pro patria series — Mark Harris

Mark Harris

Born 1971, Lives and works in London

Markharrisworks.com

@markharrisworks

Education

1996-98 Royal College of Art M.A Fine Art s

1990-93 Norwich School of Art B.A Hons Degree Fine Art

Selected Exhibitions and Activities

2020 Exhibition London Library – London Library

2019 Artist in Residence at The London Library - A year-long inaugural residency, along with fellow artist Bob Matthews, at The London Library.

We Are Publication t h e H O L D - Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston

2018 Magma - Millimetre 02, Kingsgate Project Space, London

In the crescent of truth - Millimetre 02, Kingsgate Project Space, London

2017 Work Work - Co-curated exhibition at Tintype Gallery, London

2016 Image Imminent - Public Lecture at Garage Museum for Contemporary Art

Invited by the Garage Museum for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia to deliver a Public Lecture on the exhibition, Proof —Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein and Robert Longo.

Abstract Apartment 2 - Co-curated exhibition at Deborah House, Retreat Place, London

2015 The London Open 2015 - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Pro Patria – A Continuous Series - Solo Exhibition, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK

Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract Apartment - co-curated exhibition at Deborah House, Retreat Place, London

2014 Glue – Contemporary Collage and Photomontage, Chart Gallery, London

Against Nature – Printmare 1 - Camberwell Space, London

2013 Once more unto the breach - Lokaal01, Breda, Netherlands

3rd Xi’an International Print Show - Xian Academy Gallery, Xian, China

2012 Solo Award Show - WW Gallery, London

Bookmare - Camberwell, London

Stamp Duty - Scope, Arch 402 Gallery, New York

2011 Frontier Studies - solo exhibition, Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, Italy

Continuous Defense - solo exhibition Museum Faraggiana, Ferrandi, Novara, Italy

Sort of night to the Mind, A Kind of Night for our Thoughts - Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting - Arch 402 Gallery, London , Artery Gallery Stuttgart, Germany

Together Alone - Hotel Mint in association with The Whitechapel Gallery, London

2010 State Your Business - LOKAAL01, Breda, Holland

Urban Fragment – Imagining Architecture Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

2nd Xi’an International Print Show - Xian University, Xi’an, China

2009 The Grand Plasto-Baader-Books, Kaleid Editions, London

Continuous Movement – solo exhibition, Galleria Aus 18, Milan, Italy

Art Fair Step09, Milan Italy

London loves the why things fall apart, 6 British Artists - Galleria Aus 18, Milan, Italy

2008 Limited - Wharf Road Projects, London

Scope Art Fair 2008 - Lords, London

2008 Space Now - 40th Anniversary Show, Space Gallery, London

2007 Hope and Despair - Cell Projects, London

Oh, Deborah -Contemporary Art Projects, London UK

2006 World Gone Mad – Surrealism in Contemporary British Art - Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, Castlefield, Manchester, Limehouse Arts, London

Jerwood Drawing Prize -Jerwood Gallery, London – Nationally touring

Drawing Breath - Wimbledon Gallery, London – Internationally touring

2005 Clutterin Colours, Roamin in Limbo - Keith Talent Gallery, London

New Monastery - St Pauls Gallery, London

Space Open 2005 - Space Triangle, London

Summer Show -Keith Talent Gallery, London

2004 Tube-way Army - Keith Talent Gallery, London

London Art Fair - Vertigo Gallery, Islington B.D.C, London

Print Retrospective – solo exhibition - Spitz Gallery, London

2003 17 reasons Art Project - Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Taking Speed - 1000000mph Project Space, London

Capri - Vyner Street, London

Turpentine - Studio Voltaire, London

Publications

2020 London Library Magazine Autumn 2020 issue Open

2015 Open 2015 catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, essay by Daniel F.Herrmann ISBN 978-0-85488-2410

2013 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more - catalogue Lokaal01 Breda. ISBN 9789081195485

State Your Business Newspaper Exhibition publication, Lokaal01 Breda

2009 Exhibition catalogue for Continuous Movement – Essay by Rob Wilson Curator at RIBA, Aus18 Gallery Milan, Italy

Sort of night to the Mind, A Kind of Night for our Thoughts Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting Exhibition catalogue 2009 ISBN: 9780957057401

2006 World Gone Mad - Surrealist returns in recent British Art - essays by JJ Charlesworth, Sally O’Reilly, Dr Johanna Malt ISBN0-9521780-5-2

Drawing Breath -Catalogue and touring exhibition marking 10 years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize. ISBN 0-948327-25-1

to be continued - catalogue documenting the art commissions, New Art Gallery Walsall by Smith and Fowle ISBN 0-7134-8794-1

2004 Etching – Alan Smith

2003 Express - Publication accompanying Express show, RCA

1998 Comic catalogue - Comic Exhibition, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK

1998 Ambitt 151 – Five Etchings

Residencies

2015 Elam International Printmaking Workshop, Auckland University, New Zealand

2013 Xi'an 3rd International Printmaking Workshop, Xi'an School of Fine Art, CH

1993 Artist-in-Residence, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Norwich, Norfolk

Collections

Deutsche Bank Collection

Tate Archive Collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

Elam Archives, New Zealand

Clifford Chance Collection

Royal College of Art Archives

Charring Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London

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