Zekarias Musele Thompson

Lives and works in Oakland, CA and Reykjavík, IS


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Exhibitions & Projects

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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
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    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 2025Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Iceland

    All This Soft Wild BuzzingCCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
    ad infinitum (Togetherness) in CollapsenseWorth 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




    PressVestibulum 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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