MARK WILSON
BORN 1943, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Currently lives in West Cornwall, Connecticut
EDUCATION
1967 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1965 BA, Pomona College, Claremont, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Beyond Care, Branford, Connecticut
1993 Galerie Shirley, Geneva, Switzerland
1991 Galerie Atelier E, Zürich, Switzerland
1990 The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
1980,’’73 University of Delaware
1976,’74,’72 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City
1975 Trumbull College, Yale University
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 "Drawing with Code," deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2011 "Ornamental Structures," Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2010 "Matters of Pattern," The Connecticut Commission on Culture Gallery, Hartford, CT
2010 "Think Line," DAM, Cologne, Germany
2009 "New Prints 2009/Winter," International Print Center New York, NY
2009 "Best of Digital Art," DAM, Berlin, Germany
2009 "line+concept," MediaRuimte, Brussels
2009 "ControlPrint," Parsons/The New School for Design, New York, NY
2009 "Digital Pioneers," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
2008 "Imaging by Numbers," Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2007 "Algorists," DAM, Berlin, Germany
2007 "Control Print," Royal College of Art, SEA Gallery, London
2005 "International Digital Art Awards"
2005 "Control Print," Royal College of Art, SEA Gallery, London
2000 "Prizewinners of the Golden Plotter," Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany
1998 "Tick Tick Tick," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1995 "Investing in Dreams," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1993 "Digital Arts," Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
1993 "The Art Factor," Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, MN
1993 "Digital Salon," New York Art Directors Club
1993 "Elastic Visions," Pennsylvania State University, PA
1992–2010 (biannual) "Computer Kunst," Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany
1992 Ars Electronica, Distinction, Linz, Austria
1992 International CGA Exhibition, Tokyo
1991 "Graphicon 91," Moscow, USSR
1991 "El Art," Punkaharju, Finland
1990 TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany
1989 "Electronic Print," Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
1989 "Algorithmic Image," The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1988-1990,’92 ACM Siggraph Art Show
1988 IBM Gallery, New York City (Hatchplot Installation)
1988 "Forum," Hamburg, Germany
1988 Ars E Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention, Linz, Austria
1987 "ArtWare," Hannover, Düsseldorf, Germany
1987 "Prints & Plots," Golden Plotter Award, Cologne, Germany
1987 "Computers and Art," Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
2000-1986 "Smart Art," Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1986 "The Computer as an Art Tool," Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1985,‘87 "Emerging Expression," Bronx Museum of Art
1985 1 1985 "Five with Byte," Pittsburgh Plan for Art
1984,’85 "The Artist and the Computer," Louisville Art Gallery
1984 "Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper," Purchase Award
1983,’85-‘86 ACM Siggraph Art Show
1978 "Connecticut Painting and Sculpture," University of Bridgeport, CT
1975, ‘77 "New Work, New York," Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
1974 "Painting and Sculpture 1974," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Indianapolis
Museum of Art
1973 "New York 1973," Washington University, St. Louis
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Apple Computer, Cupertino, California
Block Museum, Evanston, Illinois
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City
Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, New York City
Continental Can Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut
Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Germany
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
IBM Corporation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Philip Johnson, New Canaan, Connecticut
Ivan Karp, New York City
The Kemper Group, Long Grove, Illinois
Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sâo Paulo, Brazil
Mobil Oil, New York City
Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, New Jersey
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, New Jersey
UniSys Corporation, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
United Technologies, Hartford, Connecticut
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum, Richmond
Wang Laboratories, Lowell, Massachusetts
Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh
Ziff-Davis Publishing, New York City
ARTICLES
"An Interview with Artist Mark Wilson," Geoform, (March 2009)
"A Portfolio." Perspectives in Computing. Vol. 5, No.2, (Summer, 1985), p. 39-40
"Artist's Easel is His Computer Screen." Los Angeles Times, (December 15, 1983), Part I-B, p. 10
Beddard, Honor and Dodds, Douglas. Digital Pioneers. London: V&A Publishing, 2009.
Brand, Frederick and Massie, Rebecca. The Lewis Collection. Richmond: The Virginia Museum, 1978
"Computer Art for Art's Sake." PC Magazine, (April, 1983), p. 73-85
"Computer as Palette." The Christian Science Monitor, (August 7, 1985), p. 23
"Computer Technology Replaces the Brush of the Artist." The New York Times, (October 13, 1985)
Galloway, David. Artware. Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag, 1987
Goodman, Cynthia. Digital Visions. New York: Harry Abrams, 1987
Klanten, R. ed. Data Flow 2. Berlin: Gestalten, 2010.
Lieser, Wolf. Digital Art. Konigswinter: H.F. Ullmann, 2009.
Liesar, Wolf. The World of Digital Art. Konigswinter: H.F. Ullmann, 2010.
Lovejoy, Margot. Postmodern Currents. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989
Reas, Casey and McWilliams, Chandler. Form+Code. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
Royal College of Art. Control Print. London: Royal College of Art, 2007.
Walker, James Faure. Painting the Digital River. New York: Prentice Hall, 2006
Wands, Bruce. Art of the Digital Age. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006
Wood, Deborah. Imaging by Numbers. Evanston: Block Museum of Art, 2008
GRANTS
1973, 1978 Materials Grants, Commission on the Arts, State of Connecticut
1987, 2008 Artist Fellowships, Commission on the Arts, State of Connecticut
1982 Visual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
BOOKS
R. Klanten, Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design, Gestalten: Berlin, 2010
Lieser, Wolf. Digital Art, Ullman Publishing, Berlin, 2008, pp. 68-69
Wilson, Mark. Drawing with Computers. New York: Putnam, 1985