Amir Z

Amir Zainorin
Amir Zainorin is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is born in 1963 in Johor. He had
a certificate in Business Studies from Polytechnic Ungku Omar in Ipoh in 1983 and studied at the
University of Arkansas and University of Kansas City Missouri in the USA from 1986 - 1990.
He met Malaysian pop artist Jeri Azhari in 1995 in Kuala Lumpur and became his apperentice.
Amir finds inspirations from the activity around his surroundings, readymade images and the mass
media. He works in diverse medium, which includes installation, collage, assemblage, video,
photography, drawing and painting.
His work is project based and work on theme such as migration, identity, economics and pop
cultures.
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions among others at the Balai Seni Lukis Malaysia,
National Art Gallery Singapore, The National Historical Museum of Brazil, Museum of
Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark and Immigrant Museum Denmark.
Amir now lives with his wife and their two children in Copenhagen and frequently back to
Malaysia.

1995-1998: Apprenticeship to popartist Ahmad Azhari, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1988-1990: University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA (Business Administration)

1986-1988: University of Central Arkansas (BBA)
1980-1983: Ungku Omar polytechnic, Ipoh, Malaysia

Selected Solo Exhibition
2015: ‘Going Back Home’, Balai Seni Lukis Melaka, Malaysia
2014: ‘Dear Helle…’Immigrant Museum, Farum, Denmark
2014: ‘Papercuts‘, Gallery Alstrup, Alstrup, Denmark
2012: ‘Postcard Series’, Buderup ødekirke, Rebild, Denmark
2011: ‘Subject to Change’, MAP Publika, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2011: ‘Most Wanted’, Poetisk Bureau, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010: ‘X Box’, Performance Art at Peti Seni, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2009: ‘Mad (e) in Malaysia’, Brick lane Gallery, London, UK

2008: ‘Paradice Now’, Gallery Shambala, Global House and Albertslund library, Denmark

2007: ‘The Opening’, Gallery Pelita Hati, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

2005: ‘Art, Politics and Power’, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2004: ‘Breathe’, Embassy of Malaysia, Stockholm, Sweden

2004: ‘Art is …’, Rødovre Biblioteket, Denmark

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 'Art in Exile', Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde Denmark'
2016: ‘A Fact Has No Appearance, Art beyond the Object’, National...