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Rynn Dziak (ZK) is a Chicago-based artist and undergraduate student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), mainly focused on drawing and printmedia.

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I grapple, in my art I grapple a lot, I think.No matter at what, I'm always looking up and out; I'm always far away. And I think about why I'm so far, and I try to see if I can reach whatever I'm looking at, which I cannot, and so I respond to it, and in that I create something. The created thing is not there (up and out), but it's not here, either.So I'm always observing. I'm always investigating, but that's because I've always been an investigative person. These are quite crappy investigations, if you were to ask me. Art is as if you were to write a book, and at the end of the day, packed up your things and thought, "Well, I like how it looks!" There isn't even an answer in the book, I respond, "It's all up here," and point to my head which I have locked away. It's incredibly stupid. It is a creation of books, and only that. The point? The point is, I fear, for me to eventually have enough of these incredibly stupid books to then point at, and this point will represent the fact that I had created books, and the fact that I had existed, and that all answers were missed by everyone, because it was locked up here, not there, and I was not there, I never was. And who the hell is watching me point at books?But there really is content, I speak too harshly. Industrial, the machine, the man-made, non-human... Urbanization, the differences in location... The blurring of space, time; what perception means, what visual means, what any aspect of anything ever means. And by 'means,' I mean: how it functions, an operation. I am investigating things after all, I do hold the information. It's there.If creation responds, sometimes a response is petty, it takes a stand, it goes against something. I am too shy to ever say what. I don't die on hills. I have a patch of grass, somewhere.'I am interested in representing nothing, and proving my own existence' is something I had written at some point in time. I used to say, when I was too young to know anything of importance, that my art was information sharing. My work is personal, but I'm not a personal person, which is the point (no finger included). Is all work personal? That question isn't real, I didn't ask that. 'Isn't everyone like that...' is a statement everyone says... Well...

Rynn Dziak (ZK) is a Chicago-based artist and undergraduate student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), mainly focused on drawing and printmedia.

This bio is currently under construction...

In the meantime...

I grapple, in my art I grapple a lot, I think.No matter at what, I'm always looking up and out; I'm always far away. And I think about why I'm so far, and I try to see if I can reach whatever I'm looking at, which I cannot, and so I respond to it, and in that I create something. The created thing is not there (up and out), but it's not here, either.So I'm always observing. I'm always investigating, but that's because I've always been an investigative person. These are quite crappy investigations, if you were to ask me. Art is as if you were to write a book, and at the end of the day, packed up your things and thought, "Well, I like how it looks!" There isn't even an answer in the book, I respond, "It's all up here," and point to my head which I have locked away. It's incredibly stupid. It is a creation of books, and only that. The point? The point is, I fear, for me to eventually have enough of these incredibly stupid books to then point at, and this point will represent the fact that I had created books, and the fact that I had existed, and that all answers were missed by everyone, because it was locked up here, not there, and I was not there, I never was. And who the hell is watching me point at books?But there really is content, I speak too harshly. Industrial, the machine, the man-made, non-human... Urbanization, the differences in location... The blurring of space, time; what perception means, what visual means, what any aspect of anything ever means. And by 'means,' I mean: how it functions, an operation. I am investigating things after all, I do hold the information. It's there.If creation responds, sometimes a response is petty, it takes a stand, it goes against something. I am too shy to ever say what. I don't die on hills. I have a patch of grass, somewhere.'I am interested in representing nothing, and proving my own existence' is something I had written at some point in time. I used to say, when I was too young to know anything of importance, that my art was information sharing. My work is personal, but I'm not a personal person, which is the point (no finger included). Is all work personal? That question isn't real, I didn't ask that. 'Isn't everyone like that...' is a statement everyone says... Well...

Rynn Dziak
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b. 2003 Westchester, IL.EDUCATION
2026. BFA. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.GROUP EXHIBITION
2024. My Chicagos: SAIC Students Honor Georgia O’Keeffe. SITE Gallery. Chicago, IL.
2024. Two-Person Display. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
2023. Tiny Works. Fulton Street Collective. Chicago, IL
2023. Class Exhibition. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
2023. Art Bash. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.AWARDS
2022. Honors Merit Scholarship. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.PRE-COLLEGE WORK
2022. Illinois High School Art Exhibition: Senior Scholarship Exhibition. Bridgeport Art Center. Chicago, IL.
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. Annual Harper Area High School Art Show. Harper College. Palatine, IL.
2020, 2019. Illinois High School Art Exhibition: Northern Regional Art Exhibition. Bridgeport Art Center. Chicago, IL.2022. Department Award (representing Art). Schaumburg High School.
2022. Top Scholarship Awards Recipient. Illinois High School Art Exhibition.