Do Right Hall presents Dim Zayan: A Three-Quarter View of the Future. The new body of work traces a recent reverse migration and the navigation of unfamiliar terrain in both life and practice, a shift in which form and process are effectively rebuilt from the ground up by the land that now shapes them.
Relocating from New York to Marfa dislodged familiar systems, prompting Zayan to move from digital to analog, from blockchain to drywall. In Marfa, many artists work with found objects—materials gathered from the landscape or salvaged from abandoned structures. Following a similar logic, Zayan locates his “found” materials among common building supplies. In a small town where hardware stores underpin infrastructure in ways art suppliers cannot, building materials become as dependable as discarded objects. What might suggest adaptation to limited resources instead reveals a spirit of openness as expansive as the horizon lines that define Far West Texas.
Engaging both structure and surface, Zayan constructs layered compositions through iterative processes of pouring, staining, sanding, and sealing. Earth-toned fields, weathered edges, and irregular contours evoke landscapes shaped by time, erosion, and human intervention. Form emerges through excavation as much as construction, with each work retaining visible traces of process and material condition.
Dim Zayan (b. 1977, France) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, digital media, installation, and narrative structures. Trained in classical arts in Paris, he later became a pioneer in crypto art, creating projects that interrogate economics, power, and collective myth through both analog and digital means. His crypto-based works include Rarevision, a generative algorithm that converts live Bitcoin network data into animated visuals; Bulltardia, an illustrated narrative exploring economic systems; and The Plebz, which merges naïve portraiture with imagery sourced from vintage National Geographic magazines. His painting practice — including The Rituals series — employs forceful gestural marks and spatial compression to produce pentimenti-rich surfaces, where multiple narratives appear painted, erased, and re-inscribed. Zayan’s work has been presented at Kunsthalle Zürich, NFT.NYC, and Pepefest Paris. He lives and works in Marfa, Texas.
The exhibition is curated by Jeanhee Yu. Yu and Zayan are co-founders of MarfaMUST (Marfa Untitled Studio Tour), an artist-led initiative that produces biannual sculpture gardens at Lannan Park and site-specific group exhibitions highlighting Marfa-based artists. Since its launch in 2024, MarfaMUST has been included in the Chinati Weekend program, further amplifying the voices of local artists.
SHOW INFO
Venue: Do Right Hall 110 W. Dallas St. Marfa, TX
On view: March 5 – 15, 2026, 10am – 5pm
Opening: March 5, 2026, 5pm – 7 pm
ARTIST INFO
Dim Zayan
https://dimzayan.com
https://www.instagram.com/dimzayan
MarfaMUST CONTACT
Jeanhee Yu
hello@marfamust.org
https://www.instagram.com/marfamust
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