Brian Zegeer

Brian Zegeer is an interdisciplinary artist living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. His animations and sculptural installations explore the Applachian and Lebanese landscapes of his heritage as repositories of embedded stories, collective hallucinations. Zegeer worked with archives and community activists to reclaim the story of "Little Syria", Manhattan's first Arabic neighborhood. In a 2014-16 residency at the Queens Museum, he explored this history against the backdrop of Robert Moses’ profound and problematic impact on NYC. He is currently studying the ghost streams running beneath Sunset Park, which occasionally break through as floods or sinkholes, pre-modern history reasserting itself through the contemporary urban infrastructure. Zegeer received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited in galleries and museums in the NYC region and abroad.