Mark Handforth

Born in 1969, in Honk Kong, China
Lives and works in Miami, FL

Education

1990 - 1991
Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1988 - 1992
The Slade school of Fine Art, University College, London

Solo Exhibitions

2016
'Mark Handforth. Snow White and Pink Panther', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland 
Museo d’Arte Comtemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy

2015
‘The Excentric Circle’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
‘Two Old Bananas’, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK

2014
‘Drop Shadow’, Mazarine invites Mark Handforth, Studio des Acacias, Paris, France 
‘Man In The Mirror’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
‘Sidewalk Island’, Govenor’s Island, New York
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

2013
‘Black Bird’, Public Installation, Maag Areal, Maagplatz, Zürich, Switzerland 
‘Capricorn’, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
‘Horseshoe’, Public Installation, Abbaye de Cluny, France
‘TWO OLD BANANAS’, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland

2012
‘L’Etoile de Bagnolet’, Permanent installation, Place de la Porte de Bagnolet, Paris, France

2011
‘Rolling Stop’, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 
Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
‘MCA Chicago Plaza Project: Mark Handforth’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 

2010
The Modern Institute - Toby Webster Ldt, Glasgow, U.K.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

2008
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

2007
‘Platz’, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
‘Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
‘Direction - Mark Handforth’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

2006
‘No’, The Modern Institute - Toby Webster Ldt, Glasgow
‘Mark Handforth’, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2005
‘Stroom Den Haag’, The Hague, The Netherlands
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Kunsthaus Zürich

2004
Roma Roma Roma Gallery, Rome
The Modern Institute - Toby Webster Ldt, Glasgow
Locust Project, Miami

2003
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
‘Lamppost’, A Public Art Fund Commission, New York

2002
‘Mark Handforth’, Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2000
‘Free bird’, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

1998
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, with Dara Friedman, New York
1997
Miami Arts Project, four bus shelters for Metro-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami

1996
‘She is stupid I am worried’, with Dara Friedman, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami
‘Not from where I’m standing’, Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Beach

1994
‘Cheap’, Jason Rubell Gallery, with Adam Kuczynski, Miami Beach

1991
Galerie Krieg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2015
Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France
‘Global Positioning Systems’, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
‘Armleder, Handforth, Landers’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark 
‘La Joie de Vivre’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
‘Ugo Rondinone: I <3 John Giorno’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2014
‘Man in the Mirror’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
‘Blackout’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
‘Natura Lapsa’, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

2013
‘Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles, Salon 94’, New York 
‘Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
‘Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (MOCA’s 15th Anniversary)
‘Horseshoes’, Cluny Abbey, Cluny
Retour du monde, Publicly commissioned art on a Paris tram route, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
‘L’art à l’endroit: Un parcours d’art contemporain à Aix-en-Provence’, Aix-en-Provence, France
‘Sympathy for the Devil’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2012

‘Luminale Midwest: Sunlight on Cold Water’, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, MI
‘Hors les Murs’, FIAC Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

2011
‘Painting Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
‘American Exuberance’, Rubell Family Collection, Miami 
‘Mark Handforth- Mark Leckt’, Gavin’s Brown Enterprise, New York, NY, USA
‘Sculpture Now’, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Sympathy for teh Devil’, Vanhaerents Art collection, Brussels, Belgium

2010
‘Born in Dystopia’, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France 
‘At Home/Not at Home’, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
‘Ghost Colour’, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium
‘Sphère 2009’, Galleria Continua - Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

2009
‘N’importe quoi’, MAC, Lyon, France
‘We are sun–kissed and snow-blind’, Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris
Inaugural Exhibiton, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy
‘Urs Fisher, Mark Handforth, Georg Herold’, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
‘Mapping the studio’, Palazzo Grassi - Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy
‘Tonite’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
‘Beg Borrow and Steal’, Rubell Family Collection - Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami

2008
‘Pivot Points: Defining MoCAs Collection’, MoCA, North Miami
‘The Freak Show’, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris
‘The Complexity of the Simple’,L&amp;M Arts, New York

2007
Jubilee Exhibition - Celebration in the house of Eva Presenhuber in Vnà, Ramosch,
Switzerland
‘The complexity of the simple’, L & M Arts Gallery, New York
‘Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux’, Centre international d’art et de paysage de l’île de
Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac, France
‘Platz: Outdoor Sculpture Project Tessinerplatz’, Zürich
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich

2006
‘The Uncertainty of objects and ideas: Recent sculpture’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
‘5 000 000 000 D’Années’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘Space Boomerang’, Swiss institute, New York
‘La Force de l’Art – Superdéfense’, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
‘Miami in Transition’, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami
‘Optik Schröder’, Sammlung Alexander Schröder, Kunstberein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

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
Regen Projects Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Genesis Sculpture’, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
‘Whitney Biennial’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
‘Sculptures’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
‘Genesis Sculpture’, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
‘Terminal 5’, JFK Airport, New York
‘It’s all an Illusion’, Migros Museum, Zurich
‘Keep Your Head to the Sky’, Gavin Browns Enterprise, New York

2003
‘Coollustre’, curated by Eric Troncy, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
‘It Happened Tomorrow’, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
‘Inaugural Group Exhibition’, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
‘20th Anniversary - Welcome home’, Gavin Browns enterprise, New York
‘Breathing the Water’, Galerie Hauser &amp; Wirth &amp; Presenhuber, Zurich

2002
‘My head is on fire but my heart is full of love’, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen

2001
‘Humid’, curated by Dominic Molon, The Moore building, Miami
‘Lokalzeit’, Johanniterbrucke, Basel, Switzerland

2000
‘Making art in Miami: Travels in hyperreality’, MoCA, Miami
‘Déjà-vu’, curated by Amanda Cruz, Art Miami, Miami

1999
‘Heads-up’, MoCA, Miami
‘Leftover Festivies’, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Nature Morte, New Delhi

1998
‘New Art: South Florida’, MoCa, Miami
Oriental Night - Performance at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

1997
‘Bobois’, Galerie Krinzinger, Art Miami, Miami

1996
‘Joint Venture’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

1993
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami

1991
‘Zwischen Durer und Holbein’, Stadel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
‘Tabula Rasa’, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
‘April’, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York NY, USA

Public Collections

Dallas Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rachofsky Collection
Rubell Family Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
FRAC Centre, France
Francois Pinault Collection

Press

2012
Timothée Chaillou, ‘Mark Handforth’, Annual Magazine, November 2012, pp. 190-193

2011
Sarah Douglas, ‘Beauty ans ugliness in the urban wilderness’, The Art newspaper, N°230, December 2011, p.37
Sarah Trigg, ‘Mark Handforth’, Modern Painters, December 2011, pp.46-47
Frédéric Bonnet, ‘Dans la lune’, Le Journal des Arts, November 14th, 2011, p.29
Judicaël Lavrador, ‘Mark Handforth’, Les Inrockuptibles, November 4th, 2011, p.77
Karen Rosemberg, ‘Mark Handforth’, New York Times, March 21th, 2011

2010
Moira Jeffery, ‘Art Reiew: Sara Barker: images / Mark Handforth’, News.scotsman.com, June 29

2008
Kim Levin, ‘Mark Handforth-Gavin Brown enterprise’, Artnews, June 2008, n°6
David Knowles, ‘Miami Minimal’, Man’s Vogue, March
Roni Feinstein, ‘Handforth’s Fallen Angels’, Art in America
Sheets Hilarie M., ‘Critic's Pick’, ArtNews, November
Cairns Steven, MAP Magazine, Summer
The New Yorker, March 31
Baker, R.C., ‘Best in Show’, Village Voice, March 25
Rosenberg, Karen, ‘Review’, New York Times, March 21
Kerr, Merrily, ‘Review’, Time Out New York, March 19-25

2007
Anne Bonnin, 'What you see is what you see', 04 ZéroQuatre, Automn-Winter, n°1, p.20-21

2006
'Cinq milliards d’années, exposition au Palais de Tokyo', Exporama, October, p.28
'La force de l'art Grand Palais 2006', ArtPress, n°323, May
'expo 10, Superdéfense', Beaux-Arts Magazine, n°263, May

2005
'Exposition Mark Handforth à la galerie Almine Rech', Tecknikart, p.121, n°96, October
'13 questions for Dara Friedman & Mark Handforth by the Wrong Gallery', Wrong Times, October
'Structures choquées' n°35, Mouvement l'Indisciplinaire des arts vivants, July-August, p.125
'Cette semaine', n°495, Les Inrockuptibles, 25-31 May, p.1
'Prix du meilleur lieu d'exposition en France: Le consortium', Beaux-Arts Magazine, n° 248, February

2004
'The other side of Paradise', ArtReview, n°12, December/January, p. 95-96
James Trainor, 'Road to ruin, Mark Handforth', Frieze, n°85, September, p.88-91
'Cinq ans déjà', Numéro, n°50, February, p.254
'American Art in the Spotlight', The New York Times Metro, March 12
'La sculpture dans le champagne', Beaux Arts Magazine, n°241, June, p.34

2003
'Ca arrive', Tecknikart, n°77, November
'Une biennale taillée pour le musée', Journal des Arts, n°179, October 24 - November 6
'Lamp Unto Thy Feet', The New York Times, April 30, p. B4
Eric Troncy, 'Décryptage', Numéro, March, p.323-328

2002
Maruccia Casadio, 'Archeologic', Vogue Italia, October, n° 626, p.677-681
ADM, n° 134, July, p.118

2001
Gean Moreno, 'Cityscape Miami', Flash Art, November/December, p. 59-60
Wallach Amei, 'In Miami, a hot spot of Art, the température Rising', The New York Times, September 16, p. 33-36

1999
Gean Moreno, 'Mark Hanforth: Studio View', New York Examiner, October
Roni Feinstein, 'Report from Miami', Art in America, May

1998
Carlos Basualdo, 'Cream: contemporary art in culture', Phaïdon Press
Yvette Brackman, 'Dara Friedman & Mark Handforth', Time Out (New York), February, p 12-19
Jade Dellinger, 'Flash art Cityscape', Flash Art Magazine, March-April
Elisa Turner, 'Art fellows, canvas on choice' Turner Elisa, The Miami Herald, June 27

1996
Bettina Busse, 'Joint Venture', Galerie Krinzinger,Vienna, Austria, October (catalog) Judy Cantor, 'Techno Trashing', New Times, July 18th
Elisa Turner, 'Latest MOCA installation speaks of art without an angle', The Miami Herald, June
Bonnie Clearwater, 'Not from were I'm standing', MOCA, Miami, May
Michael Kimmelman, 'Ambitious Miami Reaches for a place in sun', Kimmelman, Michael, New York Times, March 31

1994
Helen Kohen, 'Revenge of the artists', The Miami Herald, April 15
Cyn Zarko, 'Basinc Instinc', Ocean Drive Magazine, June

1993
Helen Kohen, 'A glimpse at a chosen few', The Miami Herald, July

Web press

2011
Suntimes.com ‘Museum of Contemporary Art hopes artist can liven up the building’ by Mike Thomas, July 7th, 2011
Aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com: ‘Stretching the Physical Limitations of art / mark
Handforth: Rolling Stop’ by Heike Wollenweber, December 19th, 2011
Mocanomi.org: ‘Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop Knight Exhibition series’ 2011
Miami Art ‘Rubellian Exhuberance Marks a Post-crash Miami Art Fair’ by Onajide Shabaka, December 26th, 2011
Miaminewtimes.com: ‘North Miami’s mark handforth makes a «Rolling Stop» at MOCA’ by Carlos Suarez de Jesus, December 22th, 2011

2006
Moreeuw.com ‘Mark Handforth’ 2006

2003
Public Art Fund ‘Mark Handforth: Lamppost’ 2003

2002
Hammer.ucla.edu: ‘Mark Handforth: Love, reign O’er me’ by Tim Griffin, September 10th, 2002

Exhibitions catalogs

2009
N’importe quoi. Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Les presses du réel, Collection la Salle de bains

2005
'MH-1a et 1bMark Handforth', Kunsthaus, Zürich Ed. jrp/ringier/ les presses du réel

Group work

2004
'Whitney biennal 2004',Ed. Whitney Abrams Steidl, p. 185
'Genesis Culpture, Experience Pommery #1', Beaux Arts magazine, Hors-série

2003
'Avant, 7e biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon', Ed. Les presses du réel, p. 172-173
'Coollustre', Ed. Les presses du réel