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BIOGRAFIE
| 1962 | born in Newtownards, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| 1981 - 1985 | BA St. Martins College of Art |
| 1985 - 1986 | MA Chelsea School of Art |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2019 | Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland White Light, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
| 2018 | Spectra, Luca Tomassi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
| 2017 | Mark Francis and Alexis Harding: The Extended Field, Luca Tomassi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Abstract Painting Now, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria The Underlying Shape, Floss and Schultz, Cologne, Germany Painting Black, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Foundation of Conceptual Art, Soest, Germany |
| 2016 | Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London Claudia Weil Galerie, Friedberg-Rinnenthal, Germany |
| 2015 | Newlyn Art Gallery, The Exchange, Penzance |
| 2014 | Evidence of Absence, Dirimart, Istanbul Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany |
| 2013 | Calibrate, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
| 2012 | Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2011 | Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (FCMOCA), Fort Collins, CO Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town |
| 2010 | Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin Arena, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, England Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kunstmuseum St.Gallen Apexart, New York City, NY Art + Art Gallery, Moscow Galerie de Brock, Knokke, Belgium |
| 2009 | Field, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris AkkuH Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, Hengelo Galleria Rubin, Milan Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
| 2008 | Pulse Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town Galleria L’Attico, Rome Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA, Dublin Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH, Nuremberg Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
| 2007 | Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain Museum Kunst Palast. Düsseldorf Bloomberg SPACE, London Letterkenny Arts Centre Osborne Samuel, London |
| 2006 | Pendulum, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Frontier, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium The Fine Art Society, London, UK |
| 2005 | Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim ART FUTURES, Bloomberg SPACE, London Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK AIB Art Collection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland Arts Council England Touring Collections, UK |
| 2004 | Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Marlborough Graphics, London Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City of London School, London Galeria de Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City |
| 2003 | Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
| 2002 | Galerie Wilma Lock, St Gallen Switzerland Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris Jerwood Space, London Design Museum, London & touring IMMA, Dublin Essor Project Space, London, UK Kerlin Gallery Dublin Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| 2001 | New Paintings, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart Irish Art Now, IMMA. Dublin Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 2000 - 2001 | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
| 2000 | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, California The Nunnery Gallery, London Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1999 | Mary Boone Gallery, New York Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 1999 - 2000 | Art Gallery of Newfoundland Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany University of Texas (Blanton Museum of Art) PS1, New York Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Kohn/Turner Gallery, L |
| 1998 | Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris Stadt Münster, Germany Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy |
| 1997 | Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Mary Boone Gallery, New York Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London GOW Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand Royal Academy of Art, London Angles Gallery, Los Angeles Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
| 1996 | Terra Nova – New Territories, Harewood House, Leeds Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam Galerie Anne de Villepoix , Paris M.O.M.A., Oxford Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf Harewood House Trust, Harewood Flowers East Gallery, London Whitechapel Open, London Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Mary Boone Gallery, New York |
| 1995 | Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Galerie Thieme+Pohl, Darmstadt, Germany City Art Gallery, Manchester Testing the Water, Tate Gallery, Liverpool Voyage Anglais, Rheimes, France John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Waddington Galleries, London Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam Kunstvereins Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1994 | Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Mark Francis & Brad Lochore Herve Mikaeloff, Paris Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Richard Salmon Ltd., London Norfolk Institute of Art & Design, Norwich Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Cornerhouse, Manchester Munich Order Centre, Munich Whitechapel Open, London |
| 1993 | Tate Gallery, London Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, Ikon Touring Exhibition Eagle Gallery, London Tate Gallery, London International Print Exhibition, Tokyo Whitechapel Open, London |
| 1992 | Jill George Gallery, London Royal Festival Hall, London British Art comes to St. Helena, St Helena European Parliment Exhibition, Belfast, Edinburgh, London, Zurich, Brussels |
| 1990 | Thumb Gallery, London New Academy, London Bonhams Contemporary Auction, London Whitechapel Open, London |
| 1989 | Royal College of Art, London |
| 1986 | Paton Gallery, London Royal Festival Hall, London On the Wall Gallery, Belfast |
| 1985 | Irish Artists in London Mall Galleries, London |
| 1984 | Royal Academy of Arts, London Summer Group Show, |
| 1983 | Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin The Mall Gallery, London |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 1997 | Public Art Development Trust: Mark Francis / Nicky Hirst |
| 1996 | IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
| 1993 | Grand Prize Tokyo International Print Exhibition |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| ACC Bank, Dublin Allied Irish bank Anglo Irish bank Arts Council of England Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY American Express Collection Arthur Andersen & Co Ltd Bank of Ireland Bank of America, Dublin Bank of Scotland, Dublin British Credit Trust,Slough British Council, London Caldic Collection, Amsterdam Cleveland Clinic Art Foundation Program, Lyndhurst, Ohio Chelmsford Borough Council Contemporary Arts Society, London Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork de Young Memorial Museum San, Francisco Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Deutsche Bank, Germany Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, London Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane The Economist European Parliament General Mills Inc. Goldman Sachs International, London Government Art Collection, London The Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri Hammersmith & Fulham Education Authority Heytesbury Holdings, Australia IIB Bank, Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland Lambert Collection, Zurich Leicester Education Authority Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum Machida City Museum Of Graphic Art, Tokyo Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Dublin Mead Gallery, Warwick University Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc., New York Merrill Lynch International Bank, London The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Microsoft Art Collection, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington State Museum of Modern Art, Miami Nat West Group Art Collection, London Neuberger Berman, A Lehman Brothers company New York Public Library, New York The Rowan Collection Belfast Saatchi Collection, London Sarah Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland Southampton City Art Gallery Simmons & Simmons, London Stanhope Properties Plc The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri St. Peters College, Oxford Tate Gallery, London UBS Art collection, Switzerland Ulster Museum, Belfast Unilever Plc, London University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wellmark BlueCross Blue Shield Corporate Art Collection, Des Moines, Iowa |