Zach Houston is an Oakland

Oakland, California

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 based visual artist and poet. He is best known for his "poemstore", an ongoing business/literature performance, which has been widely emulated. The "poemstore" has received coverage from Charles Osgood

Charles Osgood

Charles Osgood is a radio and television commentator in the United States. His daily program, The Osgood File, has been broadcast on the CBS Radio Network since 1971. He is also known for being the voice of the narrator of Horton Hears a Who!, an animated film released in 2008, based on the book...

, CBS News

CBS News

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, Katie Couric

Katie Couric

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, The NY Times, The LA Times, reviewed by Kenneth Baker, critic for the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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and many others. In 2011 the poemstore was the focus of two major exhibitions. One, entitled poemstore at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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 in Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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. The other, an exhibition in collaboration with David Horvitz

David Horvitz

David Horvitz is a Brooklyn-based watercolor painter, photographer and performance artist, known for his often bizarre and absurdist DIY instructional projects, including work on Wikipedia. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980, and educated at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts...

 at SF Camerwork.

Zach Houston has also pursued a musical career, leading several disturbing projects, including SPACE TIME, use your words, Freeerways and faux pseudo fake fake.

External links

• zachhouston.com
• synthesize.us an art collective Zach Houston is a member of.
• Zach Houston on synthesize.us
• I Make Picture: Zach Houston
• panoramas.dk of zach
• Zach Houston on Art Slant
• The Word on the Street--A Profile of Zach Houston