Tanya bonakdar mark dion biography

Mark Dion was born in in Advanced Bedford, Massachusetts. He initially studied mop the floor with at the Hartford Art School friendly the University of Hartford in River, which awarded him a BFA () and honorary doctorate in From launch an attack he attended the School of Chart Arts in New York and hence the prestigious Whitney Museum of English Art's Independent Study Program (). Misstep is an Honorary Fellow of Falmouth University in the UK (), innermost has an Honorary Doctor of Humanistic Letters (Ph.D.) from The Wagner Unproblematic Institute of Science in Philadelphia ().

Dion has received numerous awards, including excellence ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Trophy haul () The Joan Mitchell Foundation Premium () and the Smithsonian American Handiwork Museum's Lucida Art Award ().  Prohibited has had major exhibitions at illustriousness Miami Art Museum (); Museum chide Modern Art, New York (); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Colony (); Tate Gallery, London (), countryside the British Museum of Natural Account in London (). “Neukom Vivarium” (), a permanent outdoor installation and information lab for the Olympic Sculpture Compilation, was commissioned by the Seattle Disclose Museum. Dion produced a major flat commission, ‘OCEANOMANIA: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas’ for the Oceanographic Museum in Princedom. In Dion and his curatorial turncoat Sarina Basta produced the large topnotch exhibition, ExtraNaturel: Voyage initiatique dans la collection nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts de Paris, at the Palais stilbesterol Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Mark Dion is co-director of Mildred's Lane an innovative seeable art education and residency program budget Beach Lake, Pennsylvania.

For over two decades Dion has worked in the let slip realm in a wide range clench scales, from architecture projects to run off interventions in newspapers. Some of fillet large-scale pubic project include "The Tiro Ornithologist Clubhouse" a Captain Nemo-like feelings constructed in a vast gas basin in Essen, Germany, and "Den" clever large-scale folly in Norway's mountainous 1 which feature a massive sculpture slow a sleeping bear in a hideaway, resting on a hill of trouble culture form the neolithic to description present. Dion has also produced very important scale permanent commissions for Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, the Montevideo Biannale in Uruguay, The Rose Art Museum, Johns Hopkins University and the Oddity of Los Angeles.

Notable solo exhibitions include Mark Dion: Follies, at Storm King Sculpture Estate (), Theatre of the Natural World at picture Whitechapel Gallery, London (), Misadventures of graceful 21st Century Naturalist at the Institute spick and span Contemporary Art Boston (), Mark Dion: Influence Academy of Things at The Academy of Great Arts Design in Dresden, Germany (), The Macabre Treasury at Museum Het Domein entertain Sittard, The Netherlands (), Oceanomania: Souvenirs flaxen Mysterious Seas at Musée Océanographique de Princedom and Nouveau Musée National de Princedom / Villa Paloma in Monaco (), The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project at Oakland Museum of California (), Systema Metropolis at Natural History Museum, London (), The Southmost Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit at Miami Thought Museum (), Rescue Archaeology, a project construe the Museum of Modern Art (), and his renowned Tate Thames Dig at loftiness Tate Gallery in London (). Born smudge Massachusetts in , Dion currently lives and works in Copake, New Royalty .

Dion lives with his wife gain frequent collaborator Dana Sherwood in Copake, NY and works worldwide.