Mark Grotjahn

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Mark Grotjahn

Mark Grotjahn (* 1968 in Pasadena , California , USA ) is a contemporary American artist.

Grotjahn studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California at Berkeley. His work is heterogeneous. This includes both anthropomorphizing plant figures and mask representations as well as abstract color drawings in oil or wax chalk. After 1997 he also created numerous monochrome works in the tradition of Op Art .

His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions and museums in the USA, Great Britain and Germany. Grotjahn is represented by the Anton Kern Gallery in New York, the Gagosian Gallery in London and the Blum and Poe Gallery in Los Angeles.

Exhibitions

  • 1999: After the Gold Rush in the Thread Waxing Space in New York
  • 2000: Young and Dumb at the Acme Gallery in Los Angeles
  • 2001: Superman in Bed. Contemporary art and photography. Schürmann collection in the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund
  • 2001: Sharing Sunsets at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
  • 2002: Play As It Lays at the London Institute Gallery in London
  • 2004: 54 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
  • 2005: The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection at the Center of Contemporary Art in Seattle
  • 2014: Mark Grotjahn. Sculpture. , Nasher Sculpture Center , Dallas

Publications

  • 54. Carnegie International , Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on August 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Grotjahn, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena , California , USA