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Mark Harris 

Biography

Born 1971 UK
Lives and works in London
Education                             
1996-98   Royal College of Art M.A Fine Art s
1990-93   Norwich School of Art

Selected Exhibitions

2012
Solo award show WW Gallery, London

Bookmare Camberwell College Gallery, London
Stamp Duty Scope Art Fair, Arch 402 Gallery, New York
Super Super Interno 4, Bologna, Italy






2011
Frontier  Studies-solo exhibition Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, Italy
Continuous Defense  - solo exhibition 
Museum Faraggiana Ferrandi, Novara, Italy
Together Alone Hotel Mint in association with The Whitechapel Gallery, London
Sort of night to the Mind, A Kind of Night for our Thoughts
Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting
Arch 402 Gallery, London


2010
State Your Business
LOKAAL01, Breda, Holland
International Print Show
Xian University, China
Urban Fragment – Imagining Architecture
Collyer Bristow Gallery,
Continuous Movement 2- solo exhibition
Stanley Picker Gallery at the Rose Theatre, Kingston,

2009
The Grand Plasto-Baader-Books
Kaleid Editions, London
Continuous Movementsolo exhibition      
Galleria Aus 18, Milan
Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
Reg Perfect and the Squeegees
Portman Gallery, London
London loves the why things fall apart
Galleria Aus 18, Milan

2008
Limited                                                        
Wharf Road Projects, London
Scope Art Fair 2008                               
Lords, London
Space Now - 40th Anniversary Show                                   
Space Gallery, London, Selected from over 800 artists to represent the best of Space studios current contemporary artists

2007
O Deborah                                                                   
Contemporary Art Projects, London
Hope and Despair                                   
Cell Projects, London

2006
Drawing Breath – 10 yrs of Jerwood Prize Winners
Jerwood Gallery, London and  toured to Sydney and Singapore
World Gone Mad – Surrealism in Contemporary
British Art Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury Castlesfield, Manchester, Limehouse Arts, London
 2005
New Monastery                                      
St Pauls Gallery, London
Space Open 2005                                                      
Space Triangle, London
Clutterin Colours, Roamin in Limbo                 
Keith Talent Gallery, London

2004
Print Retrospective – solo exhibition                                  
Spitz Gallery, London
Tube-way Army                                      
Keith Talent Gallery, London

2003
17 Reasons - Public Art project                          
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Series of public art interventions with John Balderssari, Jeremy Deller and Ewin Wurm
Taking Speed                                           
1000000mph Project Space, London
Express                   
Royal College of Art, London              
Turpentine                                                                  
Studio Voltaire, London      
Prints - Masters from the Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London with a new generation of printmakers
Arts Institute of Bournemouth
6 contemporary printmakers exhibiting with Peter Blake David Hockney and R.B Kitaj
Paperworks                                                                
Vertigo Gallery, London      

2002
The Vernacular Inscription - 9 British Artists
Nickles Art Museum, Calgary, Canada
Land                                                             
Artsway, Sway

2001
Self-Service Painting                           
Five Years, London               
Deptford X                                                                  
Domo Baal, Deptford, London

2000
To Be Continued…                                
Walsall New Art Gallery, Walsall
Random                                                      
The Study Gallery, Bournemouth

Publications / Articles
2011       

Sort of night to the Mind, A Kind of Night for our Thoughts
Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting
-Catalogue to accompany show in Atary Gallery, Stuttgart produced in collaboration with Arch402 Gallery, London
2010
Newspaper Publication State Your Business, Lokaal01 Breda - 1000 newspapers produced for the run of the exhibition.
2009
Continuous Movement - Catalogue to accompany solo exhibition, 28 page fully illustrated with text by Rob Wilson, Chief  Curator at Royal Institute of British Architects
2008     
Drawing Breath - Contemporary British Drawing 10 yrs of Jerwood Prize winners catalogue
2006     
World Gone Mad catalogue for touring exhibition
03-2003               
Timeout Review of 1000000mph exhibition
08-2003               
Guardian Guide review of Paperworks exhibition
2003                       
Catalogue Publication for Express Show, RCA
2003                       
To Be Continued...Book to commemorate public art projects at New Art Gallery Walsall in 2000
2002     
Bluecollar Portfolio part 2, Bluecollar Press
2001                       
Bluecollar Portfolio part 1, Bluecollar Press
01-2002
Printmaking Today - Vernacular in British Art
01-2001               
Graphics International Bluecollar print article, Smith & Fowle
2000To Be Continued….New Art Gallery Walsall publications
06-1999                               
Guardian Guide - New Walsall Art Gallery commission
06-1999
Printmaking Today- My Printmaking Practise
1998                      
Catalogue for Comic Exhibition, Oldham Art Gallery,
08-1998                               
Printmaking Today Narrative in print

 Commissions
2005
Commissioned to produce a track for Stage Fright, a
limited edition vinyl album of spoken word and music.  Comprising of eight artists including Ian Breakwell, and Bob and Roberta Smith . Stage Fright was exhibited in the exhibition Tres Riches Heures - LOKAAL01 Holland and Keith Talent Gallery London February 2006, and 100 Years of Graphic Design at LCC November 2005.
It has been the subject of lectures at the Royal Academy of Arts, London College of Communication and University College of the Creative Arts.
The album was acquired by the Tate.

1999
Commissioned by curators Smith and Fowle as part of the To Be Continued…art projects to promote the Garman Ryam Art Collection and its move to the New Art Gallery Walsall with Fiona Banner, Jeremy Deller, Jim Lambie, Richard Wentworth and Catherine Yass

Residencies
1999
Print Fellow, Royal College of Art, London
1993
Artist-in-Residence, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Norwich, Norfolk

Collections
Deutsche Bank Collection
Tate Archive Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum                                                     
Royal College of Art Archives