Mark Dion United States, b. 1961

Overview

Mark Dion (b. 1961) was born in New Bedford, a port city in Massachusetts, USA, and studied at the University of Hartford, School of Art, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. From 1984-1985, he participated in the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Dion has also participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, New York Drawing Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, London Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Gallery, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Münster Sculpture Project (1997), Kassel dOCUMENTA 13, Venice Biennale’s Norway Pavilion, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. Dion's works are in the permanent collection of leading art galleries and institutions around the world such as the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Harvard University Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Tate Gallery in London, the British Museum, the Manchester Museum, the Henry Moore Institute in England, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, and the Israel Museum.

Exhibitions
Works
  • Mark Dion, Ichthyology of Cardinal Virtues , 2021
    Mark Dion
    Ichthyology of Cardinal Virtues , 2021
    black and White ink on paper
    63 x 50 cm
  • Mark Dion, Scomberomorus Koreanus, 2021
    Mark Dion
    Scomberomorus Koreanus, 2021
    color pencil on tea-stained arches watercolor paper
    62.5 x 130 cm
  • Mark Dion, Marine Trophic Pyramid, 2020
    Mark Dion
    Marine Trophic Pyramid, 2020
    black and white ink on arches watercolor paper
    104 x 104.5 cm
  • Mark Dion, Blood Coral, 2019
    Mark Dion
    Blood Coral, 2019
    cast resin and assorted items on wooden crate
    207 x 67.3 x 43.2 cm
  • Mark Dion, Theatrum Mundi (Cosmological Cabinet), 2018
    Mark Dion
    Theatrum Mundi (Cosmological Cabinet), 2018
    wood cabinet, glass vitrines
    106.7 x 106.7 x 25.4 cm
  • Mark Dion, Brontosaurus, 2016
    Mark Dion
    Brontosaurus, 2016
    epoxy resin, tar, wood and various objects
    180.3 x 190.5 x 63.5 cm
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