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The Courtauld Institute of Art, London | MA, History of Art (selected)

Coming Soon!

Bob Mizer Foundation, San Francisco, CA | Head of Moving Images (selected)

From Fundraiser to Film: An Update on Our Film Lab

Lecture, The Bob Mizer Foundation, Autumn 2023.

Role: Lecturer/Host

Karlheinz Weinberger: Outsiders Within

Museum Exhibition in the Bob Mizer Foundation Main Gallery, May 2024

May 2nd 2024 - August 31st 2024.

Role: Assistant Curator

The Complete Mizer Chronicles: From Portraiture to Chromatism in Mizer's Lens

Gallery Exhibition in the Bob Mizer Foundation Main Gallery, March 2024

October 2023 - April 2024.

Role: Curator

Physique Pictorial: The Art, Craft, and Manufacture of Mizer's Magazine

Museum Exhibition in the Bob Mainardi Memorial Gallery, October 2023 - April 2024.

Role: Head Curator

Press: The Pink Times | San Francisco ADVOCATE | Out Magazine

"State of the Archives" (Letter from the Editor)

Article for Physique Pictorial No. 66, pp. 4-5, The Bob Mizer Foundation, Autumn 2023.

Role: Editor

"Moving the Moving Pictures"

Article for Physique Pictorial No. 62, pp. 62-69, The Bob Mizer Foundation, Autumn 2022.

Role: Editor

Bob Mizer Foundation Film Screenings

While at the Mizer Foundation, Zinkievich designed and implemented the new film screening programming which runs bi-monthly with the mission to engage the public with Mizer's moving images and create lasting discourse about the history of queer imagery in the United States

Image on the right shows Zinkievich (right) and musician/composer Everett Fisher engaged in a pannel discussion after the screening held on August 16th 2024.

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Gustaf Holmes [with monkey]
Robert "Bob" Mizer, Los Angeles, 1951, 9.5"x7.5"
Selenium-toned silver gelatin print from original negative.

Early in his career Bob Mizer often experimented with double-exposed photographic methods. These mesmerizing and surreal images often include the model double-exposed, simply, with another image of themselves in another position. These can be as tame as a paired front-and-back of their physique to as grotesque as the model holding his own severed head. This image positions Holmes paired against an over-sized image of a spider monkey- rendering the otherwise timid animal looming and imposing. The viewer is asked to question the relationship between the body of the young model and that of the hulking beast.

This image is on display until April 27th as part of the exhibition "So it Begins... The Complete Mizer Chronicles".

University of California, Berkeley | B.A. History of Art (selected)

"Products of the Closet: The Fluxing Eroticized Male Form in 19th-20th Century America"

Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Advisor: Dr. Whitney Davis, submitted Spring 2023.

"Select Histories of Contemporary Queer Painting and Photography in New York City"

Term Paper for History 100D, Instr. Dr. Bonnie Morris, Spring 2023.

"Long Shadows of Masculinity: An Exploration of the Homoerotic Male form in Western Christian Bronze Sculpture"

Term Paper for History of Art 192T, Instr. Dr. Whitney Davis, Spring 2022.

"The Smyth-Fernwald Property: Its Past, Present and the Question of its Future"

Term Paper for History of Art 182G, Instr. Dr. Margaretta Lovell, Spring 2021.

"Failings of Custodial Responsibility within Universal Encyclopedic Institutions"

Term Paper for History of Art 192T, Instr. Dr. Atreyee Gupta, Spring 2021.

"The Three Inscriptions on the Stele of Naram-Sin"

Term Paper for History of Art 190B, Instr. Dr. Lisa Pieraccini. Spring 2021.

"Perspectival Gains and Losses in Taxonomizing and Describing 1950s Homosexual Culture in the United States"

Term Paper for History of Art 182, Instr. Dr. Ty Vanover. Summer, 2021.

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View of the Smyth Fernwald House
Zinkievich, Berkeley, California, 2022

Believed to be the earliest standing structure in Berkeley, the Smyth-Fernwald house stands in a dilapidated state after being neglected for decades by the University of California. The house, originally constructed in 1968, was built for the photographer Perez Mann Batchelder and his family. The property was sold to William Henry Smyth in the early 1890s. Smyth built out the gardens of the property throughout the next few decades and christened the grounds "Fernwald". Smyth hired the famed architect Julia Morgan in 1911 to substantially expand and update the home. The home and property was gifted to the University of California in 1927.

Read more abou
t the property here

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