Zody Burke

Artist is based in: Estonia

Zody Burke (b.1991, Manhattan) is an American multimedia artist and musician who is currently living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. Informed by her perspective as a New Yorker displaced by the city’s economic inaccessibility, Burke creates cyphers through sculpture and sound through which to cartograph the complexity of American identity within late capitalism, exploring how this mutable identity is refracted and transfigured through the mirror of other cultural spatiality, particularly that of Tallinn. She is interested in interfacing world-building with geological time, and visualizing a diffusion of boundaries between distinct countries & their national mythologies by the omnipresence of what lies beneath. Her material practice ranges from ceramic high-relief to experimental music, large-format sculpture, video, illustration, printmaking and fiber work. Burke completed her master’s thesis at the Estonian Academy of Art in 2024, which attempted to bridge sociopolitical narratives, legacies, and trajectories of industrialization between Estonia & the USA. Informed by Rem Koolhaas’ writing on the history of Coney Island, the work mapped a vein-system of extractive forces and compared it with the genesis of amusement parks and leisure culture. Selected exhibitions include international art fairs Esther Art Fair (NYC) and ArtVilnius (LT), solo exhibition at Hobusepea Gallery (Tallinn) in April 2025, two-person exhibition at NSFW Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2025, and an upcoming two-person exhibition at Temnikova & Kasela gallery (Tallinn) in March 2026.