Mark Blaisdell was born in 1968 in Sacramento, California. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University in 1994. After moving to New York in 1999, Mark worked as an Art Director while studying photography part-time at The School of Visual Arts and The International Center for Photography. In 2005, Blaisdell received a Fellowship to study at The San Francisco Art Institute, where he is currently an MFA candidate. He presently resides in Melbourne, Australia and San Francisco.