2005, the architecture magazine Domus commissioned him to photograph the new Herzog and de Meuron extension of the Walker Art Center and published his work on its cover and in a special feature. In 2018, Zaki was one of ten international photographers invited by the Dalian Modern Museum in China to create work for the exhibit, “Eye of the World: Shots of Dalian,” and was also featured in a survey exhibition there.

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Zaki’s move to the Orange County beachside turned his attention to lifeguard huts in the “Relics” series (2010). Here, he also shot from below, eliminating contextualizing clues (sand, water) to starkly isolate the towers against the sky, then digitally stripped away functional elements (ladders and ramps) before re-pairing the towers with different skies to create off-key color and lighting effects. Art in America likened the “seamless and quite beautiful” monumental photographs to the work of Florian Maier-Aichen and Beate Gütschow. Other reviews described the transformed images, such as Untitled (Tower 19X), as “an imaginary lost modernism,” “marooned spaceships,” and uncanny portraits of alien sculptures suspended mid-air.

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Zaki emerged amid photography’s transition to digital technologies; his “hybridized photographs”—made from multiple images, using both analog and digital technologies—build on recent conceptual and historical photographic traditions. Zaki captures ubiquitous, eclectic Southern California iconography, often in a flat, documentary style that maintains an initial sense of veracity, which he disrupts by limiting references of scale, perspective, spatial logic and context or making digital alterations. He often works in distinct but interrelated series that play off one another conceptually and formally to explore various dualities: photographic authenticity and digital manipulation, function and dysfunctionality, the real and imaginary, two-dimensional surface and three-dimensional form. Reviewers frequently note that despite Zaki’s conceptual focus, his work also conveys strong formalist and sensual concerns. He works in two primary veins: built landscape series and “natural” landscape series.