Mark Flood is American artist born in Houston, Texas, in 1957. He studied at Rice University, Houston, and graduated at in 1981. Since the early 1980s, Mark Flood has been making and exhibiting paintings, collages, sculptures, videos, and music.
For the first 20 years of his career he barely showed outside Texas, working in studios in relative obscurity in his native Houston. Flood’s paintings and collages of the 1980s and 1990s transform pervasive corporate, pornographic and celebrity imagery into provocative and knowing grotesques of the colliding worlds of art and consumer culture using adulterated found materials: signs, advertisements, flea-market paintings, and magazines. The character of Flood’s work is not the critique of a detached and ironic appropriationist, but rather more a tirade of extreme opinion in a heated argument about culture.
Over recent years, Mark Flood’s influence has increasingly been felt in the work of younger generations of American artists. His current practice’s most recognisable work is that of ongoing series’ of paintings. Since 2000 he has produced a body of “lace paintings” – wilfully beautiful canvases luridly coloured and richly patterned with impressions of decorative lace. His text paintings on monochrome canvases or found panels overspray lettering in missives urging the exploration of sexuality, the committing of suicide, or deadpan self-description. Most recently, a new series of paintings lift corporate logos from websites in low resolution and blow them up on canvas into a degraded image of massive pixels.
His work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, including shows at Galerie Perrotin, Paris; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; and Marlborough Gallery, New York. In 2009 Flood’s work was featured at REMAP2, Athens, Greece, during the Athens Biennale. Flood received the Engelhard Award in 1991 and is represented in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art; the Menil Collection, Houston; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
His work is widely exhibited throughout the United States and abroad.
Mark Flood currently lives and works in Houston.
Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group | |
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2015 | ASTROTURF YELP REVIEW SAYS YES | Peres Projects, Berlin, DE | Solo | |
2015 | Mark Flood | Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US | Solo | |
2015 | #RAWHIDE | Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY | Group | |
2014 | Mark Flood | Modern Art, London | Solo | |
2014 | Available NASDAQ Symbol | Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY | Solo | |
2014 | Insider Art Fair | Center 548, New York, NY | Solo | |
2014 | Another Painting | Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO | Solo | |
2014 | Another Painting | Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX | Solo | |
2014 | Summer in Gstaad | Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland | Group | |
2014 | New Hells | Derek Eller Gallery, New York | Group | |
2013 | Facebook Farm | Beta Pictoris, Birmingham, AL | Solo | |
2013 | LAME LEWD AND DEPRESSED: Lane Hagood, Mark Flood, and Jeremy DePrez | Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX | Solo | |
2013 | Mark Lood Ask Officer Pepperspray | Peres Projects, Berlin | Solo | |
2013 | Art for Rollins | The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL | Group | |
2013 | Analogital | Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT | Group | |
2013 | Harold Ancart, Kristin Baker, Mark Barrow, nina Beier, Anna Betbeze, Mark Flood, Thilo Heinzmann, John Henderson, Scott Lyall, Jayson Musson, Renaud Regnery and Pae White | Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France | Group | |
2013 | The Writing is on the Wall | Jonathan Viner, London, UK | Group | |
2013 | Art for Art’s Sake, Frederick R | Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA | Group | |
2013 | LAME LEWD AND DEPRESSED: Lane Hagood, Mark Flood, and Jeremy DePrez | Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX | Group | |
2013 | Outside the Lines: UIA (Unlikely lterations of the Abstract) | The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX | Group | |
2013 | Double Hamburger Deluxe | Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY | Group | |
2013 | ANAMERICANA | American Academy, Rome | Group | |
2012 | Bushwick Basement | Grimm Schultz, Brooklyn, NY | Solo | |
2012 | YES YES YAWN | Home Alone Gallery, New York, NY | Solo | |
2012 | ARTSTAR | Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY | Solo | |
2012 | The Hateful Years | Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY | Solo | |
2012 | PEOPLE ARE STRANGLE | Peres Projects, Berlin | Solo | |
2012 | Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting | Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI | Group | |
2012 | BLIND CUT | Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2012 | Collaborations & Interventions | CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca | Group | |
2012 | Files, Desks, Chairs | 1100 E 5th Street (former TOPS warehouse), Austin, TX | Group | |
2012 | It’s Always Sunny on the Inside | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2012 | Détournement: Signs of the Times | Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2012 | In Plain Sight | McClain Gallery, Houston, TX | Group | |
2012 | Eagles | Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain | Group | |
2011 | MURK FLOOD | Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY | Solo | |
2011 | Monument to the Responsible Management of the Earth | Maccarone, New York, NY | Solo | |
2011 | The Bitterness of the Red Pill | Cardoza Fine Art, Houston, TX | Solo | |
2011 | The Cannibal’s Muse II | Autocenter, Berlin | Group | |
2011 | A Painting Show | Autocenter, Berlin | Group | |
2011 | Grisaille | Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY | Group | |
2010 | Bitch Moves | Peres Projects, Berlin | Solo | |
2010 | Decorations on her Body | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich | Solo | |
2010 | Green Cube | Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Solo | |
2010 | Preconceived Iconography | Museum 52, New York, NY | Group | |
2010 | SHRED | Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2010 | Open | Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2009 | Chelsea Whores | Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY | Solo | |
2009 | Wart Exhibit | Peres Projects, Berlin | Solo | |
2009 | There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you… | Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX | Group | |
2009 | Reality Sandwiches | Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany | Group | |
2009 | Minneapolis | Peres Projects, Los Angeles | Group | |
2009 | Mark Flood and John Kleckner: Additional Paintings | REMAP2, Athens, Greece | Group | |
2009 | Geography of the Imagination | Lead Apron, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2008 | Entertainment Weakly | Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA | Solo | |
2008 | Vote Demon Replicant, Locker Plant | Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX | Solo | |
2008 | Nondifference Personified | Brasil, Houston, TX | Solo | |
2008 | Pretty Ugly | Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2008 | Sack of Bones | Asia Song Society, New York, NY | Group | |
2008 | Sack of Bones | Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2007 | Big | Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC | Group | |
2007 | Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists | Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX | Group | |
2007 | New Paintings by Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood and Jeff Zilm | Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX | Group | |
2006 | Assorted Rags | Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA | Solo | |
2006 | Lace Paintings | Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX | Solo | |
2006 | Lace Paintings | Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX | Solo | |
2006 | Scope, Pulse and Flow Miami 2006 | Miami, FL | Group | |
2006 | Mark Flood Jeff Elrod and Jack Pierson | Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX | Group | |
2006 | Inaugural Group Show | Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX | Group | |
2005 | Surprise Your Loved Ones | Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA | Solo | |
2005 | Support Your Local Parasitic Art Bureaucracy | Brasil, Houston, TX | Solo | |
2005 | Return of the Boys in the Bubble | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2005 | Restless, Glassell School of Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | Group | |
2004 | Lace Paintings | American Fine Art, New York, NY | Solo | |
2004 | Lace Paintings | Angstrom, Dallas, TX | Solo | |
2004 | Lace Paintings | Mixture, Houston, TX | Solo | |
2002 | Lace Paintings | Solway Jones, Los Angeles, TX | Solo | |
2002 | Mark Flood | Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX | Solo | |
2002 | Lace Paintings | Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX | Solo | |
2002 | Mark Flood | Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX | Solo | |
2002 | Blip | University of South Florida Contemporary Arts Museum, Tampa, FL | Group | |
2002 | Bitchin’ Pictures | Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2002 | Million Dollar Hotel | Houston, TX | Group | |
2001 | Lace Paintings | Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX | Solo | |
2001 | An Exhibition of Work by Mark Flood | Organized by Rob Weiner, Marfa, TX | Solo | |
2001 | Show People | CB313 Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
2001 | Kick the Habit | Good Bad, New York, NY | Group | |
2001 | Postmodern Americans: a selection | The Menil Collection, Houston, TX | Group | |
2001 | Trying Too Hard | Commerce Street, Houston, TX | Group | |
2000 | Broken Paintings | Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, NY | Group | |
2000 | Mark Flood, Dan McCarthy, Jack Pierson | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY | Group | |
1998 | Temple Signage | Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1997 | More Mark Flood | Brasil, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1994 | Mark Flood | Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1993 | Trophy Paintings | Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Solo | |
1992 | Art Management | Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1991 | Social Bodies | GVG Gallery, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1989 | Imperatives | GVG Gallery, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1989 | Celebrity Idolatry | Commerce Street, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1988 | Billboard Alterations | DiverseWorks, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1987 | My Relationship with my Co-Workers | Instituto Stato di Cultura, Houston, TX | Solo | |
1981 | And Man Chose | 3221 Milam, Houston, TX | Solo |