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Mark Innerst

Biography

MARK INNERST

Born:

1957 York, Pennsylvania

Education:

1980 B.F.A., Kutztown State College, Pennsylvania

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2000 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1999 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1996 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Faggionato Fine Arts, London
1994 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1992 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1991 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica
1990 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1989 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Folker Skulima Gallery, Berlin, West Germany
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1988 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
"Mark Innerst: Landscape and Beyond," Illinois State University, Normal,
Illinois; Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)
1987 Galerie Montenay, Paris
1986 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1985 Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1984 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
1982 The Kitchen, New York






SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999 Art At Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Museum of
Fine Arts, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas


?Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition
Since 1950,? The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (traveling)
?Water,? Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; traveling to
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Leigh Yawkey Woodson
Art Museum Wausau, Wisconsin; Art Museum of South Texas,
Corpus Christie, Texas
1998 ?Convivial,? Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, New York
?Earth Water Air: Eight Contemporary Painters,? DC Moore Gallery, New
York, New York
?Over the Mantle, Over the Couch,? Tricia Collins Contemporary Arts,
New York, New York
?Landscapes,? Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington
1997 ?Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban,? Center for Curatorial Studies,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
?Aerial Perspectives,? DC Moore Gallery, New York; traveled to Miami
Dade Community College, Miami Florida, Florida
"Gallery Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York
1996 "John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art: A Collaboration,"
Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
"Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties," Samuel
P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
"Realism After 7 A.M.: Realist Painting After Edward Hopper," curated
by Richard Milazzo, The Hopper House, Nyack, New York
"Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millenium," curated by
George C. King, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
(catalogue)
"Works on Paper," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York
1995 "XXV Years," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York
"Americana," The Grand Salon, New York, New York
"American Art Today: Night Paintings," The Art
Museum, Florida University, Miami, Florida
1994 "A Distant View," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
"The Long View - Works from the Collection,"
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Changing Views," Feigen Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois
"Painting," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1993 "Medium Messages," Wooster Gardens, New York, New York
"Four Centuries of Drawing, 1593-1993," Kohn
Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Landscapes," The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
"Timely and Timeless," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (with David Deutsch)
"Mark Innerst, Richard Pettibone," Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1992 "Magical, Mystical Landscapes," Renee Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton,
New York
"Contemporary Icons From the Sublime To The Fetishistic," Bertha and
Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
"Group Show," Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown
University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania (catalogue)
"Quotations: The Second History of Art," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalogue)
"The Map is Not the Territory," Rosenwald-Wolf
Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania
1991 "Refiguring Nature," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
"Strange Vistas, Imagined Histories," The Portland Art Museum, Oregon
?Group Exhibition,? Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York
1990 "The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's," curated by Collins
and Milazzo Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York
"Harmony and Discord: American Landscape Painting Today," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
"Regarding Art: Artworks About Art," John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1989 "The Unconventional Landscape," John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
"Nature Morte," Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
"Selections from the Collection of the Mark and Livia Strauss," The
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"The Observatory," Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, California
curated by Douglas Blau
"Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
New York
"Landscape Re-Viewed: Contemporary Reflections on a Traditional Theme," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"A Different Slant of Light," Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, curated by
Naomi Vine
"300 Years of Still Life," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Landscape," Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Romance and Irony," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National
Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington; Aukland City Art Gallery, New
Zealand; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida (1990)
"Les Etats Generaux," Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1988 "Das Licht Von Der Anderen Seite," Monika Spruth Gallery, Cologne,
West Germany
"Mark Innerst, Kevin Larmon, Michael Zwach," Michael Kohn Gallery,
Los Angeles, California; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York
"Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation,"
Marlborough Gallery (catalogue by Sam Hunter)
1987 "Still Life: Beyond Tradition," Visual Arts Museum, New York, New
York curated by Lisa Dennison
"Invitational," New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,
Connecticut
"The New Romantic Landscape," Whitney Museum of American Art,
Stamford, Connecticut
"Fictions," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York; Kent Fine Art, New York,
curated by Douglas Blau
"Between Abstraction and Reality, " Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
1986 "42nd International Art Exposition," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Au Coeur du Maelstom," Societe des Expositions du Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
"The Barry Lowen Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"The American Landscape," Eliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
"Landscapes in the Age of Anxiety," Lehman College of the City University of New York, Bronx
"Still Life/Life Still," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
"The Manor in the Landscape," Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
"Spiritual American," CEPA, Buffalo
1985 "Watercolor," Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
"Inaugural Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
"Kitchen Benefit," Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
"Scapes," University Art Museum, University of California, Santa
Barbara; University of Hawaii, Honolulu
"New Horizons in American Art," Guggenheim Museum, New York,
Exxon National Exhibition
"Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nueva York," Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
"New York's Finest," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
"Actual Size," Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
"American Paintings 1978-1985, Selections from the Aaron and Phyllis
Katz Collection," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
"Real Surreal," Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
1984 "Contemporary Perspectives," Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
"Currents," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," Museum of
Modern Art, New York
"Narrative Painting, Selected Recent Acquisitions from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art," Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida
"New Landscape Paintings," Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
"New Narrative Painting," Tamayo Museum, Mexico City
"Newscapes, Land and City/States of Mind," One Penn Plaza, New York
"The Innovative Landscape," Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
"Drawings After Photography," Independent Curator, Inc.
"An Exhibition of New Painting and Sculpture from the Lower East Side,"
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
"Natural Genre," Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
"Civilization and Landscape of Discontent," Nature Morte, New York
"Little Paintings," Jeffrey Hoffeld Gallery, New York
"Paintings and Sculpture Today 1984," Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indiana
1983 "Selections," Artist's Space, New York
"Otherviews," Semaphore Gallery, New York
"Invitational Exhibition," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
"Benefit Show," The Kitchen, New York
1982 "Reallife Magazine," White Columns, New York
"New Drawing in America," The Drawing Center, New York; The Sutton
Place Museum, London; Galeria d'Arte Moderno, Pisano, Italy
1981 "Downtown/Uptown," The City Gallery, New York
"Selections 15," The Drawing Center, New York
"Fictive Victims," Hallwalls, Buffalo


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Brooklyn Museum
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, The Barry Lowen Collection, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Artist Works

Downtown

1996

oil on acrylic on board, artist-made frame

49 x 27 inches
   


Promised Land State Park

1994

acrylic on linen, hand-carved frame

24 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches
   



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