Z Behl is a visual artist who works across sculptural installation, performance, and film. Culling myths to narrativize trickster archetypes exploring gender and power, Behl is concerned with chaos, attachment, and the role of the artist as a world breaker.
Behl has exhibited at PIONEER WORKS, Mana Contemporary, CAC New Orleans, and received large public art commissions, most recently to make nine monumental works in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her film, Geppetto, was selected for the Venice Biennale Cinema College. Behl has also organized and curated art exhibitions around such collective traumas as 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy- featuring artworks by survivors that were damaged or improved by the catastrophe.
While at MacDowell she focused on the archetype of the Skeleton Woman, writing a narrative film and making sculptures to this end.
Portrait by Monicaha Milton
