FILMOGRAPHY
2020 El Vagabundo Trotamundos (The Ecstatic Wanderer) Writer/Director/Actor
Experimental Short Film, Mexican Co-Production, Super 16mm, (in post-production)
2019 A Cow’s Tail: Writer/Director/Actor
Narrative Short Film, 4K Digital Video, 7 min (unreleased, exhibited at La Feria de la Acción, MX)
2019 Geppetto: Writer/Director/Lead Actor,
Narrative Short Film, Super 16mm, 19 min (Premiered at Borscht Film Festival)
2015 Joker’s Solitaire: Writer/Director/Actor
Looping Conceptual Video Work, 4K Digital Video, 15 min, (Exhibited at Kai Matsumiya Gallery in NYC)
FESTIVALS
2020 Guadalajara Film Festival: Geppetto,
2019 Borscht Film Festival: Geppetto, Critics Choice
2019 Oaxaca Film Festival: Geppetto
2017 Gioia Tauro Film Festival: Geppetto, in-progress Screening
FILM DESIGN
Artist “Maniac” Dir. Cary Fukunaga (in Post-Production), Commissioned to make paintings and rent artwork to Paramount Pictures Television as the work of Emma Stone’s character in Netflix original series, 2017
Stylist, “Me and Michael” MGMT Music Video, 2018
Production Designer, “Bad Influence” Baby Yors Music Video, 2018
Monster Fabrication, “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors” dir. Sam Fleischner, 2013
Production Designer, “Disparate Youth” Santigold Music Video, 2012
Key Scenic, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” dir. Benh Zeitlin, 2010
Production Designer, “So Bloody So Tight” Sunny Day in Glasgow Music Video, 2010
Production Designer, “Evident Utensil” Chairlift Music Video, 2009
Set Decorating, “Electric Feel” MGMT Music Video, 2009
Monster Fabrication, “Kids” MGMT Music Video, 2009
Production Designer, “Time to Pretend” MGMT Music Video, 2007
Miniature Artist, “Egg” Short Film, dir. Benh Zeitlin, 2004
CV
b. 1985 New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Site Specific Public Art Installation: CLIMB TO GLORY, Miami, FL
2015 Joker’s Solitaire, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, NY
2012 Battle for Lagniappe, 7ELEVEN Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2020 Spring Break Art Show: Geppetto 2.0, Cur. Julia Simpson, New York, NY
La Feria de La Acción, Cur. Tal Frank & Gabriel Florenz, CDMX, Mexico
2019 At Peace New York, Brooklyn NY
2017 State of Emergency, Cur. Nina Felshin, Queens Museum, NY
2015 Paramount Ranch with Kai Matsumiya Gallery, LA
2014 The Last Brucennial, New York, NY
All the Artists are My Friends, (cur. Ray Smith) Mana Contemporary, NJ
2013 Beyond Beasts, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Come Together Sandy, Cur. Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY
Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY
2010 Special Project for ArteBA with Costado Galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 The Flag, Goodchildren Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 Prospect. 1: Studio at Colton, New Orleans, LA
AWARDS
2020 Radio 28 Residency Exchange through PIONEER WORKS, CDMX, MX
Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant Recipient
2019 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collarworks, NY
Adrienne Shelley Foundation Grant for Post-Production
2018 Mana Miami 777 Mall Residency, Miami FL
2017 VENICE BIENNALE Cinema College, Venice, Italy
The Cabins Interdisciplinary Writers Retreat, Norfolk, CT
IFP Post-Production Lab for Narrative Film, NYC
2016 Kodak Film Grant, NYC 2016
2013 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Hurricane Sandy Grant Recipient
MOCA TUCSON - Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2012 PIONEER WORKS Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Studio at Colton Artists Residency, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED PRESS
2020 Steinhauer, Jillian. “The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs”
NY Times, March 6, 2020
Sayej, Nadja. “8 Artists to Catch at New York Armory Week”
Forbes, March 7, 2020
2018 Macaulay, Scott. “25 New Faces of Independent Film: 2018”
FILMMAKER Magazine, Sept 15, 2018
2015 Small, Rachel. “Playing with Nudes” INTERVIEW Magazine, Jan 28, 2015
McVey, Kurt. “Z Behl’s Nude Male Solitaire” ARTNET, March 7, 2015
Gallant, Elise “Z Behl at Kai Matsumiya” PURPLE
2014 Butman, Jeremy. “All the best Artists are my Friends” BROOKLYN RAIL, July 15
Cascone, Sarah. “The Final Brucennial …” ARTNET, March 8, 2014
2012 Gardner, Ralph. “Artist Afloat in Tribeca” Wall Street Journal, March 14, A16
Jovanovic, Rozalia. “Red Hook Artists Showcase Flood-Damaged
Art at Sandy Relief Benefit” ARTINFO
Qiu, Serena. “Art in the Aftermath: Unpacking the Flooded Art Party with
Artists Charlotte Kidd and Z Behl” ART 21 Magazine, Dec 6, 2012
LECTURES
2019 Stetson University, Painting II, Studio Visits and Lecture, DeLand, Florida
2018 Alfred State University, NY Council for the Arts, Summer Art Program
EDUCATION
2007 Wesleyan University; BA in English and Visual Art