Walter & Zoniel
Installation | Photography
Walter & Zoniel work within the mediums of installation, sculpture, photographic process, film and performance. MTArt Agency represents the duo globally. Focusing upon visually charming and enticing the viewer into thought and momentary transcendence, their work centres around the human condition viewed through the themes of our interconnectedness within the cosmos, nature and humankind, evoking a relationship and questioning between all the elements involved.
Together Walter & Zoniel explore the subjects of inspiration and our innate connections with each other and with the universe, often using their means of production to narrate a story or exhibit a metaphor. They utilise the surrealist, beautiful and ethereal as mediums. All of their work carries the undercurrent of their optimism and mantra that everything is possible. The unique nature of Walter & Zoniel’s work means it often requires them to build bespoke tools in order to create their artworks.
Their public installation works include performance-practice installation at Tate Britain, Somerset House, Photo London, and site-specific public installations in Miami, San Francisco, London, Liverpool and Durham. They have been commissioned by multiple national and international art festivals, fairs, biennials and galleries. Their work has been acquired by the National Art collection and the National Portrait Gallery collection. They have also recently been nominated for the Prix Pictet 2021.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Public Art Installation, The Crown Estate, Saint James Market
Pavilion, London UK
2021
‘1:0.01 (Matters Of The Cosmos)’, An Effort Artist Residency,
London, UK.
‘In A New Light’, Interactive Light Installation, Bradford, UK.
‘Shit Views’, Vault Hobhouse, London, UK.
2020
‘A Simple Act Of Wonder’, Public Installation, Solo Exhibition, Fabrica Gallery & Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK.
‘Commission, Rainbow Cam’, Frieze, London, UK.
2019
Art Enlightens, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK.
Art Studio installation, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK.
Art Enlightens, Interactive Performance, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
2018
Commission, Soho House, London, UK.
2017
‘Anon’, Practice performance, Lumiere Festival, Durham, UK.
‘WZBOX’, Installation, Phillips Auction House, London, UK.
‘Cast’, Commission, Brighton Festival, UK.
2016
‘Spectra, Open Eye Gallery’, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.
‘Commission for PhotoLondon’, Somerset House, London, UK.
‘Anon’, Practice performance, London Lumiere Festival, London, UK.
2015
‘Alpha: Ation’, Installation, Delano, Miami Basel, Miami, US.
‘Prelude to Spectra’, Art Silicon Valley, California, US.
‘Presence, Reality, Survival, Video Installation, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
‘Salt Print Selfie’, Installation / Performance, Tate Britain, London, UK.
2014
‘The Physical Possibility of Inspiring Imagination in the Mind of Someone Living’, Miami Basel, Miami, US.
‘The Physical Possibility of Inspiring Imagination in the Mind of Someone ‘Living’, Gazelli Art House, London, UK.
‘The Physical Possibility of Inspiring Imagination in the Mind of Someone Living’, Site Specific Installation, Toxteth, UK.
‘We Are An Island’, Paul Smith Gallery, London, UK
2013
‘Implicit: Explicit’, The Sixth Floor, Carrie Scott Represents, New York, US.
2012
‘A Moment in an Instant World’, Shizaru Gallery, London, UK.
2011
‘Developing Shadows’, Cob Gallery, London, UK.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Photo London, UK.
Eye Of The Collector Fair, London, UK.
2021
‘No Thanks Given’, Hauser and Wirth, Somerset, UK.
‘Shit Views’, Unique works, London, UK.
2018
‘A Shade of Pale’, 180 Strand, London, UK.
2017
‘Axis’, Fabbrica del Vapore Arts Centre, Milano, Italy.
‘House of Penelope’, Gallery 46, London, UK.
2016
‘Hyperion’, Union Square, Frieze, New York, US.
‘As Cosmos Unfolds’, Cob Gallery, London, UK.
2015
PhotoLondon, Somerset House, London, UK.
Free the Night, Westminster Underground Station, London, UK.
2012
Fathom, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK.
‘Art and Science Exhibition’, Sommer, Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
‘Bad For You’, Shizaru Gallery, London, UK.
‘This is London’, Shizaru Gallery, London, UK.
‘PHOTO 50: The New Alchemists’, London Art Fair, UK
‘In Your Face’, SHOWstudio, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
‘Closer to Something’, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK.
‘Practice to Deceive: Smoke & Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film, Show Studios Gallery, London, UK.
2010
‘Reflecting the Bright Lights’, Arthur and Albert Gallery, London, UK
2008
‘Wow Wow and Plastique Fantastique’, Tate Britain, London, UK.
AWARDS
2021 / 2020
Nominated for Prix Pictet
2019 / 2018
Nominated for Prix Pictet
2015
Nominated for John Kobal Residency Award. New York
2014
Nominated for Paul Huf Prize, Foam Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected
artworks
The Beach.2: Portraits of Intimate Anonymity , 2018
Archival pigment print and acrylic impasto 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Lover Lover Lover (Leonard Cohen): Photismograms Portrait of a Song , 2018
Archival pigment print, 40 x 50 cm Chromaluxe print, 80 x 100 cm (Edition of 1; 1 Artist's Proof)
I Put a Spell on You (Nina Simone): Photismograms Lyric , 2018
Archival pigment print, 40 x 50 cm Chromaluxe print, 80 x 100 cm (Edition of 1, 1 Artist's Proof)
Emily , 2015
Unique direct positive silver gelatin print, hand coloured with oils and 24 carat gold 40.64 x 50.8 cm (Edition of 1)
Transcendence of Familiarity – Eight , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 19 cm abstract circular (Edition of 1)
Transcendence of Familiarity – Eleven , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 19 cm abstract circular (Edition of 1)
Transcendence of Familiarity – Five , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 60 cm abstract circular (Edition of 1)
Transcendence of Familiarity – Four , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 70 cm abstract circular
Transcendence of Familiarity – Nine , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 27 cm abstract circular (Edition of 1)
Transcendence of Familiarity – One , 2021
Photographic sculpture, mixed media, archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 19 cm abstract circular
Transcendence of Familiarity – Seven , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 27 cm abstract circular
Transcendence of Familiarity – Ten , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 27 cm abstract circular (Edition of 1)
Transcendence of Familiarity – Three , 2021
Archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 70 cm abstract circular
Transcendence of Familiarity – Two , 2021
Photographic sculpture, mixed media, archival pigment print on handmade paper, horse manure, personal diaries, human and horse hair, resin, 24 carat Venetian gold 19 cm abstract circular.
Life With , 2020
Unique direct to media print on handmade paper (created from the chair in the composition) 70 cm x 103 cm (Edition of 6; 1 Artist's Proof)
52.715863, -4.048290 , 2013
Salt print (made from the subject matter) 101 x 150.5 cm (Edition of 5; 1 Artist's Proof)
53.330521, -3.829326 , 2013
Salt print (made from subject matter) 101 x 150.5 cm (Edition of 5; 1 Artist's Proof)
53.480238, -3.046088 , 2013
Salt print (made from subject matter) 101 x 150.5 cm (Edition of 5; 1 Artist's Proof)
55.227989, -4.859819 , 2013
Salt print (made from subject matter) 101 x 150.5 cm (Edition of 5; 1 Artist's Proof)
Toki-3-Em/n (The Knot of Future) , 2014
Digital print surface mounted on dibond 100 x 140 cm (Edition of 1; 1 Artist's Proof)
The Divine Wanderings of B.D. , 2020
Chromolux Print 61 x 40.5 cm (1 of 1 Edition; 1 Artist's Proof)
Toki-4-Ec/n (The Conqueror Reigns) , 2014
Digital print surface mounted on dibond 100 x 140 cm (Edition of 1; 1 Artist's Proof)
