Zekarias Musele Thompson
Lives and works in Oakland, CA and Reykjavík, IS
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2024
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Zekarias Musele Thompson (they/them/theirs)
born 1983, Washington, DC
email: space@zekarias.co
Education
2025
2006
Master of Fine Art in Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Bachelor of Science in Sports Management, Towson University, Towson, MD
Solo Exhibitions & Major Projects
2025
2024
2023
I Paint the Mountain with Myself, Associate Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Divine Weightlessness, CULT Bureau, Oakland, CA
The Meeting Place, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Re-Education — An Evening of Togetherness, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
ad infinitum (Fuck John J Clark), Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, CA
Possible Dialogues: Vol. 1, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive & The Lab, Berkeley & San Francisco, CA
Selected Performances
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
Remnants of Memory & Duet with Phillip Laurent at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
spatial reconstruction at (Re)Constructing History: Live, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
spatial facilitation (the artist is presence) at the Hamraborg Festival, Kópavogur, Iceland
Music Lessons II: Wood Winds with Salimatu Amabebe, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
spatial facilitation #10 at Young, Gifted, and Black, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
spatial facilitation #9 at All This Soft Wild Buzzing, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Togetherness Ensemble Play Julius Eastman and Khan Jamal with Phillip Laurent, Miles Lassi, Micah Morris, Benjamin Rodgers and Josh Wismans, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
EAP Presents Zekarias Musele Thompson: The Meeting Place, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Spectral Evidence: A Showcase of Expanded Cinema with Zack Parrinella, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
JJJJJerome Ellis with Agnes Martian, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Music Lessons with Salimatu Amabebe, Jess Curtis Gravity, Sutro Baths, San Francisco, CA
Werk Nite: The Musixal Part 2: The Return: The Pizza Party with Pétur Eggertsson, Associate Gallery, Reykjavík,
Iceland
Werk Nite: The Musixal with Pétur Eggertsson, Associate Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lonny Holley with Zekarias Thompson, Eternal Now, Oakland, CA
Goodnight Shiva Live, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
untitled with Pétur Eggertsson, Löng Helgi / Long Weekend #2, Hótel Hafnarfjall, Borgarnes, Iceland
Án titils (Agoraphobia) with Pétur Eggertsson, Löng Helgi / Long Weekend, Oddson Hotel, Reykjavík, Iceland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
2024
2022
The Currents Beneath: Fifty-Fifth Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Jólasýningin 2025, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Iceland
All This Soft Wild Buzzing, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
ad infinitum (Togetherness) in Collapsense, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Laumulistasamsteypan presents: Einnar Naetur Gaman *This is Not a Private Party, Open, Reykjavík, Iceland
House Show, 1655 48th Ave, San Francisco, CA (curated by David Wilson)
Naiad Cove, Cliff House, San Francisco, CA (curated by John Lindsey)
Awards & ResidenciesTempus Egestas Nibh Vestibulum
Facilisis: Ultricies Ornare Ligula
2021
Rhoncus Auctor Ornare; Tincidunt Tristique, Porta Libero
2020
Press‘Vestibulum Inceptos Gravida’, Ornare Review,
by Tincidunt Nisl
2024
‘Ullamcorper Faucibus (Congue) Euismod’, by Ligula Parturient, Bibendum Review Porta Libero
2023
Dictumst Tristique, Facilisis Magazine, Edition Two, Porta Libero
2021
Auctor Adipiscing Art Magazine, Porta Libero
2020
Sollicitudin Ornare Magazine,
Porta Libero
2020
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