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Egon Zippel is a New York-based German artist.
Zippel produces paintings, drawings, conceptual works, installations, sculptures, and projection works.

Zippel has held solo shows in galleries, organizations, and art fairs in Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Berlin, Rome, Milan, and at nightclubs in New York including Limelight and Tunnel. He also participated in group shows including: “Art Scout One” (2009, Manheim) and “Waves of Light” (2006, Hudson, NY).

Among other group shows, Zippel participated in two exhibitions in Brooklyn, curated or co-organized by Kyoko Sato.
He was also featured in the recently published, 101 Contemporary Artists (2016 Artvoices Art Books, CA).

Born in Romania in 1960 to German parents, his family moved to Germany when the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu took political power in 1964.
He studied graphic design at the University of Mannheim, Germany (1981-84, and 1986-88, BFA). In 1984 he received a Fulbright Scholarship, moved to the US and spent an academic year at the University of Texas at Austin (1984-85), where he was also the art director for the official University of Texas student publication, UTMOST MAGAZINE. From1985 to 86, Zippel worked in NYC as a graphic designer and studied computer graphics at New York Institute of Technology. He returned then to Germany and continued with his post-graduate studies at the Institute for New Media at the Staedel Art Academy in Frankfurt, Germany (1993-94). He lived in Italy from 1994 to 96, until eventually settling again in NYC in 1996. He assisted photographer Nan Goldin from 1997 to 99. Currently he maintains studios in New York and Berlin.

Zippel continues to present new works from the series “Devandalizing” (2011- present), which are simultaneously paintings, conceptual art, and collages, for the audience of the New York Standard Gallery. In these works, he uses stickers collected from the streets of New York, Detroit, Las Vegas, Quebec, Montreal, Havana, Berlin, Palermo, Catania, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, and many more. It is important to note that all his DEVANDALIZING artworks are done with original stickers collected from these cities, and are therefore, absolutely unique.