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Artist's Biography
Born 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION 1981-82, University of Hartford School of Art,Connecticut.
SELECTED SOLOEXHIBITIONS 2003 " Full House", 9th annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award exhibition, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield-CT(sched.) " Mark Dion: Collar1orations 1987-2003", Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT(sched.) "Imperfect Marriage", Galleria Emi Fontana, Mi1an(sched.). " MiCrocosmographla, Mark Dion's Wunderkammer", University of Tokyo Museum, Tokyo (sched.). American Fine Arts C0.,New York (sched.). HIstorisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main (sched.). 2002 Villa Merkel,Esslingen, Kunstverein Hannover (sched.). "Biologische Forschurngsstation Alster", Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg. National Museum of Art, Tokyo
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
"Urban Wildlife Observation Unit (a project with the public Art Fund", Madison Square Park,New York. "Ursus Maritimus", Goodwater Gallery, Toronto. "New England Digs", University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, New Bedford 2001 Galerie Georgkargl, Vienna. "New England Digs", Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA (traveling to New Bedford Whaling Museum,CT; and Be| Art Gallery, Brown Urliveristy, Providence, RI) "Cabinet of Curiosity for the Weisman Art Museum", Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. 2000 "Alexander von Humboldt and other Sculptures", Galerie Christian Nagel,Cologne "Nature Bureaucracies", American Fine Arts Co., New York. "The Museum of Poison", Bonakdar Janeou Gallery,New York. 1999 "Tate Thames Dig -Beachcombing on London's Foreshore', Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London. "Where The Land meets the Sea", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. "The Lady's Field Club of York", National Railway Museum. York UK (collaboration with J. Morgan Puett)(catalog). "LaVille, Le Jardin, La Memorie", Villa Medici, Rome (collaboration With Bob Braine). 1998 "Private Property", Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg. "Adventures in Comparative Neuroanatomy", Deutsches Museum, Bonn. "A Tale of Two Seas", Altonaer Museum Hamburg. Tate Gallery, Liverpool. "The Natural World", Vancouver Art Gallrey, Vancouver "Loot, Raiding Neptune's Vault", Galllerla Emi Fontana, Milan. 1997 "Trophies & Souvenirs", London Projects, London. Skandlnavischer Pavillon, Bier1nale di Venezia. "Mark Dion: The Museum of Natural History And Other Fictions", Ikon Gallery, Birrnigham, Kunstverein Hamburg, De Appel, Amsterdam. "Homage-Jean-Henrl Fabre", Galerie des Archives, Paris. "Cabinets of Curiosity for the Wexner Center for the Arts", Werner Center for the Arts Columbus, Ohio. 1996 "Two Trees", American Fine Arts Co., New York "A Tale Of Two Seas: … ", Galene Christian Nagel, Cologne 1995 "A Vital Matrix" Domestic Setting, Los Angeles. American Fine Arts Co, New York. "Dodo", Galene Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem. "Flotsam and Jetsam (The End of the Game)", De vleeshal, Middelburg. "Unseen Fribourg", Centre d'Art Contemporaln, Fribourg. "The Great Fribourg Bug Hunt", Centre d'Art Contemporain/Kunsthalle, Fribourg. "Imaging Borneo", Museum of Sarawak, Borneo 1994 "Concrete Jungle"(with Bob Braine.Alexis Rockman), Marc Janeou Gallery, London. "Angellica Point", Galleria Emi Fontana, Milano. "Aristoteles, Rachel Carson, Alfred Russel Wallace", Galene Metropol, Vienna. "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Toys'R' U.S.), Amencan Finea Arts Co, New York. 1993 "The Great Munich Bug Hunt", K-Raum Daxer,Munich. "The Great Hunter, the Marine Biologist, the Paleontologist and the Missionary", Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich. 1992 "True Stories Part ll" (with Renee Green), Institute of Contemporary Art. London. American Fine Arts, Co., New York. Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm. 1991 "Frankenstem - ln the Age of Biotechnology", Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne "Launching", Shark Editions, Sprting Street Lournge. New York. 1990 "Extinction, Dinosaurs and Disney". Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris.
SELECTED TEXTS BY MARK DION "Confessions of an Amateur Naturalist. A Discussion With Miwon Kwon, James Marcovitz and Helen Molesworth", in Documents, vol.1, no 1/2, Fall/Winter 1992,pp.36-46. Dion, Mark; and Rockman, Alexis; "Concrete Jungle"; in Heaven Sent lll, Feburary1992, PP.36-38. "Art..Not News". Catalogue for the project conceived by Mark Dion, published in the Hartford Courant, June 16-22, 1991,copyright Real Art Ways, 1991, catalogue essay by J. Decter. "Interviews and Projects", in: Journal of Contemporary Art, Vol.4, no.1, Spring/Summer 1991. "Frankenstein Abandons Creation", in Daily Planet - Science of the Planet, Cologne, April 1991. "Die Botschaft als Medium", project for Museum in Progress, published in: Cash-Flow, Vienna, January 1991. "Die Botschaft als Medium". project for Museum in Progress, published in: Der Standard, Vienna, January 1991. "Renovating Nature", in: Flash Art, November/December 1990, pp.132-133. "Polar Bears and Touscans". exibition catalogue, Le Magasin, Grenoble, 1989, pp.12-13. "Terra Ferma", Interview with Ash|ey Bickerton, The Silent Baroque, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, 1989. "Tales from the Dark Side", in: Real Life Magazine, no.14, 1988.
CATALOGUES/PUBLICAT10NS "Mark Dion: New England Digs", published by the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA. "American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities", hrsg. Von Floridas International University Art Museum, 200O, p.26. "The Museum of Poison" Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, in: Time Out, New York, April 20-27 2000. Coles, Alex/Dion, Mark (Hrsg.):"Mark Dion. Archaeology", Lodon 1999. "The Museum as Muse. Artists Reflect." The Museum of Modern Art. New York 18, September 1999 - 2. Januar 2000 Hrsg. v. Kynaston McShine. New York 1999. Corinn, Lisa Grazlose; Kwon, Miwon; Bryson, Norman: "Mark Dion", Phaidon Press, London 1997 Ikon Gallery (ed.): "Natural History And Other Fictions", Birmingham, 1997 (danach im Kunstverein Hamburg und in der De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam). "Berechenbarkeit der Welt", Bonner Kunstverein 1996. "Platzwechse|", Kunsthalle Zurich 1995. Weibel, Peter (ed.); "Kontext Kunst. The Art of the 9O's, Colgne, 1994. "Parallax View. Cologne - New York", P.S.1, Long Island, New York, 1994. Dion, Mark; " Die Wunderkammer", K-raum Daxer, Munich 1993. Dion, Mark; Rockman, Alexis; Braine, Bob; "Concrete Jungle", Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown; CT, 1993 (with B.Braine, A.Rockman). "Baerenlese-", Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, 1991. Molesworth, Helen; "The Art of Environment Activism", The (Un)Making of Nature, exhibition catalogue, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at the Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, 1990, pp.15-18. "Art Supplies and Utopia", exhibition catalogue, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart.1990 Folland, Tom; "Commitment" exhibition catalogue, "The Power Plant", Toronto, 1990, pp.17-19. McAllister, Jackie and well, Benjamin; "The Museum under Analysis", The Desire of the Museum, exhibition catalogue, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at the Federal Reserve Plaza, New York 1989, pp.10-13. Olander, William; "Fake: A Meditation of Authenticity", Fake, exhibltion catalogue. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1987, pp.18-20. Jones, Roland; "Cutting 'Em Off at the Pass", exhibition catalogue,33rd Arts Festival of Atlanta, 1986, p43.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Koegel, Alice: "Kunstprojekt hell-gruen", in-Stadtrevue, Mai 2002, S.117. Becker, Ilka: "Mark Dion. Alexander von Humbold and other sculptures", in: Kunstforum, Januar-Marz 2001, Bd. 153, 366-367. Roos, Renate: "Denkmal wilrd zum Epitaph. Mark Dio befragt die "Weltreligion: Wissenschaft", In: Cologneer Stadt-Anzeiger, Nr.292, Samstag/Sonntag,16./17. Dez. 2000 "The Museum of Poison", Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, in: Time Out, New York, April 20-27 20OO. Kley, Elisabeth: "Mark Dion", Art News Summer 200O, pp.206-207. Birnbaum, Daniel: Stream of Conscience: Mark Dion's Tate Thames Dig. ln: Artforum, November 1999,S.116-121. Herbert, Martin: Mark Dion. ln: Dazed and Confused, Oktober1999. Restoff, Jorg: Soweit die Fusse tragen "Skulptur-Bier1nale im Munsterland", in: Kunstzeitung, Nr.36, Augst 1999,S. 19. Wege, Astrid: "I would argue that the Trojan horse works..", Ein Faxinterview mit Mark Dion, in: Paradex 1 (November 1998),S.9-11. Oliver Ressler: Mark Dion Adventures in Comparative Neuroanatomy,in spriringerin, Hefte fur Gegenwartskunst, Bd.lV, Heft 3. September-November 1998, S. 61-62. Blornberg. Katja: "Die Farbe des Falle des letzten Quaggas", in: Frankfurter Aligerneine Zeitung, Dienstag, 23. Sept. 1997. N-N.: Mark Dion. Cabinet of Curiosities, in: Artforum, May 1997, Vol.XXXV, Nr.9,p.62. Williams, Gilda; Review Mark Dion (London Projects/Ikon Gallery, Birmingham), in: Art Monthly Nr. 204, 3/97, S. 22-23. Bracht, Christian: "Frankenstein in the Age of Biotechnology", in nbk, Nr.1 1997. Fricke, Christian: "Berechenbarkeit der Welt", Kunstforum International, Bd. 135 October 1996. Januar1997, S. 354-356. Franger1berg, Frank; "Mark Dion", Kunstforum 134, Mai - Sept 1996, S. 430-431. Ursprung, Philip: "Mark Dion: Unseen Fribourg", in: springer, Nov.1995,p.102. Simon, Jason: Jean Painleve and Mark Dion/Jean Painleve und Mark Dion, in: Parkett.No.44,1995, S.154-162, 163-171. Volkart, Yvonne: "Platzwechsel", in: springer, September 1995, p.83. Germer, Stefan: "Unter Geiern, Kontext-Kunst im Kontext", in: Texte zur Kunst, No.19, Aug. 1995, pp.83-95. Wagner, Thomas: Nur keine Trophaen an der Wand. Kunst als Dienstleistung: Der Sammler Wilhelm Schurmann und seine Munchner Ausstellung.", in: Fankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dienstag-11. Ju|i 1995. Rein, Ingrid: "Mehr als ein Lebensgefuh|. Das Ende der Avantgarde-Die Sammlung Schurmann in der Hypo-Kunsthalle Munich", in: Suddeutsche Zeitung, Freitag, 16. Juni 1995. Decter, Joshua; " Mark Dion. Galene Metropol";in: Artforum International, January 1995,p.96. Nesweda,Peter, " Die Macht der Motten", Neue Bildende kunst Nr.6,1994,S.82/83. Haase, Amine; "Hier und dort ein Kleines Museum";in: Cologneer Stadtanzeiger, November 1O, 1994, P37. Horny, Herlriette; "Ein Fuchs macht Urlaub oder die andere Naturgeschichte"; in: Kufief,Vienna, July 25, 1994. Krumpl, Doris; "Meister Reineke mit vielen Dioptrien", in Der Standard, Vienna, July 20, 1994. Karcher, Eva; "Die neunziger Jahre: Kunstler als ForsCher", in: art,7/1994, pp.50-61 Lambrecht, Luk; "Curator Yves Aupetitallot over hedendaagse kunstproduktie. Projecten in Firmmy en Antwerpen", in: Sint-lukasgalerij, March 1994. Hoffmann, Justin; "The Great Munich Bug Hunt. Ein Gesprach mit Mark Dion", in: Kunst-Bulletin, March 1994. pp10-17. Weh, Holger, "Kunstraum Munich, Zwischen Burgersinn upd Mazenatenturn. Drei Beispiele". in: Neue BiMende Kunst. Feburary/March 1994. Huebner, Jeff; "Chicago Students Green their Habitat", in:E, The Enviromental Magazine, vol.V, no.1, Febuary 1994. Denk, Andreas; " fireproof/feuerfest"; in: Kunstforum No.125, January/February,1994, pp.356-357. Vogel, Sabine; "Korridor der Stimmen", in: Artis, December 1993/January 1994. Scanlan, Joseph; "Sculpture Chicago's Culture in Action", in: Frieze. November/December 1993,S.22-27. Cameron, Dan; "Culture in Action, Eliminate the Middleman", in Flash Art, November/December 1993. Blomberg, Katja; " Das Gewohnliche ist das Geheimnisvolle", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 8, 1993. Decter, Joshua and Zahm, Olivier; " Back to Babel, Project Unite, Firminy", in: Artforum, November 1993. Krumpt, Doris; "Trigon - die Kunst zum Papier: Es ist ein weites Asthetisches Feld",in: Standard, October 4,1993. Fritsch, Sibylle; "Das Wasser vom Fisch", in: Profil, October 4, 1993.S.103 Lambrecht, luk; "Sonsbeek 93", in: Flash Art,October 1993. Bonami, Francesco; "Parallax View, P.S.1, Goethe Institute, New York",in-Flash Art,October 1993. K.S.; "Kontext friat Kunst, Trigon 93-kein Zufall", in: Presseschaufenster, September 3O, 1993. Vogel, Sabine; "Eigentlich Theater", in: TAZ, September 28, 1993. Blase, Chrlstoph; "Richtige Zutaten, schwacher Koch",in: Frankfurter A11gemeine, September 7, 1993.S 46-51. Graw, Isabelle; "La Culture, Zur Ausstellung "Project Unite", in Firminy", in: Artis, September 1993. Winzen, Mathias; "Sonsbeek 93", Kontext - ein Zauberwort versagt", in: Kunst-Bulletin, September 1993, S21-25. Jolles, Claudia, "Firmifly-Prolekt Unite", in: Kunst-Bulletin, July/Aug.1993, S.41-42. Decter, Joshua, in: Texte zurkunst, Nr10. Juni1993, S201-208. Coelwij, Leontine; "Wie mag er in de Ark?", in: Metropolis M, no.2,1993, S 30-35. Archer, Michael; "Renee Green, Mark Dion und der Einfluss von Marcel Broodthaers".in: Texte zur Kunst, March 1993. S.118-120. "Double takes at ICA", in: The American-Farnham, Surrey-, November 13,1992. "Animals, Anne de Villepoix, Paris", in: Flash Art, vol. XXV. no 166, October 1992. "Curious shows,though rather predictable", in: The American-Farnham, Surrey-, September 18, 1992. Bourdarh David; "Mark Dion at American Fine Arts", in: Art in America. July 1992. Imbach, Jost Martin; "Die Kunst treibt Wissenschaft mit der, Natur", in: LNN, July 2, 1992,S.11. Smolik, Noemi; "Cologne: "Concrete Jungle", Tanja Grunert", in: Artforum, Summer, 1992. Decter, Joshua; "Mark Dion - American Fine Arts",in Flash Art, Summer 1992. Riedo, Romano P.; "Kunst und Wissensehaft im Dialog.,in Berner Zeitung, June 23, 1992. The New Yorker,May 1992. Klomer, Diemut; "Inventur im RegenWald",in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeltung-April 1,1992. Ericsson, Lars; "Sanningen "r namnl"S",in: Dagens, March 6, 1992, S.7. Dion, Mark and Rockman, Alexis; "Concrete Jungle", in: Heaven Sent 3, Feburary 1992, pp.36-40. Graw, Isabelle, "Short Story. An Interview with Christian Nagel", in: Forum International, no.11, January 1992,S.71. S., J.L; "Mark Dion", in: LAPlZ, June 1991. Maier, Anne; "Premierentage in Colognes Galerien", in: Kunst-Bulletin, June 1991, S.12-13. Germer, Stefan; "lm Sichtfeld des Feindes", in: Texte zur Kunst, Sommer 1991, S.186-188. Vogel, Sabine B.; "Verotungen Installationen", in: Arts, June 1991, pp.40-45 Donla, Jan; "Nieuwe Ster Na koons",in: De krant op Zondag. May 5,1991,S.17. B.E., "Mark Dion bei Nagel", in: Cologneer Stadt-Anzeiger, No 97/26, April 26, 1991. Schumacher, Rainald and kempken, Heike; "Mark Dion bei Christian Nage|", in: Kritik Cologne, April 12,1991. Kroll, Petra; "Kunst und Dokumentation", in: Prinz, April 4. 1991,S.80. Avgikos, Jan; "Green Peace", in: Artforum, April 1991, pp.104-110. Diederichsen, Diedrich und Koether, Jutta; "Die Nagel trifft den Kopf", in: Spex, April 1991, p.46. Frisbee, Langley; "Message is the Medium",in: Style Weekly, vol.lX, no.13, March 26,1991. Proctor, Roy; "Counter-Media is ambitious undertaking", in: The Richmond News Leader, March 9,1991. Graw, Isabelle; "Jugend forscht", in: Texte zur kunst, N0.1. fall 1991, pp.163-174. Estilo, Februrary/March/April,1991. Bourraud, Nicolas; "The Signature Game", in: Flash Art, November/December1990.pp.126-129. Clothier, Peter; "For Love Not Money: L.A. Collects",in: Art News, December 1990, p.130. Decter, Joshua; "De-Coding the Museum", in: Flash Art, November/December 1990, pp.140-142. Graw, Isabelle; "Field Work", in: Flash Art, November/ December 1990, pp136-137. JA; "The (Un)Making of Nature", in: Artforum, November 1990, pp.165-166. Zimmer, Williams, "Conceptual Works Issue Dire Warnings", The New York Times, October 28,1990. Reproduction, Beaux Arts - Special USA, October 1990,p.3. Zahm, Olivier,review,in Flash Art,vol.XXIII, no 154,October 1990, p.164. Lewis, James; review,in: Artforum, September 1990, p.154 Matola, Sharon; "Belize Zoo: Construction/Conversation Update", in: On the Edge, Wildlife Preservation Trust International, Summer 1990, p.12. Decter, Joshua; New York in Review; in: Arts Magazine, Summer 1990, p.97. Praet, Michel van; "Renovating Nature", Interview with Mark Dion, in: Flash Art, no.155, November/December 1990, pp. 132-133. Weaver, Frank; "Review: Pathetique at Gallery Schmela", in; Flash Art, no.149, November/December 1989. Smith, Roberta, "The Whitney Interprets Museums, Dreams", in: The New York Times, July 23, 1989, p.31. Mahoney, Robert; "Galleries: Real America", in: The New York Press, March 1, 1989. Dargis, Manohla; "Counter Currents: F for Fake", in: The Village Voice, January 31, 1989. Cembalest, Robin; "Restoration Tragedies", in: Art News, May 1989. Lawson, Thomas; " Nostalgia as Resistance", in: Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop, The MIT Press, 1988. pp.170-171. Indiana, Gary; "Agitation", in: The Village Voice, July 28, 1987. Heartney, Eleanor; "Review-Toys Are Us",in: Afterimage, March 1987.P12. Decter, Joshua; New York in Review.in: Arts Magazine, Summer 1990.p.97. Praet, Michelvan; "Renovating Nature", Interview with Mark Dion, in: Flash Art, no.155, November/December 1990. pp.132-133. Weaver, Frank, "Review: Pathetique at Gallery Schmela", ln: Flash Art,no.149, November/December 1989. Smith, Roberta; "The Whitney Interprets Museums, Dreams", in: The New York Times, July 23, 1989, p.31 Mahoney, Robert, "Galleries: Real America", in: The New York Press, March 1, 1989. Dargis, Manohla " Counter Currents: F for Fake", in: The Village Voice, January 31, 1989. Cernbalest, Robin, "Restoration Tragedies", in: Art News, May 1989. Lawson, Thomas; "Nostalgia as Resistance", in: Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop, The MIT Press, 1988, pp.170-171. Indiana, Gary; "Agitation", in: The Village Voice, July 28. 1987. Heartney, Eleanor; "Review: Toys Are Us", in:Afterimage. March 1987. |