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Mark Flood (American, 1957)

Timeline

1957: Born in Houston, TX
1981: BA, Rice University
1991: Englehard Award
: Lives and works in Houston, TX

Exhibitions

2010: Green Cube, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2010: Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
2010: Preconceived Iconography, Museum 52 New York, USA
2009: Peres Projects, Athens, Greece (solo)
2009: Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
2009: Wart Exhibit, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany(solo)
2009: there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you… Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009: Geography of the Imagination, curated by Michael Briggs, Lead Apron, Los Angeles, USA Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2009: Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2009: Reality Sandwiches, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
2008: Pretty Ugly, Maccarone, New York, NY
2008: Sack of Bones, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Texas Made and Option H, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2008: Entertainment Weakly, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA(solo)
2008: Sack of Bones, Asia Song Society, New York, USA
2007: New Paintings by Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood and Jeff Zilm, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007: Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006: Lace Paintings, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX (solo)
2006: Lace Paintings, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
2006: Scope, Pulse and Flow Miami
2006: Assorted Rags, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2006: Mark Flood, Jeff Elrod and Jack Pierson, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX
2006: Inaugural Group Show, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005: "Support Your Local Parasitic Art Bureaucracy," Brasil, Houston, TX (solo)
2005: "Surprise Your Loved Ones," Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2005: "Return of the Boys in the Bubble," Anton Kern Gallery, NYC
2004: American Fine Arts, New York City (solo)
2004: Angstrom Gallery in Dallas, TX (solo)
2004: Solway Jones in Los Angeles (solo)
2003: Mark Flood, Mixture Contmporary Art, Houston, TX (solo)
2002: Summer Drawings, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
2002: 2211 Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2002: Mark Flood, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
2002: Mark Flood, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX (solo)
2002: Blip, University of South Florida Contemporary Arts Museum, Tampa, FL
2002: Bitchin’ Pictures, Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Million Dollar Hotel, Houston, TX
2001: Postmodern Americans: a selection, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2001: Trying Too Hard, Commerce Street, Houston, TX
2001: Lace Paintings, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX (solo)
2001: Show People, CB313 Gallery, New York
2001: Kick the Habit, Good/Bad, New York
2000: Broken Paintings, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
2000: An Exhibition of Work by Mark Flood Organized by Rob Weiner, Marfa, TX (solo)
2000: Mark Flood, Dan McCarthy, Jack Pierson, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
1999: Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1998: Elrod/Flood/Tucker, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
1998: Temple Signage, Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, Houston, TX (solo)
1997: Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
1997: Uncommon Sense, Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1997: More Mark Flood, Brasil, Houston, TX (solo)
1996: Unmade in the U.S.A., La Pananderia, Mexico City
1995: City Folk, Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
1994: Made in the U.S.A.: A 2000 Year Survey, Thicket Gallery, NYC
1994: Mark Flood, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
1993: Trophy Paintings, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1993: Acquisitions of the 90s, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
1993: Darkness and Light, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX
1993: Faces, River Oaks Theater, Houston, TX
1993: Over 100 Viewings of the Rodney King Beating, Catal Huyuk, Houston, TX
1992: Avenues of Departure, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1992: Primarily Paint, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
1992: Crosses, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992: Paint by Numbers, Bridgewater-Lustberg Gallery, NYC
1992: Art Management, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston (solo)
1991: Social Bodies, GVG Gallery, Houston (solo)
1991: Texas Selections from The Menil Collection, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
1991: Animals, Max Fish, NYC
1991: Perfect World, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
1991: Mutilations, Max Fish, New York, NYC
1991: Pop Art: The Object Transformed, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1990: The Art of Assemblage, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX
1989: Primal Screen: A Fake Art Movement, Treebeard’s, Houston, TX
1989: Imperatives, GVG Gallery, Houston (solo)
1989: Celebrity Idolatry, Commerce Street, Houston (solo)
1988: Billboard Alterations, DiverseWorks, Houston (solo)
1988: Synergy, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
1988: Houston 88, 1600 Smith, Houston, TX
1987: Vandalism, Screen Memories, Houston, TX
1987: One Eye, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
1987: True Wit - Humor in Texas Art, 1600 Smith, Houston, TX
1987: Found, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
1987: My Relationship with my Co-Workers, Instituto Stato di Cultura, Houston (solo)
1986: 3 to 5, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
1986: Propaganda, Mid-Town Art Center, Houston, TX
1985: Group Show, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
1982: Prisoners of Conscience, Studio One, Houston, TX
1981: Five Unimportant Artists, 3221 Milam, Houston, TX
1981: Group Show, Studio One, Houston, TX
1981: And Man Chose, 3221 Milam, Houston, Texas (solo)

Literature

2004: 'Mark Flood' by Brian Sholis, Artforum.com The New Yorker, 31 May 2004
2002: Johnson, Patricia. 'Lace Paintings' Finds a Delicate Balance. Houston Chronicle (May 18).
2002: Klaasmeyer, Kelly. 'Arsenic and Old Lace'. Houston Press (May 16)
2002: Kutner, Janet. 'Lacevalue'. Dallas Morning News (February 20).
2002: Ballou, Chris. 'You Can't Say No To the Beauty and the Beast'. www.Glasstire.com.
2000: McCormick, Carlo. 'Broken Pictures'. Hempstead: Hofstra University.
1997: Dewan, Shaila. 'Playing Around'. Houston Press (October 2-8).
1997: Anspon, Catherine. 'Monstrous Doubles'. Public News (August 6).
1992: Kalil, Susie. 'Art and Commerce'. Houston Press (February 27).
1991: McCormick, Carlo. 'Mark Flood'. High Times (July).
1990: Solis, Diana. 'He Avoids the Risk of Censorship'. Wall Street Journal (August 9).