Mark
Dean Veca
1963 Born in Shreveport, LA
1985 BFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
mmmLives
and works in Brooklyn, New York
ONE-PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
2006 Picturing Florida, Schmidt Center Gallery,
Florida Atlantic
University, Boca Raton, FL, (with Ellen Harvey)
2004 Pulsation, 255 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY (catalogue)
2003 Pleasure Machine, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Royale,
Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY (with
Cotter Luppi)
Scope
Art Fair, curated by David Hunt, New York, NY
Toile
de Brooklyn, g-module, Paris, France
2000 Magnificent Compulsion, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
Harum-Scarum,
Gallery at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
1999 Funky Jungle, DiverseWorks Art Space, Houston,
TX
New
Paintings, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
1998 El Gloominator, State University of New York at
Buffalo Art Gallery,
Buffalo,
NY (catalogue)
Gummi Grotto,
Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006MOtis: Nine Decades of Los
Angeles Art,
Los Angles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Bibbidi Bobbidi
Boo, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Travels
to Kunstverein Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany and
Cercle
Munster, Munster, Luxembourg (catalogue)
2005 Erotic Drawing, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, travels
to
The
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum
of Art,
Brooklyn,
NY (catalogue)
NextNext Visual
Art, curated by Dan Cameron,
Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
The Ludovico
Treatment, curated by David Hunt, Muller de Chiara Gallery,
Berlin,
Germany
Finesse, Catharine
Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Impact: New
Mural Projects, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
Grotto II,
Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Pavilion, Bloomberg Space, London, England (catalogue)
Labor Day,
curated by David Hunt, RARE, New York, NY
Cartoon, Riva
Gallery, New York, NY, curated by David Gibson & Charles
Riva
Selections
2003, Muller De Chiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Metastasize,
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
On and Off
the Wall, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, NY,
curated
by William Stover
Blue-Mars
1993-2003, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Drawings and
Works on Paper: SF/NY/LA, San Luis Obispo Art Center,
San
Luis Obispo, CA
2002 Proper Villains, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT
Grotto, Jessica
Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Necessary
Fictions, De Chiara Gallery, New York, NY
Déjà
Vu, g-module, Paris, France
2001 Mural II, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (catalogue)
Cartoon and
Art, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
Dreamscapes,
Wignall Museum/Gallery, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (catalogue)
2000 Greater New York, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens,
NY
Multiple Sensations,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Good Business
is the Best Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Yard Sale,
New York City Lab School, New York, NY
1999 Monumental Drawings, Exit Art: The First World,
New York, NY
Pictorial
Abstraction, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University,
Philadelphia,
PA
Relay Drawings:
Eye, Hand, Other, Bucknell University Art Gallery,
Lewisburg, PA (catalogue)
Size Matters,
Gale Gates Gallery, New York, NY
Tripindicular,
Lemon Sky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Room with
a View, Sixth @ Prince Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art,
Ridgefield,
CT (catalogue)
Relay: Drawn
to Readymades, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,
Buffalo,
NY, (catalogue)
Inner Child:
Wanna Come Out and Play?, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Take This
Job and Shove It!, HERE Gallery, New York, NY
Borrowing,
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1997 Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn
Museum of Art,
Brooklyn,
NY
XVII Annual
Artist in the Marketplace Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of
the Arts,
Bronx,
NY (catalogue)
Mark Dean
Veca: Grovel in the Hovel; Nicole Pillorge: Sculpture,
PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
Yikes!, Deven
Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
New York Drawers,
Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, traveled to The Gasworks,
London,
England and Corner House, Manchester, England
Wall Drawings
‘96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Recent Work:
Phillippe Pasqua, Mark Dean Veca, Mad River Post, New York,
NY
The Codpiece
Project, Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice,
CA
The Light
is Heavy, Fox & Howell Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wacko, The
Work Space, New York, NY
Hodgepodge
Lodge, The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works for
a Fun House, E. S. Van Dam, New York, NY
1994 Splat Figures, White Columns, New York, NY
WaterWorks,
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Animated,
Art in General, New York, NY
Le Temps d’un
Dessin, Galerie de L’Ecole des Beaux - Arts de Lorient,
Lorient,
France (catalogue)
The New Pop,
Leo Tony Gallery, New York, NY
Cartoonal
Knowledge, Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
House of LeCappellaine
au Go-Go, Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibitions
I, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Project Angelfood,
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles,
Carecen, Fred
Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary
Icons, Westwood Place, Los Angeles, CA
Salon des
Independants, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Loose Association,
The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 A Farewell to the Bridal District,
nnnnnLos Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
AND HONORS
2006nPollock-Krasner Foundation,
New York, NY, Grant
2003 Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY, Special
Editions Fellowship
2002 New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY,
Fellowship, Painting
American Academy
in Rome, Rome, Italy, Rome Prize Finalist
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY,
Fellowship, Painting
The MacDowell
Colony, Peterborough, NH, Artist Residency
1997 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Artist
in the Marketplace Program
Villa Montalvo,
Saratoga, CA, Artist Residency
1996 National Endowment for the Arts/Mid-Atlantic Arts
Foundation, Fellowship Finalist |
