Mark Dion

American (47 years old, born 1961)

Sample work by Mark Dion

The Octagon Room (2008)
mixed media installation
approximate footprint 20 x 20 feet

From The Octagon Room at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

Galleries showing Mark Dion

Milano
Galleria Emi Fontana
New York
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Christine Burgin Gallery
Pasadena
Galleria Emi Fontana
Wien
Georg Kargl Fine Arts

Shows with Mark Dion

Mildred's Lane at Alexander Gray AssociatesJun 18, 2008-Sep 6, 2008
Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to present Mildred’s Lane, a group exhibition, organized by artists J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion. The exhibition includes works by Jorge Colombo, Moyra Davey, Mark Dion, Hope Ginsberg, John Haskell, Jeffrey Jenk...
The Octagon Room at Tanya Bonakdar GalleryFeb 16, 2008-Mar 15, 2008
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to present The Octagon Room, a major installation and sculpture project that will comprise Mark Dion's fourth solo presentation at the gallery. Dion’s dynamic and conceptually rigorous art making practice pri...
The Office at Tanya Bonakdar GalleryNov 30, 2007-Dec 22, 2007
The Office is conceived as a group exhibition featuring selected works by contemporary artists who utilize objects and materials normally found in the workplace, products whose original form and structure are inextricably linked to their functionalit...

Awards

The Larry Aldrich AwardPosted: 2007-05-15
All Recipients of The Larry Aldrich Award
Received in 2001

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Exhibitions

Posted: 2006-12-13
Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, 2007 (group); Art & Flowers at Fairchild, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens, Miami, December 6, 2006- February 18, 2007 (group); The Natural History of the Museum, Carré d'Art, Nimes, France and touring to Dunkers Kulturhaus, Helsingborg, Sweden and Seedamm Kulture Zentrum, Zürich, 2007 (solo); The Israel Musuem, Jerusalem, 2007 (group); Seattle Vivarium, part of I AM SAM Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, 2007 (solo); Thomas Berwick Memorial, Newcastle upon Tyne Public Art Project, UK, 2007 (solo) 2007; Sampling Unseen London, The Natural History Museum, London, 2007 (solo); Portavillion, Battersea Park, and Hanging Gardens, Tooley Street, London, 2007 (solo); Folkestone Sculpture Triennale, Folkestone, UK 2008 (group).

Ecotopia: The 2nd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York September 14, 2006 - January 7, 2007 (group); Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, October 5, 2006 - January 14, 2007 (group); The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Miami Art Museum, October 27, 2006- January 14, 2007 (solo); The Tar Museum, Gallerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, November 8, 2006- January 13, 2007 (solo).


RECENT: Artists and Specimens: Documenting Contemporary Experience, The Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 2006 (group); Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, 2006 (group); Zerstörte Welten und die Rekonstruktion, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria, 2006 (group); Dundee Bear Broch, Camperdown Wildlife Center in cooperation with Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, 2006 (solo project); Rare Specimen: The Natural History Museum Show, Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, 2006 (group); Neotropic, in SITU, Paris, 2006 (with Bob Braine); Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Tucson Museum of Art, 2006 (group); The Curiosity Shop, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2005 (solo);Frieze Art Fair, Regent's Park, London; Controlled, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2005 (group); Dungeon of the Sleeping Bear, the Phantom Forest, the Birds of Guam, and other Fables of Ecological Mischief, Château d'Oiron, France, 2005 (solo); Salon de Chasse, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Château de Chambord, France, 2005 (solo); Drawings from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005 (group); Gotik und Moderne in Dialog, Frankischen Galerie, Kronach, Germany, 2005 (group); The Brazilian Expedition of Thomas Ender - Reconsidered, Akademie Der Bildenden Kunst – Vienna, 2005 (solo); Microcosmographia and the Secret Garden Biological Field Unit, South London Gallery, 2005 (solo); Gordon Matta-Clark: Odd Lots, Queens Museum of Art, NY, 2005 (group); Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2005 (group); Our Surroundings, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2005 (group); Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, Manchester Museum, UK, 2005 (solo); Showcase: Contemporary Art for the UK, City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005 (group); Projects 82, Rescue Archaeology, A Project for The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004 (solo); Interventions, The Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, OH, 2004 (group); São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil, 2004 (group); Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, 2004 (group); Field: Science, Technology and Nature, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, 2004; Mark Dion: drawings and printed works, Goodwater, Toronto, 2004 (solo); Universal Collection, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2004 (solo); Tropical Travels, Thomas Ender (1817-1818) and Mark Dion (2003), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2004 (solo).

Museum Collections


Books/DVDs/VHS by or about Mark Dion

Mark Dion
Mark Dion, Lisa Graziose Corrin, Miwon Kwon, and Norman Bryson

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