Commissions


2022

The Antagonist: Multimedia installation for Science Gallery Atlanta HOOKED exhibition: Atlanta, Georgia

2018

Look on me and be renewed: In collaboration with Dr John Marsden, Professor of Addiction Psychology at King’s College London and Changing 7: London, United Kingdom

2017

Peace Room: Flags of Peace commission for traveling public art exhibition: Netherlands

2014

Wayfinding: Site-specific public installation, International Artist Initiated Cultural Programme, David Dale Gallery: Glasgow, Scotland

Victoria: Site-specific public installation, Fresh Stops, Adopt-a-stop/Fresh Milk: Barbados


Artist Residencies


2021, 2019, 2018 Yaddo: Saratoga Springs, New York

2013 Caribbean Linked ll - Ateliers ‘89: Oranjestad, Aruba & Fresh Milk: St. George, Barbados

2012 Alice Yard: Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

2011 Frans Masereel Centrum: Kasterlee, Belgium


Solo & Two Person Exhibitions


2023

Mark King & Rodell Warner, Evidence of Possibility, TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas Sept. 20 - Nov. 4

Group Exhibitions

 
2023

Atlantic Worlds, International African-Amercian Museum: Charleston, South Carolina 

2022

In Two Places, The Brighton Storeroom: St. George, Barbados

In Two Places, Satellite Project Space: London, Ontario 

HOOKED, Science Gallery Atlanta: Atlanta, Georgia

2020

Exhibition for Chickens: Kent, United Kingdom

2019

beginning, The Brighton Storeroom: St. George, Barbados

Systems of Injustice, Bronx Art Space: Bronx, New York

Across Boundaries, CARIFESTA XIV, National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

Social Geometry: Expanded Drawing Practices by Barbadian Artists, Queen’s Park Gallery: Bridgetown, Barbados 

2018


HOOKED, Science Gallery London: London, United Kingdom

Koorkappen en designs FASHIONCLASH, Bonnefanten Museum: Maastricht, Netherlands

Showroom Limburg, Cube Design Museum: Kerkrade, Netherlands

Flags of Peace, Spring House: Amsterdam, Netherlands

2017

Universal Belonging, Prizm Art Fair: Miami, Florida

My Collection, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA):
Brooklyn, New York

Flags of Peace, Chassé Promenade Breda: Breda, Netherlands

2015

Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery: Glasgow, Scotland

2014

ARC + NLS, (E)merge Art Fair: Washington, D.C.

International Artist Initiated Cultural Programme, David Dale Gallery: Glasgow, Scotland

FRAMES Centre for Contemporary Arts, Merchant Square: Glasgow, Scotland

After the Flood, Liquid Courage Gallery: New Providence, The Bahamas

2013

Caribbean Linked ll, Ateliers ‘89: Oranjestad, Aruba

2012

A Negation of Preconceptions, Fresh Milk: St. George, Barbados

2011

The Cheaper Show No. 10, Rise Kingsway: Vancouver, Canada

15,000 Words, Cutty Contemporary Art Gallery: Vancouver, Canada

2010

Please Excuse the Mess, The Bay Salone: Los Angeles, California

There and Back, Bridgetown Gallery: Bridgetown, Barbados

The Cheaper Show No. 9, W2 Storyeum: Vancouver, Canada


Honors


2019 Yaddo Elizabeth Ames Residency
 
2011 Lucie Foundation E-pprentice


Collections


The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): New York, NY

International African American Museum (IAAM): Charleston, South Carolina

Frans Masereel Centrum: Kasterlee, Belgium

Ateliers ‘89: Oranjestad, Aruba

Fresh Milk: St. George, Barbados


Bibliography


Katherine Kennedy, A-Z of Caribbean Art p. 149, Robert & Christopher Publishers, 2019

Rebecca Bell, In Parallel: Reflections on Community, Middlesex University, January 2019

James Cooper, SEEEN #2 p. 11 - 12, July, 2017

Sofia Maldonado, The Huffington Post, A Jump in the Sea, September 9, 2013

Naoto Miyazaki, Montem Magazine issue 02, Mark King p. 4-10, September, 2013

Tanisia Morris, Arc Magazine, Barbadian Photographer Turns ‘Plastic’ Into Gold, July 27, 2013

Dan Abbe, American Photo Magazine, Mark King, How You Living? February 25, 2013

Natalie McGuire, Caribbean Beat Magazine, Changing the game: seven rising talents in Barbados’s contemporary art, issue 118, November/December 2012


Publications


Mark King, Plastic, Mossless Publishing, New York, NY, July 2013

  • LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles, California. January - February 2014
  • New York Art Book Fair, MoMA Ps1, Queens, New York.  September 2013
  • Launch & Book Signing, The Newsstand, Brooklyn, New York. July 2013
  • I Never Read Book Fair, Basel, Switzerland. June 2013

Mark King, THERE AND BACK, self-published, Barbados, 2010

  • Pop up shop, Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. March 24, 2018

Mark King, Photographs from Mark King, self-published, Barbados, 2009

  • Pop up shop, Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. March 24, 2018


Workshops & Panels


2023
Evidence as Possibility, TERN gallery, Nassau, Bahamas: Virtual Artist Talk 

2022
Visualising Caribbean Identities—Conversation 1: Crossing and exchanging. Artists in conversation: Mark King and Olivia McGilchrist, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (March 9)

2020
What Is Self Worth? FREELANCE LIVING and CAREER LOVING, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom: Zoom Panel Discussion  

2019
Black Creativity & Technology with a Vibe Called Tech, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom:
Enclothed Cognition workshop with collaborator, Bregje Cox (October 24 - 27)

Systems of Injustice, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, New York: Panel Discussion

2018
Hooked in the city, Science Gallery London, London, United Kingdom: In conversation with Dr. John Marsden and HOOKED curator Hannah Redler Hawes. 

2014
Making work away from home, Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas: In conversation with Amanda Coulson, Blue Curry, and Heino Schmid. 


Education


The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
M.F.A. Photography


Howard University, Washington, D.C.
B.A. Advertising









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