About

Zach McLane is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles. His work explores the limits of representation and takes shape in essays, videos, and poems. Merging aspects of memoir with theoretical discourse and artistic critique, he finds intimate connections between seemingly disparate ideas. McLane’s research-based practice is grounded critical theory, art history, and film theory. His recent video work uses processes of degradation and repetition as generative tools for meaning. He holds a BA in Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California, where he studied narrative form and contemporary visual culture.

Education

2018, BA, Narrative Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2020, Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver CA

2019, origins, Toby’s Feed Barn, Point Reyes, USA

2019, OPEN SPACE, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, USA

2019, 10 Artists to Watch, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA

2018, Between Memory + Image, Floating Projects Collective, Hong Kong

2018, Bounce Haus, Private residence, Los Angeles, USA

2017, 100, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Publications

2020, Videography. Documentary Impulses. Our Manifesto, Contributor, Forthcoming

2020,  Quadrant Field: Marcos Lutyens, Editor, Apr 2020

2020, TIME: Time at the Time of Isolation, Contributing Artist, ART 1307, May 2020, ISBN 9781714896929

2019, “How might a beginning be an opening?” Floating Projects Collective, Mar 2019

2018, “Crossing the Distance Between Reading and Speaking,” Floating Projects Collective, Oct 2018

2018, “Boundary of Invisibility: Degraded Images and Touchscreens,” in PLEXUS, Nov 2018

2017, “Things I Lost,” 100 Zine, May 2017

2016, “Untitled,” nsfw mag, Jan 2016