Mark Dion, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mark Dion

American artist

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1961

Place of Birth: New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: visual artist, drawer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Mark Dion

  • Mark Dion (born August 28, 1961) is an American conceptual artist best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. Dion earned a BFA in 1986 from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Connecticut; the school also awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2003.
  • Presently, Dion lives and works in New York and Pennsylvania with his wife, the artist Dana Sherwood.
  • Dion is currently a mentor at Columbia University in New York and co-director of Mildred's Lane, a visual art education and residency program in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. In 2012, Dion's work was included in dOCUMENTA 13, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in Kassel, Germany, and has also been exhibited at MoMA PS1 in New York, Guggenheim Bilbao, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Tate Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art.
  • Perhaps his best-known work is the Neukom Vivarium, an installation in Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA.
  • The artist has also completed other public commissions which include Den, a site-specific installation for the National Tourist Routes in Norway (2012), An Archaeology of Knowledge for Johns Hopkins University (2012), and Ship in a Bottle for Port of Los Angeles Waterfront (2011).Dion is the subject of a monograph published by Phaidon and a documentary on the PBS series art:21.Dion received the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001), The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2007), the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucida Art Award (2008), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019).

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