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Mark Harris: Morning Star

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EDUCATION
1998–2005 Goldsmiths College, University of London: PhD in Philosophy
1995–97 University of Warwick, Coventry: MA in Continental Philosophy
1982–83 Brera Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
1979–82 Royal College of Art, London, England: MA in Painting
1973–78 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland: Diploma and Postdiploma in Painting

  • Morning Star, Country Club, Cincinnati
  • University of Cincinnati Music Conservatory–paintings accompany performance of Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel
  • Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
  • Wexner Center, Columbus, State Fare
  • 2kolegas, Beijing, “Utopian–Bands”
  • 1000000mph, London, with Peter Lloyd Lewis
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, New York
  • Economist Building, London
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City
  • Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus
  • TennisportArts, New York
  • Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York
  • Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
  • Juda Rowan Gallery, London
  • Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan

 

  • Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum, Cincinnati, Huxy: Modes of Masculinity
  • CS13, Cincinnati, The Text Show
  • E:ventGallery, London, Starmaker
  • Columbus Metropolitan Library, Joy Divisions
  • ArtWorks, Cincinnati, Paperchasers
  • Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, American Idyll
  • Publico, Fade To Black, film and video screenings
  • UNALINEACONTINUA, Studio Grossetti, Milan
  • Izilo South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town, and Durban Art Gallery, South Africa, the sneeze 80 x 80
  • Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Text, Image, Form
  • New Museum of Contemporary Art, Louisville, Skirting the Line
  • Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 2007 DePauw Biennial
  • Publico, Cincinnati, Special Arrangements
  • Keith Talent Gallery, London, Year_06
  • Locker 50B, Richmond, ReDetatch
  • University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, Bad Drawing: malevolent, misbehaving, misunderstood
  • Publico, Cincinnati, Ever and Over
  • PLP Gallery, New York, Artists Throwing Money Out the Window (A.T.M.O.T.W.)
  • 2005 Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, OMap
  • Group show, Studio Grossetti, Milan
  • Gallery Gazon Rouge, Athens, the sneeze 80 x 80
  • Collaborative Creative Concepts, Beacon, NY, Compound Interest
  • Icon Gallery and Mattress Factory, Birmingham, Science Fiction – Double Feature,
  • 1 000 000mph, London, 15/1(2)
  • Tablet Gallery, London, Hair the Show
  • LIFTARCHIVE von SZUPER GALLERY, Kreisverwaltungsreferat, Munich
  • Croydon town centre video projections, Tabula Rasa, curated by Skyline Projections
  • Artspace, Peterborough, Canada; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Critical Video Lounge
  • Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  • Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Strike
  • Artspace, Peterborough, Canada, Group exhibition
  • Five Years, London, The Difference Between You & Us
  • Rosamund Felsun Gallery, Los Angeles; at Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, Song Poems
  • Cohan, Leslie & Browne, New York, Song Poems
  • York City Art Gallery, Critical Video Lounge
  • Five Years, London, Deadwall Reverie
  • Beaver College, Philadelphia Snapshot
  • Tate Modern, Century City, Big Blue
  • Bridport Museum, Other People’s Gardens
  • Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Snapshot
  • Sharjah Museum, UAR, Inroads
  • Hayward Gallery touring exhibitions, Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary
  • Arts Centre; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Camden Arts Centre, London; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
  • Kunsthalle, Vienna, Get Together–Art as Teamwork
  • 18 Museum House, London, relocation
  • Five Years, London, The Blood Show
  • Aizu Wakamatsu City, Japan, Dream Centenary
  • Bregenz Kunstverein, Kunst in der Stadt, Naturally Art
  • 30 Paris Street, London, The Manchurian Candidate
  • Workspace, New York, Imaginative Liberties
  • BAC, London, Dumbfounded
  • Sali Gia Gallery, London, Klega’s flat
  • Cardiff Art and Time, About Time
  • MOTA gallery, London, Stretching the Intimate
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, Educating Barbie
  • 20th Century Women’s Club, Los Angeles, I’m Still in Love with You
  • Tramway, Glasgow, Host
  • Centro Cultural Salar, La Paz, Bolivia, Estirando lo Intimo
  • Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York, Quirk
  • Richard Salmon, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Craft
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, Variations of Structure
  • Gallery Korea, New York, recurrence
  • Richard Salmon, London, Bad August
  • Tricia Collins Grand Salon, New York; Gallery Idea, Mexico City; Centro Jacopo Borges, Buenos Aires, Cereijido’s Summer Video Festival
  • Coins Cafe, London, Cafe Adler/Cafe Fix, Berlin, The Big Blue
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan, Group Show
  • Shillam+Smith 3, London, Irredeemable Skeletons
  • Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970
  • Gasworks, London, FHOH
  • Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, Cause and Defect
  • 450 Broadway Gallery, Lines and Dots
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan, Continua
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, Current Geometries in Abstraction
  • Penine Hart Gallery, New York, The Great Pretender
  • Bennington College, Vermont, Painting in an Expanding Field
  • Knotts Mill, Manchester Ha!
  • Mark Harris 2
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan, Painting and Sculpture
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, Abstraction, discipline, freedom
  • Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, Installations
  • The Drawing Center, New York, The Return of the Exquisite Corpse
  • Four Walls at Artists’ Space, New York, The Radio Show
  • Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York, Representing Death
  • TennisportArts, New York, Three installations
  • Jack Tilton, New York, Water Bar/Vox Vendor
  • Art Fair, Los Angeles, Studio Carlo Grossetti
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan, Today
  • Palazzo del Permanente, Milan, Quadriennale
  • Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York
  • A.I.R. Gallery, New York, At home for the holidays
  • Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
  • Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford, England, British Open
  • Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan, Contemporanea
  • Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
  • Bruna Soletti Gallery, Milan, British and German painters
  • Riverside Studios, London, Five Painters
  • Awards, Scholarships and Residencies
  • Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Art Writers Grant
  • Critic in Residence at the Bau Foundation, Otranto, Italy
  • Ohio Arts Council Artist Excellence Award
  • University Research Council Faculty Award, University of Cincinnati
  • Faculty Development Grant, University of Cincinnati
  • British Arts Council Fellowship, Long March Space, Beijing
  • Visiting Artist, Sculpture, Painting and Printmaking Depts., Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Visiting Artist, Ohio State University, Columbus
  • Arts Council England Fellowship, exhibitions abroad, Educating Barbie, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York
  • Art Omi, New York
  • British Council Grant, exhibitions abroad, one-person show, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City
  • Visiting Artist, Ohio State University, Columbus
  • Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
  • Fulbright Award
  • Sainsbury Award, Bradford Print Biennale
  • Mexican Government Award
  • British Council Grant, exhibitions abroad, Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
  • Italian Government Award

 

  • Eva Ball, Joy Divisions, catalogue, 2009
  • Melissa Starker, alive!, May 28, 2009, Joy Divisions
  • Sue Spaid, artUS, Summer 2008, review of Utopian–Bands, Weston Art Gallery exhibition
  • State Fare, Wexner Center, Sean Foley, 2007
  • The Sneeze, ARTicle Press, 2006
  • Drug Dealer, artist pages, Miser & Now magazine, Issue 8, London, 2006
  • Jon Cambell, Midnite in China, Contemporary, November, 2005
  • Jon Cambell, Singing the Praises of Chairman Mao, Toronto Globe and Mail, November 1, 2005
  • Jon Cambell, Stanzas of a Struggle, South China Morning Post, July 19, 2005
  • Miser & Now, London, issue 2, 2004 spread on Streets of London project
  • Sally O’Reilly, review of group show 15/12 at 1000000mph, London, Art Monthly, September 2003
  • Critical Home Video, (publication) Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2003
  • Strike, (publication) Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2002
  • Joe Hill, review of one-person show at Trans Hudson Gallery, Art in America, November 2001
  • Stephen Hull, (publication) Song Poems, group show at Cohan, Leslie & Browne, New York, June 2001
  • Oliver Karlin, review of one-person show at Trans Hudson Gallery, NY Arts, April, 2001
  • Kim Levin, review of one-person show at Trans Hudson Gallery, Village Voice, New York, Feb 28-March 6, 2001
  • Richard Cork, review of Dream Machines, The Times, October 4, 2000
  • Dream Machines, (publication) Hayward Galley, London, 2000
  • Get Together–Art as Teamwork, (publication) Kunsthalle, Vienna, 1999
  • The Blood Show, (publication) Five Years, London, 1999
  • Jonathan Jones, review of The Blood Show, The Guardian, August 6, 1999
  • Michael Wilson, review of The Blood Show, Art Monthly, September 1999
  • Polly Staple, review of The Blood Show, Time Out, August 18-25, 1999
  • Wendy Shillam and Contemporary Arts Society, (publication) Economist Building, London, 1999
  • Maria Walsh, review of Economist show, Art Monthly, September 1999
  • Martin Coomer, review of Economist show, Time Out, August 26-September 1, 1999
  • Jonathan Jones, Economist show, Thursday Guide, The Guardian, September 2, 1999
  • Dream Centenary, (publication) Aizu Wakamatsu City, Japan, 1999
  • Naturally Art, (publication) Kunst in der Stadt, Bregenz, 1999
  • Alison Green, (publication) Dumbfounded, BAC, London, 1999
  • Stephen Hull, (publication) I’m Still in Love with You, 20th Century Women’s Club, Los Angeles, 1999
  • Ken Johnson, review of Educating Barbie, The New York Times, September 11, 1998
  • Carol Kino, review of Educating Barbie, Time Out, New York, September 17-24, 1998
  • Elisabeth Mahoney, review of Host, Contemporary Visual Arts, London, issue 1998
  • Emmanuel Cooper, review of Craft, Crafts UK, London January/February, 1998
  • Joan Key, Simon Watney, Janis Jefferies and Roy Voss, catalogue for Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, 1997
  • Tania Guha, review of Bad August, Time Out, London, August 20-27, 1997
  • Lilly Wei, After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, (publication), The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, April 1997
  • Gilda Williams, review of curated show Irredeemable Skeletons, Art Monthly, May 1997
  • Vivien Raynor, review of curated show Material Abuse, The New York Times, March 1995
  • Paola Morsiani, review, Juliet, Trieste, May/June 1991
  • Michael Brenson, review, The New York Times, February 1, 1991
  • Gabriele Perretta, review, Juliet, Trieste, October/November 1988
  • Gian Piero Vincenzo, review, Flash Art, Italian Edition, October/November 1988
  • Alan Artner, review, Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1988
  • Andrew Brighton, Art Expo’s class act, New Art Examiner, Summer 1988
  • Alistair Hicks, review, The Spectator, London, October 4, 1986
  • Phoebe Tait, review, Flash Art, Italian Edition, November 1985
  • Phoebe Tait, review, Financial Times, International Edition, August 12,1985
  • Alan Artner, review, Chicago Tribune, April 25, 1985
  • Elio Grazioli, Young Artists in Milan, Flash Art, Italian Edition, January 1985
  • Caroline Collier, Five Painters, Flash Art International, May 1984
  • Flavio Belocchio, review, Flash Art, Italian Edition, March/April 1984
  • Mel Gooding, Five Painters, Arts Review, March 1984
  • Waldemar Januszcak, Five Painters, The Guardian, March 1984
  • Elio Grazioli, review, Flash Art, Italian Edition, spring 1984

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