Mark Handforth
Born 1969, Hong Kong; Lives in Miami.
Education
1992 | The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London |
1991 | Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Stadelschule, Frankfurt |
Solo Exhibitions
2023 | ‘The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
‘Half-Sleep-City’, Luhring Augustine, New York | |
‘Franklin Street Four’, NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks, New York | |
2022 | ‘A Scarlet Forest’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
‘White-Light-Whirlwind’, San Carlo, Cremona | |
2019 | ‘Trash Can Candels’, Modern Art, London |
2018 | The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
‘Zig, Zag & Flag’, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles | |
2017 | ‘After Nature’, Franco Noero, Turin |
‘Analog Spring’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Rome | |
‘99 Cents or Less’, MoCAD, Detroit | |
2016 | ‘Smoke’, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova |
‘Snow White and Pink Panther’, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | |
2015 | ‘The Excentric Circle’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
2014 | ‘Drop Shadow’, Studio des Acacias, Paris |
‘Rough Dark Diamond’, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles | |
‘Sidewalk Island’, Governor's Island, New York | |
‘Black Star’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
2013 | ‘Capricorno’, Franco Noero, Turin |
‘Blackbird’, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (Offsite: Maag Areal, Maagplatz, 8005 Zurich) | |
‘TWO OLD BANANAS’, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | |
2011 | ‘Rolling Stop’, MOCA, Miami (curated by Bonnie Clearwater) |
‘MCA Chicago Plaza Project: Mark Handforth’, MCA, Chicago | |
Hessel Museum of Art, New York (Offsite) | |
2010 | The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, 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 | Fondation Vasarely, Aix |
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris | |
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
Stroom Den Haag, The Hague | |
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich | |
2004 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
2003 | ‘Lamppost’, a Public Art Fund commission, New York |
Le Consortium, Dijon | |
2002 | Galleria Franco Noero, Turin |
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles | |
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 | ‘she is stupid I am worried’, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami (with Dara Friedman) |
‘not from where I'm standing’, Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art | |
1994 | ‘cheap’, Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach |
1991 | Galerie Krieg, Frankfurt am Main |
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York |
Group Exhibitions
2023 | ‘beneath the color there was the shape’, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown |
‘Beyond the Darkness’, Ala Scaligera at the Rocca di Angera, Varese | |
2022 | ‘Sculptures by’, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York |
2020 | ‘Group Show’, Modern Art, London |
2019 | ‘From Where Comes Your Voice’, The Art of the Treasure Hunt, Chianti (Curated by Maria Bojan) |
‘La Lumière des Mondes’, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac | |
2018 | ‘viewing depot exh#01’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels |
2017 | ‘Tommorrow Will Still Be Ours’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York |
‘Bearable Lightness of Being’, GRIMM, Amsterdam | |
2016 | ‘Mir ist das Leben lieber: Sammlung Reydan Weiss. Ausstellung zum 25-jährigen Bestehen der Weserburg’, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême | |
2015 | ‘Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
‘La Joie de Vivre’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France | |
‘Love Story - Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo | |
‘Two Old Bananas’, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Chichester | |
Domaine du Muy, Le Muy | |
2014 | ‘Art Basel Parcours’, Art Basel, Basel |
‘Man in the Mirror’, The Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, until 30/10/2017 | |
2013 | ‘Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection’, Moca, Los Angeles |
‘Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting’, MOCA, Miami (MOCA's 15th anniversary ) | |
‘Horseshoes’, Cluny Abbey, Cluny | |
‘Retour du monde, Publicly commissioned art on a Paris tram route’, mamco, Geneva | |
Marseille-Provence 2013, Aix en Provence | |
‘L'Art à l'endroit: Un parcours d’art contemporain à Aix-en-Provence’, Aix-en-Provence, France | |
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) |
‘The Complexity of the Simple’, L & M Arts, New York | |
‘The Freak Show’, Musee de la Monnaie, Paris, France | |
‘Pivot Points: Defining MOCA's Collection’, MOCA, Miami | |
2007 | ‘Disorder in the House’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels |
‘Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux’, Centre international d'art et du paysage de L'île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière | |
2006 | ‘The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC |
‘La Force de L'Art’, Le Grand Palais, Paris | |
‘FIVE BILLION YEARS’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | |
‘Space Boomerang’, Swiss Institute, New York | |
‘Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder’, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig | |
2005 | ‘Lotissement de Cimaises’, Villa Arson, Nice |
‘Light Art from Artificial Light’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe | |
2004 | ‘Never Never Landscape’, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin |
‘Genesis Sculpture’, Domaine Pommery, Reims | |
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris | |
‘It's all an illusion’, Migros Museum, Zurich | |
Regen Projects, Los Angeles | |
Terminal 5, JFK Airport | |
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art | |
‘Keep Your Head to the Sky’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
2003 | ‘Coollustre’, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon |
‘20th Anniversary - Welcome Home’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown's enterprise | |
‘It Happened Tomorrow’, Lyon Biennale, Lyon | |
‘Breathing the Water’, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich | |
2002 | ‘My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love’, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen |
Roma Roma Roma, Rome | |
2001 | ‘Lokalzeit’, Johanniterbrucke, Basel |
‘Humid’, The Moore building, Miami | |
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 | ‘At Home/Not at Home’, Hessel Museum of Art, New York |
‘Zwischen Durer und Holbein’, Stadel, Frankfurt am Main |
Commissions
2012 | ‘Etoile de Bagnolet’, Place de la Porte de Bagnolet, Paris |
Bibliography
Press
2022 | Divya Menon: ‘Novel arrangements in urban environments by Mark Handforth’, Stir World, 29/06/2022 |
2018 | Tauer, Kristen: ‘Jackie Soffer Continues to Bring MuseumLevel Art to Aventura Mall in Miami’, wwd, 04/12/2018 |
2012 | Green, Tyler: ‘The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Mark Handforth’, Artinfo, 03/02/2012 |
‘I, Too, Enjoy Bending Steel’, Mousse, Issue 32 02/2012 | |
Basciano, Oliver: ‘Off-Space Travels’, Art Review, 01/2012 | |
2011 | Ellegood, Anne: ‘Previews’, Artforum, 09/2011 |
2010 | Moira Jeffrey: ‘Art Review: Sara Barker’, Scotsman, 29/06/2010 |
2009 | ‘Frieze Art Fair Yearbook’, Frieze, 2009 |
2008 | Sheets, Hilarie: Critic‘s Picks, ArtNews, 31/10/2008 |
Feinstein, Roni: Handforth‘s Fallen Angels, Art in America, 30/04/2008 | |
2007 | Gayer, John: ‘The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas; Review’, Art Papers, 03/2007 |
Kuo, Michelle: ‘The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture’, Artforum, 02/2007 | |
2006 | Palmerton, Elwyn: ‘Space Boomerang’, Frieze, 99 05/2006 |
McDermott, Leon: ‘Mark Handforth’, Metro, 27/04/2006 | |
2005 | Ribas, João: ‘Review’, Time Out, 12/05/2005 |
Lunn, Felicity: ‘Mark Handforth’, Artforum, 05/2005 | |
Schmidt, Jason: ‘Work in Progress’, V magazine, 04/2005 | |
Lauf, Cornelia: ‘Mark Handforth’, Art in America, 01/2005 | |
Bonnet, Frèdèric, Mirjam Varadinis: ‘Mark Handforth’, Les Presses du Reel, 2005 | |
2004 | Moreno, Gean: ‘Art Basel 2004’, Loft, 12/2004 |
Ribas, João: ‘The Other Side of Paradise’, Art Review, 12/2004 | |
McLaren, Duncan: ‘Mark Handforth’, Art Review, 10/2004 | |
Trainor, James: ‘Road to Ruin’, Frieze, 85 09/2004 | |
Kennedy, Alexander: ‘Mark Handforth’, The List, 05/08/2004 | |
Mottram, Jack: ‘Making His Mark’, Sunday Herald, 08/2004 | |
McDermott, Leon: ‘Mark Handforth’, Metro, 22/07/2004 | |
Heartney, Eleanor: ‘The Well-Tempered Biennial’, Art in America, 06/2004 | |
Kimmelman, Michael: The Whitney‘s Heavy Lifters Look Back, The New York Times, 30/05/2004 | |
Diez, Renato: ‘Alla Biennale del Whitney’, Arte, 05/2004 | |
Weyland, Jocko: ‘American Splendor’, Time Out NY, 04/03/2004 | |
‘American Art in the Spotlight, Whitney Biennial 2004’, The New York Times, 2004 | |
Bousteau, Fabrice, (ed.): ‘Genesis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1’, BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE, special issue published on the occasion of the exhibition Genesi 2004 | |
Walker, Andrew Lee, Rachel K. Ward: ‘Terminal 5’, Lukas & Sternberg, 2004 | |
2003 | Bonnet, Frèdèric: ‘Troubles quotidiens’, Mouvement, Number 25 12/2003 |
‘Lamp Unto Thy Feet’, The New York Times, 30/03/2003 | |
Troncy, Eric: ‘Decryptage’, Numero, 03/2003 | |
Bonnet, Frèdèric: ‘A Changing World, in 10 Floridians’, Miami Art Central, 2003 | |
Troncy, Eric: ‘A Future One Would Like to Be Able to Defer’, Parkett, Number 79 2003 | |
2002 | Casadio, Maruccia: ‘Archeologic’, Vogue Italia, Number 626 10/2002 |
Smith, Roberta: ‘Mark Handforth’, The New York Times, 22/03/2002 | |
2001 | Moreno, Gean: ‘Cityscape Miami’, Flash Art, 11/2001 |
1999 | Moreno, Gean: ‘Studio View, Mark Handforth, Miami, Florida’, New Art Examiner, 10/1999 |
Wallach, Amei: In Miami, a Hot Spot of Art, the Temperature‘s Rising, The New York Times, 16/09/1999 | |
Feinstein, Roni: ‘Report from Miami’, Art in America, 05/1999 | |
1998 | Turner, Elisa: ‘Art Fellows, canvas of choice’, The Miami Herald, 27/06/1998 |
Dellinger, Jade: ‘Flash Art Cityscape, (interview)’, Flash Art, Volume XXXI, Number 199 03/1998 | |
Brackman, Yvette: ‘Dara Friedman + Mark Handforth’, Time Out NY, 12/02/1998 | |
Johnson, Ken: ‘Dara Friedman and Mark Handforth’, The New York Times, 06/02/1998 | |
1996 | Cantor, Judy: ‘Techno Trashing’, The New York Times, 18/07/1996 |
Turner, Elisa: ‘Latest MOCA installation speaks of art without an angle’, The Miami Herald, 06/1996 | |
Clearwater, Bonnie: not from where I‘m standing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, 05/1996 | |
Kimmelman, Michael: ‘Ambitious Miami Reaches for a Place in the Sun’, The New York Times, 31/03/1996 | |
1994 | Zarko, Cyn: ‘Basic Instinct’, Ocean Drive, 06/1994 |
Kohen, Helen: ‘Revenge of the Artists’, The Miami Herald, 15/04/1994 | |
1993 | Kohen, Helen: ‘A Glimpse at a Chosen Few’, The Miami Herald, 23/07/1993 |
Exhibition Reviews
2018 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art reviews: Pearl Blauvelt & Aleana Egan | Mark Handforth | Steven Berkoff’, Scotsman, 31/07/2018 |
2015 | ‘Mark Handforth ‘The Excentric Circle’’, Mousse Blog, 18/05/2015 |
2014 | ‘Mark Handforth Reimagines Familiar Objects in Playful, Dancing Sculptures’, Artsy, 02/10/2014 |
SCHWENDENER, MARTHA : ‘Ordinary Objects, Reimagined’, New York Times, 07/08/2014 | |
Thomson, Allese: ‘Mark Handforth’, Artforum Online, 17/05/2014 | |
2013 | ‘Diary: Mark Handforth’, Mousse, 38 04/2013 |
2012 | ‘Exhibitions’, Contemporary Art Daily, 02/02/2012 |
Morgan, Elinor: ‘Painting Show’, this is tomorrow, 19/01/2012 | |
2011 | Gygax, Raphael: ‘Sculpture Now’, Flash Art, 10/2011 |
Publications
2016 | Smoke, Silvana editoriale, Milano |
2014 | Drop Shadow, Mazarine |
2012 | Mark Handforth, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) |
1998 | cream: contemporary art in culture, Phaidon Press, London/ New York |
Exhibition Publications
2007 | Optik Schröder, Mönchengladbach & DuMont Verlag, Cologne |
2005 | Mark Handforth, JRP|Ringier, Zurich |
2004 | Geneis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1, Beaux Arts SAS, Paris (special issue published on the occasion of the exhibition Geneis Sculpture, Domaine Pommery, Reims) |
Whitney Biennial 2004, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
2002 | My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen |
1996 | Joint Venture, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna |