Mark Innerst lives and works in Philadelphia and Cape May. After graduating from Kutztown State College in Pennsylvania in 1980, he moved to New York City, where he interned at The Kitchen and Artists Space and began to pursue his career. Since then, he has exhibited widely and has had one-person shows at several museums, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Albright Knox Museum, and Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others.