Zoe is an artist, filmmaker, writer and rootless cosmopolitan based in New York. She aims to make art that both entertains and provokes discussion. With a focus on social justice, she draws timelines between past and present to imagine a more egalitarian future. Her projects often involve a range of media including films, drawings and archival documents organized around a theme. Many of her works also go out into the world as books. A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood explored ideas for films proposed by never realized by radical artists; Sergei Eisenstein’s scenario Glass House, Bertolt Brecht’s A Model Family in a Model Home and asked how we might imagine them today. Life Forgotten is her most recent film and installation to focus on how working people come together to change their lives. It is the third in a trilogy that includes, The Days of the Commune, a street performance and installation about the Paris Commune of 1871, and the exhibition, The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle 1926-1972.

Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; include the Whitney Museum Biennale, MoMA, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Pompidou Center in Paris, International Film Festival Rotterdam and FID Marseille. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Graham Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. However, she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. She is a professor at Queens College CUNY.