Mark Kent
b. Cork, Ireland, 1972
Education
2010-2012 Master of Fine Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago USA
1995 BA Crawford Collage of Art and Design, Cork IE
Residencies
2008 FLACC Art Center, Genk BE
2001-2002 Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL
Public Art Commissions
2020 New Light The Glucksman Cork City
2009 Fencing the Museum Public Art Project, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NL
2009 Genk City Hall, Public Art Commission, Genk BE
2008 Industrial Sound Recordings from Gemaal, Art Project shown in four locations: AINCI Maastricht NL, IKOB Eupen BE, Kraftzentrale Alsdorf DE, C-Mine Genk BE
Solo shows
2009 Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL, Released an edition of 12 unique cocktail dresses
2008 Rough Sleeping Patterns Installation at Buro, Leeuwarden NL
2007 Rough Sleeping Patterns Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
2004 Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
2003 Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
2001 Open Studio, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL
2000 120 paintings Wexford Art Center IE
1998 Triskel Art Centre, Cork, IE
Group Shows
2022 Homeland ‘Through Light and Shade’ at Damer House, Tipperary IE
2022 Alalimòn Gallery, Barcelona ES
2020 New Light, The Glucksman, Cork City IE
2019 Stranger Approaching at Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York USA
2019 West End Art Studio, Mallow, Cork IE
2018 Jumbletron, Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida USA
2017 Mallow Arts Festival, Cork IE
2014 Schilderkunst OP DRIFT (Painting ADRIFT) Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam NL
2012 Framing the Dragon, Gallery 400 Chicago USA
2012 30 Days of Peace, Love and Painting, Summer Painting Show at Ellen de Bruijne Projects NL
2010 SPEED BUMP work from the collection of Frans Oomen, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL
2009 The last real painters Galerie Resy Muijsers Contemporary, Tilburg NL
2008 OPEN HOUSE project with FLACC, and the city’s of Genk, Maastricht, Eupen, Alsdorf
2007 Frozen Cirrostratus Returns Skam, Hamburg DE
2007 Rough Sleeping Patterns Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf DE
2007 House trip Art Forum Berlin DE
2005 C2 Crawford Art Gallery, Cork IE
2004 Liste Art Fair, Basel CH
2002 Open Studio Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL
2002 120 drawings about tea, European Art Center, Xamin, China
1997 How I learned to love photography Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick IE
1997 How I learned to love photography Crawford Art Gallery, Cork IE
1996 Wexford Artist Book Exhibition, Wexford Art Centre IE
Publications
2019 Stepping through broken windows, Publication for exhibition at Bridget Donahue Gallery NY
2008 Industrial Sound Recordings from Gemaal Published by FLACC Art Center, BE
2007 Rough Sleeping Patterns Published Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
Screenings
2018 Polyhedra in the realm of the theoretically imaginable at CUBED:
Luminous, Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida USA
2018 Polyhedra in the realm of the theoretically imaginable at ACRE TV show Jumbletron
2016 Telephone operator at dusk at Cork Indie Film Festival
2016 Hippopotamus, Acre TV, Chicago, Oct-Dec program
2016 Hippopotamus, Visegrad Film Festival, Cork
2016 Hippopotamus at Broken Knuckle Film Festival, New York
2016 Hippopotamus at Animaze Online Film Festival, Canada
2016 Hippopotamus at Pink City Film Festival Jaipour, India
2015 Meterorology, a guide to the weather at Visions of the Night Film Festival, Paris
2015 Meterorology, a guide to the weather at Cork Film Festival
2015 Meterorology, a guide to the weather at Visionera, Siena, Italy
2015 Meterorology, a guide to the weather at Gdansk film festival, Poland
2014 Elwha River Dam (7 minutes) Cork Film Festival, Opening for Documentary Feature DamNation
2014 Elwha River Dam (7 minutes) Cork Film Festival, Irish Shorts 6: In Profile
2014 Dead Nature (9 minutes) Indie Cork Film Festival, Creative Cork: Programme Two
Grants
2022 Agility Award, The Arts Council IE
2016 Cork County Council Artist Bursary IE
2009 Basisstipendium- Working Grant, Mondriaan Fund NL
2007 Project Grant, Mondriaan Fund NL
2004 Basisstipendium- Working Grant, Mondriaan Fund NL
2003 Exhibition Grant, Irish Art Council IE
Reviews
2019 Oct Mousse Magazine, review by Viola Angiolini, Stranger Approaching at Bridget Donahue Gallery NY
https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/viola-angiolini-bridget-donahue-new-york-2019/
2019 Sep Artforum, Must See Show, Stranger Approaching at Bridget Donahue Gallery NY
2019 Sep Cultured Magazine, Dean Kissick Must See Show, Stranger Approaching at Bridget Donahue Gallery NY
2008 Circa Magazine, Issue 126, review by Lucy Cotter, Mark Kent: Rough sleeping patterns, Leeuwarden NL
1997 Circa Magazine, review of How I learned to love photography at Crawford Art Gallery
Represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
Works in public and private collections.