Born in Southern Ohio, Zerek Kempf received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego and his BFA in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University. He has been selected to attend residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the New York Art Residency and Studio Foundation. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; X-Initiative, New York, NY; Waag Society, Amsterdam, NL; CA2M, Madrid, SP. In 2009, Onestar Press published, “Having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds”, a collaborative book project with artist Joe Winter. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
