David V. Politzer

and "Politzer really hones in on the weirdness in contemporary society relating to the natural world." Baltimore vs. the World, an exhibition at the Current Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, explored the nature of video media. David Politzer's entry was one of the jury-selected videos described in the art critic Martin Johnson's review asserting that "The most charming video in the collection is David Politzer’s “Rio Macho,” one of a series of videos starring Politzer and his alter ego, who appears on a television set. Politzer explores real and mediated landscapes with his television in hand, which keeps alive the connection between video and the larger, more uncertain world of digital media." His show of photographs of behemoth pumpkins at the Houston Center for Photography and FotoFest was his introduction to the UH fine arts faculty. In his loft north of Washington Avenue, he printed and framed "quasi-sensual photographs of giant pumpkins" in preparation for the show Nowhere Near Here: New Lens-based Work from Texas, the fourth in the Talent in Texas biennial series. Politzer showed 30 photos of pumpkins from his Heavyweights series, and this show was Houston's first look at his work.

In 2011 he held a position as artist in residence at the Lawndale Art Center and he held a 2017 summer residency at Artspace's Gallery One in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was also an artist in residence at Djerassi Artists Residency, Yaddo, Roswell Museum and Art Center, the Skowhegan School, and the Kala Art Institute. Politzer's Roswell residency is discussed in Jackie Battenfield's book "The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love".

David Politzer was the recipient of the 2011 Houston Center for Photography Carol Crow Fellowship Award. His work has been shown at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut,Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Video Dumbo (Brooklyn), the Syracuse International Film Festival and in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Northern Arizona. In the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Steven Litt wrote that Politzer "employs video, photography, performance and sculpture to discuss how mass media representations further confuse the vagaries of contemporary social interaction. Specifically, he is interested in portrayals of masculinity on the big and small screens, and the expectations they create. He uses an intimate and straightforward approach along with humor to address such topics as relationships, body image and self-confidence." Politzer's participation in the show was a spoofing parody of a natural resources museum show. Part of Politzer's solo show TMI at Ten at the Ten Gallery in New Orleans featured a video, titled From the Rim, of a sequence of amateur videos of people arriving at and posing in front of the Grand Canyon. In 2016 Politzer and Bradly Brown showed video art together. In Only a Signal Shown, a show in 2013 curated by Michael Hall which included works by "artists performing ridiculous acts of endurance", Politzer introduced the audience to his new studio.

He is an Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media Program at the University of Houston. He was Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University prior to going to Houston in 2010.

David V. Politzer (born 1976) was born in Washington, DC. He is a photographer and digital media artist living in Houston, Texas, where he is a member of the Art and Art History faculty at the University of Houston. He has received support for his experimental photography and installations from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Politzer's great-great grandfather was the English-born American landscape artist Harry Fenn (1837 – 1911), and in 2017 Politzer celebrated the culmination of his residency at Artspace in Raleigh, North Carolina with the multi-media exhibition Harry Fenn is in the Bathroom Again, reacting to the places and images of his ancestor's journeys as a landscape painter of a different era.