Biography - Mark Wilson

 

Further details are available at:

 

www.mgwilson.com or e-mail: mark@mgwilson.com

 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

1972,1974,1976 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City

1973,1980      University of Delaware

1975           Trumbull College, Yale University

1990           The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut

1991           Galerie Atelier E, Zürich, Switzerland

1993           Galerie Shirley, Genève, Switzerland

2001           Beyond Care, Branford, Connecticut

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

1973           "New York 1973," Washington University, St. Louis

1974           "Painting and Sculpture 1974," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Indianapolis Museum of Art

1975, 1977     "New Work, New York",Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo

1978           "Connecticut Painting and Sculpture," University of Bridgeport, Connecticut

1983,1985-1986 ACM Siggraph Art Show 

1984           "Rutgers National 83/84 Works on Paper," Purchase Award

1984, 1985     "The Artist and the Computer," Louisville Art Gallery

1985           "Five with Byte," Pittsburgh Plan for Art

1985, 1987     "Emerging Expression," Bronx Museum of Art

1986           "Smart Art," Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland

               "The Computer as an Art Tool," Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich,Connecticut.

1987           "ArtWare", Hannover, Düsseldorf, Germany

               "Prints & Plots", Golden Plotter Award, Cologne, Germany

               "Computers and Art", Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York

1988           IBM Gallery, New York City (Hatchplot Installation)

               "Forum", Hamburg, Germany

               Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention, Linz, Austria

1988-1990,1992 ACM Siggraph Art Show

1989           "Electronic Print", Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

               "Algorithmic Image",The Print Club, Philadelphia

1990           TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany

1991           "Graphicon 91", Moscow, USSR

               "El Art", Punkaharju, Finland

1992           "Computer Kunst '92", Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany

               Ars Electronica, Distinction, Linz, Austria

               International CGA Exhibtion, Tokyo

1993           "Digital Arts", Saatchi & Saatchi, New York

               "The Art Factor", Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery

               "Digital Salon", New York Art Directors Club

1994           "Computer Kunst ' 94", Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany

               "Elastic Visions," Pennsylvania State University

1995           "Investing in Dreams," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1996,1998      "Computer Kunst", Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany

1998           "Tick Tick Tick", Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

2000           "Prizewinners of the Golden Plotter", Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany

2002,2004      "Computer Kunst", Museum der Stadt, Gladbeck, Germany

 

 

Selected Collections

 

               Apple Computer, Cupertino, California

               Chemical Bank, New York City

               Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, New York City

               Continental Can Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut

               Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Germany

               IBM Corporation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

               Philip Johnson, New Canaan, Connecticut

               Ivan Karp, New York City

               The Kemper Group, Long Grove, Illinois

               Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sâo Paulo, Brazil

               Mobil Oil, New York City

               Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

               Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, New Jersey

               UniSys Corporation, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

               United Technologies, Hartford, Connecticut

               Virginia Museum, Richmond

               Wang Laboratories, Lowell, Massachusetts

               Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh

               Ziff-Davis Publishing, New York City

 

 

Grants

 

1973,1978,1987 Commission on the Arts, State of Connecticut

1982           Visual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

 

 

Books

 

               Wilson, Mark.  Drawing with Computers.  New York: Putnam, 1985

 

 

Articles

 

               "A Portfolio."  Perspectives in Computing.  Vol. 5, No.2, (Summer, 1985), p. 39-40.

               "Artist's Easel is His Computer Screen."  Los Angeles Times, (December 15, 1983), Part I-B, p. 10.

               Brand, Frederick and Massie, Rebecca. The Lewis Collection.  Richmond: The Virginia Museum, 1978.

               "Computer Art for Art's Sake."  PC Magazine, (April, 1983), p. 73-85.

               "Computer as Palette."  The Christian Science Monitor,  (August 7, 1985), p. 23.

               "Computer Technology Replaces the Brush of the Artist."  The New York Times, (October 13, 1985).

               Galloway, David.  Artware.  Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag, 1987.

               Goodman, Cynthia.  Digital Visions.  New York: Harry Abrams, 1987.

               Lovejoy, Margot.  Postmodern Currents.  Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989.