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
2024
TERN Gallery at Foundations, Winter 2024: Artsy
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 of 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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