MARK DION

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

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INTRODUCTION

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C.V.

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LINKS

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WORKS

Selection

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

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C.V.

1961	born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
1981, 1982, 1986	University of Hartford School of Art, BFA, Connecticut, USA
1982-1984	School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1984-1985	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Independent Study Program, New York, USA
2003	University of Hartford School of Art, Doctor of Arts, PhD
	lives in Beach Lake, PA, USA and works worldwide

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2007	Systema Metropolis, Natural History Museum, London, UK
	The Natural History of the Museum, Carré d’Art, Nimes; travels to Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2007; and to Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
	Salon Jacqueline Sommer, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
2006	The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Miami Art Museum, USA
2005	Seattle Vivarium, part of I AM SAM Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum - Dundee Bear Broch, Camperdown Wildlife Center in cooperation with Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
	Dungeon of the Sleeping Bear, the Phantom Forest, the Birds of Guam and other Fables of Ecological Mischief, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
	Salon de Chasse, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Château de Chambord, Chambord, France
	The Brazilian Expedition of Thomas Ender – Reconsidered, Akademie Der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna, Austria
	Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, Manchester Museum, UK
2004	Projects 82, Rescue Archaeology, A Project for The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
	Office for the Center for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, Manchester Museum, UK
	Universal Collection, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003	The Ichthyosaurus, the Magpie, and Other Marvels of the Natural World, Musée Gassendi and la Reserve Geologique de Haute Provence, Digne, France, June 2003 and Centro Sperimentale Art Contemporanea, Caraglio, Italy, November 2003
	Full House, 9th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
2002	Mark Dion: Encyclomania, Villa Merkel, Esslingen to Kunstverein Hannover and Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
	Microcosmographia, University of Tokyo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	Vivarium, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
	New England Digs, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
	Cabinet of Curiosity for the Weisman Art Museum, Weisman Art
	Museum, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2000	The Museum of Poison, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
	Nature Bureaucracies, American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA
1999	Two Banks (Tate Thames Dig), Tate Gallery, London, UK
	Adventures in Comparative Neuroanatomy, Deutsches Museum Bonn, Germany
	The Ladies Field Club of York, National Railway Museum, York, UK (with Morgan Puett)
1997	Trophies & Souvenirs, London Projects, London, UK
	Mark Dion: The Museum of Natural History and Other Fictions, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunstverein, Hamburg
1996	A Tale of Two Seas: An Account of Stephan Dillemuth’s and Mark Dion’s Journey Along the Shores of the North Sea and Baltic Sea and What They Found There, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2008	Folkestone Sculpture Triennial, Folkestone, UK
2007	Surrealism and Beyond in the Israel Museum, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
	die stadt von morgen, Beiträge zu einer Archäologie des Hansaviertels, Berlin, Germany
	Genesis: Life at the End of the Information Age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2006	Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA
	Ecotopia: The 2nd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
	Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
	Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Tucson Museum of Art, USA
2005	Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
	Gordon Matta-Clark: Odd Lots, Queens Museum of Art, NY, USA
	Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Tuscon Museum of Art, USA
2004	São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
	Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, travelling to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, McDonough Museum of Art, and Youngstown State University
2003	Hommage Jean-Henri Fabre, Musee Histoire Naturele, Paris, France
	Artist’s Lecture as Performance, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2002	Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, Museutopia, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum der Stadt Hagen, Germany
	Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s , (2001-2004), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA
	Fresh Kills, Snug Harbor Center for Contemporary Art, NY, USA
2000	Museum as Subject, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
	American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA
	Crossing the Line, The Queens Museum of Art, NY, USA
	Ecologies,The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art Small World- Dioramas in Contemporary Art, MCA , San Diego, USA
	The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
	Carnegie International, 99/00, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA