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Mark Francis    (British, 1962)

 Mark Francis - Nucleus (Division (Paintings) h: 36 x w: 36 in / h: 91.4 x w: 91.4 cm
Mark Francis
Nucleus (Division 1989
 
 Mark Francis - Trapez (Paintings) h: 101 x w: 83 cm / h: 39.8 x w: 32.7 in
Mark Francis
Trapez 2006
 
 Mark Francis - Untitled Monoprint (Prints)
Mark Francis
Untitled Monoprint 2004
 
 Mark Francis - Untitled Monoprint (Prints)
Mark Francis
Untitled Monoprint 2004
 
  

Biography
1962 Born Newtownards, Co Down, Northern Ireland
1980 - 1985 St. Martin's College of Art, London
1985 - 1986 Chelsea School of Art, London
1993 Grand Prize Tokyo International Print Exhibition
1996 IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1997 Public Art Development Trust: Mark Francis / Nicky Hirst

Exhibitions
2009 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki (solo)
2008 black mirror, curated by Marco Costantini, Centre d’art contemporain de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2008 What lies beneath the surface, Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Celebrating 20 years, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Contemporary Graphics, Galerie Bode, Nürnberg, Germany
2008 For the Spirit – From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Genesis – Die Kunst der Schöpfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2008 Neue Bilder 2008, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Austria (solo)
2008 Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria (solo)
2008 Hugh Lande Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2007 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2007 Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
2007 Summer Group Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Timeless, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2007 Die Kunst zu sammeln”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007 Experiments in Abstraction, Andipa Gallery, London, GB
2006 Hirst and his Contemporaries, Andipa Gallery, London, GB
2006 Diagnose [Kunst] – Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
2006 Silent Inside, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2006 Summer Group Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Pendulum, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2005 Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzwerland (solo)
2005 ‘The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss’, Wimbledon School of Art, London
2005 ‘After the Thaw’, AIB Art Collection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
2005 ‘Size Matters’, Arts Council England Touring Collection
2004 Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, GB (solo)
2004 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003 Drawings, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003 Mauleen Paley Interim Art, London, GB (solo)
2003 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2003 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2003 ‘Before & After Science’, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2002 ‘Dublin 7 Educate Together’, Dublin
2002 ‘Prospects Drawing Prize,’ Essor Project Space, London
2002 ‘The Rowan Collection’, IMMA, Dublin
2002 ‘Eight New Paintings’, Kerlin Gallery Dublin
2002 Gallerie Wilmma Lock, St Gallen Switzerland (solo)
2002 Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris (solo)
2001 New Paintings, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (solo)
2001 Irish Art Now, IMMA. Dublin
2001 Fluid, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2001 Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2000 - 2001 ‘Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2000 ‘Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political’,Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2000 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
2000 Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London (solo)
2000 ‘Elements’, Milton Keynes Gallery (solo)
2000 ‘Premio Michetti’: Europe, different perspectives in painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2000 ‘In the Mind’s Sky’, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, California
2000 The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2000 Zero Zero Four Four,Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1999 - 2000 ‘Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political’, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
1999 drei positionen in der malerei, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
1999 Macro-Micro, Contemporary Painters Negotiate Small Truths, University of Texas (Blanton Museum of Art)
1999 Zero Zero Four Four, PS1, New York and Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
1999 POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 ‘A Quiet Storm, Painting in Abstraction’, Kohn/Turner Gallery, L
1999 Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
1999 Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
1999 Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
1998 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1998 Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London (solo)
1998 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (solo)
1998 post Naturam - nach der Natur, Stadt Münster, Germany.
1998 Sensation - Saatchi Collection, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
1998 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
1997 Interior, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
1997 Surface, GOW Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand
1997 Sensation - Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Art, London
1997 Beau Geste, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1997 Nat West Painting Prize, London
1997 Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
1997 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1997 Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
1996 Terra Nova - New Territories, Harewood House, Leeds (solo)
1996 Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
1996 Galerie Anne de Villepoix , Paris (solo)
1996 Absolut Vision, New British Painting in the 1990's, M.O.M.A., Oxford
1996 Scattering Matrix, curated by Jane Hart, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
1996 Black, Grey & White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
1996 Microscopic territories, Harewood House Trust, Harewood
1996 British Abstract Art III, Flowers East Gallery, London
1996 Whitechapel Open, London
1996 IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1996 Mary Boone Gallery, New York. (Mark Francis, Leonardo Drew, Oliver Herring)
1995 Testing the Water, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1995 Voyage Anglais, Rheimes, France
1995 John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1995 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1995 Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London (solo)
1995 Galerie Thieme+Pohl, Darmstadt, Germany (solo)
1995 City Art Gallery, Manchester (solo)
1995 From Here, Karsten Schubert/Waddington Galleries, London.
1995 Painters' Opinion, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
1995 The Adventure of Painting, Kunstvereins Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, Germany
1994 Human Nature, Mark Francis & Brad Lochore Herve Mikaeloff, Paris
1994 The Curator's Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1994 New Modern British Paintings (1988 - 1994), Richard Salmon Ltd., London
1994 East 1994, Norfolk Institute of Art & Design, Norwich
1994 Paintmarks, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
1994 Unveiled, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1994 Europa 94, Munich Order Centre, Munich
1994 Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London (solo)
1994 Whitechapel Open, London
1993 Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London
1993 An Undiscovered Country; 10 Abstract Painters, curated by Charles Hall, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, Ikon Touring Exhibition
1993 Snap Shots, curated by Anthony Wilkinson, Eagle Gallery, London
1993 A Decade of Collecting, Tate Gallery, London
1993 International Print Exhibition, Tokyo
1993 Whitechapel Open, London
1992 South Bank Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1992 British Art comes to St. Helena, St Helena (selected by Mary Rose Beaumont)
1992 Twelve Stars, European Parliment Exhibition, Belfast, Edinburgh, London, Zurich
1992 Jill George Gallery, London (solo)
1990 Thumb Gallery, London (solo)
1990 Four Painters, New Academy, London
1990 Bonhams Contemporary Auction, London
1990 Whitechapel Open, London
1989 Christie's New Contemporaries, Royal College of Art, London
1986 4 New Painters, Paton Gallery, London
1986 ILEA class of '86, Royal Festival Hall, London
1986 On the Wall Gallery, Belfast
1985 Another View of Ireland, Irish Artists in London
1985 Athena International Awards, Mall Galleries, London
1985 Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London
1984 Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1984 Summer Group Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, London
1983 Summer Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin
1983 New Contemporaries, The Mall Gallery, London

Literature
2008 Dyer, Richard, James Peto, Francis McKee, 'Mark Francis', Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
2007 Dyer, Richard, 'Mark Francis', Mallorca Spain: Sala Pelaires
2006 Leahy, Bill, 'Keeping in Time', Village, 23 February – 1 March 2006
2006 Totally Dublin, February 2006
2006 Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Experiments with the science world, Feb 2006
2005 New Paintings-Neue Bilder, Galerie Wilma Lock St. Gallen/CH, 14- September – 26 November
2005 ‘Warmespeicher Malerei’, St. Galler-Tagblatt – Kultur, by Ursula Bbadrutt. Ostschweizer Agenda 29 September
2005 Valjakka, Timo, 'Paintings, 2002-2005', Galerie Forsblom, Helsink
2005 'After the Thaw: Recent Irish Art from the AIB Art Collection', February 05 – April 02 2005, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Cat. includes an essay by Aiden Dunne
2005 Rudd, Natalie, 'From here to infinity and back', Size Matters, Arts Council England Touring Collection
2004 Michael Wilson, Artforum, May 2004
2004 Rebecca Geldard, Time Out, 12th-19th May, 2004
2003 Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 29th October, 2003.
2003 Catherine Leen, Sunday Times – Culture, 19th October 2003.
2003 19 Jan Suspended amid different worlds, Los Angeles Times, 21 March
2003 ‘Kunst und Sciences’ 12 January, NZZ am Sonntag, by Dr Gerhard Mack
2003 MacGiolla Léith, Caoimhin, 'Paintings', Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Marella, Giovanni, 'Before and After Science', Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2002 Johnstone, Isobel, 'Raising the temperature 100 degrees', Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Harrison, Eddie. The Saatchi Gift, Metro Life, 10 January
2002 New Paintings, Galerie Wilma Lock St. Gallen/CH, ‘Netzwerk’ St. Galler-Tagblatt- Kultur, 4 Oktober, by Kristin Schmidt
2001 MacGiolla Léith, Caoimhín. Soundings: The Paintings of Mark Francis, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 2001, Vol. 17
2001 Notate, biomorph: Mark Francisbei Hauff, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 02 June
2001 Achterbahn, Francis in der Galerie Hauff, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 23 May
2001 Malerei als kartografisches System, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 24 April
2001 Fluid: Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, ‘The productive body’, David Hopkins
2001 'Soundings, The Paintings of Mark Francis’, Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith, Irish Arts review, Yearbook 2001, Vol.17
2000 Art Works: deutsche Bank, British and German Contemporary Art 1960-2000, ‘1990s Pidgn – and Ultra Modernism’
2000 Daly, Catherine. Mark Francis, The Sunday Times, (Irish edition), 31 December
2000 Dunne, Aiden. Mark Francis, The Irish Times, The Ticket, 29 November
2000 Wood, Catherine. Reflecting on his work: the artist Mark Francis, The Lancet, Vol 356, 05 August
2000 Staff Brandl, Mark. Mark Francis at MK G, Art in America, July
2000 Coomer, Martin. Time Out, 06 July-13 July
2000 Herbert, Martin. Mark Francis, Interim Art, Time Out, 28 June–05 July
2000 Aidin, Rose. ‘Painting by numbers’, The Times
2000 Dunne, Aiden. ‘No national identity, please. We’re Irish’
2000 Mark Francis, Elements, Milton Keynes Gallery, texts by Stephen Snoddy, Stephen Jay Gould and Andrew Cross
2000 ‘Mark Francis’, Catherine Daly, Sunday Times, 31 Dec 2000
2000 Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, The Ticket, 29 Nov 2000
2000 Robson, David. ‘Now the Brit pack get a gallery all to themselves’, The Express, 24 March
2000 Young, Robin & Morgan, Jonathan. ‘Broad canvas for a new face of Tate Britain’ The Times, 24 March
2000 Clark, Robert. ;Home thoughts from abroad’, The Guardian Guide, 12-18 February
2000 Darwent, Charles. ‘Anatomy of an obsessive’, The Independent on Sunday, 23 January
2000 Tracy, Luvvi. ‘Francis? Wonderful’, Milton Keynes on Sunday, 23 January
2000 Lubbock, Tom. ‘Behind the scenes at the museum’, The Independent, 18 January
2000 Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art, ‘Irish art in the 1990s’ Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith
2000 Irish Art Now From the Poetic to the Political, ‘Renegotiating the given’ Declan McGonagle, ‘Politics’, Kim Levin
2000 Premio Michetti, ‘Europe, different perspectives in painting’, Ganni Romano
2000 Zero Zzero Four Four, ‘Interview’, Nuala Fenton, ‘Introduction’, Peter Murray
2000 'Mark Francis', Netter Art Collection, George Theime Verlag
1999 Mark Francis, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 12 March
1999 Cluttered to Perfection, Jane Burton, The Independent on Sunday Mag. 28 February
1999 Negotiating Small Truths: Blanton Museum of Fine Art, University of Texas, essay ‘Negotiating the Truth in Painting’ by Annette Dimeo Carlozzi The Irish Times, 09 February Stewart, Clare.
1999 Art for the Millennium, The Times, 11 December
1999 Mitchell, Steve. Without Boundaries: "Irish" Art at the Albright-Knox, Artvoice, 07-13 October
1999 Huntington, Richard. The Clouds roll in, The Buffalo News Arts & Entertainment, 03 October
1999 Schade, Christopher. Blanton curator’s first show finds truth, Austin American-Statesman, 18 September
1999 Smith, Roberta. The Irish Struggle For a Visual Poetry To Call Their Own, The New York Times, Weekend, 25 June
1999 Mack, Gerhard. Marks merkwürdige Mikrokosmen, Paradeplatz, 23 April
1999 Preview: 0044, Dawn Fulcher, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 23
1999 Paintings: Ein Ire in St. Gallen, Vorarlberger-Nachrichten, 17 April
1999 Pulsieren in Zeitlupe, Ursula Badrutt Schoch, St. Gallen-Tagblatt/Kultur, 9 April
1998 Post Naturam – Nach der Natur (Stadt Muster: Germany), ‘Natural Cuts’ by Gudrun Bott and Magdelena Broska
1998 A Brush with Tradition, Louisa Buck, Joyce no.41, Spring issue
1998 Seductive Dots, Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May
1998 Spontaneitat und Controlle, Barbara Henke, Haudelsblatt Kunstmarkt, 6 January
1998 NatWest sells Old Masters to buy Modern British Art, Nigel Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 26 February
1998 Mark Francis, Journal Frankfurt, December / January
1997 Sensation – Saatchi Collection, ‘From Freeze to House 1988-94’, by Richard Shone, ‘Everyone a Winner! Selected British Art From the Saatchi Gallery 1987-97’ by Martin Maloney
1997 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition No.20
1997 Den Betrachter auf Distanz halten, Konstanze Cruwell, IAS, 27 December
1997 Mark Francis, Schwarz und Rund, Frankfurter Rundschau, 27 December
1997 Mark Francis, Catalogue essay, Tim Marlow, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1997 Interior, Time Out, Sue Hubbard, 12 November
1997 Voglio uffici come musei, La Stampa, Gabriele Beccaria, 12 October
1997 Blair goes abstract but avoids dead cows, Nigel Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 9 October
1997 New man at the Ministry shows his true colours in art, Dan Glaister
1997 Herbert Martin, Time Out, September
1997 The Guardian, 9th Oct
1997 Who are they pointing at?, Independent/EYE, Tom Lubbock, 18 September
1997 Confessions of a gallery curator, Sunday Tribune, Aidan Dunne, 31 August
1997 Nat West Prize, The Independent on Sunday, Tim Hilton, 25 May
1997 Nat West Prize, Financial Times, Bill Packe, 20 May
1997 Mary Boone Gallery, The New York Times, Grace Glueck, 31 Jan
1997 Letter from New York, Art Monthly, Andrew Cross, Feb no. 20
1997 Mary Boone Gallery, The New Yorker, 3 Feb
1996 1996 Absolut Vision, New British Painting in the 1990s Catalogue, M.O.M.A., Oxford, ‘A Story of the Eye’ by David Elliott
1996 A Scattering Matrix, Richard Heller Gallery Catalogue, Curated by Jane Hart
1996 Hello. Artists in Conversation, R.C.A., ‘Under the Microscope. Mark Francis Talks to Clare Manchester’
1996 IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award Catalogue
1996 The IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award, The Sunday Times, 12 May
1996 Made in London, Simmons and Simmons, ‘The Element of Risk’ by Richard Shone
1996 Crooked Style, The Observer,William Fever
1996 The Best of Brit Painting, The Guardian, Adrian Searle
1996 On the Surface, The Independent, Andrew Graham-Dixon
1996 The Vision Thing, Art Monthly, Andrew Wilson, Absolut Vision, M.O.M.A., Oxford
1996 The Sunday Independent, review by Ciara Ferguson,21 April
1996 IMMA/Glen Dimplex, Sunday Times, Medb Ruane, 31 March
1996 The Irish Times, review by Brian Fallon, 5 April
1996 Cityline Magazine, Charles Purcell, April issue
1996 The Tribune Magazine, review by Aidan Dunne, 24 March
1996 IMMA/Glen Dimplex, Phoenix Magazine, 29 March
1996 IMMA/Glen Dimplex, In Dublin Magazine, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, 28 March
1996 Critics Choice, The Sunday Tribune, by Aidan Dunne, 17 March
1996 Arts Diary, The Evening Herald, 14 March
1996 Gallery Glance, Dublin Event Guide, 7 March
1995 Interim Art, 1995 Catalogue
1995 From Here – Karsten Schubert/Waddington Gallery, London, Cat.
1995 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition No. 19 Cat.
1995 The Adventure of Painting, Kunstvereine, Susseldorf and Stuttgart, Cat.
1995 Rewind 95, The Irish Times, Brian Fallon, 28 Dec
1995 The how right we were syndrome, The Tribune Magazine, 17 Dec
1995 IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award Shortlist, The Sunday Times, 17 Dec
1995 Turn on the Dimplex, Irish Times, 14 Dec
1995 An Irishman's Diary, The Irish Times, Kevin Myers, 14 Dec
1995 Temple or Bar, The Irish Times, Luke Clancy, 28 Dec
1995 Who needs London?, The Independent on Sunday, Tim Hilton, 5 Nov
1995 Kerlin Gallery, The Irish Times, Luke Clancy, 31 Oct
1995 Kerlin Gallery, The Sunday Times, Medb Ruane, 29 Oct
1995 On Exhibitions, The Independent, Iain Gale, 27 Oct
1995 Compendium of Coolness, Liverpool Daily Post, Adrian Henri, 26 Oct
1995 Manchester City Art Gallery, Frieze, Mark Durden, issue 22
1995 Interim Art, Art Monthly, Simon Morley, issue 187
1995 Around the Galleries: Interim Art, Saccha Craddock, Times, May
1995 Manchester City Art Gallery, Big Issue, Rob Haynes
1995 Manchester City Art Gallery, City Life
1995 Interim Art, Time Out, Martin Coomer
1995 Waddingtons/ Karsten Schubert, Art Monthly, Michael Archer issue 186
1995 Adventure of Paintings, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Wolfgang Rainer
1995 Adventure of Painting, Westdeutsche Zeitung, Sophia Wiliams
1995 Adventure of Painting: Rheinische Post
1995 Human Nature, Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Fritz 6
1995 Galerie Theme+Pohl, Darmstadter Echo, Roland Held, 20 June
1995 Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Mark Francis, Lebendiges Darmstadt, June
1995 Neue Kunstausstellungen, Darmstadter Echo, 25 May
1995 Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Darmstadter Kulturnachrichren
1995 Painter's Opinion, De Volkskrant, Suto Wama
1994 East 1994, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Cat.
1994 Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. ‘Paintmarks from Illusion to Expression to Contemplation’ by Michael Harrison
1994 Europa 94, Munich Order Centre, Munich, Cat.
1994 Mark Francis/ Brad Lochore, Art & Expos, Paris
1994 Mark Francis, Interim Art, London, texts by Peter Fleissig and Christopher Bucklow
1994 Review: Interim Art, Time Out, David Lillington, May
1994 East, Art Monthly, Mark Durden
1994 The Curator's Egg, Summer: Untitled, issue no.5
1994 Whitechapel Open, The Times, Richard Cork
1994 Life in Venice, Untitled, Tony Godfery, issue no.3
1994 The Richter Scale, Arts Review, Charles Gall
1993 David Lillington review, Time Out
1992 Twelve Stars European Parliament Exhibition, Belfast, Edinburgh, London, Zurich, Brussels, Cat.
1992 Mark Francis, New Paintings and Monoprints, Jill George Gallery, London, text by Stuart Morgan
1990 Pick of the Week, The Guardian, Charles Hall
1990 Mark Francis, Painting and Monotypes, Thumb Gallery, London, text by Charles Hall
1989 New Art Goes Under The Hammer, The Telegraph, Richard Cork
1986 Four New Painters at Paton, Artscribe, Ian Brunskill, No. 58
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