Mark Sheinkman (born 1963) is an American contemporary artist. His primary media are oil painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Sheinkman was born in New York City, where he currently lives and works. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University summa cum laude in art history and studio art in 1985.
Sheinkman's artwork has been written about and reproduced in Art in America, Artnews, The New York Times, The New Yorker, TimeOut New York, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, El Pais, Il Mattino, Die Welt and many other publications
His artworks are currently handled by Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles, Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston and Pace Prints in New York.
Art in public collections Museum of Modern Art, New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri The Texas State Galleries, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Museum of Prints and Drawings, State Museum of Berlin Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Solo exhibitions
2022: Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles 2021: 499 Park Avenue, New York 2020: Gallery Joe, Philadelphia 2019: Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles 2019: Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York. (catalog) 2018: Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles 2018: Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston 2017: Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York. (catalog) 2016: Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles 2015: Space 2B, Madrid 2015: Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston 2014: Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles 2011: Von Lintel Gallery, New York 2010: Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston 2010: Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas 2009: Museum Gegendstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany (catalog) 2009: Von Lintel Gallery, New York 2008: Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2008: Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin 2007: Von Lintel Gallery, New York (catalog) 2007: Gallery Joe, Philadelphia 2006: Von Lintel Gallery, New York 2005: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri 2005: Fruehsorge Galerie, Berlin 2005: Gallery Sora, Naha, Japan 2005: osp Gallery, Boston 2004: Von Lintel Gallery, New York 2003: Gallery Sora, Naha, Japan 2002: Von Lintel Gallery, New York 2001: Von Lintel & Nusser, New York 2000: Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1999: Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich, Germany 1998: Thomas Healy Gallery, New York 1998: S65 Gallery, Aalst, Belgium 1997: Galerie Thomas von Lintel Munich, Germany 1997: Berggruen and Zevi, London 1997: Studio Trisorio, Naples 1997: Lawing Gallery, Houston 1996: Morris-Healy Gallery, New York 1995: Gina Fiore Salon, New York 1993: Information Gallery, New York 1989: Paula Allen Gallery, New York
Selected group museum exhibitions
2020–23: Line into Space, Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2020: Groß- nicht artig!, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany 2017: Contemporary Masterpieces from Northwest German Public Collections, Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany 2016: Dot, Dash, Dissolve: Drawn from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia 2015: Line: Making the Mark, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2013: Approaching Infinity: The Richard N. Green Collection of Contemporary Abstraction. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 2011: 100 Years/100 Works of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan (catalogue) 2011: Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York 2010: The Esprit of Gestures: Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (National Collection of Drawings and Prints), Berlin 2009: New York/New Drawings, 1946–2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain (catalogue) 2008: Modern and Contemporary Art from the AMAM Collection, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 2008: Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa 2007: Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, Virginia; Traveled to other museums including Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (catalogue) 2006: "On Line", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Californiak 2004: "Moving Outlines", Contemporary Museum Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland 2003: "Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2002:"Eye in the Sky: Visions of Contemporary Art from the Ackland Collection", Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2000: "A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings 1990–2000." Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000: "Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House (formerly known as The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu), Hawaii 1998: "Large-scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut 1998: "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina 1997: A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings 1990–2000, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1997:Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Traveled to other museums (catalogue)
References
Further reading Melrod, George. "Mark Sheinkman: The Allusive Eloquence of Lines in Space, Exhibition catalog, May, 2020 McQuaid, Cate. “Delicate Balance.” The Boston Globe, April 29, 2015 100 Years/100 Works of Art : Introduction to the Collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Schick, Dr. Ulrike, "When Drawing Becomes Painting While Representing the Ephemeral", Museum Gegendstandfreier Kunst catalog, 2009 Cash, Stephanie, "Mark Sheinkman at Von Lintel", Art in America, March 2008 Amy, Michael, "Mark Sheinkman: Drawing with Light", Exhibition catalog, 2007 Edelman, Robert, "Mark Sheinkman: Between Gesture and Void", Kemper Museum Catalog, January, 2005 Amy, Michael, "Mark Sheinkman at Thomas Healy", Art in America, December 1998 Turner, Grady T., "Up Now, Mark Sheinkman", ARTnews, April, 1998 "Goings On About Town", The New Yorker, April 20, 1998 Landi, Ann, "On the Edge, Mark Sheinkman, The Eraser", ARTnews, September 1997 Brennan, Michael, Artnet, Autumn 1996
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