Mark Dion

Mark Dion

BornNationalityBased In
1961AmericanNew York City
Biography

Mark Dion is an American artist who metamorphoses into an explorer, biochemist, detective and archeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments and museum caches of the great historical naturalists, following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics. His research and magical collections are presented in installational still lifes which combine taxidermic animals with lab equipment with artefacts, like walk-through Wunderkammers, life-sized cabinets of curiosity. ...

Selected Artworks
The Medecine Cabinet of Mystery
Mark Dion
The Medecine Cabinet of Mystery, 2013
70 x 47 x 20cm
Later Share Khan
Mark Dion
Later Share Khan, 1990
42 x 33 x 62cm
The Naturalists - Chart 158
Mark Dion
The Naturalists - Chart 158, 2023
65 x 50cm
The Cuts
Mark Dion
The Cuts, 2023
29.5 x 21cm
Salmon of Knowledge (Sociology)
Mark Dion
Salmon of Knowledge (Sociology), 2023
23 x 30cm
Biennals
Sao Paolo Biennial2018 - São Paulo
Documenta2012 - Kassel
The Biennale of Sydney2008 - Sydney
Venice Biennial1997 - Venice
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