Mark Handforth

MARK HANDFORTH

1969 Born Hong Kong
Lives and works in Miami, FL

Education

1988-92 The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, UK
1990-91 Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Stadelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2011
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami curated by Bonnie Clearwater (forthcoming)
Hessel Museum of Art and CCS galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2010
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2009
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (with Urs Fischer and Georg Herold)

2008
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

2007
Platz, Galerie Eva Presenhuber/Tessinerplatz, Zurich
Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2006
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
The Modern Institute, offsite, Glasgow, Scotland

2005
Stroom, The Haghe, Netherlands
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France (cat.)
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Kunsthaus, Zurich (cat.)

2004
Roma Roma Roma, Rome
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2003
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Lamppost, a Public Art Fund commission, New York, NY

2002
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (brochure)
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2000
free bird, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY

1998
Gavin Brown's enterprise (with Dara Friedman), New York, NY

1997
Miami Arts Project, four bus shelters for Metro-Dade Art in Public Places,
Miami, FL

1996
she is stupid I am worried (with Dara Friedman), Frederic Snitzer Gallery,
Miami, FL
not from where I'm standing, Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Miami, FL

1994
cheap, Jason Rubell Gallery (with Adam Kuczynski), Miami Beach, FL

1991
Galerie Krieg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


Group Exhibitions

2010
At Home/Not at Home, Hessel Museum of Art, New York

2009
Tonite, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2008
Pivot Points: Defining MOCA’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
The Freak Show, Musee de la Monnaie, Paris, France
The Complexity of the Simple, L & M Arts, New York

2007
Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux, Ile de Vassivière, France
From Site to Site: Light Art in Parks, Villas, and Museums, Internationale Lichttage Winterthur, Switzerland
The Freak Show, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon

2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (cat.)
5 Milliards d’Annees, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
La Force de l’Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris
Optik Schröder, Sammlung Alexander Schröder, Kunstberein Braunschweig
Boomrang, Swiss Institute, New York

2005
Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
Lotissement de Cimaises, Villa Arson, Nice, France (cat.)

2004
Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, curated by Kirsty Bell
Terminal 5, JFK Airport, New York, NY (cat.)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
It’s all an Illusion, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Keep Your Head to the Sky, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Genesis Sculpture, Domaine de Pommery, Reims, France (cat.)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat.)

2003
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France, curated by Eric Troncy (cat.)
It Happened Tomorrow, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France (cat.)
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
20th Anniversary- Welcome home, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY

2002
My head is on fire but my heart is full of love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)

2001
Humid., The Moore building, Miami, FL, curated by Dominic Molon (cat.)
Lokalzeit, Johanniterbrucke, Basel, Switzerland

2000
Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, MoCA, Miami, FL
Deja-Vu, Art Miami, Miami, FL, curated by Amanda Cruz

1999
Heads-up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Leftover Festivities , Nature Morte, Delhi, India, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple

1998
new art: south florida, MoCA, Miami, FL (cat.)
Oriental Nights performance at Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY

1997
Bobois, Galerie Krinzinger, Art Miami, Miami, FL

1996
Joint Venture, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

1993
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

1991
Zwischen Durer und Holbein, Stadel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Selected collections

Dallas Museum of Art
Le Consortium
FRAC Centre
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Francois Pinault Collection
Rachofsky Collection
Rubell Family Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art