1942

Born: Cleveland, Ohio

Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

1962–1966 

Cleveland Institute of Arts

1966–1968

Indiana University, Bloomington

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1979              

Mark Greenwold, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

1986–1987

Mark Greenwold: Family Secrets, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, December 1986–January 1987

1993         

Mark Greenwold: Recent Works, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, March–April

1995–1996

Mark Greenwold: The Odious Facts, 1975–1995, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, November 5–December 29, 1995; Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase College, April 21–May 19, 1996

1997

Mark Greenwold: A Man’s Worst Enemies, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, March 1–April 15

2002

Mark Greenwold: You Must Change Your Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, October 10–November 9

2007

Mark Greenwold: A Moment of True Feeling, DC Moore Gallery, New York, October 10–November 10

2010              

Mark Greenwold: Secret Storm, 1967–1975, DC Moore Gallery, New York, March 18–April 17 

2013

Mark Greenwold: Murdering the World, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, May 10–June 28

2016

Mark Greenwold: The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, February 18–April 2

2019

Mark Greenwold: And Now What?!, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, May 30–July 2

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1968

Drawings USA: 1968, Saint Paul Art Center, Minnesota

1969              

Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, March 1–31

Selections from Drawings USA, Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, July 27–September 3

1971              

San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, January 15–February 28

Drawings USA: 1971, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, April 15–June 27

1973              

California Representation: Twelve Painters and the Human Figure, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, January 6–February 28

1975              

Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, June 27–August 8

Unordinary Realities, Xerox Square Exhibition Center, Rochester, New York, September 12–November 2

1981              

Crimes of Compassion, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, April 16–May 31

1988              

Art and the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, June 5–July 31

1991–1992     

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, November 24, 1991–January 5, 1992

1992

My Father’s House Has Many Mansions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, January–February

Goodbye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, September 19–November 29

1993

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, March 1–28

1994

A Garden of Earthly Delights, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, April–March

1994–1995

It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art, New York, November 5, 1994–February 11, 1995

1995

American Art Today: Night Paintings, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, January 13–February 18 

Murder, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, February 3–April 1; Thread Waxing Space, New York, May 2–June 10; Centre Gallery, Wolfson Campus, Miami-Dade Community College, September 7–October 17

1998

Original Scale, Apex Art, New York, January 8–February 7 

The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, November 7–December 30

2000   

S.P.s, Poor Traits, Idols, and Icons, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, April 22–May 13

Private Worlds, Art in General, New York, May 29–July 8 

Plots and Intentions, Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, November 1–December 6 

2000–2001

Collecting Ideas: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection, Denver Art Museum, November 18, 2000–March 11, 2001

2001

Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, April 4–May 5

2002

The 177th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, May 1–June 9

2003              

Ballpoint Inklings, K.S. Art, New York, April 10–May 24

2004              

Endless Love, DC Moore Gallery, New York, January 7–February 7

It’s a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, March 19–May 14

Colored Pencil, K.S. Art, New York, April 1–May 8

About Painting, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, June 26–September 26

2004–2005

Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, July 18, 2004–January 9, 2005

2005

Solitude and Focus: Recent Works by MacDowell Colony Fellows in the Visual Arts, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, January 23–June 22

2006

The Space Between Us, Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, January 24–April 9

Subject, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, May 14–August 14

The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985–2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, August 27–October 31

2006–2007

Creative Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, October 6, 2006–January 7, 2007

2007

The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, May 16–June 24

2007–2008

The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, October 27, 2007–January 13, 2008

2008

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, March 6–April 6

Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, May 3–July 20

2010

Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, June 5–August 14

Domestic Disturbances, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, September 10–October 16        

2012–2013

Untitled (Giotto’s O), Sperone Westwater Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, November 30, 2012–February 15, 2013

2014

If You’re Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About It, Galerie Zürcher, New York, April 5–May 3

2015

Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, February 13–May 24

Intimacy in Discourse, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, October 8–December 28

2018

Out of Control, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, June 28–August 3  

Three Gallery Artists, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, July 12–August 10

2019

36 Works on Paper, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, July 18–August 9

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Cleveland Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Morgan Library and Museum, New York

National Academy Museum, New York

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Solitude and Focus: Recent Works by MacDowell Colony Fellows in the Visual Arts. Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005. 

Armstrong, Thomas N. Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region. Albany: State University of New York, 1975. 

Art Gallery. Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show. Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1969. 

Burgard, Timothy Anglin, Karin Breuer, and Jill D’Alessandro. The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2007.

Capasso, Nicholas J. Goodbye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis. Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1992. 

Charles H. MacNider Museum. Selections from Drawings USA. Mason City, Iowa: Charles H. MacNider Museum, 1969. 

Cohen, Joanne, and Julie Langsam. It’s a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting. Cleveland: Spaces Gallery, 2004.

DC Moore Gallery. Mark Greenwold: A Moment of True Feeling. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2007.

———. Mark Greenwold: Secret Storm, 1967–1975. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2010.

Finch, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Watercolors. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.

Friedman, Martin. Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Art of the Self-Portrait. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

Johnson, Barbara Ross, and Paul William Richelson. Creative Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection. Mobile, AL: Mobile Museum of Art, 2006. 

Minnesota Museum of Art. Art and the Law. Saint Paul: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1988.

———. Drawings USA: 1971. Saint Paul: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1971.

National Academy Museum. The 177th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. New York: National Academy Museum, 2002.

———. The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. New York: National Academy Museum, 2007.

Ogunquit Museum of American Art. The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985–2005. Ogunquit, ME: Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2006. 

Saint Paul Art Center. Drawings USA: 1968. Saint Paul: Saint Paul Arts Center, 1968.

San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1971.

Sperone Westwater Gallery. Mark Greenwold: Murdering the World. New York: Sperone Westwater Gallery, 2013.

Storr, Robert. Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 2004.

———. Mark Greenwold: The Odious Facts, 1975–1995. Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, 1995.

Styron, Thomas W. Crimes of Compassion. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 1981.

Tieken, Nancy B., Laura Caruso, and Mary Junda. Collecting Ideas: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2000.

Weatherspoon Art Gallery. Art on Paper. Greensboro: University of North Carolina, 1991.

Yau, John. Murder. Santa Monica, CA: Small Art Press, 1995.

PERIODICALS

Adams, Brooks. “Mark Greenwold at Phyllis Kind Gallery.” Artforum 37, no. 6 (1999): 93.

Bui, Phong. “Mark Greenwold: Murdering the World.” Brooklyn Rail (June 2013): 39. 

Close, Chuck. “Hindsight, Foresight.” Art Review 4, no. 2 (2006): 114.

Cohen, David. “Gallery-Going.” New York Sun, February 5, 2004.

———. “New Showcases for Old Work.” New York Sun, September 19, 2007.

———. “The Master of Minutiae.” New York Sun, November 1, 2007.

Dawdy, David. “Baxter Gallery Shows a Dozen Hyperrealists.” Los Angeles Free Press 10, no. 8 (1973): 12.

Egan, Shannon. “Mark Greenwold’s Excited Self.” Gettysburg Review 22, no. 4 (2009): 580–92.

Eleey, Peter. “Fifth International SITE Santa Fe Biennial.” Frieze no. 86 (2004): 161.

Emerling, Susan. “Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque.” Border Crossings 23, no. 4 (2004): 90–92.

Gardner, James. “Hooray for Humbug.” New York Sun, May 31, 2007. 

Glueck, Grace. “Art in Review: Mark Greenwold.” New York Times, March 21, 1997.

———. “Art in Review: Self-Made Men.” New York Times, April 27, 2001. 

Greenwold, Mark. “Censorship Protested.” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1973.

———. “Mal-content.” Village Voice 24, no. 53 (1979): 4.

Greenwold, Mark and Peter Saul. “Peter Saul and Mark Greenwold in Conversation.” Turps Banana, no. 17 (January 2017): 4–11.

Grimes, Nancy. “Mark Greenwold at DC Moore.” Art News 109, no. 6 (2010): 106–7. 

Haggerty, Gerard. “Mark Greenwold at Phyllis Kind.” Art News 96, no. 8 (1997): 135.

———. “See It Now.” New York Sun, October 30, 2007.

Hirsch, Faye. “Mark Greenwold’s Confessions.” Art in America 96, no. 2 (2008): 112–15, 164. 

Johnson, Ken. “Mark Greenwold’s Recent Paintings.” Arts Magazine 61, no. 5 (1987): 70–72.

Kimmelman, Michael. “The Convention of Beastly Beauty.” New York Times, August 6, 2004.

LeBrun, Fred. “Albany State Art Gallery Hosts Region’s Best.” Sunday Times Union, July 4, 1976.

Lippard, Lucy. “Retro-Chic: Looking Back in Anger.” Village Voice 24, no. 50 (1979): 67–69.

“Mark Greenwold.” New Yorker 86, no. 7 (2010): 13.

Mills, Paul. “Censoring of ‘Storm.’” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 1973.

Mitchell, Charles. “Report from Santa Fe: Everything in Excess.” Art in America 92, no. 10 (2004): 84–91.  

Newhall, Edith. “Art Exhibitions: Mark Greenwold.” New York Magazine 26, no. 17 (1993): 107.

Nuys, Van. “Mark Greenwold.” Art Week 2, no. 8 (1971): 3.

Ratcliff, Carter. “Review of Exhibitions: Mark Greenwold at Phyllis Kind.” Art in America 67, no. 7 (1979): 127–29.

Raynor, Vivian. “Messages: Abstractly and Realistically.” New York Times, May 12, 1996.

Rexer, Lyle. “The Pen: Mightier Than You Thought.” New York Times, April 13, 2003.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Art in Review: Mark Greenwold.” New York Times, April 9, 2010.

Seldis, Henry S. “Neo-Realism: Crisp Focus on the American Scene.” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1973.

Smith, Roberta. “A Painter’s Painter, Working with a Cast of Big Heads.” New York Times, November 8, 2007.

———. “Art in Review: Endless Love.” New York Times, February 6, 2004.

———. “Art in Review: Mark Greenwold.” New York Times, December 4, 1998. 

———. “The New, Irreverent Approach to Mounting Exhibitions.” New York Times, January 6, 1995.

———. “Those Witty, Mocking Germans.” New York Times, October 22, 2004.

Somerstein, Rachel. “Mark Greenwold at DC Moore.” Art News 106, no. 10 (2007): 216.

Stiles, Knute. “A Centennial in San Francisco: Three Museums Celebrate 100 Years of the San Francisco Art Institute.” Artforum 9, no. 8 (1971): 68–73.

Storm, Nikita. “Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque.” Art Papers 28, no. 6 (2004): 55.

Vine, Richard. “Reviews: Mark Greenwold at Phyllis Kind.” Art in America 81, no. 6 (1993): 101–2.

Yau, John. “Mark Greenwold: A Moment of True Feeling.” Brooklyn Rail (November 2007): 37.