Mark Dion
Mark Dion (b. 1961) is an American artist, based in Copake NY, USA.
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Solo Exhibitions
- 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
- 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 - Ökonomien der Zeit
Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, 2002 - dOCUMENTA 13
curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kassel, 2012 - Le Surréalisme et l’objet – La Sculpture au défi
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2013 - Biennale di Venezia – Scandinavian Pavilion
Future, Present, Past , Venice, IT, 1997 - Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 - Classified
Tate Gallery , London, 2009 - Dioramas
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
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
EXHIBITIONS
Systema Naturae
23.03—29.04.2023
