Anders Zanichowsky is a printmaker and performance artist completing his MFA at UW-Madison (2019) with a BA in fine art from Hampshire College (2008). He uses printmaking as a time-based medium, rooted in the act of transfer and the gap between what is original and what is imagined or sensible. Zanichowsky combines traditional print methods with durational performance and slow-paced video to draw out experiences of longing, absence, and cyclical time in his work about disappearing landscapes, mourning, and queer desire.
From the Madison Arts Commission Zanichowsky has received both a BLINK! grant for public art (2015) and an Individual Artist Grant (2016). He has produced site-specific works as an artist in residence sailing with The Arctic Circle program in Svalbard (2016); at Røst AiR on the Arctic island of Skomvær in Norway (2017); and at Ox-Bow School of Art in Michigan (2018). His work has shown in local and international exhibitions including the 2009 Wisconsin Artist Biennial, the Overture and James Watrous Galleries, the 2017 Wisconsin Film Festival, and a traveling show of Arctic art at Texas Christian University and the University of Moncton, Canada (2017-18).