Born 1956, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Education
1982 New York University, Graduate Art Program, NY
1979 B.S. University Of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
From LEAVE IT TO BEAVER to FRAISER: The Art of Mark Bennett Thayer
Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, CA
2002 As Seen on TV: the Stamp of Approval, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
2001 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 The Home Show, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Leigh Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D.C.
Mark Bennett, The Effects of Fords on Barbara, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX.
OUTFEST Film Festival, Director's Guild of America, Hollywood, CA.
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Artificial Life, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
1998 Teleburbia, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Mark Bennett: TV Sets and The Suburban Dream, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. Travelling to: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (1998), Progressive Corporation,
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
Mark Bennett: Fantasy TV Blueprints, Orange County Museum Of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
1996 Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
1995 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Cobalt Cantina Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA.
1987 UTC Art Gallery, University Of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN.
1986 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Celebrity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2006 Models and Prototypes, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
I Love the Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 Strange Architecture, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Lateral Slip, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, curated by Jan
Tumlir, Riverside, CA
2003 Group Show, Jewish Museum
Home and Garden, Savage Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Trade Show, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Family, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Endless Summer, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Jewish Television, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2001 Shaping Stories, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
In Black & White, Forrest Scott Gallery, Milburn, NJ
Architectural Drawing Collections, University Art Museum, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
2000 Made in California, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA
Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art,The Contemporary
Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA.
Transposed Analogs of Built Space, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1999 Threshold, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Dream Architecture, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Double Vision, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell, IA
Architecture, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta, GA
Built, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Claustrophobia: Disturbing the Domestic in Contemporary Art, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham, England.
Inventory, White Columns, New York, NY
Tune In, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
Home Sweet Home, Transamerica Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works On Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Affinities With Architecture, Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of
Tennessee/Knoxville. Traveling to: Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Babes, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1997 To Be Real, Center For The Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Artshow 1: Recent Acquisitions for the Microsoft Art Collection Microsoft
Corporation, Redmond, WA.
1997 Information, Air Touch Cellular, Bellevue, WA
The Road Show, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Broken Home, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings....An Annual Bicoastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, l Seattle,
WA
Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1996 Happy Days: Mark Bennett and George Stoll, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH
Location, Location, San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Mark Bennett/Leslie Brack, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Clarity, Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
City of Vapor: Capturing the Transitory Reality of Los Angeles Tatistcheff
Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Nirvana: Capitalism And The Consumed Image, Center On Contemporary
Art, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Artwalk 12: Print Exhibition, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
1995 L ACE Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles,
CA
Hostile Witness, Washington Project For The Arts (WPA), Washington, D.C.
1985 Hudson Highlands Museum, Cornwall-On-The-Hudson, NY
1984 Hudson Highlands Museum, Cornwall-On-The-Hudson, NY
1983 New York University, Small Works Juried Show, New York, NY
1982 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1978 University Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Children's Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
West Collection, Oaks, PA