The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Mark Handforth

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Born 1969, Hong Kong; Lives in Miami

Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions

2011

'Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop', Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (Solo, 30/11/2011—19/02/2012)

'Painting Show', Eastside Projects, Birmingham (Group, 26/11/2011—25/02/2012. curated by Sophie von Hellerman & Gavin Wade)

Hessel Museum of Art, New York (Solo, 25/06/2011—01/07/2012. Offsite)

'Sympathy for the Devil', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels (Group, 30/04/2011—30/11/2013. Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011

'Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop', Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

'MCA Chicago Plaza Project;', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Hessel Museum of Art, New York (Offsite)

2010

The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

2009

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

2008

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

2007

'Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

'Platz', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (outdoor sculpture project)

2006

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

'No', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd (offsite), Glasgow

2005

Stroom Den Haag, The Hague

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

Fondation Vasarely, Aix

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

2004

The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

Roma Roma Roma, Rome

2003

Le Consortium, Dijon

'Lamppost', a Public Art Fund commission, New York

2002

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

2000

'free bird', Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

1998

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

1997

Miami Arts Project, four bus shelters for Metro

1996

'not from where I’m standing', Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art

'she is stupid I am worried', Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami (with Dara Friedman)

1994

'cheap', Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach

1991

Galerie Krieg, Frankfurt am Main

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

'Painting Show', Eastside Projects, Birmingham (curated by Sophie von Hellerman & Gavin Wade)

'Sculpture Now', Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

'Sympathy for the Devil', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels (Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair)

2009

'TONITE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

2008

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (Urs Fischer, Mark Handforth and Georg Herold)

'Pivot Points: Defining MOCA’s Collection', Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami

'The Complexity of the Simple', L & M Arts, New York

'The Freak Show', Musee de la Monnaie, Paris, France

2007

'Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux', Centre international d’art et du paysage de L’île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière

'Disorder in the House', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels

2006

'FIVE BILLION YEARS', Palais de Tokyo, Paris

'La Force de L’Art', Le Grand Palais, Paris

'Optik Schröder', Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig

'Space Boomerang', Swiss Institute, New York

'The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

2005

'Light Art from Artificial Light', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe

'Lotissement de Cimaises', Villa Arson, Nice

2004

Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Terminal 5, JFK Airport

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art

'Genesis Sculpture', Domaine Pommery, Reims

'It’s all an illusion', Migros Museum, Zurich

'Keep Your Head to the Sky', Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

'Never Never Landscape', Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin

2003

Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise

'20th Anniversary - Welcome Home', Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

'Breathing the Water', Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich

'Coollustre', Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon

'It Happened Tomorrow', Lyon Biennale, Lyon

2002

'My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love', Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen

2001

'Humid', The Moore building, Miami

'Lokalzeit', Johanniterbrucke, Basel

2000

'Deja-Vu', Art Miami, Miami

'Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality', MOCA, Miami

1999

'Heads-up', Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami

'Leftover Festivities', Nature Morte, Delhi

1998

'new art: south florida', MOCA, Miami

'Oriental Nights', performance at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

1997

'Bobois', Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

1996

'Joint Venture', Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

1993

Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach

1991

'Zwischen Durer und Holbein', Stadel, Frankfurt am Main

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