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Born in Houston, Texas, Lives and Works in New York, New York

Past works also exhibited under Mark Cole

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025  Sirens, OSMOS Address, New York, New York

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2024  Helmets and Other Works, OSMOS Station, Stamford, New York

2012  Holiday, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

 

2006 New  Possibilities for Lost Information, Gensler, Washington D.C.

 

2004 Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

2002 Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

1999 Eugene Binder Gallery, New York, New York 

 

1998  Haggar Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Shardeology, LIC-A Art Space at The Factory, LIC New York

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2022  GeoLogic: Atlantic Gallery Ceramic Exhibition 2022, Manhattan New York

 

2022  Uncommon Ground, Selections by Peter Callas, Western Wyoming College Gallery

2021  Create Day 2021, Selected for invitational worldwide exhibition at CreateDay.org 
 

2015  Black & White, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

2014   MAC@20, McKinney Ave Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

 

2010 Small Abstract Painting, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

 

2009 Before & After, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

 

2008 A Day Without Post Modernist Irony, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

 

2007 Seven Day Weekend, curated by Jeff Elrod, Marfa Book, Marfa, Texas

 

The Language of Painting, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas

 

2006 Mark Cole, Nic Knight, John Pomara, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

Wall to Wall, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

 

Clockwork Orange, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

2005 The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

 

Color/Pattern/Grid, Selections from the Collection, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

 

Variations on Yellow, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

Objects of Desire,  Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

2004 By Invitation, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

100 Drawings, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas

 

2003 24, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

 

Red, Rudolf Projects Gallery, Houston, Texas

 

Color, Material and Method, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 

 

Exploration, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

Tech Talk: Mediated Images, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas

 

Real Red, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

Condition Red, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas

 

2002 Monochrome, Mostly, Blue Star Art Complex / UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas, 

and traveling to

Boston Center for the Arts / Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas

Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

 

2000 The Tao of Painting, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

Small Abstract Paintings and Sculpture, Eugene Binder Gallery, New York, New York

 

Positexan, Project, Wichita, Kansas

 

Plunge, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

1999 Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

 

1998  Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas   (Catalogue)

 

A Cool Show, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas   (Catalogue)

 

Blunt Object, Smart Museum, Chicago, Illinois    (Catalogue)

 

Works on Paper 98, San Jacinto College, Houston, Texas 

 

Material Matters, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

 

1997 Monica Pierce, Mark Cole, Tom Sime, Charlie Uniform Tango, Dallas, Texas

 

EXPO 97, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas

 

Critic’s Choice, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

1996 EXPO 96, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas

 

1995  EXPO 95, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas

 

Critic's Choice, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas    (Catalogue)

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

 

Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

 

Various Private Collections

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Create Day, Tena Saw, CreateDay.org 2021

 

Bill Davenport, 2012 Fall Preview, Glasstire, September 2012

 

Joan and Reuben Baron, "The Forman Collection at the Albright-Knox", ArtCritical.com, July 2005 

 

Lilly Wei and Louis Grachos, The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2005)

 

Michael Odom, “A Painting of a Picture of a Photocopy,” Art Papers, March 2004

 

Chuck Twardy, “Blind-alley escape” Las Vegas Weekly, November 7, 2002.

 

“Mark Cole opens Exhibition at Binder Gallery,” The Big Bend Sentinel, October 10, 2002.

 

Frances Colpitt, Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002) reproducing essay by David Pagel, “Once Removed from What?,” in Dana Friis-Hansen, Abstract Painting, Once Removed (Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1998).

 

Paul Parcellin, “Flatliners,” Retro-Rocket, July 2002.

 

Arend Zwartjes, “Monochrome Mostly,” Glass Tire, February 2002.

 

Jeff Dalton, “The Tao of Painting: Principals in Monochrome,” Artlies, Winter 1999-2000.

 

Dana Friis-Hansen, Abstract Painting, Once Removed (Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1998).

 

Shaila Dewan, "What's So Great About Painting," Houston Press, October 27, 1998.

 

Patricia Johnson, "Abstract Artists Redraw Boundaries of Painting," Houston Chronicle, October 7, 1998.

 

Dana Friis-Hansen, Guest Lecture Series, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, April 7, 1998.

 

Mike Daniel, "Simply Cool," The Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1998.

 

Janet Tyson, "Cool in the Abstract," Fort Worth Star Telegram, August 13,1998.

 

Stacy Schnellenbach-Bogle, "Cool Enough," FW Weekly, August 20,1998.

 

Annabelle Massey, "For Art's Sake," The Met, August 20, 1998.

 

Christina Rees, "Driven to Abstraction," The Observer, August 27, 1998.

 

Catherine Cuellar, “EX-posing Emerging Talent in the Art World,” Dallas Morning News, January 10, 1997.

 

Susan Whitmer, Review, ArtTexNet, August 1997.