Mark Dion

Mark Dion (b. 1961) is an American artist, based in Copake NY, USA.

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Solo Exhibitions

Delirious Toys
The Berlin Toy Cabinet of Wonder, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin , 2023-24
Field Station of the Melancholy Entomologist
Ice House Project Space, Sharon, CT, 2023
Bureau de l’ornthologue
Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, France, 2023
Journey to Nature’s Underworld
organized by American Federation of Arts The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, 2023
Theater of Extinction
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2022
Journey to Nature’s Underworld
Organized by American Federation of Arts The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA, 2022
The Witches’ Cottage (permanent public commission)
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, 2022
Tree of Life (permanent public project)
Art on the Meuse Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 2022
Thames Dig, Thames Dig (Two Banks)
Tate Gallery , London, 1998, 1999
Projects 82: Mark Dion— Rescue Archaeology, A Project for The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art , New York, 2004-05
Misadventures of a 21st Century Naturalist
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US, 2017
The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit
Miami Art Museum, Miami, 2006
Theatre of the Natural World
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018
The Life of a Dead Tree
Museum of Contemporary Art , Toronto, 2019

Group Exhibitions

The sky we stand on
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery , Los Angeles, 2024-25
Welcome Home
Market Art Fair with Saskia Neuman Gallery, Stockholm, 2024
Theater of Extinction
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery,, Los Angeles, 2022
The Witches’ Cottage
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, 2022
Tree of Life
Art on the Meuse Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 2022
The Field Station of the Melancholy Marine Biologist
Governor’s Island, New York, 2021
Vivarium
Biologiezentrum, University of Vienna, St. Marx , 2021
Cabinet of Electrical Curiosities
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, 2021
The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, 2020
Mark Dion & David Brooks: The Great Bird Blind Debate
Planting Fields Foundation, Oyster Bay, NY, 2020
Wunderkammer 2
Esbjerg Museum of Art, Esbjerg, Denmark, 2019
Mark Dion: Our Plundered Earth
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2019
Mark Dion: The Life of a Dead Tree
Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2019
Fish Fountain for Stavoren
11 Fountains Project, Stavoren, Netherlands, 2018
Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018
Dioramas
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
dOCUMENTA 13
curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kassel, 2012
Le Surréalisme et l’objet – La Sculpture au défi
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2013
Classified
Tate Gallery , London, 2009
Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008
Ökonomien der Zeit
Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, 2002
Play’s the Thing: Critical and Transgressive
Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, 2001
The Museum as Muse
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1999
Biennale di Venezia – Scandinavian Pavilion
Future, Present, Past , Venice, IT, 1997

Education

BFA, Fine Art
University of Hartford School of Art, Hartford, CT, USA, 1981 — 1982, 86
BFA, Fine Art
School of Visual Arts, New York, NYC, New York, USA, 1982 — 1984
Independent Study Program
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, New York, USA, 1984 — 1985

Publications

Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
Text by Iwona Blazwick, Marion Endt-Jones, Chelsea Kinchin-Smith, Petra Lange-Berndt, Ben Luke, Magnus af Petersens, Candy Stobbs, Gilda Williams. Featuring a short story by Andrea Barrett., Published by Whitechapel Gallery., 2018
Mark Dion: The Academy of Things
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel., Köln, 2015
Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacy
Survey by Lisa Graziose Corrin, Interview by Miwon Kwon, Focus by Norman Bryson, Artist's Choice text by John Berger, Writings by Mark Dion, 2006
The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion
Mark Dion, 2020