"He brings people together."
b. 1996
Roseburg, Oregon, USA
email: 1025orchard@gmail.com
IG: @zachwhitworth
Education
2021–
Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization
Bard College + YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
2020–
Student
The Southland Institute
2020
Virtual Summer Institute
The Jewish Museum (NYC)
2020
Visiting Student
From the Underground to the Cloud
University of the Underground
2017–2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art Practices –– summa cum laude
Concentration in Social Practice
Portland State University
2014–2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate, Art (incomplete)
Concentration in Art History
Southern Oregon University
2012
Design Media Arts Summer Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Curatorial Projects
Institute for Conceptual Studies
A multi-purpose platform and immaterial center for the study of ideas.
Designer, 2019–
Museum of Digital Endearment
A research effort and archive of love in the Internet Age hosted online.
Co-founder, Co-curator, 2017–2018
OZONE
A web-journal established to platform young emerging artists of various disciplines.
Co-founder, Editor-in-chief, 2016–2017
Programs Organized
Art museums, authoritarianism, and protest
––a public discussion regarding authoritarianism in art museums, the genre of institutional critique, public protest, and the aestheticization of politics. Part of a stone's throw series.
The Southland Institute, October 17, 2020
Program co-lead
A case for never going anywhere again
––a media collage about movement and capitalism with Lindsay Costello, karen Krolak, Saba Keyvanshokouhi, and Andrew Shaw.
Institute for Conceptual Studies, published August 15, 2020
Designer
Pesach for a Digital Diaspora
––a reimagined Passover seder for a digital public spanning all three floors of the 606/608 S Elm Street building in Greensboro, NC.
Elsewhere, April 11, 2020
Program lead
A Brief Introductory Fellowship Symposium
––a short series of live-streamed presentations accompanying the release of Fellowship Reader #1 with Lindsay Costello, Miles Flynn, and karen Krolak.
Institute for Conceptual Studies, January 16 – 22, 2020
Organizer
Climate Change Fodder for Abandoned Hope, Six Feet Above the Horizon
––a web display of photography focused on climate change and water politics in Florida with Aaron Castillo, Krista Darling, Adam Mathieu, Katelyn Montagna, Erika Schnur, and Kristy Summerson.
Institute for Conceptual Studies with Separate Checks (Tampa, FL), December 1, 2019 – February 1, 2020
Designer
LANGUAGE
––a web exhibition of artworks as descriptions with Mauro Baio, Shelley Chamberlin, Izzy Cho, Yasmina Gillies, Divyaa Kumar, Alfred Marasigan, Adam Mathieu, Brüno Melo, Hannah Newman, David Quiles Guilló, and Saul Ramirez.
Institute for Conceptual Studies with The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, November 1, 2019 – March 1, 2020
Organizer, designer
Symposium for Contemporary Discourse
––a month-long conversation series with Brittney Connelly, Roz Crews, Alex Deets, Amanda Leigh Evans, Midori Hirose, Tricia Knope, Victor Maldonado, Lo Moran, Olivia No, Samantha Ollstein, Grace Prechtel, Eden Redmond, Roshani Thakore, and Alexander M. Woodward.
Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other locations, October 4 – 25, 2018
Organizer
Bedspace B
––a web exhibition of beds and stories with Richard Alston, Bianca Breed, Sarah Grace Faulk, Stephanie Giera, Zoe Handler, Vanessa Hernandez, Olivia No, Kyle Lance Shupp, Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr., Kora Vanek, and Declan Whitworth.
Portland State University, October 24 – November 4, 2017
Curator
Chaya Stillwater-Lanz: CSLXVI
––a solo exhibition in memory of the artist.
The Cave at Southern Oregon University, October 7, 2016
Co-curator
EARTH
––a group exhibition about local nature, supported by the Ecology Center of the Siskiyous.
Southern Oregon University, May 19 – June 9, 2016
Curator
The Awful Art Show
––a group exhibition of scrappy artwork by students and professors.
Southern Oregon Fine Arts Students, Southern Oregon University, May 23 – June 13, 2015
Co-curator
Selected Work Experience
Distribution Assistant
MARCH
2020–
Archivist
Temporary Art Review
2020–
Assistant Curator, Programs/House; Education Fellow
Elsewhere
Greensboro, NC
2020
Curator
The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale
2019–2020
Classified Substitute
Glide Elementary School
Glide, OR
2019–2020
Studio Assistant; Publicity Assistant
Studio of Sabina Haque
Portland, OR
2018–2019
Publicity Coordinator
Littman + White Galleries,
Portland State University
Portland, OR
2017–2019
Exhibition Attendant
Ann Hamilton: habitus
Converge 45
Portland, OR
2018
Art Salesman, representing David Shrigley
Galleri Nicolai Wallner
KSMoCA International Art Fair
Portland, OR
2018
Teaching Assistant
Center for Visual Arts,
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR
2015–2016
Collection Database Research Assistant
Art Authority
2015
Teaching
Classified Substitute
Glide Elementary School
Glide, OR
2019–2020
Artist Mentor
King School Museum of Contemporary Art
Portland, OR
2018–2019
Sound Exploration workshop series
––No. 4: “How do we perform sound?”, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
––No. 3: “What sounds does the world make?”, Woodlawn Elementary School
––No. 2: “What sounds can we make together?”, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
––No. 1: “How do we make sound?”, Woodlawn Elementary School
King School Museum of Contemporary Art Summer Program
Portland, OR
2018
Teaching Assistant
––Art Foundations, ART 103
––Art Foundations, ART 102
––Art Foundations, ART 101
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR
2015–2016
Art Workshop Assistant
Hucrest Elementary School
Roseburg, OR
2013; 2014