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BIOGRAPHY
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio; lives and works in New York City
Master of Fine Art, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Bachelor of Fine Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Americatastrophe, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022
The Return, CPM, Baltimore, MD
Precipice, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2021
40º54’37.9ºN 73º50’33.5ºW, Public Sculpture for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Mount Vernon, NY
2019
Hoodwinked (!%#*!), Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2018
The Esther Bateses, The Tank, New York, NY
Are You With Us, Graham Grawt Graven?, The Tank, New York, NY
2017
Full Circle, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston, TX
Mark Fox, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Giverny: Journal of an Unseen Garden, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2015
Not In This Fool’s House, Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Giverny: Journal of an Unseen Garden, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2014
MFKPMQ, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
The Fields, Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2013
Unaccustomed, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, Brazil
If That Then This, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
This Too, [ARTSPACE] at UNTITLED, Oklahoma City, OK
2012
Deep Seated, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2011
Outbreed, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Mark Fox, Rochester Armory, Rochester, NY
Statute, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2010
MONSTR, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Art Party Featured Artist, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
If Therefore, Shaheen Modern &Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2008
PROSCENIA, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Dust, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Paper Bulls, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2007
The Peacock Flesh, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Dust, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2006
Cricket’s Song, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2005
Fascia, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Inchmeal, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Prints and Drawings, Clay St. Press, Cincinnati, OH
New Works on Paper, Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2004
Dust, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2003
Dust, Drawing installations and video projections, Cincinnati Art Musuem, Cincinnati, OH
2001
Downburst, Multi-media installation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2000
Six Degrees Of…, Mixed media sculpture, Artworks Sculpture Project, Federal Plaza, Cincinnati, OH
1998
Fallen Stages: Drawings, pages and chapters from Account Me Puppet, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Recent Paintings, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Articles of Faith, Drawings and Performance Ephemera, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH
1996
Images from Wurlitzer Voice, Teplitzky and Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH
1995
Verses and Tongues, Puppets and Performance Ephemera, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1991
New Paintings, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1989
Recent Works, Patricia Herrmann Gallery, Covington, KY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Ceremony, Morgann Trumbull Projects, San Jose, CA
2025
Quicken, Rutledge Gallery at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2022
Summer Group Show, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Drawn Together Again, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2017
Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2016
Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2015
The Spirit Among Us, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Constructive Interference: Tauba Auerbach and Mark Fox, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2014
Hoarding, Amassing and Excess, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Somewhere Between Creation & Destruction, Joseloff Gallery at University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Please Enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Paranomasia, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2013
5 Rooms, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Mixer, Josh Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Art for Art’s Sake, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Introduction, S & J Project(s), New York, NY
2012
Decade, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Textual Attraction, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Watercolor, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Rainbow of Chaos, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, WI
The Ghost and the Whale, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA
January White Sale, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
MAGNA CARTA: Art/Paper, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Black & Blue, Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, MI
2010
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
PaperCut, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
On Paper, Shaheen Modern &Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2009
Topographies, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Unmistakable, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
Paper Trail, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Just What Are They Saying…, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008
Long Time No See, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
I Won’t Grow Up, Cheim and Read, New York, NY
Stable Scrawl, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art,, Philadelphia, PA
2006
Analog Animation: Selections Spring 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2005
Portraits on Paper, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Underage, Clifford Chance E US LLP/Dinaburg Arts LLC, New York, NY
4, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA
WOVEN, Gallery W52, New York, NY
Drawn Out, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
2004
Itsy Bitsy Spider, Feature Inc., New York, NY
2003
Welcome, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2002
Walk to Zet & Spiders from Zet, Drawing Installations and Video Projections, Jeleni Gallery, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
Summer Vacation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati ,OH
2001
Surface Active, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Journal of Being, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Accumulations, Kent State University, Akron, OH
Working Space, Drawing and Film Installation, NeuRathaus Gallery, Munich, Germany
Unit 2, What?, UNIT 2, Cincinnati, OH
1998
Stacked, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Small Works, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1996
sortasorid, Dileia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH
Evicted, High Street Gallery, Oxford, OH
PERFORMANCE/SAW THEATER
Mark Fox was the Creative Director of Saw Theater. Co-founded in 1993 with Anthony Luensman, Saw
Theater was a non-profit contemporary puppet theater that conceived and produced original multi-media
performances often in collaboration with artists and writers.
2018
We're Imploding: A Toy Theater Double Feature, Tank Theater, New York, NY
2001
and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm…, Intermedia Festival,The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
1999
Account Me Puppet, Theater for the New City, New York, NY, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA, The Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH
The Kiss, Webcast in collaboration in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and Pseudo Programs, New York, NY
The Temper Ris’n, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Intermedia Festival, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Faust, Creation and performance of two large-scale puppets for Charles Gounod’s Faust , directed by Nicholas Muni, The Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH
1998
and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm…, The Festival of International Puppet Theater, P.S. 122, New York, NY
A Criminal’s Story, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH
1997
Stain, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH
The Ascension, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH
1996
Wulitzer Voice, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH
1995
Verses and Tongues, (Created and performed in conjunction with solo exhibit), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1994
Ruins, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH
A Great Storm, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH
1993
puppetstory, in situ, Cincinnati, OH
Zorro, Shadow puppetry sequences commissioned in conjunction with The Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati Production.
FILM/VIDEO
1999
Toy, Super 8 Film; 20 minutes, Super Super 8 Film Festival , Toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan
Oyster Project, Super 8 Film created in conjunction with a live performance by the rock band Oyster, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH
1998
Built, Film Loop Mechanism, Crash , Rike Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Carousel Traces, Film Loop Mechanism (in collaboration with Andrea Sparks), 840 Gallery, College of Design, Architecture and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1996
Filmworks, Screening of selected short animated films, Kaldis, Cincinnati, OH
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2010
Versailles Foundation, Munn Artist Fellowship, Giverny, France
2002
Artist Residency, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
2001
Artist Residency, Working Space, Awarded by Kultureferat, Munich , Germany
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2000
The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award
1999
Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Otto M. Budig Foundation Grant
The Fine Arts Fund of Cincinnati Fund
Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant
Cinergy Foundation Grant
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
Ohio Arts Council Operation Support Grant
1998
Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award
The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant
Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant
Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship
1997
Puffin Foundation Grant
Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant
Artist Residency, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1995
Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award
1994
Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant
1993
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
SELECTED RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Glentzer, Molly. ‘Beneath the Surface with Monet’ Houston Chronicle, October 23, 2015
Gómez, Edward. ‘Drawing on Their Imagination’ Art & Antiques, September, 2015
Nicholson, Louise. 'Rehanging the Ranch' Apollo Magazine, March 2015.
2014
Strasnick, Stephanie. 'Mark Fox', ARTnews, March 2014.
Kurchanova, Natasha. 'MFKPMQ', Studio International online, January 22, 2014.
Aschim, Hans. 'Interview: Mark Fox', Cool Hunting online, January 16, 2014.
2013
Glentzer, Molly. "Mark Fox Exhibits at Hiram Butler Gallery," Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2013
Considine, Austin. "Amidst Cuts, Indianapolis Museum Partners with Alexander Hotel," Art in America, March, 2013
Kahn, Eve. "Art Imitates Indianapolis," The New York Times, January 16, 2013
2011
Nataraj, Nirmala. "Mark Fox: splatters, stains in art are intentional," San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2011
2010
Mann, C. Griffith. “Acquisitions 2009″, Cleveland Art (March/April 2010)
2009
Klanten, Robert. Papercraft. Berlin, Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2009
“Artist Mark Fox draws on the accidental to create abstract drawings”, The Plain Dealer (July 12, 2009)
“Overheard”, Vogue (June 2009)
“Whitney Watchers”, Art in America online (June 12, 2009)
Rattemeyer, C. et al. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2009
2008
“artisti a New York”, Corriere della Sera Io Donna, (January 2008)
Kahn, Eve. “Extreme Art,” Art + Auction (September 2008)
Schultze, Troy. “Rice Gallery Hosts Outrageous Window Installation Dust,” Houston Press (August 7, 2008)
Crawford, Lynn. “Mark Fox, Paper Bulls,” The Brooklyn Rail (July 2008)
Johnson, Ken. “Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection,” The New York Times (July 4, 2008)
2007
“Mark Fox,” The New Yorker (November 12, 2007)