John Zurier was born in 1956 in Santa Monica, USA and lives and works in Berkeley, USA and Reykjavik, Iceland.

A solo exhibition of recent paintings, “Far Again,” was presented at Moderna Museet, Malmö in 2021. Selected museum exhibitions include Currier Museum of Art, Manchester (2026), High Museum, Atlanta (2025), National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Stavanger Art Museum (both 2023), UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2022, 2018 and 2014); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe (2016); Colby Museum of Art, Waterville (2015). He has also exhibited at the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012); California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art (2010); 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); a show at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2003); and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2002).

In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. His work can be found in numerous public collections including UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Moderna Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, and others. A catalogue surveying his work from 1981 to 2014 with an essay by Robert Storr was published in 2015.