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MARC SWANSON
Born: Connecticut, 1969
Lives and works in Catskill, NY

EDUCATION
2001-2004 MFA, The Milton-Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Death Is Expensive, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine. On view May 23 -
September 13, 2026
2024 Like a Leaf Shadow, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2022-23 A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2022 A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco (Part 2), Thomas Cole National Historic Site,
Catskill, NY
2019 Bright Young Things, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2017 Inclinations, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2016 Sorrow in Sunlight, Basilica Hudson Back Gallery, Hudson, New York
2015 Chambre (Marc Swanson in collaboration with choreographer Jack Ferver), New Museum,
New York, NY
2012 New/Now, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
2011 The Second Story, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
2010 Dark Room, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
2010 Acquisitions in Context: Marc Swanson, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City,
Missouri
2008 Hurry on Sundown: The Multimedia Work of Marc Swanson, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of
Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2007 Marc Swanson, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
2007 Beginning to See the Light, Museum of Contemporary Arts Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara,
California. Traveled to 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2005 Marc Swanson, Bellwether Gallery, New York, New York
2003 Live Free or Die, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2001 At First Sight, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1999 The Black Party, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 God Bless the Children of the Beast, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Bats Like Me, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 Sub-Zero/Escene, San Francisco, California
1996 Nature's Way, Showroom, San Francisco, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 a field of bloom and hum, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2024 Magicians, Musicians & Mystics, 1053 Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY
2024 Summer Disaster, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 Foreland Artists, Foreland, Catskill, NY
2019 Marc Swanson & Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Ojai Institute, Ojai, CA
2016 XXXMass, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland,
California
2014 Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Curated by Joan Rothfuss
2011 The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveled to:
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair,
New Jersey; and Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2010 Abstract America: Part II, Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2010 Dead or Alive: Nature Revisited, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
2010 The Craft, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, New York
2009 Other Arrangements, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California. Organized by Diana
Thater
2009 Unnatural Rubber, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2009 Between Spaces, MoMA/PS1, New York, New York
2009 Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2008 to:Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night, Hunter College Art Galleries, New
York, New York
2007 Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
2007 07/08, Bellwether Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
2006 Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
2006 Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute,
Kansas City, Missouri
2006 Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York
2005 Greater New York, MoMA/PS1, New York, New York
2005 Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, New York
2004 No Big Cowboy Can Do the Little Things I Do, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2004 East of the Sun, West of the Moon, White Columns, New York, New York
2004 Nature, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004 Hello Chelsea, Bellwether Gallery, New York, New York
2004 The Bambi Effect, Savage Art Resources, Portland, Oregon
2004 Semiprecious: New Works by Carolyn Castano, Jennifer Cohen, Luis Gispert, Kirsten
Hassenfeld, and Marc Swanson, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York, New York
2002 Two-Person Exhibition, Clementine Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Ride Free, Brownwyn Keenen, New York, New York
2000 And They Told Two Friends, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Levels, La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 You Must Be From California, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Woodland Hills, Michigan
1998 Survey Show, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 Special Guest Star, Gothenburg Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
1997 Better, Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 Real World, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, KY
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
Hessel Art Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

SELECTED PRESS
The New York Times — Marc Swanson Draws Comfort From Rural Cemeteries and '80s Club
Music, November 8, 2022
The Boston Globe — At Mass MoCA, dead deer and disco lights elegize a dying world,
Murray Whyte, November 3, 2022
Art in America — Marc Swanson's AIDS Memorial at MASS MoCA and Thomas Cole House
Museum, December 15, 2022
Sculpture — Marc Swanson, Lauren Levato Coyne, November 2022
BOMB — Disco in the Woods: Marc Swanson Interviewed, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, May 30,
2022
Artforum — Marc Swanson: Bellwether Gallery, David Velasco, May 2008

REPRESENTATION
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Inman Gallery, Houston