Mark Fox
The Peacock Flesh
October 13 - November 10, 2007






Born 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lives and works in New York City.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 DEVIN BORDEN HIRAM BUTLER GALLERY, Houston, TX (upcoming)

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 COMTEMPORARY 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 MUSEUM, 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 GALLERIES, 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 READ, 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 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", Drawing, West (fence #3) , FEATURE INC., New York, NY
2003 "Welcome", Drawing Installation, Bluff Drawing, The Links (fence #1) , 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", Drawing Installation, The Links (Fence #1) , LINDA SCHWARTZ GALLERY, Cincinnati ,OH
2001 "Surface Active", Paintings, THE ARONOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Cincinnati, OH

"Journal of Being", Drawing Installation, Untitled (Cut Stains), SONOMA MUSEUM OF VISUAL ART, Santa Rosa, CA

"Accumulations", Drawings, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, Akron, OH

"Working Space", Drawing and Film Installation, NEU RATHAUS GALLERY, Munich, Germany

"Unit 2", What?, UNIT 2, Cincinnati, OH
1998 "Stacked", Film Loop Mechanism, Carousel Traces, THE ARONOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Cincinnati, OH

"Small Works", Drawing Installation, Dustball, LINDA SCHWARTZ GALLERY, Cincinnati, OH
1996 "sortasorid", Drawing and Performance Ephemera, DILEIA CONTEMPORARY, Cincinnati, OH

"Evicted", Performance Ephemera, HIGH STREET GALLERY, Oxford, OH

PERFORMANCE/SAW THEATER

Mark 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 ART, 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 THE ARTS, Detroit, MI

KENYON COLLEGE, Gambier, OH

SAW THEATER PERFORMANCE SPACE, Cincinnati, OH

"The Ascension", THE CONTEMPORARY DANCE CENTER, 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

2008Kahn, 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.
Larissa Goldston Gallery