Zach Houston
poems@zachhouston.com
cloudsoftoday@yahoo.com
(707) 235-7855
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2009
Europeans take me with you, Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany
826 Valencia window display (collaboration with Erik Grof), San Francisco, CA
sad, little, quiet psychotopography, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Wanderlust Yoga/Music Festival, Squaw Valley, CA
Art of Language, Zimmer Childrens Museum at the Jewish Federation, Los Angeles, CA
Regime Change, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
UC Hastings ART:LAW:MEDIA lecture series, San Francisco CA
Scope Art Fair, Okay Mountain, New York, Ny
Allmost every poem I haven't sold since 2005-2009, White Columns, New York, NY
2008
Collapsitalism, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
Artists like the holidays too, MAC, San Francisco, CA
Aqua Art Hotel, Johansson Projects, Miami, Florida
Treasure Island Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
Communication Breakdown, Galerie DʼImpaire, Paris, France
Location Location Location, Creative Growth Arts Center, Oakland CA
Communication Breakdown, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York NY
There: New art from Oakland, Di Rosa Art and Nature Preserve, Napa CA
Showpaper featured artist, New York NY
01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge, Subzero, San Jose CA
The rising water will lift all boats or the spiritual proletariat (cancelled), San Francisco CA
2007
LA Fashion Week: VIP Lounge – poem store performance, Los Angeles CA
Versionfest, Plaines Project, Chicago, Il
Is that all there is too fire: a show about boredom, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles CA
New drawings, Buzz Gallery, Oakland CA
The Notary, Oakland CA
2006
Oakland: an East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
Habitat: we live here (collaboration with Erik Grof), Oakland Museum of California at the Oakland International Airport, Oakland CA
New Cartography, Lobot Gallery Oakland CA
2005
Lobot One Year Anniversary, Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA
Conceptual Craft, Rock Paper Scissor Collective, Oakland, CA
Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA (Juried by Catherine Clark and Ray Beldner)
PRESS
2009
San Francisco Chronicle, 2/21, “Artist Zach Houston Writes Poetry on Demand”, by Kenneth Baker
New York Times, 1/1, “Dress Worldly, Spend Locally” by Cintra Wilson
2008
New York Times 9/14 “In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary” by Andy Newman
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/14 Leah Garchik Column
2007
CBS News Sunday Morning Show 5/9 “Paper, Plastic Or Poetry?” Feature about Poem Store
The Osgood Files 5/10 "Supermarket Poet"
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric 6/17 “Paper, Plastic, or Poetry?”
Los Angeles Times 11/26 “Custom poetry, while you wait” by Jennifer Peltz
San Francisco Chronicle 5/27 “Oaklandʼs Emerging Art Scene”, by Reyhan Harmanci
San Francisco Chronicle 1/18 “Spatial Relations - spaces in conflict” by Reyhan Harmanci
San Francisco Chronicle review of Samespace Gallery's show "Spaces in Conflict" (photo)
EDUCATION
Linguistics, Psychology, Art
Sonoma State University 2000 -2005