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ZACH ROCKHILL
Instructor
Left image: Rockhill working with students at the Cooper Union on his restaging of Allan Kaprow's 1967 Happening, FLUIDS as part of the >PERFORMA 07 Biennial.
Photo: Sydney Shen
Right image: 30 Second performance event, Weisbaden, Germany, 2003.
Photo: Michael Berger
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Zach Rockhill is an interdisciplinary artist who has been teaching in the foundation program at Cooper Union since 2005. After receiving his BFA from the University of Kansas in 1994 he joined the artist run Dreamyard, an Arts in Education organization, where he worked as an artist in residence in the New York City public school system for 5 years. He received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, in 2003 where he worked closely with Performance Artist Geoff Hendricks. He participated in the 40th anniversary of the first FLUXUS concert in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2003 helping to restage George Maciunas's 1963 FLUXMASS and FLUXPROCESSIONAL. He directed subsequent restagings of the event in Amherst MA, and New Brunswick NJ.
Rockhill's work has been shown nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions and performances include 'FLUIDS,' for the >PERFORMA 07 biennial of performance art, a solo show: 'everyone alive wants answers' (Domo gallery in Summit New Jersey, 2007), 'Dripped, Dropped, Spilt, Upended, Exploded' (Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, 2007), 'This Side Down, Damn if I Know' (FiveMyles gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2006), 'Drift' (curated by Eileen Torpey, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY, 2006), 'White On White' (Performance Event, Performa Biennial, Stephen Weiss Studios, NYC, NY, 2006), 'Tremor_Nomad' (City Without Walls Gallery, Newark NJ, 2005). Additionally he curates a semiannual performance event in Brooklyn at the FiveMyles gallery, the ACTIONS series, that is in its fourth year. This year the ACTIONS event was sponsored by BAM as part of its Brooklyn Next series.
Rockhill is the recipient of a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary work/performance art.
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