John Divola (born 1949) is an American contemporary visual artist and educator, living in Riverside, California.
[2] Divola's books include Continuity, Isolated Houses, Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert, and Three Acts.
In his Zuma project, he has described being interested in the relation between real artworks and representations of them, and the issues of the natural and the artificial.
Emphasising the grain of the image, these black and white photographs capture a haunting moment in which there is a duality between a sense of absence and presence.
The domestic ruins suggest social collapse, secret renditions of something darkly sinister illuminating our conflicted recent history, updating "Zuma" and "Vandalism" for our age of foreclosure.
[2] Divola's photograph Zuma was used as the cover art for American rock band Deerhunter's 2015 studio album Fading Frontier.
[10] In 2020 Italian electronic music producer Lorenzo Senni used "Zuma 33" as the front cover of his Album "Scacco Matto" Divola's work is held in the following permanent collections: