Amir Zaki is an Egyptian-American artist based in Southern California who makes photographs of California landscapes and architecture. For the past twenty-five years, Zaki has developed a photographic language which seeks to elevate the formal qualities of California’s architecture and landscape: he re-envisions the world before him, creating a tension between the functional and the dysfunctional.
His work is in the permanent collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington in Seattle; among others. He is a full professor of art at UC Riverside. Amir Zaki lives and works in Huntington Beach.