About the Founder — Marc Zydiak

About the Founder — Marc Zydiak

 
 

About the Founder: Marc Zydiak

Marc Zydiak is the founder and president of the Museum of Fine Arts & Popular Culture, Inc. in Cape May, New Jersey. A Contemporary Surrealist artist, social critic, musician, actor, and educator, Zydiak established the institution to bridge 700 years of Western fine art with the cultural vibrancy of American folk art, animation, classic cinema, and popular music.

In addition to leading the museum, Zydiak is the founder of the Everclever Art Collective—whose contemporary surrealist works are featured through the museum—and serves as president of Galerie Nouveau (Galerie-Nouveau.com). As a visual artist and social critic, his work uses irony, humor, and surrealist composition to comment on contemporary society.

Zydiak’s lifelong engagement with popular culture extends directly into his own creative career. As a recording artist, he released his self-titled folk-rock and satirical LP on Nirvana Records (1977), appeared on Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale (1980), and released the anthology World Turned Upside Down (2017). He has also worked as an actor and producer in independent cinema (Murder Below the Line, Sleepyhead: Love Among the Groggy) and taught at the Atlantic County Institute of Technology in Mays Landing, New Jersey.

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