Born 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lives and works in New York City. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS| 2008 | Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX (upcoming) |
| Dust, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Paper Bulls, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI | | 2007 | The Peacock Flesh, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY | | | Dust, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA | | 2006 | Cricket's Song, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | | 2005 | Fascia, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY |
| Inchmeal, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
| Prints and Drawings, Clay St. Press, Cincinnati, OH |
| New Works on Paper, Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland, OH | | 2004 | Dust, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL | | 2003 | Dust, Drawing installations and video projections, Cincinnati Art Musuem, Cincinnati, OH | | 2001 | Downburst, Multi-media installation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH | | 2000 | Six Degrees Of..., Mixed media sculpture, Artworks Sculpture Project, Federal Plaza, Cincinnati, OH | | 1998 | Fallen Stages: Drawings, pages and chapters from Account Me Puppet, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI |
| Recent Paintings, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH |
| Articles of Faith, Drawings and Performance Ephemera, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH | | 1996 | Images from Wurlitzer Voice, Teplitzky and Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH | | 1995 | Verses and Tongues, Puppets and Performance Ephemera, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH | | 1991 | New Paintings, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH | | 1989 | Recent Works, Patricia Herrmann Gallery, Covington, KY |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008
| Stable Scrawl, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York NY |
| Long Time No See, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH | | | I Won't Grow Up, Cheim and reid, New York, NY | | 2007 | Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA | | 2006 | Analog Animation: Selections Spring 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, NY | | 2005 | Portraits on Paper, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY | | | Underage, Clifford Chance E US LLP/Dinaburg Arts LLC, New York, NY |
| 4, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA |
| WOVEN, Gallery W52, New York, NY |
| Drawn Out, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL | | 2004 | Itsy Bitsy Spider, Feature Inc., New York, NY | | 2003 | Welcome, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH | | 2002 | Walk to Zet & Spiders from Zet", Drawing Installations and Video Projections, Jeleni Gallery, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague |
| Summer Vacation", Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati ,OH | | 2001 | Surface Active,The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH |
| Journal of Being, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA |
| Accumulations, Kent State University, Akron, OH |
| Working Space, Drawing and Film Installation, NeuRathaus Gallery, Munich, Germany |
| Unit 2, What?, UNIT 2, Cincinnati, OH | | 1998 | Stacked",The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH |
| Small Works, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH | | 1996 | sortasorid, Dileia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH |
| Evicted, High Street Gallery, Oxford, OH |
PERFORMANCE/SAW THEATERMark Fox is the Creative Director of Saw Theater. Co-founded in 1998 with Anthony Luensman, Saw Theater is a non-profit contemporary puppet theater which conceives and produces original multi-media performance often in collaboration with artists and writers. | 2001 | and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm..., Intermedia Festival,The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH | | 1999 | Account Me Puppet |
| Theater for the New City, New York, NY |
| Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA |
| The Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA |
| Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
| Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH |
| The Kiss, Webcast in collaboration in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and Pseudo Programs, New York, NY |
| The Temper Ris'n |
| The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA |
| Intermedia Festival, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH |
| Faust, Creation and performance of two large-scale puppets for Charles Gounod's Faust , directed by Nicholas Muni, The Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH | | 1998 | and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm..., The Festival of International Puppet Theater, P.S. 122, New York, NY |
| A Criminal's Story, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH | | 1997 | Stain |
| Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY |
| The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI |
| Kenyon College, Gambier, OH |
| Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH |
| The Ascension, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH | | 1996 | Wulitzer Voice, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH | | 1995 | Verses and Tongues, (Created and performed in conjunction with solo exhibit), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH | | 1994 | Ruins, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH |
| A Great Storm, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH | | 1993 | puppetstory, in situ, Cincinnati, OH |
| Zorro, Shadow puppetry sequences commissioned in conjunction with The Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati Production. |
FILM/VIDEO | 1999 | Toy, Super 8 Film; 20 minutes, Super Super 8 Film Festival , Toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan |
| Oyster Project, Super 8 Film created in conjunction with a live performance by the rock band Oyster, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH | | 1998 | Built, Film Loop Mechanism, Crash , Rike Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH |
| Carousel Traces, Film Loop Mechanism (in collaboration with Andrea Sparks, 840 Gallery, College of Design, Architecture and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH | | 1996 | Filmworks, Screening of selected short animated films, Kaldis, Cincinnati, OH |
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES | 2002 | Artist Residency, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic |
| The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant | | 2001 | Artist Residency, Working Space, Awarded by Kultureferat, Munich , Germany |
| Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship | | 2000 | The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant |
| Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award | | 1999 | Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA |
| Otto M. Budig Foundation Grant |
| The Fine Arts Fund of Cincinnati Fund |
| Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant |
| Cinergy Foundation Grant |
| Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship |
| Ohio Arts Council Operation Support Grant | | 1998 | Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award |
| The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant |
| Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant |
| Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship | | 1997 | Puffin Foundation Grant |
| Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant |
| Artist Residency, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI | | 1995 | Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award | | 1994 | Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant | | 1993 | Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship |
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY| 2008 | Kahn, Eve. "Extreeme Art," ART + AUCTION (September, 2008) | | | Schultze, Troy. "Rice Gallery Hosts Outrageous Window Installation Dust," HOUSTON PRESS (August 7, 2008) | | | Crawford, Lynn. "Mark Fox, Paper Bulls," The Brooklyn Rail (July, 2008) | | | Johnson, Ken. "Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection," The New York Times (July 4, 2008) | | 2007 | "Mark Fox," The New Yorker (November 12, 2007) |
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