marissajezak@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2026 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 BFA College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
RESIDENCIES
2026 Virreina, Boyacá, Colombia
2025 Kriti Ponor, Risan, Montenegro
2023 Mother’s Milk, Newton, KS, USA
2021 Nave Proyecto, Guayllabamba, Ecuador
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2025 Marissa Jezak (solo), Passageway, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2024 Lemon Balm, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
2023 Field of Dreams, lavender country, Detroit, MI
2022 Fairy Garden, Riverfront-Lakewood East Park, Detroit, MI
Labilmente, Biquini Wax EPS, CDMX, Mexico
2021 Meow Moon, Rudimento, Quito, Ecuador
2020 Mad Liberation Art Show, Catabasis Exaltation (C.E.L.F)
Full Body Cell Level Detox, Solo Show
2019 Fancy’s Own, The Estate, Perth, Australia
The cold will pay. The wind will pay., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Yoni, 42°20’05.9”N 83°04’17.1”W, Detroit, MI
2018 Orchid, Underground Flower, Anyang, Korea
Fresh Air, Hamtramck Ceramck, Hamtramck, MI
Sculpture Garden, 2260 Atkinson, Detroit, MI
2016 60/40, Rope, Baltimore, MD
Agential Cuts, Nitro Trail, San Francisco, CA
Tacking Bit, VI Dancer, San Francisco, CA
Gest’s Candle, Kimberly-Klark, New York, NY
Midnight Papers, Et al., San Francisco, CA
UA1273-UA1728, Silver Cloud Ranch, Kula, HI
2015 Marissa Jezak Tony Hope, S1, Portland, OR
Hitman Agent 47, Pamela’s, San Francisco, CA
marissa jezak / maddie kuzak, Belle Isle, Detroit, MI
pearlite, WAKE, New Haven, CT
2014 Video Center, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
tony hope marissa jezak, Sam’s Space, New Haven, CT
2nd base, 1521 W. Forest, Detroit, MI
Print Party: Exploring Queer Feminisms Through Zines, Michigan Women’s Historical Center: Elizabeth Belen Gallery, Lansing, MI
In Print, Work Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI
2013 surfergirl, U245 Gallery, Detroit, MI
godown, WAKE, Detroit, MI
RANGE, Butter Projects, Royal Oak, MI
Last Depth, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
Skin Slip, 1622 Lysander, Detroit, MI
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
polaroid bby, North End Studios, Detroit, MI
Holiday, Sagamore Motor Lodge, Royal Oak, MI
Between Places 13, 1155 Lyman, Oak Park, IL
2012 Blinded by Blood (solo), F8, Detroit, MI
College for Creative Studies Scholarship Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Fountainswimming, Vol. 5: It’s Alive, Bloomfield Hills.
2025 Fountainswimming, Vol. 4: Pollen, Bloomfield Hills.
2024 909, runner, Detroit.
2023 “Heaving”, runner, Detroit.
“Florescence”, runner, Detroit.
april april, New York.
2022 “Fairy Garden”, runner, Detroit.
labilmente, Biquini Wax EPS, CDMX.
2016 Coffinworm (vol.1), Berlin.
sex magazine, New York.
2015 age, New York.
SELF-PUBLISHED
2026 Get Free
2023 sleeping beauty
2021 miracle love tone
2016 warm womb
2014 water running bunny running baby running
2013 souvenir
who’s your daddy?
Glisten
jenny
Cassandra Gemini
Madonna and Child
2012 The the Empty
SELECTED WRITINGS
“Free Form: Preserving the Art of Silvio Barile”, runner, Detroit, 2026.
“Intimacy: The Artistic Community of PASC”, runner, Detroit, 2024.
“Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan”, New Art Examiner, Chicago, 2023.
“House Set Sun”, New Art Examiner, Chicago, 2023.
“Playground Architecture: an Evolution”, runner, Detroit, 2023.
“Desire Lines: a review of Genevieve Kuzak’s Butch Boy Fantasy”, runner, Detroit, 2023.
“water-lily: Reflections on Illness and Identity”, runner, Detroit, 2021.
“Self-Objectification as Enslavement: The Crisis of the Self Portrait in the Digital Age”, runner, Detroit, 2020.
“lifesavers”, runner, Detroit, 2020.
“Psychopathic Disconcert (The Gathering of the Juggalos: A Feminist Analysis”, Untitled (ICP Journal), New Haven, 2015.
“An Answer to a Zen Question, A Wind Instrument”, Detroit Research (Vol. 1), Detroit, 2014.
CURATORIAL
2023-present “Studio Visit” column, runner, Detroit, MI
2022 Fairy Garden, Riverfront-Lakewood East Park, Detroit, MI
2020-2022 Dungeon, Detroit, MI
2015 pearlite, WAKE, New Haven, CT
2014 2nd base, 1521 W. Forest, Detroit, MI
2013 godown, WAKE, Detroit, MI
2013 polaroid bby, North End Studios, Detroit, MI
HONORS + AWARDS
2024 Cranbrook Academy of Art Scholarship
2010 College for Creative Studies Scholarship
2010 Glen Peters Memorial Scholarship in Visual Arts
ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES / READINGS
2025 Poetry Reading, Fountainswimming Vol. 4: Pollen Launch, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture & Critiques (w/ Runner Magazine), Cranbrook Academy of Art 2D Department, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2012 Artist Talk: Blinded by Blood, F8, Detroit, MI
WORK EXPERIENCE
2023-present Editor, Runner Magazine, Detroit, MI
2024-2026 Media Lab Assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2012-2022 Assistant Editor, Detroit Research, Detroit, MI
2022 Paraprofessional: Art, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI
2020-2022 Director, Dungeon, Detroit, MI
2019-2020 Studio Coordinator, Chris Schanck Studios, Detroit, MI
2015-2018 Studio Assistant, Chris Schanck Studios, Detroit, MI
2014-2015 Studio Assistant, Michael Vincent Michaud, Bridgeport, CT
2013-2014 Gallery Attendant, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
2013 Teaching Assistant, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI