Modern Art

Born in Hong Kong, China, 1969
Lives and works in Miami, FL, USA

Education
1992

The Slade School of Fine Art

University College London, London

1991

Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Solo Exhibitions
2023

Franklin Street Four

Barnett Newman Triangle, New York, NY, USA (outdoor sculpture)

Half-Sleep-City

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

2022

A Scarlet Forest

The Modern Institute, Glasgow

2022

Mark Handforth, White-Light-Whirlwind

San Carlo, Cremona, Italy

2019

TRASH CAN CANDLES

Modern Art, London

2018

The Modern Institute

Glasgow

Zig, Zag & Flag

Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017

Dr Pepper

ICA Miami, Miami, FL, USA (outdoor installation until 2020)

After Nature

Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

Analog Spring

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rome, Italy

2016

SMOKE

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy

Snow White and Pink Panther

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland

2015

The Excentric Circle

The Modern Institute, Glasgow

2014

Drop Shadow

Studio des Acacias, Paris, France

Rough Dark Diamond

Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Deep Violet

Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France

Sidewalk Island

Governors Island, New York, NY, USA

Black Star

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

2013

Capricorno

Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

Blackbird

Maag Areal, Maagplatz, Zürich, Switzerland

Two Old Bananas

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Swizerland

Horseshoes

Abbaye de Cluny, Cluny, France

2011

Rolling Stop

MOCA, Miami, FL, USA

MCA Chicago Plaza Project: Mark Handforth

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA

Hessel Museum of Art

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

2010

Gavin Brown’s enterprise

New York, NY, USA

The Modern Institute

Glasgow

2008

Galerie Almine Rech

Paris, France

Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Zürich, Switzerland

Gavin Brown’s enterprise

New York, NY, USA

2007

Platz

Galerie Eva Presenhuber/Tessinerplatz, Zürich, Switzerland (outdoor sculpture)

Concentrations 51: Mark Handforth

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA

2006

Directions – Mark Handforth

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA

Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Zürich, Switzerland

No

The Modern Institute Offsite, Hutcheson’s Hall, Glasgow

2005

Stroom Den Haag

The Hague, Netherlands

Galerie Almine Rech

Paris, France

Fondation Vasarely

Aix-en-Provence, France

Gavin Brown’s enterprise

New York, NY, USA

Kunsthaus Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

2004

Wrong Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Galleria Roma Roma Roma

Rome, Italy

The Modern Institute

Glasgow

2003

Le Consortium

Dijon, France

Lamppost

Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA

2002

Hammer Projects: Mark Handforth

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Galleria Franco Noero

Turin, Italy

Gavin Brown’s enterprise

New York, NY, USA

2000

Free Bird

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

1998

Gavin Brown’s enterprise

New York, NY, USA (with Dara Friedman)

1997

Miami Arts Project

Miami, FL, USA (four bus shelters for Metro-Dade Art in Public Places)

1996

she is stupid and I am worried

Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, USA (with Dara Friedman)

not from where I’m standing

Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

1994

cheap

Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami, FL, USA (with Adam Kuczynski)

1991

Galerie Krieg

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Gavin Brown’s enterprise

New York, NY, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Modern Art

Paris, France

Au bout des mes rêves

lille3000 at Tripostal, Lille, France

Oltre il buio, Ala Scaligera - Rocca di Angera

Angera, Italy

2022

Sculptures by

Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY, USA

2021

Sculpture in the City – 10th Edition

City of London, London (outdoor installation)

2020

Group Show

Modern Art, London

2019

From Where Comes Your Voice, curated by Maria Bojan

The Art of the Treasure Hunt, Chianti, Italy

La Lumière des Mondes

Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France

2018

viewing depot exh#01

Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2017

99 Cents or Less

MoCAD, Detroit, MI, USA

Bearable Lightness of Being

GRIMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tommorrow Will Still Be Ours

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

2016

Mir ist das Leben lieber: Sammlung Reydan Weiss. Ausstellung zum 25-jährigen Bestehen der Weserburg

Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

FRAC Poitou-Charentes

Angoulême, France

2015

Domaine du Muy

Le Muy, France

Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

La Joie de Vivre

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

Armleder, Handforth, Landers

Galleri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark

Love Story – Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

2014

Blackout

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Natura Lapsa

Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

Global Positioning Systems

Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

Art Parcours

Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Man in the Mirror

Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2013

Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles

Salon 94, New York, NY, USA

Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

Apparitions collectives

Collège Joliot-Curie, Tonnay-Charente, France

Retour du monde

MAMCO – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

L’Art à l’endroit: un parcours d’art contemporain à Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence, France

2012

Hors les Murs

FIAC, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

Sunlight on Cold Water

Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA

Painting in Space

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011

American Exuberance

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA

Painting Show

Eastside Projects, Birmingham

Sculpture Now

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland

ArtZuid 2011

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sympathy for the Devil

Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2010

Born in Dystopia

Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France

At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg

Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY, USA

Ghost Colour

Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium

2009

Beg Borrow and Steal

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA

Les Enfants Terribles

Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Sphères 2009

Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France

The Secret Life of Objects

Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA

TONITE

The Modern Institute, Glasgow

Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

Magritte et la lumière

Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium

Urs Fischer, Mark Handforth og Georg Herold

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Nimporte quoi

Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France

2008

Pivot Points I: Defining MOCA’s Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

The Freak Show

La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

2007

The Complexity of the Simple

L&M Arts, New York, NY, USA

Internationale Lichttage Winterthur 2007

Winterthur, Switzerland

Jubilee Exhibition

House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland

Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux

Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’Île de Vassivière, Île de Vassivière, France

The Freak Show

Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France

Disorder in the House

Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2006

The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture

Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA

5 Milliards d’Années

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

La Force de l’Art

Le Grand Palais, Paris, France

Optik Schröder: Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Space Boomerang

Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA

2005

Light Art from Artificial Light

ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

Lotissement de Cimaises

Villa Arson, Nice, France

2004

Terminal 5

TWA Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, NY, USA

Never Never Landscape

Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany

Group Show

Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

It’s All an Illusion

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland

Genesis Sculpture

Domaine de Pommery, Reims, France

Sculptures

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

Keep Your Head to the Sky

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

Whitney Biennial 2004

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

2003

10 Floridians

Miami Art Central, Miami, FL, USA

Nouvelles Scènes – I Love Dijon

Le Consortium, Dijon, France

New Space! Group Show!

Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

It Happened Tomorrow

7th Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France

Inaugural Group Exhibition

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

IMAGINE

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Coollustre

Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France

Breathing the Water

Galerie Hauser & Wirth and Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland

20th Anniversary Exhibition: Welcome Home

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

2002

My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love

Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

Galleria Roma Roma Roma

Rome, Italy

2001

Humid

The Moore Building, Miami, FL, USA

Lokalzeit

Johanniterbrücke, Basel, Switzerland

2000

Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

Departing Perspectives, organised by Fredric Snitzer

Espirito Santo Bank, Miami, FL, USA

Deja-Vu

Art Miami, Miami, FL, USA

1999

Heads-up

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

Leftover Festivities

Nature Morte, Delhi, India

1998

New Art: South Florida

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

Oriental Nights

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA (performance)

1997

Bobois

Galerie Krinzinger, Art Miami, Miami, FL, USA

1996

Joint Venture

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

1993

Jason Rubell Gallery

Miami, FL, USA

1991

Zwischen Dürer und Holbein

Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Selected Collections

The Bass

Miami Beach, FL, USA

Carnegie Museum of Art

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Cass Sculpture Foundation

Goodwood

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, TX, USA

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Paris, France

FRAC Centre

Orléans, France

FRAC PACA

Marseille, France

FRAC Poitou-Charentes

Angoulême, France

Governor’s Island Trust

New York, NY, USA

Institute of Contemporary Art

Miami, FL, USA

Le Consortium

Dijon, France

Luma Foundation

Arles, France

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse

Miami, FL, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art

North Miami, FL, USA

Pérez Art Museum

Miami, FL, USA

Pinault Collection

Venice, Italy

The Rachofsky Collection

Dallas, TX, USA

Rubell Family Collection

Miami, FL, USA

Speed Art Museum

Louisville, KY, USA

Vanhaerents Art Collection

Brussels, Belgium

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY, USA