Troy Kreiner

Adjunct Instructor

Troy Curtis Zaretsky-Kreiner is a multidisciplinary designer and creative director based in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union ‘14, where he now teaches Exhibition Design as adjunct faculty in the School of Art.

Currently, Troy is the Creative Director at Silk, a brand design division within Use All Five, where he leads brand and digital design for clients across arts and culture and hospitality. His work has engaged organizations such as the Queens Museum, Guggenheim, UCLA Arts & Architecture, USC Roski School of Art and Design, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Center for Architecture NYC, and Sterling Ruby Studio.

Varied in media and objective, Troy’s work includes the design of brand identities, art direction, web design, publication design, exhibition design, and curation. A recent collaboration includes exhibition design for Suzanne Lacy’s The Medium is Not the Only Message at the Queens Museum (2022).

Troy has been invited as a guest critic and lecturer at Otis College of Art & Design, UCLA Design Media Arts, Pratt Institute, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and Loyola Marymount University’s M-School.


Suzanne Lacy, Cinderella in a Dragster (How to Be a Performance Artist), 1976/2022. Installation view from The Medium is Not the Only Message, Queens Museum, March 13-August 14, 2022. Documentation wall designed by Troy Zaretsky-Kreiner in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy and Queens Museum staff. Vinyl text and gicée prints. Image courtesy of Queens Museum. Photo: Hai Zhang 

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