Curriculum Vitae

Z. Fondanarosa
(He/Him)
B. 1998, NJ, United States 
Based in Oakland, CA, United States

Education:
2020    BFA, Film, Visual Art, Writing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
2016    Early College Forensics Program, SUNY School, Syracuse, NY
2016    High School Diploma with Honors from the National Honors Art Society,
             River Dell Regional High School, Oradell, NJ 

Group Exhibitions & Expos:
2024    Heavenly Bodies, Divine Minds, Queer Arts Featured, San Francisco, CA
2024    Sunset Pride, Hunt & Gather, San Francisco, CA
2024    Headliner at the Mulligan Film Fest, The RiverFront Playhouse, Aurora, IL
2024    Object, Subject, Setting, The Academy SF, San Francisco, CA
2024    New Bohemia NYE 2024, The Old San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, CA
2023    TerrorBall, The Old San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, CA
2023    Kaleidoscope: A Master Class In Collage, The Academy SF, San Francisco, CA
2023    Art For The Sick, Moth Belly Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023    Dissonance Within the Fog, Alchemy House, San Francisco, CA
2023    Sunset Pride, Hunt & Gather, San Francisco, CA
2023    SuperFine San Francisco Art Expo Spring 2023, Gallery 308 at Fort Mason Art Center, San Francisco, CA
2022    Let Them Eat Fake, Liminal Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020    SAIC Film, Video, New Media, Animation and Sound Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
2020    Voices Embodied: Convergence, Hyde Park Art Center / DLRC at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018    This Place Has Everything, Free Range Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
Solo Exhibitions:
2024    Exoskeleton: You Cannot Return to the Dirt, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016    Featured Upcoming Artist, Dick Blick Art Supplies, Paramus, NJ

Performances and Lectures:
2024   "Psychic Lag", Queer Arts Featured, San Francisco, CA
2024   "Cocoon", ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023   Artist's Demo at the Fall Equinox Inner Sunset Art Walk, Hunt&Gather, San Francisco, CA
2018   “Disability and Belong” panelist at the DLRC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016    Visiting Artist's Demo Series, Dick Blick Art Supplies, New York, NY
 
Publications:
2024    “Bloody Marry,” Photography, Fantasy Mag, published by Figs' Fantasy, San Francisco, CA
2023    “Drone,” Illustration, Semioculus XVII, published by Semioculus Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2018    “The Push,” Essay, Spring Edition of The Queer Foundation Scholar, Portland, OR
2017    “Young God,” Comic Zine, self published at Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago, IL
2016    “Low on Morality,” Comic Zine, self published at Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago, IL 
 
Awards:
2016    School of the Art Institute of Chicago Honors Merit Scholarship Award