Mark Elliott Johnson
New York, NY
Education
1990 New York University, New York, NY, M.A. Studio Art
1986 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, B.A.
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Selected Exhibitions
2025
2025 Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine.
2024
Heads or Tails, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Imprimatur, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY.
2022 Unsettled Weather,Planthouse Gallery, New York City. (solo)
2019
Contemporary Landscape: Seen and Lost, Kelly Stelling Contemporary, Manchester, NH.
Art Pop-Up on Diamond Cove (Maine) organized by Kelly Stelling Contemporary.
2018
Everything Happens So Much, juried group show, Kelly Stelling Contemporary, Manchester, NH
Impressed: Printmaking Now, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2017 Inertia, Group Show, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH.
2016
Mark Johnson: New Work, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME.
Recent Work from Gallery Artists, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME.
2015
Small Works, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME.
35th Anniversary Show, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH.
Imagining the Universe: Bruce Connors/Mark Johnson/Shiao-Ping Wang, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH.
2014 Love, Lust, and Desire, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH.
2012
Bebout, Johnson, Weldon: Mixed Media Prints,
Jeanne Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY.
Love, Lust, and Desire, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH.
2011 Faculty Exhibition, UC Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.
2010 6th Graphic Biennial, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2008 Mark Johnson: Recent Work, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY (Solo).
2007 Dark Matter, Gallery at Wagner/NYU, New York, NY (Solo).
2006
New Prints 2006/Color, International Print Center New York, NY.
Selection Committee: Massimo Audiello, Greg Burnet, Christopher Gaillard, Janice Oresman, Jessica Stockholder Sarah Suzuki (Juried). New Prints, Mayer Museum of Art, Richmond, VA.
2002 Mark Johnson, “New Work,” 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY,
1999 NYU Faculty Show, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, NY.
1998 Paper, E.I.E. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1997 The Art Market, organized by GenArt, New York, NY.
1996
the lyrical, the expressionist and the poetic, Denise Bibro, NY, NY. Michael Wall, curator (Juried).
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Artist-in-Residence & Grants
2007 Adelphi University, Artist-in-residence, Garden City, New York.
2006 Curriculum Challenge Grant, Poetry and Book Arts, New York University.
2002 Frans Masereel Centrum, Artist-in-residence Kasterlee, Belgium.
2001 Curriculum Challenge Grant, Digital Printmaking, New York University.
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Talks & Panels
2025
Dialogue: Biennial Artist Panel, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine.
Krishna Reddy Symposium (moderator and participant) in conjunction with Heaven in a Wildflower at Print Center New York.
2015 Gallery Talk for The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929-1940, Grey Art Gallery, NY
2011 Artist Talk, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
2010 Gallery Talk for Kunstlerplakate, Grey Art Gallery, New York.
2008 Postmodernism in America, Panelist, New York University, NY.
2007
Postmodernism in America, Panelist, New York University, NY.
College Art Association Conference, New York, New York.
Panelist on Double Take: New Forms in Printmaking and Sculpture.
Artist Talk, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York. (visiting artist).
2006 Artist Talk, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
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Publications
2025
Johnson, Mark, We Want to Find Out, essay included in exhibition catalog forKrishna Reddy:Heaven in a Wildflower at Print Center New York. https://issuu.com/ipcny/docs/web-krishna_reddy_publication
Viscosity Printing Demonstration: Printing Clown Dissolving, Written, produced, narrated and directed by Mark Johnson forPrint Center New York. Video demonstration using Reddy's original plate. 60,000+ views; excerpt featured on Print Center New York Instagram, 12.6M views.
2007
Johnson, Mark. Johnson, Donald, Building on Deering Tradition.
Selected Bibliography & Press
2025
Jorge S. Arango, Painting the Town: CMCA’s 2025, Biennial, Boston Art Review. November, 2025.
2018 Concord Monitor, Impressed Is All About the Prints.
2015 The Post-Digital Printmaker, featured artist.
2012
Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers, David Hornung,
Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
2010 6th Graphic Biennial, catalog, Carson Fox, Novosibirsk State Art Museum
2006 New Prints: Color, Sara Suzuki, exhibition essay.
1991 5th International Biennial Print Exhibit catalog, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts.
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Teaching
2011, 2025 Viscosity Color Print class, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY, NY.
1995 – present New York University.
2021 - present Northeastern University/Marymount Manhattan College
2007 – 2017 Adelphi University.
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Gallery Representation
Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY