MARK
KING
b.1983 Washington, D.C. Lives and works New York
2007-08 MFA Photography, Academy of Art University, San Francisco,CA
2002-05 BA Advertising, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Beginning,The Brighton Storeroom, Barbados
2018 Universal Belonging, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
My Collection, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan
2017 Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY
Flags of Peace, Chassé Promenade Breda, Breda, Netherlands
2015 Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2014 ARC + NLS, (E)merge Art Fair: Washington, D.C.
International Artist Initiated Cultural Programme David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
FRAMES, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
After the Flood, Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 Caribbean Linked ll - Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
2012 A Negation of Preconceptions Fresh Milk St. George, Barbados
2011 The Cheaper Show No. 10, Rise Kingsway, Vancouver, Canada
15,000 Words, Cutty Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
2010 Please Excuse the Mess, The Bay Salone, Los Angeles, California
There and Back, Bridgetown Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados
The Cheaper Show No. 9, W2 Storyeum, Vancouver, Canada
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Frans Masereel Centrum: Kasterlee, Belgium
Ateliers ‘89: Oranjestad, Aruba
HONORS
2011 Lucie Foundation E-pprentice
COMMISSIONS & PROJECTS
2018 Look on me and be renewed, collaboration with Dr John Marsden, Professor of Addiction Psychology, King’s College London, Changing 7, London, UK
2017 Peace Room, Flags of Peace commission for traveling public art exhibition, Netherlands
2015 Wayfinding Site-specific public installation, International Artist
Initiated Cultural Programme, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2014 Victoria Site-specific public installation, Fresh Stops, Adopt-a-stop/Fresh Milk, Barbados
RESIDENCIES
2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2013 Caribbean Linked ll - Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
Fresh Milk, St. George, Barbados
2012 Alice Yard: Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
2011 Frans Masereel Centrum: Kasterlee, Belgium
TALKS
2019 Systems of Injustice Bronx Art Space, Bronx, New York, Panel Discussion
2018 Hooked in the city Science Gallery London, London, UK In conversation with Dr. John Marsden and curator Hannah Redler Hawes
2014 Making work away from home,Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, In conversation with Amanda Coulson, Blue Curry, and Heino Schmid
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rebecca Bell, In Parallel: Reflections on Community, Middlesex University, January 2019
James Cooper, SEEEN #2 p. 11 - 12, July, 2017
Mariam Zulfiqar, Slashstroke Magazine, Art Over There/ A Conversation Between Curator Mariam Zulfiqar and Artist Mark King, October 21, 2013
Sofia Maldonado, The Huffington Post, A Jump in the Sea, September 9, 2013
Naoto Miyazaki, Montem Magazine issue 02, Mark King p. 4-10, September, 2013
Tanisia Morris, Arc Magazine, Barbadian Photographer Turns ‘Plastic’ Into Gold, July 27, 2013
Dan Abbe, American Photo Magazine, Mark King, How You Living? February 25, 2013
Natalie McGuire, Caribbean Beat Magazine, Changing the game: seven rising talents in Barbados’s contemporary art, issue 118, November/December 2012
b.1983 Washington, D.C. Lives and works New York
2007-08 MFA Photography, Academy of Art University, San Francisco,CA
2002-05 BA Advertising, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Beginning,The Brighton Storeroom, Barbados
2018 Universal Belonging, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
My Collection, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan
2017 Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY
Flags of Peace, Chassé Promenade Breda, Breda, Netherlands
2015 Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2014 ARC + NLS, (E)merge Art Fair: Washington, D.C.
International Artist Initiated Cultural Programme David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
FRAMES, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
After the Flood, Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 Caribbean Linked ll - Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
2012 A Negation of Preconceptions Fresh Milk St. George, Barbados
2011 The Cheaper Show No. 10, Rise Kingsway, Vancouver, Canada
15,000 Words, Cutty Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
2010 Please Excuse the Mess, The Bay Salone, Los Angeles, California
There and Back, Bridgetown Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados
The Cheaper Show No. 9, W2 Storyeum, Vancouver, Canada
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Frans Masereel Centrum: Kasterlee, Belgium
Ateliers ‘89: Oranjestad, Aruba
HONORS
2011 Lucie Foundation E-pprentice
COMMISSIONS & PROJECTS
2018 Look on me and be renewed, collaboration with Dr John Marsden, Professor of Addiction Psychology, King’s College London, Changing 7, London, UK
2017 Peace Room, Flags of Peace commission for traveling public art exhibition, Netherlands
2015 Wayfinding Site-specific public installation, International Artist
Initiated Cultural Programme, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2014 Victoria Site-specific public installation, Fresh Stops, Adopt-a-stop/Fresh Milk, Barbados
RESIDENCIES
2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2013 Caribbean Linked ll - Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
Fresh Milk, St. George, Barbados
2012 Alice Yard: Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
2011 Frans Masereel Centrum: Kasterlee, Belgium
TALKS
2019 Systems of Injustice Bronx Art Space, Bronx, New York, Panel Discussion
2018 Hooked in the city Science Gallery London, London, UK In conversation with Dr. John Marsden and curator Hannah Redler Hawes
2014 Making work away from home,Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, In conversation with Amanda Coulson, Blue Curry, and Heino Schmid
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rebecca Bell, In Parallel: Reflections on Community, Middlesex University, January 2019
James Cooper, SEEEN #2 p. 11 - 12, July, 2017
Mariam Zulfiqar, Slashstroke Magazine, Art Over There/ A Conversation Between Curator Mariam Zulfiqar and Artist Mark King, October 21, 2013
Sofia Maldonado, The Huffington Post, A Jump in the Sea, September 9, 2013
Naoto Miyazaki, Montem Magazine issue 02, Mark King p. 4-10, September, 2013
Tanisia Morris, Arc Magazine, Barbadian Photographer Turns ‘Plastic’ Into Gold, July 27, 2013
Dan Abbe, American Photo Magazine, Mark King, How You Living? February 25, 2013
Natalie McGuire, Caribbean Beat Magazine, Changing the game: seven rising talents in Barbados’s contemporary art, issue 118, November/December 2012
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