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b. 1985 New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 “Stand in my Danger” Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY

2022 SHIFT:22 Site Specific Sculptural Installation commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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

2025 Spring Break Art Show

Upstate Art Weekend with Field Projects

2024 Ends Well, Curated by Jacob Rhodes, Mother-in-Laws Gallery, Germantown NY

Untitled Summer, Chelsea Walls, New York, NY

2023 Spring Break: Chapel of Traumaturgy, New York, NY

Geppetto 2.0, Dunkunsthalle, New York, NY

2022 Up-cycling Detritus, Sculptors Alliance, New York, NY

2021 Soft Machine, IRL Gallery. Brooklyn, NY

2020 Spring Break Art Show, 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

“Hit Yourself,” Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

2018 “Please Touch: Body Boundaries” Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

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 Best Artists are My Friends, (cur. Ray Smith) Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

“Experior: Try, Test, Experience,” Gitana Rosa, cur. Lauren Wolchik, Brooklyn, NY

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

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

2025 MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship

2021 ART FARM NEBRASKA, Marquette NE
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 in Film

2018 Mana Miami 777 Mall Residency, Miami FL
2017 VENICE BIENNALE Cinema College, Venice, Italy

The Cabins Interdisciplinary Writers Retreat, Norfolk, CT

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

EDUCATION

2007 Wesleyan University; BA with Honors in English and Visual Art

SELECTED PRESS

2025 Thomas, Taliesin “Z Behl: Stand in my Danger, in Hudson” Chronogram, March 4th

2024 Gardner, Ralph “Margaret Thatcher Rises at Local Dump” WAMC.org, August 24
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

2015 Small, Rachel. “Playing with Nudes” INTERVIEW Magazine, Jan 28

2015 McVey, Kurt. “Z Behl’s Nude Male Solitaire” ARTNET, March 7, 2015
2014 Butman, Jeremy. “All the best Artists are my Friends” BROOKLYN RAIL, July 15

2014 Cascone, Sarah. “The Final Brucennial ...” ARTNET, March 8
2012 Gardner, Ralph. “Artist Afloat in Tribeca” Wall Street Journal, March 14, A16

2012 Jovanovic, Rozalia. “Red Hook Artists Showcase Flood-Damaged Art at Sandy Relief Benefit” ARTINFO

LECTURES

Stetson University, Painting II, Studio Visits and Lecture, DeLand, Florida

Alfred State University, NY Council for the Arts, Summer Art Program

SJR Group, 3 World Trade Center, Importance of Interdisciplinary Arts in Corporate Spaces Creative Symposium

CURATORIAL

2023 Chapel of Traumaturgy: Gamifying artwork about trauma at Spring Break Art Show

2021 “Holding Time,” Looking back on a generation of artists who came into adolescence in NYC during 9/11, NYC, NY

2012 Flooded Art Show; showcasing work damaged by the hand of the storm, Brooklyn, NY

FILMOGRAPHY

2020 Geppetto 2.0: Writer/Director/Actor
2 Channel Video. in which Artist’s first film (Geppetto) is re-shot, shot for shot, at Spring Break Art Fair, and played alongside the Original Work. Premiered at DUNKUNSTHALLE Gallery, curated by Rachel Rossin, in NYC, 2023

2020 El Vagabundo Trotamundos: 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 (exhibited at La Feria de la Acción, MX)

2018 Geppetto: Writer/Director/Lead Actor,
Narrative Short Film, Super 16mm, 19 min (Premiered at Borscht Film Festival and Guadalajara FF)

2015 Joker’s Solitaire: Director/Actor
Video Art, HDV, 15 min looping video, exhibited at Kai Matsumiya Gallery and Paramount Ranch

COLLECTIONS

PIONEER WORKS, Mana Contemporary, Monira Foundation, Louisiana Artworks, Kai Matsumiya, Zalsman Collection, Dustin Yellin, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation, Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, Glidden Collection