Mark Tribe Explained

Mark Tribe
Birth Date:1966
Birth Place:San Francisco
Nationality:American
Field:Conceptual art, installation art, video art
Training:Brown University, University of California, San Diego

Mark Tribe (born 1966) is an American artist.[1] He is the founder of Rhizome, a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York City.[2]

In 2013, he was appointed chair of the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[3] Formerly, he was Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University,[4] Director of the Digital Media Center at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence at Williams College.[5] He is the author of The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of Historic Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010)[6] and the co-author of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006).[7] He received an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California in 1994 and an BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990.[8]

Work

Tribe's drawings, performances, installations and photographs often deal with social and political issues. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.;[9] Momenta Art in Brooklyn, New York;[10] Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in Los Angeles, California;[11] and DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas.[12] His work has been included in group exhibitions at the New Museum in New York City;,[13] the Queens Museum in New York City;[14] the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; the Menil Collection in Houston;[15] Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris;[16] SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico;[17] the San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego, California;[18] Museo de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia;[19] Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey;[20] and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts.[21]

In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, a not-for-profit arts organization that supports and provides a platform for new media art.[22] Tribe has curated exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and inSite_05 in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico.[23]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bryan-Wilson. Julia. Sounding the fury: Julia Bryan-Wilson on Kirsten Forkert and Mark Tribe. Artforum International. January 2008. August 28, 2011.
  2. News: Mirapaul. Matthew. Art Site Takes Plunge Into Not-for-Profitability. August 28, 2011. The New York Times. April 2, 1998.
  3. Web site: SVA announces appointments of Steven Henry Madoff, Mark Tribe and New MA in Curatorial Practice Art & Education. Art & Education. 2016-09-23.
  4. News: Kennedy. Randy. Giving New Life to Protests of Yore. August 28, 2011. The New York Times. July 28, 2007.
  5. Web site: Mark Tribe Will Chair Fine Arts MFA at SVA - News - Art in America. www.artinamericamagazine.com. 2016-09-23. 2013-08-29.
  6. Web site: Charta Art Books - Mark Tribe . 4 July 2012.
  7. Web site: New Media Art . 4 July 2012.
  8. Web site: Mark Tribe P.S.1 Studio Visit. momaps1.org. 2016-09-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180315195824/http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/mark-tribe-0. 2018-03-15. dead.
  9. Web site: Mark Tribe's "Plein Air" at the Corcoran, Reviewed. 25 July 2014. 2016-09-23.
  10. Web site: Mark Tribe - Reviews - Art in America. www.artinamericamagazine.com. 2016-09-23. 2012-10-03.
  11. Web site: Port Huron Project videos on view at LACE. 2009-10-20. LA Times Blogs - Culture Monster. en-US. 2016-09-23.
  12. Web site: Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe - Posse Comitatus. 9 December 2014 . en-US. 2016-09-23.
  13. Connor, Michael (2019). "The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics" www.newmuseum.org
  14. Web site: Uneven Development: On Beirut and Plein Air. Ruiz. Alan. 2016. www.queensmuseum.org.
  15. Web site: Mark Tribe: The Port Huron Project. aurorapictureshow.org. 2016-09-23.
  16. Web site: Que faire ? Art, film, politique Dario Azzellini. www.azzellini.net. 2016-09-23.
  17. Armitage. Diane. 2011. Agitated Histories. THE Magazine.
  18. Web site: Summer Salon Series 2012: Beyond the Banner, New Contemporaries V and Sounds of Jazz Loft. en-US. 2016-09-24. 2012-06-06.
  19. Web site: MDE11 at Museo di Antioquia. Malone. Micah. 9 November 2011 . 2016-09-24.
  20. Tim. Maul. 2015-05-01. Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s. Afterimage. 42. 6. 0300-7472.
  21. Davis. Mark. 2010. A Dense Web: The 2010 DeCordova Biennial. Artscope.
  22. Wolf Lieser. Digital Art. Langenscheidt: h.f. ullmann. 2009. pp 146-147
  23. Book: Taylor, Claire. Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture: Location and Latin American Net Art. Routledge. 2014. 978-0415730402. New York. 125–126.