Peres Projects

Mark FLOOD (b. 1957 in Houston, US)

• Lives and works in Houston, US

Current Solo Exhibition

• Mark Flood: A Guide for Nude Investors, Reeves Art + Design, Houston, US

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023

• Battlefields, Peres Projects, Milan, IT
• Ask Me About Death, curated by Alessio Ascari, presented by Kaleidoscope in collaboration with 1017 ALYX 9SM, Milan Fashion Week, Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, IT

2021

• Face Index, F, Houston, US
• Dominoes, The Museum of Crypto Art (MoCA), in conjunction with Ever Gold [Projects] (online)

2020

• Protest Signs from 1992, Karma, New York, US

2019

• Paintings from the Postwar Era, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, US

2017

• GOOGLE MURDER-SUICIDE, Maccarone Gallery, New York, US

2016

• Mark Flood: Gratest Hits, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, US
• Dallas Real Estate Development, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas, US
• Paintings from the War for Social Justice, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, US

2015

• American Buffet Upgrade, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
• ASTROTURF YELP REVIEW SAYS YES, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Mark Flood, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US

2014

• Another Painting, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, US
• The Insider Art Fair, New York, US
• AVAILABLE NASDAQ SYMBOL, Zach Feuer, New York, US

2013

• Mike Lood / Ask Officer Pepperspray, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Facebook Farm, Beta Pictoris, Birmingham, US

2012

• Bushwick Basement, Grimm Schultz, New York, US
• People Are Strangle, Peres Projects Mitte, Berlin, DE
• The Hateful Years, curated by Alison Gingeras, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
• Artstar, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, US

2011

• The Bitterness of the Red Pill, Cardoza Fine Art Gallery, Houston, US
• Monument to the Responsible Management of the Earth and DO THE MATH, Maccarone, New York City, US
• Mark Fluid, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York City, US
• Bitch Moves, Peres Projects Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE

2010

• Bitch Moves, Peres Projects Mitte, Berlin, DE
• Decorations On Her Body, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
• Green Cube, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, US

2009

• Chelsea Whores, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York City, US
• Wart Exhibit, Peres Projects Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE

2008

• Entertainment Weakly, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
• Nondifference Personified, Brasil, Houston, US

2006

• Assorted Rags, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, US
• Lace Paintings, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, US
• Lace Paintings, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

• World Peace, curated by Ruth Mannes, Liz Leggett and Todd von Ammon, MOCA Westport, Westport, US
• Dirty Words, curated by Bill Arning Exhibitions, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US

2019

• Color Out of Space, Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, US
• Ozymandias, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, US

2018

• Michael Jackson: On the Wall, curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan and Lucy Dahlsen, National Portrait Gallery, London, U; The Grand Palais, Paris, FR; The Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE; Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, FI
• Mad World, organized by Ali Subotnick, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
• Power to The People, curated by Dr. Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthall, Frank­furt, DE

2017

• A Shared Vision, Selections from the Rudolph-Blum Collection, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Arkansas, US
• The Art Show - Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, JP
• The Book of The World, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, FI
• MIDTOWN, Salon 94 and Maccarone Gallery, Lever House, New York, US
• Apertures, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, US
• True Lies, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, US
• FEEDBACK, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, US
• The Ends Of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
• The Ends Of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, UK
• Abstract / Not Abstract, curated by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami Design District, Miami, US

2016

• My Abstract World, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, DE
• Painting2, Berezdivin Collection, Puerto Rico, US
• Gutes böses Geld. Eine Bildgeschichte der Ökonomie, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, DE
• The Future is Ow, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, US
• Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art & Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, US

2015

• Gift: An Exquisite Exhibition, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, US
• Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian, Los Angeles, US
• Word by Word, Curated by Francesco Bonami, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, UK
• #RAWHIDE, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
• Serialize, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2014

• Group Show, curated by Caroline David, Le Tripostal Lille, FR
• Group Spirit, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2013

• Outside the Lines, CAMH, Houston, US
• ANAMERICANA, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis, American Academy in Rome, Rome, IT
• Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, US
• Galerie Perrotin, Paris, FR

2012

• Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC), Santa Monica, US
• Files Desks Chairs, TOPS, Austin, Texas US
• CineMarfa, Film Festival, Marfa, Texas, US
• Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, ES
• Grisaille, Part II, curated by Alison Gingeras, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
• Blind Cut, curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, US

2011

• a painting show, curated by Aaron Moulton, Autocenter, Berlin, DE

2010

• Preconceived Iconography, Museum 52, New York City, US

2009

• Geography of the Imagination, curated by Michael Briggs, Lead Apron, Los Angeles, US
• Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
• Reality Sandwiches, Artnews Projects, Berlin, DE

2008

• Sack of Bones, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
• Sack of Bones, Asia Song Society, New York City, US

2007

• Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, US
• New Paintings by Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood and Jeff Zilm, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, US

2006

• Scope, Pulse and Flow Miami, Miami, Florida, US
• Mark Flood Jeff Elrod and Jack Pierson, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, Texas, US
• Inaugural Group Show, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, US

2005

• Restless, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US

2002

• Blip, University of South Florida Contemporary Arts Museum, Tampa, Florida, US

2001

• Postmodern Americans: a selection, The Menil Collection, Houston, US
• Mark Flood, Dan McCarthy, Jack Pierson, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City, US

1997

• Uncommon Sense, Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US

1993

• Texas Contemporary: Acquisitions of the 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US

1992

• Avenues of Departure, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US
• Primarily Paint, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, US

1991

• Perfect World, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, US
• Pop Art: The Object Transformed, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US

Selected Collections

• Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, US
• Menil Collection, Houston, US
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, US
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
• Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, US
• David Ross, San Francisco, US
• Paul and Patricia Winkler, Houston, US
• Caroline Huber and Walter Hopps, Houston, US

Selected Publications

2020

• Flood, Clark, Nickas, Bob and Flood, Mark, Mark Flood: Protest Signs from 1992, New York: Karma, 2020

2016

• McCormick, Carlo, Mark Flood: Greatest Hits, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2016

2012

• McClister, Neil (ed.), Pressed Release: Notes on Mark Flood’s Hateful Years, 1979-1989, New York: Luxembourg and Dayan, 2012
• Mark Flood: The Hateful Years, Volume 1: The Eighties, New York: Luxembourg and Dayan, 2012

Selected Bibliography

2023

• Boyd, Robert, Would the real Mark Flood please stand up?, Chron, March 2, 2023
• Alemani, Martina, Pathways. Mark Flood, Panorama Series, Cactus, February 2023
• Alarcón, David, Beyond Symbols, Metal Magazine, January 30, 2023
• Moss, Jack, Milan Fashion Week Men’s A/W 2023: Gucci to Emporio Armani, Wallpaper, January 14, 2023
• Chow Aaron, Mark Flood Taps 1017 ALYX 9SM for Solo Exhibition in Milan, Hypebeast, January 13, 2023
• Socha, Miles, 1017 Alyx 9SM RTW Fall 2023, WWD, January 13, 2023

2022

• Mark Flood Limited Edition, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Issue 41, Fall/Winter 2022 (cover)
• McGraw, Patrick, Career Suicide, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Issue 41, Fall/Winter 2022

2021

• Silver, Hannah, Sculptural jewellery designs from leading artists, Wallpaper*, May 3, 2021
• Brooklyn jewelry company love for both of us announces collaboration with artist Mark Flood, Whitehot Magazine, May 2021

2020

• Binlot, Ann, Above The Fold: Samuel Jablon and Mark Flood talk dirty words, hedonism, psychotropic drugs, Document Journal, February 11, 2020
• Sunday, Sarah, Mark Flood Protests at the Karma Gallery, Provokr, January 27, 2020
• Dafoe, Taylor, Editor’s Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week, Artnet News, January 27, 2020

2019

• Bravo, Tony, Should art make you vomit?, San Francisco Chronicle, October 19, 2019
• Dambrot, Shana Nys, Color Out of Space, Artillery Magazine, April 20, 2019

2018

• Read, Max, Commercial Break, Bookforum, Summer 2018
• Cragg, Michael, the ‘Michael Jackson: on the wall exhibition’ explores the musician’s legacy, i-D Magazine, June 27, 2018
• Hickley, Catherine, Protesting Artists Step Off the Streets and Into the Gallery, New York Times, April 17, 2018

2017

• Horvat, Katja, In conversation with Mark Flood, Interview Magazine Germany, July 12, 2017
• Eight Galleries to See at Art Basel, Elephant Magazine, June 14, 2017
• Mark Flood’s Google Murder-Suicide Opens in New York, Vice, May 31, 2017
• Pini, Gary, Our Mega-Guide to Frieze Art Week 2017: Part 2, Paper Magazine, May 4, 2017
• Barry, Robert, A Chance To Cut: The Ends Of Collage, The Quietus, April 22, 2017

2016

• Anspon, Catherine D., Texas’ 12 Best Books of the Year, Papercity Magazine, December 23, 2016
• Kane, Peter-Astrid, What Is a Facebook ‘Like,’ Anyway?, SF Weekly, December 15, 2016
• Lewis, Jim, When Hell Floods Over, Surface Magazine, December 5, 2016
• Lannin, Kelsey, Paintings From The War For Social Justice, Vice, November 14, 2016
• Flood, Mark, The Diary of Mark Flood, Part Four: Opening Night, ARTnews, July 15, 2016
• Flood, Mark, The Diary of Mark Flood, Part Three: Attack of the Drones, ARTnews, June 8, 2016
• Flood, Mark, The Diary of Mark Flood, Part Two: Home Alone, ARTnews, May 20, 2016
• Flood, Mark, The Diary of Mark Flood, Part One: Gone to Texas, ARTnews, May 11, 2016
• Glentzer, Molly, The enduring mystery of a hometown anti-hero, Houston Chronicle, May 1, 2016
• Nickas, Bob, Mark Flood: Greatest Hits, Artforum, vol.54, no.9, May 2016
• Tommaney, Susie, “Mark Flood: Greatest Hits” at CAMH Offers 30-Year Mixed Bag, Houston Press, April 21, 2016
• Boone, Will, Mark Flood’s Future, Interview Magazine, January 26, 2016
• Herriman, Kat, A Group Show, Curated by an Artist Who Hates Group Shows, New York Times, January 8, 2016
• Lesser, Casey, Mark Flood Plays Patron Saint to Houston’s Unknown Artists, Artsy, January 8, 2016
• Indrisek, Scott, The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again), Blouin Artinfo, January 7, 2016
• Sokol, Zach, Mark Flood is Trolling the Art World with 4Chan Filth and Disgusting Memes, Vice, January 6, 2016
• Steadman, Ryan, Is Artist Mark Flood the Secret Robin Hood of the Art World?, Observer, January 6, 2016
• Sam, Sherman, Mark Flood: Modern Art Helmet Row, Artforum, vol. 54, no.5, January 2016

2015

• Horvat, Katja, Mark Flood: ‘Everyone is both Victim and Persecutor’, Sleek Magazine, November 30, 2015
• Pagel, David, Critic’s Choice: ‘The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up’ at Blum & Poe: Startling work of Cobra artists, Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2015
• Rubinstein, Raphael, Total Service Artists, Art in America, October 2015
• Elrod, Jeff, Interview: Mark Flood, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Issue 24, Summer 2015
• Creahan, D., Berlin - Mark Flood: “Astroturf Yelp Review Says Yes” At Peres Projects Through June 13, 2015” , Art Observed, June 10, 2015
• Meris, Fabrizio and Cappelletti, Gloria Maria, L’arte contagiosa, Flair Magazine, March 2015
• Jablon, Samuel, My Own Career Bores Me: Mark Flood on His Gallery Experiment, Hyperallergic, January 9, 2015

2014

• Fitzpatrick, Leo, An Exclusive Interview with Artist Mark Flood by Leo Fitzpatrick, Purple Magazine, December 4, 2014
• September: Mark Flood, Art in America, August 2014
• Fernandes, Annabel, Mark Flood Interview on the Release of His Supreme Limited Edition Skateboards Out Now, Purple Magazine, May 26, 2014
• Ten Trending Artworks at 22nd Street’s Leading Art Fair, Artsy, May 15, 2014
• Small, Rachel, Are You a Believer?: Mark Flood’s Insider Art Fair, Interview Magazine, May 14, 2014
• Simek, Lucia, Mark Flood Founds an Art Fair, Glasstire, May 2, 2014

2013

• Thompson, Johanna, “Seeing the Signs”, SFAQ / NYAQ / AQ, October 28, 2013
• Mike Lood ‘Ask Officer Pepperspray’, Berlin in art, September 2013
• Guhenneux, Lise, Mark Flood, Peres Projects Gallery, Berlin, Crash Magazine, Issue 40, January 2013

2012

• Markus, David, Mark Flood, Art in America, November 29, 2012
• Vogel, Wendy, Mark Flood: Luxembourg & Dayan - New York, Flash Art, vol. XLV, no. 286, October 2012
• Palmerton, Elwyn, Mark Flood: Luxembourg & Dayan, Frieze, no. 150, October 2012
• Mark Flood Preparing Exhibition of Black Light Paintings in Bushwick Basement Gallery, Blouin Artinfo, September 26, 2012
• Meier, Allison, 27 Questions with Irreverent Conceptual Artist Mark Flood, Blouin Artinfo, September 24, 2012
• Raffel, Amy, “Mark Flood, Zach Feuer Gallery,” Workspaces, September 3, 2012
• Dempsey, Dean, Mark Floos at Luxembourg & Dayan, NYC, SFAQ / NYAQ / AQ, August 10, 2012
• Akel, Joseph, Mark Flood’s Hateful Years Weren’t Extra Bad, Interview Magazine, August 6, 2012
• Walleston, Aimee, More Than Lace: Mark Flood at Luxembourg & Dayan, Art in America, August 1, 2012
• Daubs, James, Mister Flood’s Party, The Faster Times, August 1, 2012
• Plagens, Peter, The Semi-Real, Semi-Surreal, The Wall Street Journal, August 2012
• Steinhauer, Jillian, A Townhouse of Punk, Hyperallergic, July 30, 2012
• Chayka, Kyle, At Luxembourg & Dayan, Mark Flood spits frustrated poetry Out of America’s Psychic Underground, Blouin Artinfo, July 24, 2012
• Smith, Melissa, Artist Mark Flood makes a rare appearance at … his own exhibition, Capital New York, July 20, 2012
• Mark Flood: Doing It His Own Way, Daily Spots, July 10, 2012
• Sutton, Benjamin, And This Week’s Prize for “Best Exhibition Flyer and Press Release” Goes to Mark Flood, Blouin Artinfo, July 6, 2012
• Kennedy, Randy, ‘No Sacred Monster,’ Just a His-Way Artist, New York Times, July 6, 2012
• Mark Flood - People are Strangle, art – Das Kunstmagazin, January 2012

2011

• Mark Flood, Purple Fashion Magazine, vol. III, Issue 16, Fall Winter 2011/2012
• Boyd, Robert, Mark Flood at Cardoza Gallery, The Great God is Dead, October 16, 2011
• The Best of Artissima 18, WAM-Web Art Magazine, November 2011
• Don’t Miss - New York: Mark Flood, ‘Mark Fluid’ at Zach Feuer Through March 26, 2011, Art Observed, March 24, 2011

2009

• Duncan, David, Mark Flood, Art Lies, vol. 63, Fall 2009
• Peres, Javier, Mark Flood makes subversive, provocative art, i-D Magazine, P.Y.T issue, Pre-Fall 2009
• Salsbury, Britany, Critics’ Picks: Mark Flood, Artforum, vol. 47, no. 10, Summer 2009
• Mark Flood, The New Yorker, June 22, 2009
• Halle, Howard, Mark Flood, Time Out New York, June 11, 2009
• Bones’ Beat: Mark Flood’s Chelsea Whores at Zach Feuer Gallery, The Village Voice, June 4, 2009
• Johnson, Ken, Mark Flood, New York Times, May 29, 2009
• Holte, Michael Ned, Los Angeles: Mark Flood, Artforum, vol. 47, no. 7, March 2009
• Mayer, Anna, Mark Flood, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, Fluent Collaborative, January 2009
• Fowler, Brendan, Mark Flood, ANP Quarterly, Vol.2, Issue 2, January 2009

1992

• Art & commerce: Mark Flood looks at the uneasy alliance, Houston Press, February 27, 1992
• Chadwick, Susan, Mark Flood has artful message about control, The Houston Post, 1992
• Waddington, Chris, Highs and Lows from Houston, The Times Picayune, 1992

1991

• Mark Flood, High Times, July 1991

1990

• Solis, Dianna, He Avoids the Risk of Censorship Just by Not Needing Endowments, The Wall Street Journal, August 9, 1990

1989

• PRIMAL SCREEN: A parody on the art scene, The Houston Post, December 8, 1989
• Chadwick, Susan, ‘Primal Screen’ lampoons local art movement, The Houston Post, December 8, 1989
• Chadwick, Susan, Fake Movements Raises Real Questions, The Houston Post, November 16, 1989
• Lockridge, Lionel, Primal Screen: A Fake Art Movement, Art in America, vol. 77, no. 6, November 1989
• Ramos, John, Primal Screen, Flash Art, no. 146, October-November 1989
• Houston: Primal Screen, Treebeards, Artforum, vol. 28, no. 2, October 1989
• Messler, Mick, Primal Screen: Treebeards, artscribe, September-October 1989
• Lee, John, Mark Flood: Celebrity Bowdlerizing, Public News, May 3, 1989
• Gawecki, Laura, Buy Art: Mark Floods, “Imperatives”, Public News, January 25, 1989
• Chadwick, Susan, Flood proves beauty is in the eye of the beholder, The Houston Post, January 6, 1989
• Chadwick, Susan, Drug raid nets publicity for Flood, The Houston Post, January 6, 1989

1988

• Mark Flood: Diverseworks, The Houston Post, May 22, 1988

1986

• Flood, Mark, Rendez-vous Houston, Artscene, Summer 1986