- MARK WILSON
- q82002
2013 digital print on canvas
40 x 40 inches
Edition of 5, #2/5- $2000.
- Inquire
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
2016 A Million Lines, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall, CT
2012 Duckworth Museum, Meriden, NH
2012 Galerie (DAM) Cologne, Koln, Germany
2011 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Beyond Care, Branford, CT
1993 Galerie Shirley, Geneva, Switzerland
1991 Galerie Atelier E, Zürich, Switzerland
1990 The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
1980,’’73 University of Delaware, DE
1976,’74,’72 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City, NY
1975 Trumbull College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Aesthetica, [DAM], Berlin, Germany
2015 Art + Computer/Time, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2015 Power Geometry, Thoma Foundation, Chicago, IL
2014 New Work by Gallery Artists, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 Digital (R)evolution, Shattuck Gallery Westport, MA
2013 Summer Splash 2, (DAM), Berlin, Germany
2013 Ornamental Structures,Stadt Gallery, Herne, Germany
2013 SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
2013 American Algorists, Arnold Gallery, Annville, PA
2012 Transformations: Digital Prints from the V & A Collection, Great Western Hospital, London, England
2012 Code Matrix, DAM, Berlin, Germany
2012 Exploded Views, John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
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
ARM Holdings, Austin, Texas
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
Anne and Michael Spalter, Providence, Rhode Island
The Thoma Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
UniSys Corporation, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
United Technologies, Hartford, Connecticut
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
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)
Farthing, S. ed. Art:From Cave Painting to Street Art. New York: Universe, 2010.
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.
Taylor, Grant. When the Machine Made Art. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
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
BOOKS
Wilson, Mark. Drawing with Computers. New York: Putnam, 1985
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
TEACHING
University of California, Santa Barbara; Yale University; Carnegie Mellon University;
School of Visual Arts, NY