Employing a mix of photography and digital media, Mark Dorf’s work explores the post-analogue experience – society’s interactions with the digital world and its relationship to our natural origins. Dorf scrutinizes and examines the influence of the information age through the combination of photography and digital media, looking at, in his most recent works how we encounter, translate, and understand our surroundings through the filter of science and technology. Mark seeks to understand our curious habitation of the 21st century world through the juxtaposition of nature and the digital domain.
Dorf has exhibited internationally including at Galerie Philine Cremer, Dusseldorf, DE, 2016; Division Gallery, Toronto, 2015; Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2015; Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, 2015; The Lima Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, 2014; Mobile World Centre, Barcelona, 2014; Harbor Gallery, New York, 2014; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, 2013; and Phoenix Gallery, New York, 2012. Dorf’s work is included in the Fidelity Investments Collection, the Deutsche Bank Collection, and the permanent collection of the Savannah College of Art and Design.
BORN LACONIA, NH
LIVE/WORK NEW YORK, NY EDUCATION B.F.A. 2011, Savannah Collage of Art and Design [SCAD], Magna Cum Laude
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Transposition, Prague Botanical Gardens, Fotograf Festival #6, Prague, CZ
2016 Irreality, School Of Visual Arts CP Project Space, New York, NY
2015 Emergence, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Second Nature, Outlet Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Emergence, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
2014 Axiom & Simulation, Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2013 Environmental Occupations, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2012 Environmental Occupations, Galerie Bleu, Lacoste, FR
2012 Environmental Occupations, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP AND ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2016 Untitled Art Fair, Postmasters Gallery, Miami, FL - (Upcoming)
2016 Paradise, The Southern, Charelston, SC - Curated byEliot Dudik- (Upcoming)
2016 Land Forms, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY - (Upcoming)
2016 Eye South, University of Columbus, Columbus, GA
2016 Eternal Earth, Main Line Arts Center, Haverford, PA
2016 Cross Pollination, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2016 Layered Landscapes, Philine Cremer Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE - Curated byTina Sauerländer
2016 30 Under 30ish, Victori + Mo, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Aint–Bad: Vision to Reality, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA - Curated bySusan Laney
2016Cat Heroicus Sublimis, New Hive - Curated byTina Sauerländer(Online)
2016 Ornamentation of the Joint, Pfizer, Brooklyn, NY
2016NARGIFSUS, Transfer Gallery / New Hive, Brooklyn, NY - Curated byCarla GannisandTina Sauerländer
2016 New Realities, Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru - Curated by Alpha-ville
2015 Bring Your Own Beamer, Reverse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - Curated by Helena Acosta
2015 The Wrong (again) New Digital Art Biennale,Superscope Pavilion, Online exhibition of digital works
2015 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 Leiden International Photography Festival, Leiden, NL
2015 Unveil, Post-Contemporary, Troy, NY
2015 Natural Disruptions, Well House Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Landscape as Fetish, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA - Curated byGreer Muldowney
2015 fig-2, ICA Studio, London, UK - Curated by Louise Benson and POSTMatter
2015 HAWAPI, Museo del Convento de Santo Domingo Qorikancha, Cuzco, Peru
2015 Dynamic Mapping, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 //_PATH, Loop Hole Gallery, CONTACT Photo Festival, Toronto, CA
2015 Room Nine,Panther Modern,Online exhibition commissioned byLaTurbo Avedon
2015 Refraction Index, Los Ojos, Brooklyn, NY
2014 HAWAPI, Lima Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, Peru
2014 Inverted Normals, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ - Curated by Chris Manzione
2014 New Realities, Mobile World Centre, Barcelona, ES - Curated by Alpha-ville
2014 Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2014 SALON I, HARBOR Gallery, New York, NY
2014 New Landscapes, Gallery 19, Chicago, IL
2014 #EverythingAllAtOnce, 48 Hoxton Square, London UK
2014 The Flash of an Instant, The New Art Center, Boston, MA
2014 PARALLELS,Neverland Space, (Online)
2014 Alone Together,15folds.com, Online monthly exhibitions of commissioned animated .GIFs
2014 SPUR, Village Gallery, Leeds UK
2013 The Six, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2013 10x10, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2013 NURTUREart Annual Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Center Forward 2013, Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2013 Surface Intentions, HARBOR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 With / Out, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
2012 enter: CR10, CR10 Arts, Hudson, NY
2011 Small Works, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2016 Meet Factory - Prague, CZ - Fellowship awarded
2014 HAWAPI - Pariacaca, Peru - Fellowship awarded
2014 Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Artist in Residence - Gothic, CO - Fellowship Awarded
2013 Contemporary Arts Center Woodside – Troy, New York - Fellowship awarded
2012 chaNorth Artist Residency – Pine Plains, New York - Fellowship awarded
2012 Nes Artist Residency – Skagaströnd, Iceland
AWARDS AND HONORS
2015 Mayer Foundation Grant
2015 KLOMPCHING Gallery Fresh 2015 finalist
2015 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Winner
2014 2nd Annual New York Times Lens Portfolio Review
2012 Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship 13 – Judges Commendation
2011 Francis Larkin McCommon Scholarship – Four year full tuition scholarship awarded by the Savannah College of Art and Design for portfolio submission
GUEST LECTURES
2014 Portfolio Review - Harvard Graduate School of Design - Cambridge, MA
2014 New York Photo Salon - School of Visual Arts [SVA] - Guest Artist Lecture - New York, NY
2014 Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory [RMBL] - Guest Artist Lecture – Gothic, CO
2014 School of the Art Institute of Chicago [SAIC] - Online Guest Artist Talk – Chicago, IL
2014 University of South Carolina [USC] - Online Guest Artist Talk – Columbia, SC
2013 Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD] - Gallery/Exhibition Talk – Savannah, GA
2013 Cecil College - Online Guest Artist Talk – North East, MD
2012 Savannah College of Art and Design Lacoste – Gallery/Exhibition Talk – Lacoste, FR
CURATORIAL
2014 Guest Curator, "influx (arrival & inward flow of a large amount of something)", CR10 Arts, Hudson,NY - Curated a selection of animated .GIFs
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Translations - Aint–Bad Editions - Monograph - Upcoming Fall 2016
2016PhotoViz: Visualizing Information through Photography- Gestalten - Edited by Nicholas Felton
2016FOAM Magazine - On Earth - Issue No. 44
2015 Emergence -In the In-Between Editions- Monograph
2015 Granta Magazine - The Map Is Not the Territory - Issue No. 131
2015 Ain't-Bad Magazine - Vol. 3 Issue No.1 - From Here On - April 2015
2015DIS Magazine(Digital) - The Data Issue - February 2015
2014 HAWAPI - Etiqueta Negra
2014VIEW Magazine(Digital) - Emergence - Issue No. 10
2014 Quiet Lunch Magaine - //_PATH - Issue No. 1
2014 urbanBLUR - CND Publications – Thessaloniki, Greece
2014 La Lettura (Italian) - //_PATH - May 2014
2014 Harvard Business Review - //_PATH - Issue No. 92
2013Unless You Will Magazine - Issue No. 28 - Axiom & Simulation
2013 Orion Magazine – Axiom & Simulation – Vol. 3 Issue No. 2
2013 Geometry Makes Me Happy - Index Books - Barcelona Spain
2011 Ain’t Bad Magazine – Issue No. 1 – Environmental Occupations
2011 Vision Magazine (Chinese Edition) – Environmental Occupations
2011 Surface Magazine (Chinese Edition) – Environmental Occupations
COLLECTIONS
Deutsche Bank Collection
Fleet Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Avery Library at Columbia University
John D. Rockefeller Library at Brown University
Luke Lindoe Library at the Alberta College of Art and Design
Fidelity Investments Collection
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Savannah College of Art and Design
Private Collections
