Mark Joshua Epstein

Born 1979, Washington DC, USA
2002-04 Master of Fine Art with distinction, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1998-2002 BFA with a concentration in painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
2000-01 Architectural Design Program, (On Exchange), Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lives in Ann Arbor, USA

 

Works


Selected One And Two Person Exhibitions

2024
‘Burgers for Breakfast’, Turley Gallery, Hudson, USA

2023

‘Raising the Ceiling by Lowering the Floor’, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, USA

2021
‘A Change in Mood and Weather’, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, USA

2020

‘Small Talk at the Salad Bar’ (with Johnathan Payne), SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, USA

2019
‘Two-fold’, STNDRD, Granite City, Illinois, USA

2018
‘O to be marked reciprocally’, Handwerker Gallery, New York, USA
‘Part + Parcel’ (with Todd Kelly), NARS Foundation Project Space, Brooklyn, USA

2017
‘Exciting things for exciting people’, Caustic Coastal, Salford
Just below the bang bang’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
Hold Tight’ (with Stina Puotinen), Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2016
‘Excavators’ (with Will Hutnick), DEMO Project, Springfield, Illinois, USA
‘House Proud’, Biquini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico

2015
‘Stupid Meetings’ (with Mark Dzula), Breve, México City, México

2014

‘A Risky Investment for Boys on the Move’, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, USA
Solo exhibition, Féral Space, México City, México

2013
‘I Can’t Remember Where I Live’, Center for The Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, USA

2012
All of me is asking, all of me is thinking…’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking…’, The Port of Tyne Gallery, Customs House, South Shields

2008
‘Mark Epstein & John Walter’, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

2007
‘The Modern Way With Color Contains Clashes as well as Harmonies’, The Hex, London

2005
‘Local Knowledge’, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, USA
‘Surface Tension’, Toni Heath Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
‘Summer Escape’, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, USA
‘Who’s to Say I am Awake; Are You?’, Geary, Millerton, New York, USA
‘Made in Paint’, Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, New York, USA

2022

‘Trade of the Season’, Marquee Projects, Bellport, USA

2021
‘Rose Tint’, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, New York, USA
‘Something Else To It’, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, USA
‘Re:Growth’, public art exhibition, Riverside Park, New York, USA
‘Rush of Spring’ (online), @yngspc, USA
‘Stretched’, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, USA

2020
‘Northern Lights’, Collar Works, New York, USA

2019

‘New Order: Grids and Friends’, The Yard, Brooklyn, USA
‘Summer Solstice’, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, USA
‘Queer Abstraction’, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA, touring to Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
‘Time Share’, MONACO, St Louis, USA
‘Inquiry: Investigation through Abstraction’, Meyers Gallery, Cincinnati, USA

2018
‘Hold(ing) Tight’, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State University, State College, USA
‘Small Paintings(Ish)’, BS Projects, Houston, Texas, USA
‘demo DEMO’ (with Will Hutnick), DEMO Project, Springfield, Illinois, USA
‘Key Change’, Agency, Brooklyn, USA

2017
‘Linear Anagram’ at SATELLITE Art Show 2017, Miami, USA
‘This Kitten Got Your Tongue Tied’, Beverly’s, New York, USA
‘Everything You’ve Ever Wanted’, Agency, Brooklyn, USA
Vicennial’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2016

‘The Flat Files: Year Four’, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, Brooklyn, USA
‘No Regrets’, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, USA
‘Deal With It’, The Woskob Family Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA
‘Small Victories’, School 33, Baltimore, USA
‘Vox XII: News and Weather’, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
‘PPP: Painters Painting on Paper’, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, USA
‘REBUS’ at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, USA
‘OPEN (C)ALL: Up For Debate’, BRIC, Brooklyn, USA

2015
‘Art in America’, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Artist-Run, The Satellite Show, Miami, USA
‘Impossible Geometries’, online exhibition, Field Projects, New York, USA
‘Overripe’, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, USA
Ten’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Double Double Visions Visions’, Bushwick Open Studios, The Active Space, Brooklyn, USA
‘Microscopes and Binoculars’, Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St Louis, USA
‘Salon Zürcher’, Zürcher Gallery, New York, USA

2014

‘Grab Bag’, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, USA
‘Layers’, C2C Project Space, San Francisco, USA
‘Waiting Room’, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, USA

2013
‘Where History and Progress Meet’, West Chicago City Museum, West Chicago, USA
‘MAD-LIB[rary] Vol. 4’, New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, USA
‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York, USA
‘Push on the Surface’, Raritan Valley Community College Art Gallery, Branchburg, NJ, USA

2012
‘Dystopian Delight’, Mike Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA

2010
‘Space Series #1’, TrueSilver Union, San Francisco, USA
‘The New Intimists’, NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc., Brooklyn, USA
‘The BRUCENNIAL 2010: Miseducation’, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, (350 Broadway), New York, USA

2009
‘Curly Q’, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, USA
Uncommon ground’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2008
‘Hexospective’, Limoncello, London
‘Tacit Object’, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ, USA

2007
‘Eye Tricks’, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA (catalogue)
‘Drawing the Line’, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, USA (catalogue)
‘Spazi Aperti’, Romanian Academy, Rome, Italy (catalogue)

2006
Summer Show, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, USA
‘Victory Hall Annual’, Victory Hall, Jersey City, USA
Toni Heath Gallery booth, London Art Fair, London

2005
‘New Art ’05’, Kingston Gallery, Boston, USA
‘The Risky Business of Import/Export’, The Tank, New York, USA

2004
‘The Relaxed Audience or Why We Are So Wise’, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
‘Reoccupy’, Candid Arts Trust, London
Jeffrey Charles Gallery booth, Zoo Art Fair, London
‘Delayed Gratification’, Space-Twotentwo, London

2003
‘Category B’, Empire Gallery, London

2001
‘Fresh Voices’, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2000
‘Cool, Compelling, Collected’, Aidekman Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

Awards and Residencies

2023
Visual Arts Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, USA

2020
Curator (with Alex Paik), ‘Surfacing’, MONO Practice, Baltimore, USA

2019
Curator (with Kate Mothes), ‘Magic Wave’, Young Space, online show, yngspc.com

2018

Curator (with Stina Puotinen), ‘Hold(ing) Tight’, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State University, USA
Curator (with Will Hutnick), ‘The Songs Make a Space: Michael Friedman’, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, USA

2017
Curator (with Will Hutnick), ‘To see the moon fall from the sky’, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, USA

2016

Residency, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, USA
Curator, ‘VERBLIST’, E.TAY Gallery, New York, USA

2014

Residency, Féral Space, México City, México

2013
Residency, Illinois State University, Normal, USA

2012
Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Residency, Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York, USA
Award, Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, New York, USA

2007
Residency, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, USA
Jentel Artist Residency, Lower Piney Creek, WY, USA

2006
Juror’s Award, Painting, Victory Hall Annual, Victory Hall, Jersey City, USA
Drawing Center, Slide registry and viewing program, New York, USA
I-Park Artist Residency, East Haddam, CT, USA
Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture Artist Residency, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada

2005
Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, USA

2004
Dolbey Travel Fellowship, for extended research in Morocco, Spain and Italy in 2005, awarded by the Slade School of Fine Art, London

2003
Project Award, awarded by Slade School of Fine Art, London

Lectures

2018
Artist talk, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA

2017
Artist talk, Getting the Balance Right: Making a Career as an Artist and Educator, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Artist talk (BFA Color Theory class), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
Curatorial class, Artist as Curator (via Skype), Penn State University, State College, USA

2016

Lecture, University of Louisville in Kentucky, USA

2012
Lecture, Fine Art Department, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

2006
Public Lecture, Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada

2004
Public Lecture, Slade School of Fine Art

Bibliography

2023
Interview, Andrew Huff, Whitewall, (USA), 16 February

2021
‘Mark Joshua Epstein and art’s existential utility’, review, Zach Seeger, Two Coats of Paint, (New York), 16 May

2020
Spring Break 2020, article, Paddy Johnson, Observer (London), 5 March

2018

‘Mark Joshua Epstein & Marissa Bluestone: Artists in Dialogue’, Maake (USA)

2017
‘Hold Tight’, review, a-n The Artists Information Company (online), (Newcastle upon Tyne), 16 January

2016

‘What Artists Can Learn from Teaching’, editorial, Ariela Gittlen, Artsy (New York), 16 November
‘Mark Joshua Epstein’, interview, JE Greene, Denimm (USA)
‘Mark Joshua Epstein’, article, L’Officiel México (México/France), April
‘Excavators’, interview (with Will Hutnick), Illinois Times (San Bruno, USA), March
Article, New American Paintings (Boston), February

2015

Interview, Melissa Staiger, Painting Is Dead (online review magazine), (Brooklyn)
Cover art, Sink Review #14 (online poetry and review magazine), sinkreview.org/ (USA)

2012

‘All of me is asking, all of me is thinking…; Pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking…’, preview, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide (Manchester), 6-12 October
‘All of me is asking, all of me is thinking…; Pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking…’, preview, NE1 Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne), 3-17 October
All of me is asking, all of me is thinking…; Pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking…‘, review, Mark Robert Doyle, vane.org.uk, first published on a-n: Interface, October

2011
‘The Critiques’, interview with Wardell Milan, BOMBlog (New York), 14 October

2009
‘Points of Reference: Artist Mark Epstein’, review, Anna Carnick, annacarnick.com (Berlin), 1 July
‘Uncommon ground’, review, Christopher Collett, Metro Newspaper (London), 11 February

2007
‘Sketch Artists’, Greg Cook, The Boston Phoenix (Boston), 20 November