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


 


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