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Mark Handforth

BORN 1969, Hong Kong
Lives and works in Miami


Forthcoming/Current Exhibitions

2007 'Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 23/03/07-23/09/07 (solo)


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
'No', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd (offsite), Glasgow
2005 Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Kunsthaus Zurich
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


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 'Disorder in the House', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
2006 'FIVE BILLION YEARS', Palais de Tokyo, Paris
'The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
'La Force de L'Art', Le Grand Palais, Paris
'Optik Schršder', Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
'Space Boomerang', Swiss Institute, New York
2005 'Light Art from Artificial Light', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
'Lotissement de Cimaises', Villa Arson, Nice, France
2004 'Never Never Landscape', Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, curated by Kirsty Bell
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Terminal 5, JFK Airport, New York, NY
'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
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
'Coollustre', Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France (curated by Eric Troncy)
'It Happened Tomorrow', Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
'Breathing the Water', Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
'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 space, Copenhagen
2001 'Humid', The Moore building, Miami, FL (curated by Dominic Molon)
'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
'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