| b. 1974 Elmhurst, IL | |
| Education | |
| 2004 MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1999 Certificate in Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1995 Texas Wesleyan University |
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| Solo and Two Person Exhibitions | |
| 2011 Anosognosia, Rebekah Templeton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2009 Complex Directional, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, New York, NY Forest Reverie, (two person show) Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2007 Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
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| 2006 Border Crossing, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Converge, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2005 Fleisher Challenge, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2004 Bad Intentions, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Pain, Year Project, Brooklyn, NY |
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| 2003 Places, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Tlönian Utopia, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2011 Drawing Connections, Art Institute of Siena, Siena, Italy On the Wall, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA LEAPS Forward: Unconventional projects with emerging artists, Lincoln Financial Mural Arts Center at theThomas Eakins House, Philadelphia, PA Little big Things, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Historic Strawbridge Building, Philadelphia, PA Cradle and Crucible: The Enduring Legacy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Avery Galleries,Bryn Mawr, PA Kaleidoscope, 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge,Berlin, Germany |
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| 2010 Cosmic Terrarium: Motion Painting Project, curated by Sean Stoops, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, International House, Philadelphia, PA Spaces In Between, curated by Simon Donovan, ConcentArt, Berlin, Germany Animation Block Party, Bam Cinematek, Brooklyn, NY Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY What Matters Most, Exit Art, New York, NY |
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| 2009 Things We’ve Made since September, Sweat Shop, Philadelphia, PA 1.5 Million, Stella Elkins Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Muralmorphosis, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Fringe, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2008Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2007 Naked Paper, Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Picture Journal Project, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA The World is Flat, Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2006 Public/Private, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY We’d rather not tell you, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Pay to play, curated by Amy Adams, Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia, PA American Eden, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY Home Free, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC OUTsideIN, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA The Stray Show, Vox Populi Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| 2005 Out of line, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Cheek, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA AnimaRtion, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Galleria Sogospatty, Rome, Italy |
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| 2004 Erasure, curated by Yana Balson, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Suburban Abstraction, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC |
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| 2002 Hi-five, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Gridlock, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Awards and Residencies | |
| 2009 Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation Fellowship Millay Colony for the Arts |
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| 2008 Pew Fellowship in the Arts |
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| 2006 Visual Artist Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts |
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| 2005 Fleisher Challenge Exhibition, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial |
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| 2004 Eagles and Angles Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
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| 1998 Henry J. Scheidt Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
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| Bibliography | |
| 2011 Newhall, Edith, “Good bad news,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 6, 2011 Walsh, Bruce, “Literal Smoke and Mirrors,” Philadelphia Metro, January 12, 2011 p.14 |
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| 2010 “Animation Bizaro, Wild, wacky, one-of a kind animated shots,”Sundancechannel.com, 2010 Kawata, Ayane, “Time of Sky & Castles in the Air”,Litmus Press, 2010 (cover image) Kirsh, Andrea, “Artists at work: Muralmorphosis and Inside the Painter’s Studio,” TheArtblog.org, January 5, 2010 McFarlane, Tim, “Studio Visit with Mauro Zamora,” InItForLife.blogspot.com, November 12, 2010 Suggs, Andrew. ed. “We’re Working On It”, Vox Populi Gallery, 2010 |
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| 2009 Zarro, Jennifer, “Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora: Forest Reverie at Vox,”The Artblog.org, May 20, 2009 |
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| 2008 Hill, Lori, “First Friday Focus.” Philadelphia City Paper, June 5 – 12, 2008 Lamm, Gigi, “Art in the State of Entropy,” Pafa Preview, Winter 2008 p.9 Rosof, Libby, “Summer refresher at Pentimenti,” TheArtblog.org, August 15, 2008 Slisbury, Stephan, “City Artists get Pew awards,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 2008 Strauss, R.B., “Is it July’s First Friday already?” University City Review, July 2, 2008 |
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| 2007 Donohoe, Victoria, "Abington Art Center," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 2007 Ludwig, Elisa, “Artful Afternoons Spend a cold winter’s day enjoying the creativity ofothers,”Philadelphia Style, Jan/Feb 2007 p.56 Newhall, Edith, “The many meanings of ‘Painting’,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 2007 Rosenthal, James, "The World is flat," PocketIntellectual.blogspot.com, January 29, 2007 Rosof, Libby, “Multiplication, Compressions, Depression at Abington,” TheArtblog.blogspot.com, March 28, 2007 |
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| 2006 Fallon, Roberta, “Heat and Why It Matters; Taking posterity head on,”Philadelphia Weekly, September 27, 2006 __________, "Shout out for OUTsideIN at the Art Alliance," TheArtblog.blogspot.com, June 14, 2006 __________, "Shadows, light and lots of glass," TheArtblog.blogspot.com, March 5, 2006 Newhall, Edith, “Dystopian wavelength,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 29, 2006 ___________, "Art Alliance Shakes it up with Mural Arts Program, a bold show,"Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 2006 Shwartz, Christopher, The Column: “Mauro Zamora,” Play Philly, October 6, 2006 |
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| 2005 Fallon, Roberta, "Zamora's Jungle," TheArtblog.blogspot.com, October 27, 2005 ____________, "'Raw'Deal," Philadelphia Weekly, September 15, 2005 ____________, "'Cheek' Please," Philadelphia Weekly, July 6, 2005 Rosof, Libby, "Philadelphia Cheek," TheArtblog.blogspot.com, June 12, 2005 Szowzanski, Edward, "Fleisher Challenge," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 4, 2005 Zevitas, Steven T., ed. New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, No. 57, 2005 |
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| 2004 Copeland, Colette, “Slought gets down,” TheArtblog.blogspot.com,September 19, 2004 Rosof, Libby, “Searching for the promise land,” TheArtblog.blogspot.com, December 12, 2004 __________, “Value from nothing and nothing from nothing,” TheArtblog.blogspot.com, July 6, 2004 |
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| 2003 Fallon, Roberta, “Ha Ha Boo Hoo,” TheArtblog.blogspot.com, October 5, 2003 |
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| 2002 Fallon, Roberta, “Five for Fighting,” Philadelphia Weekly. August 21, 2002 Halpren, Ashlea, “Chaos Theories,” Philadelphia City Paper. August 1, 2002 Rice, Robin, “Hot and New,” Philadelphia City Paper. August 22, 2002 |
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