Zahar Vaks, Artist in Residence (Painting and Drawing), is scheduled to present a lecture at the UT School of Art on Thursday, November 18, 2021, at 7:30 pm, Art & Architecture Building, Rm 109.

Zahar Vaks, (b.1983, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) Is a visual artist based in New York. He earned his BFA from Tyler School of Art, and his MFA from The Ohio State University. He has shown in New York, Philadelphia, Columbus, Las Vegas, Houston, Vienna, and on the island of Svalbard in Norway.

In 2018 Zahar was invited to participate in the Rauschenberg Residency. He attended the Galveston Artist Residency from 2012-2013. Currently he is a co-director of Ortega y Gasset Projects (OyG), an artist run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.