Ozma, a white man in his 30s with curly hair and a mustache, crosses his arms and smiles into the camera. He wears a striped blue button-up shirt.

Zach Ozma

he/him/his
Location
Lansdowne
Delaware
https://zachozma.com
https://www.instagram.com/zachozma/

Zach Ozma is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. He is the author of Etiquette In The Arts (Spiral Editions), BLACK DOG DRINKING FROM AN OUTDOOR POOL (Sibling Rivalry Press), and with Ellis Martin co-edited WE BOTH LAUGHED IN PLEASURE: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (a 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner. Nightboat Books). He has exhibited at ArtYard, The Wind Challenge, Zach's Crab Shack, Root Division, 1122 Gallery, and CTRL+SHFT, and other locations. Raised by folk musicians in Seattle and the Santa Cruz mountains, he came of age as an artist in Oakland at California College of the Arts and in the East Bay experimental poetry scene. Ozma holds a BFA from CCA in Community Arts and lives in the Philadelphia area.

Awarded Grants

2025
Art and Change Grant (ACG)

2,500

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Ozma, a white man in his 30s with curly hair and a mustache, crosses his arms and smiles into the camera. He wears a striped blue button-up shirt.

Zach Ozma

he/him/his
Discipline(s)
Visual Arts
Social Change Intents
Cultural Preservation
Demilitarization
Transgender Justice/Gender Self-Determination (Effective 2019)

Zach Ozma’s project, The Un-Lost Sculptures of Roberta Dickinson, will honor the legacy of late Philadelphia trans artist and anti-war activist Roberta Dickinson by supporting three trans artists in creating and exhibiting new sculptural works inspired by her lost pieces. Dickinson’s art, originally constructed from everyday materials and displayed in public spaces as acts of resistance, intertwined her evolving gender identity with her anti-imperialist politics. In collaboration with artists Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Nicki Green, and a third Philly-based trans artist selected through an open call, Zach will facilitate research, studio visits, and conversations to reinterpret Dickinson’s protest sculptures through contemporary lenses. The resulting works will be exhibited at the William Way LGBT Community Center in 2026, alongside a retrospective on Dickinson’s life and practice and an interactive “Mini–Un-Lost Sculpture” station for visitors. Following the show, the new works will be installed in public spaces across Philadelphia.