BIOGRAPHY
Mark Tribe is an artist who believes in the power of aesthetic experience to forge new pathways of understanding. Since 2012, he has made landscape pictures that explore American ideas about nature and land, from Manifest Destiny to contemporary environmentalism. He is also known for his early contributions to the field of new media art, as well as his socially-engaged performances and installations.
Tribe’s paintings, photographs, video recordings and installations have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Momenta Art in New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Australia; and DiverseWorks in Houston. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; the Menil Collection in Houston; Centre Pompidou in Paris; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow; MUAC in Mexico City; SITE Santa Fe; the San Diego Museum of Art; Museo de Antioquia in Medellín; Blanton Museum of Art in Austin; Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah; Montclair Museum of Art in New Jersey; the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York; and Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. He has received grants from Creative Capital, the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, ArtsLink, and the Experimental Television Center. He is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. Tribe’s work has been reviewed or discussed in Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, Art Papers, the Boston Globe, the Brooklyn Rail, the Daily Beast, Die Welt, El Pais, Flash Art, Frieze, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Hyperallergic, the Los Angeles Times, Modern Painters, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and many other publications.
Tribe has served as Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Arts in New York City since 2013. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, Director of Art and Technology at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Artist in Residence at Williams College. In 1996, he founded Rhizome, a nonprofit arts organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.
He received an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. Born in San Francisco, California in 1996, he lives and works in New York City.
CURRICULUM VITAE
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MARK TRIBE
Born in 1966 in San Francisco, CA.
Lives and works in New York City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2021 |
"Mark Tribe: Landscape Pictures." Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY. Video, photographs, prints and paintings. |
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2018 |
"New Nature." University Art Gallery, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Video installation. |
| 2015 | "New Landscapes." Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX. Photographs and videos. |
| "Mark Tribe: The Dystopia Files." Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Australia. Video installation. | |
| "Posse Comitatus." DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. Collaboration with Chelsea Knight, curated by Rachel Cook. Photographs and video installations. | |
| 2014 | "Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project." Menil Collection, Houston, TX. |
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"Mark Tribe: Plein Air." Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Curated by Philip Brookman. Photographs. |
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| 2013 | "Posse Comitatus." Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. Video installation. |
| 2012 | "Rare Earth." Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, NY. Photographs and video. |
| "Mark Tribe: The Dystopia Files feat. Michael Trigilio." San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. Screening with performance. | |
| "Posse Comitatus." Annelise Mertz Dance Studio, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Performance art project in collaboration with Chelsea Knight. | |
| 2011 | "Sweet Child Solos." LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA. Performance event and video installation. |
| "Mark Tribe: The Dystopia Files feat. Marcy Mays." Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Screening with performance. | |
| "Mark Tribe: The Dystopia Files." Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by Zeljka Himbele. Interactive video installation. | |
| 2010 | "Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project." LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA. Video installation. |
| 2009 | "Exhibition." 211 Elisabeth Street, New York, NY. Star Spangled Cover performance and installation. |
| 2008 | "Let Another World Be Born: Stokely Carmichael 1967/2008." Tudor City Place, New York, NY. Port Huron Project reenactment commissioned and presented by Creative Time. |
| "The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008." DeFremery Park, Oakland, CA. Port Huron Project reenactment commissioned and co-presented by Creative Time. Co-presented by the Oakland Museum of California. | |
| "We Are Also Responsible: Cesar Chavez 1971/2008." Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA. Port Huron Project reenactment commissioned and presented by Creative Time. Co-presented by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2023 |
Autonomous Art Biennale. Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Roy Brand, Sandra Weil and Rula Khoury. | ||
| “A Painting is a Painting is a Painting.” Curated by Laurie De Chiara. Artport Kingston, Kingston, NY. | |||
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2022 |
“Angela Davis—Seize The Time,” OMCA, Oakland, CA. | ||
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“A Journey Through Printmaking.” CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China. Curated by Thomas Vu. | ||
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2021 |
“Putting Green.” Williamsburg waterfront, Brooklyn, NY. Higher Ground included in public art project organized by Two Trees. | ||
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“State of Nature.” Indiana State Museum, IN. Griffy Lake Nature Preserve, Monroe County, Indiana, July 4, 2015 included in group show. Curated by Elizabeth Stirrat. | ||
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“This Is Not My Tree.” NARS Foundation, NY. Black Brook, Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, New York, October 2, 2016 included in group show. Curated by Nina Mdivani. | ||
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2020 |
“State of Nature.” Grunwald Gallery of Art, IN. Near Indiana Creek and Griffy Lake Nature Preserve included in group show. Curated by Elizabeth Stirrat. | ||
| “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics.” Gund Gallery Kenyon College, OH. StarryNight included in group show. Curated by Michael Connor and Aria Dean. | |||
| “Celebrating Wild Beauty.” Schneider Museum of Art, OR. Deep Green included in group show. Curated by Scott Malbaurn. | |||
| “A Perfect Storm.” Faction Art Projects, New York, NY. Mill Brook Ridge and Black Brook included in group show. Curated by Natasha Becker. | |||
| “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics.” Dunlop Art Gallery Learning, Regina, SK, Canada. StarryNight included in group show. Curated by Michael Connor and Aria Dean. | |||
| “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics.” Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO. StarryNight included in group show. Curated by Michael Connor and Aria Dean. | |||
| 2019 | “HARVEST: A Convening of Materiality and Form.” Sidel & McElwreath, New York, NY. Mill Brook Ridge and Black Brook included in group show. Curated by Emily McElwreath. | ||
| “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics.” Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Depauw University, IN. StarryNight included in group show. Curated by Michael Connor and Aria Dean. | |||
| "Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment." Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME. New Nature: Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY, October 15, 2016 included in group show. Curated by Honor Wilkinson. | |||
| "The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics." New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. StarryNight included in group show. Curated by Michael Connor and Aria Dean. | |||
| 2018 | "Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art." Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA. New Nature: Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY, October 15, 2016 included in group show. Curated by Suzanne Ramljak. | ||
| "You Had To Be There." swissnex, San Francisco, CA. Port Huron Project included in group show. Curated by MK Meador, Amanda Nudelman and Rosa Tyhurst." | |||
| "Stream Capture." Main Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN. New Nature: Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY, October 15, 2016 included in group show. Curated by Ben Moren. | |||
| 2017 | "say again?" Médiathèque du FMAC, Geneva, Switzerland. Port Huron Project included in group show. Curated by Bénédicte le Pimpec & Isaline Vuille. | ||
| "For Freedoms." Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY. After Medium Cool included in group show. Organized by Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas. | |||
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"(Re)Inventing Nature.” FOTODOK, Utrecht, Netherlands. New Nature included in group show. |
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"Queens International 2016." Queens Museum, Queens, NY. Plein Air included in group show. Curated by Lindsey Berfond and Hitomi Iwasaki. |
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“Hors Pistes 2016: The Art of Revolt.” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Port Huron Project included in group exhibition. |
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"FotoFest 2016 Biennial." Houston, TX. Plein Air and Rare Earth included in group show. Curated by Wendy Watriss and Steven Evans with Frederick Baldwin. |
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“Hors Pistes 2016: The Art of Revolt.” Centre Pompidou, Malaga, Spain. Port Huron Project included in group exhibition. |
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"A Government of Times." Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL. Port Huron Project included in group show. Curated by Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós. |
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"Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s." Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. Traces of a Constructed City included in group show. Curated by Alexandra Schwartz. Exhibition originated at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ in 2014 and also toured to the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA in 2015. |
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| 2015 |
“SEVEN.” The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY. Colusa photograph included in group exhibition. |
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| "Permanent War: Art in the Age of Global Conflict." Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Rare Earth photographs included in group exhibition. Curated by Pamela Allara. | |||
| "Land Engines." Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, England. Curated by Dominic Smith. | |||
| 2014 | "SonicWorks." DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. The Fields included in group show. | ||
| "Performing the Document." Le Cinematographe, Nantes, France. Port Huron Project videos screened in cinema program. Curated by Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós. | |||
| 2013 | "Nouvelles Vagues." Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Posse Comitatus dance performances and video installation included in group show. Curated by Antonia Alampi and Jason Waite. | ||
| "The Dystopia Files feat. Frédéric D. Oberland." La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. Screening with performance. | |||
| "Clouds." Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY. Cloud Study-Elastic Render Farm 3.1 included in group show. Curated by Adam Simon. | |||
| "Memphis Social." Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN. Posse Comitatus video installation included in group show. Organized by Tom McGlynn and Apex Art. | |||
| "ART IST KUKU NU UT." Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia. Posse Comitatus video installation included in contemporary art festival. | |||
| "Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange: Sebastién Cliché, Sylvie Cotton, Chelsea Knight, Mark Tribe." Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY. Posse Comitatus video installation included in group show. | |||
| 2012 | "Missing Links." Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY. Visible History included in group screening. | ||
| "March 2012." SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Chinoise A included in online exhibition. | |||
| "The Skin We're In." Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY. Rare Earth photographs included in group show. | |||
| "Montréal/Brooklyn." Optica Centre for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada. Posse Comitatus video installation included in group show. | |||
| "Chronicles of Dissent." Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA. Port Huron Project installation included in group show. Curated by Yaelle Amir. | |||
| "Solidarity: A Memory of Art and Social Change." A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Port Huron Project video included in group show. Curated by Jimena Acosta. | |||
| 2011 | "Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (MDE11)." Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Columbia. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | ||
| "Agitated Histories." SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Port Huron Project video installation, prints, andThe Dystopia Files video installation included in group show. Curated by Irene Hoffman. | |||
| "Agitated Histories." Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD. Port Huron Project video installation and prints included in group show. Curated by Irene Hoffman. | |||
| "iraquimemorial." EFA Project Space, New York, NY. Untitled (Bottomless Grave) included in group show. Curated by Joseph DeLappe. | |||
| "Re-enacting Liberation." Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA. The Problem Is Civil Obedience: Howard Zinn 1971/2007 included in screening program. | |||
| "I.I.F. ( intempestif /indépendant/fragile)." Cinéma Le Cratère, Toulouse, France. The Dystopia Files feat. Frédéric D. Oberland (Single-Channel Edition) included in screening program. | |||
| 2010 | "Wandering Positions: Selections from the inSite Archive." Museum of Contemporary Art of the National University of Mexico (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico. Carpark video installation included in group show. | ||
| "Resurrectine." Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. Curated by Sean Elwood. | |||
| "DeCordova Biennial." DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. The Dystopia Files interactive video installation included in group exhibition. Curated by Dina Deitsch. | |||
| "Que Faire? Art/Film/Politique." Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Three Port Huron Project videos included in screening program. Curated by Aliocha Imhoff. Presented by Le Peuple Qui Manque. | |||
| "Anonymes, USA." Cinéma des Cinéastes, Paris, France. The Dystopia Files feat. Frédéric D. Oberland included in screening program. Curated by Nicole Brenez Pascale Cassagnau. Presented by Le Bal. | |||
| "No Customs." SAMA Tower, Abu Dhabi. New Revolution included in group show. Curated by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. | |||
| "How To Do Things With Words." Aronson Galleries, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY. Chinoise A included in group show. Curated by Melanie Crean. | |||
| "A People’s History: Film Memorial for Howard Zinn." Brecht Forum, New York, NY. Port Huron Project video included in screening program. | |||
| 2009 | "Cranbrook 9th Annual Video Festival." Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Port Huron Project video included in screening program. | ||
| "Bred in at Least Modest Comfort." Trinity Square Video, Toronto. Port Huron Project video installation included in three-artist show. | |||
| "Paradox Now." Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | |||
| 2008 | "In Translation." National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | ||
| "ARAC@AAM." Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | |||
| "Democracy in America: The National Campaign." Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. Curated by Nato Thompson. Presented by Creative Time. | |||
| "The Culture Warriors." Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY. Screening of three Port Huron Project videos. | |||
| "At 44½." Times Square, New York, NY. Three Port Huron Project videos screened on public video display in Times Square. Presented by Creative Time. | |||
| "Hopeless and Otherwise." Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Port Huron Project video installation and poster included in group show. | |||
| "Teleculture: Dreams at the Epicenter." Edge Zones Contemporary Art Center, Miami, FL. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | |||
| 2007 | "Move! Activate! Remember!" Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Port Huron Project video screened in program organized by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. | ||
| "Teleculture." Pace Digital Gallery, New York, NY. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | |||
| "Pixilerations [v.4]: Stories +/- Ornament." FirstWorks Festival, Providence, RI. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | |||
| "Perpetual Art Machine: Video Art in the Age of the Internet." Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY. Port Huron Project video installation included in group show. | |||
| "NeoIntegrity." Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY. Port Huron Project poster included in group show. | |||
| "NETworking: Net Art from the Computer Fine Arts Collection." Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. Revelation 2.0 included in group show. | |||
| 2006 | "Until the Last Gun Is Silent: Coretta Scott King 1968/2006." Mineral Springs Field, Central Park, New York, NY. Port Huron Project reenactment presented by Conflux Festival. | ||
| 2004 | "A Small Look at Giganticism." Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY. StarryNight included in group show. Curated by Lea Rekow. | ||
| 2003 | "Revelation 2.0." Computer Fine Arts, New York, NY. Net art project commissioned by Doron Golan. | ||
| 2002 | "Day Jobs." New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA. Rhizome included in online group exhibition. Curated by Richard Rinehart. | ||
| "Net Art Selection." 7th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia. Revelation 1.0 included in group show. | |||
| "Shine02." New York, NY. Revelation 1.0 commissioned by Amnesty International and included in online group show curated by Simon Watson and presented by Downtown Arts Projects. | |||
| "Maps, Routes and Shortcuts." The Media Centre, Huddersfield, UK. StarryNight included in online group show. | |||
| 2001 | "Imagine 2001." Gävle, Sweden. StarryNight included in group show. | ||
| "seARchT Engines: des(in)formation." Video Festival of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. StarryNight included in group show. | |||
| "Interface Explorer." Public Netbase t0, Vienna, Austria. StarryNight included in group show. | |||
| 1999 | "Net Condition." ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Rhizome included in group show. Curated by Peter Weibl. | ||
| 1998 | "Open X." Ars Electronica festival, Linz, Austria. Rhizome included in group show. | ||
| 1995 | Computer Aided Curating, Berlin, Germany. Traces of a Constructed City included in online exhibition platform. Curated by Eva Grubinger. | ||
| 1994 | "inSITE'94." Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA. Collaboration with Nina Katchadourian and Steven Matheson. Carpark included in multi-site exhibition. |
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2006 | "theblackbox@arco06." ARCO, Madrid, Spain. Curatorial director of New Media art program. |
| 2005 | "Tijuana Calling." inSite_05, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico. Curator of online exhibition. |
| "Black Box." ARCO, Madrid, Spain. Collaboration with Omar Lopez Chahoud, Anne Ellegood, Shamim Momin, Agustin Perez Rubio, and Gerfried Stocker. Co-curator of New Media art program. | |
| 2004 | "ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show." The Mink Building, Harlem, NY. Collaboration with Mary Flanagan and Douglas Irving Repetto. Co-curator of Robotic art exhibition. |
| "Digital Boundaries: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness." ACM Multimedia 2004 Conference, New York, NY. Member of curatorial committee for exhibition of Interactive art. | |
| 2002 | "Agenda for a Landscape." New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. Collaboration with Anne Ellegood. Co-curator of New Media art installation. |
| 2001 | "net.ephemera." Chapman Gallery, Salford University, Manchester, UK. Curator of exhibition of works on paper by internet artists. |
| "Net Games Now." Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA. Collaboration with Alexander Galloway. Co-curator of exhibition of Internet-based games. | |
| "net.ephemera." Moving Image Gallery, New York, NY. Curator of exhibition of works on paper by net artists. |
BOOKS
| 2010 | The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2010. |
| 2006 | New Media Art. Cologne: Taschen, 2006. Co-authored with Reena Jana. |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
| 2017 | "War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict". Edited by Joanna Bourke, ed. Reaktion Books |
| 2015 | "Performance, Mediation and the Public Sphere." No Internet, No Art: A Lunch Bytes Anthology. Melanie Bühler, ed. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2015. |
| 2013 | "Rhetorics of Resistance." The Long 1968. Jasmine Alinder, Aneesh Aneesh, Ruud van Dijk and Daniel J. Sherman, eds. Bloomington: Indiana, 2012. Page numbers TBD. |
| 2010 | "Rhizome." The World of Digital Art. Koln: H.f. Ullmann, 2010. 158-159. |
| 2008 | "A Brief Introduction to Digital Art." Enter Action – Digital Art Now. Århus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2008. 52-58. |
| "An Ornithology of Net Art." Close Your Eyes. Athens, Greece: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), 2008. 66-69. | |
| 2006 | "Online Project: Tijuana Calling." [Situational] Public. Osvaldo Sanchez and Donna Conwell, eds. Manitoba: Friesens Book Division, 2006. 387-392. |
| 2005 | Untitled. ARCO’05. Madrid: ARCO/Ifema, 2005. 697-700. |
| 2003 | "The Global Media Art Community." Web Fictions: Dispersed Presences in Electronic Networks. Fassler, Manfred, Ursula Hentschlaeger, Selko Wiener, eds. New York: Springer, 2003. 134-137. |
| 2002 | "Rhizome TextBase, Rhizome ArtBase, Rhizome Ephemera." Interarchive: Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, 2002. 263-265. |
| 2001 | Foreword. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. x-xii. |
| "Net Games Now." Game Show. North Adams: MASS MOCA, 2001. 54-67. |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
| 2011 | "Re: Occupation." Version. November 1, 2011. < http://version.org/images/8>. |
| Kutleša, Ana and Mark Tribe. "Interpretations of new media activism." Kulturpunkt.hr. June 2011. <http://www.kulturpunkt.hr/i/kulturoskop/539>. | |
| 2010 | Phillips, Patricia C. and Mark Tribe. "Reenactment & Media Representation: Interview with Mark Tribe." Public Art Review. Issue 43, Fall/Winter 2010. 38-40. |
| 2006 | "An Ornithology of Net Art." Tate Intermedia Art. <http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15274.shtm>. |
| "Cory Arcangel: An Interview by Mark Tribe." Uovo, no. 11, 2006. 252-265. | |
| 2005 | "Tijuana Calling." Atopia, October 2005. 69-75. |
| "Symposium: Metamorphosis of Artists’ Rights in the Digital Age." Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. Vol. 28, No. 4. Transcript of panel remarks. | |
| 2001 | "Hot List." Artforum. March 2001. |
| 2000 | "Email Performance." Zing. Issue 12. 180-194. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS AND CATALOGUES)
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2021 |
Stirratt, Betsy. State of Nature. Picturing Indiana Biodiversity. Indiana: Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, 2021. Griffy Lake Nature Preserve, Monroe County, Indiana, July 4, 2015 featured in exhibition catalogue. |
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2019 |
Meyer, James. The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Chapter discusses Port Huron Project. |
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Connor, Michael, ed. The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019. StarryNight featured in exhibition catalogue. |
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Ramljak, Suzanne et al. Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art. Thirteen Artists Explore Nature's Limits. Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum of Art, 2018. New Nature: Balsam Lake Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY, October 15, 2016 featured in exhibition catalogue. |
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2016 |
Ruiz, Alan. Uneven Development: On Beirutand and Plein Air, 2016. Plein Air featured in exhibition catalogue. |
| 2012 |
Amir, Yael et al. Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent. Philadelphia: Marginal Utility, 2012. Port Huron Project featured in exhibition catalogue. |
| 2011 | Schneider, Rebecca. "Protest ‘Now’ and Again." Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment. New York: Routledge, 2011. 179-186. Discusses Port Huron Project. |
| De León, Alec. Visual Arts Network 2010. New Orleans: National Performance Network, 2011. 56-59. Includes Port Huron Project and Sweet Child Solos at LACE. | |
| Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 51. Discusses Rhizome. | |
| 2008 | Reckitt, Helena. Not Quite How I Remember It. Toronto: The Power Plant, 2008. Discusses Port Huron Project. |
| 2007 | Popper, Frank. From Technological to Virtual Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 319-321. Discusses my contributions to field. |
| 2006 | Wands, Bruce, ed. Art of the Digital Age. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Includes StarryNight. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY (JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES)
| 2020 | Scott, Andrea K. "Goings on About Town: Art." The New Yorker, March 30, 2020. |
| 2016 | Durón, Maximilíano. "A Net Art Pioneer Evolves with the Digital Age: Rhizome Turns 20." ARTnews, September 1, 2016. |
| 2015 | Greenberger, Alex. "Regarding Peeping Toms and Security Cameras: Seven Ponders ‘Post-Surveillance Art’." ARTnews, May 15, 2015. Review of group show discusses Birdsall videos. |
| Stewart, Garrett. "Transmedium." The Iowa Review, Winter 2014/15. Essay discusses Posse Comitatus and Rare Earth. | |
| 2014 | Knight, Chelsea. "Drone’s-Eye View: Q&A with Mark Tribe." Modern Painters, July/August 2014. Interview discussing Plein Air and other recent work. |
| 2013 | Quagliata, Gail Victoria Braddock. "Sébastien Cliché, Sylvie Cotton, Chelsea Knight, and Mark Tribe." Brooklyn Rail, March 2013. Review of group show. |
| Sutton, Gloria. "Rhizome Unearthed." Art in America, September 2013. | |
| 2012 | Markus, David. "Mark Tribe: Momenta Art." Art in America, October 2012. Review of solo exhibition. |
| 2011 | Malone, Micah. "MDE-11." Artforum, November 2011. Review of group exhibition mentions Port Huron Project. |
| Noonan, Kate. "Agitated Histories." Art in America, June 2011. Review of group exhibition discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Brenez, Nicole. "2010: The Year in Review." Sight and Sound: The International Film Quarterly (British Film Institute, London), January 2011. Includes The Dystopia Files in list of four top films of 2010. | |
| Houssa, Émilie. "Bal: Dystopia Files." Paulette, November 3, 2010. Review of The Dystopia Files feat. Frédéric D. Oberland. | |
| Stabler, Bert. "The Port Huron Project by Mark Tribe." Proximity, Issue 007, Spring/Summer 2010. Review of The Port Huron Project (Charta, 2010). | |
| Drummond Davis, Mark. "A Dense Web: The 2010 DeCordova Biennial." Artscope Magazine, March and April, 2010. Review discusses The Dystopia Files. | |
| 2009 | Sarlin, Paige. "New Left-Wing Melancholy: Mark Tribe’s 'The Port Huron Project' and the Politics of Reenactment." Framework, Spring 2009. |
| Del Pesco, Joseph. "The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008." X-tra, Vol 11 No 4, Summer 2009. Review of Port Huron Project. | |
| 2008 | Sarlin, Paige. "Letter to the Reenactors." Area Chicago, December, 2008. Article discusses Port Huron Project. |
| Bell, Natalie. "Noteworthy: The Editor's Picks of Notable Shows." Art Papers, November/December 2008. Review of "Democracy in America" exhibition discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Wong, Nicole. "Artists as Public Intellectuals." C for Culture, Issue 6, Oct 2008. Article discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Myers, Julian. "Port Huron Project 5: The Liberation of Our People." Frieze, October 2008. Review of Port Huron Project 5: The Liberation of Our People. | |
| Blum, Sarahjane. "New Social Mov(i)ements." Brooklyn Rail, October 2008. Article discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Blumencranz, Carla. "Radical Speak: Performance Artist Mark Tribe Breathes New Life Into Old Politics." New York, September 14, 2008. Article on Port Huron Project. | |
| Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. and Rachel Churner. October, Issue 123, Winter 2008. Introduction to special issue makes reference to Port Huron Project. | |
| Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Sounding the Fury." Artforum, January 2008. Article on Art Workers’ Coalition (Revisited) by Kirsten Forkert on Port Huron Project. | |
| 2007 | Ulke, Christina. "Politics by Other Means." Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 5, Summer 2007. Interview discusses Port Huron Project. |
| 2006 | Chaplet, Anne. "Gier, Geschreddert." Die Welt, July 29, 2006. Review of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). |
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Spampinato, Francesco. "The Port Huron Project." Flash Art Italia, n. 261. Review of Port Huron Project. |
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| Quaranta, Domenico. "[Net Works] Arte in Rete: L’ultima Avanguardia." Flash Art Italia, n. 260. Interview discussing New Media Art. | |
| 2005 | Wright, Karen. "ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show." Discover, February 2005. Article on "ArtBots." |
| 2001 | Bunn, Austin. "starrynight." I.D. Magazine, June 2001. Review of StarryNight. |
| 1994 | Plagens, Peter. "Sculpture Made to Border." Newsweek, October 31, 1994. Review of group exhibition discusses Carpark. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY (NEWSPAPERS)
| 2015 | Smart, Lauren. "Mark Tribe's Unreal Natural Landscapes." Dallas Observer, March 27, 2015. |
| 2014 | Glentzer, Molly. "Lands of Power and Might." Houston Chronicle, December 5, 2014. |
| Cudlin, Jeffry. "Mark Tribe's ‘Plein Air’ at the Corcoran, Reviewed: With Geospatial Data from Drones, Landscape Art Gets Political." Washington City Paper, July 25, 2014. | |
| 2012 | Cotter, Holland. "The Latest Vibe Moved to Brooklyn." New York Times, June 7, 2012. Review of Bushwick Open Studios makes prominent mention of Rare Earth at Momenta Art. |
| Rochester, Katherine. "Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent at Marginal Utility." Philadelphia Weekly, January 3, 2012. Review of group exhibition mentions Port Huron Project. | |
| 2011 | McCabe, Bret. "Agitated Histories." Baltimore City Paper, March 30, 2011. Review of group exhibition discusses Port Huron Project. |
| 2010 | Cook, Greg. "Brown's 'Faculty Triennial 2010': From Spectacles to Data Dumps." Providence Phoenix, December 15, 2010. Review discusses New Revolution. |
| 2009 | O'Sullivan, Michael. "Blurring the Line Between Art and Truth." Washington Post, August 7, 2009. Review of "Paradox Now" discusses Port Huron Project. |
| 2008 | Cook, Greg. "Back to The Barricades: Can Reenacting Vietnam-era Protests Help Us Rethink Iraq?" Boston Phoenix, October 15, 2008. Feature discusses Port Huron Project. |
| Houpt, Simon. "Want Scrappy, Vibrant Political Debate? Look to the Artists." Globe and Mail, September 29, 2008. Article on group exhibition discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Cotter, Holland. "With Politics In The Air a Freedom Free-For-All Comes to Town." New York Times, September 22, 2008. Review of group exhibition discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Swan, Rachel. "Port Huron Resurrection: Mark Tribe Helps Revivify Oakland’s Panther History." East Bay Express, July 30, 2008. Article on Port Huron Project 5: The Liberation of Our People. | |
| Knight, Christopher. "Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project via Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions." Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2008. Review of Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible. | |
| Haithman, Diane. "Port Huron Project Reenacts Seminal Events of the 1960’s." Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2008. Article on Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible. | |
| Baker, R.C. "Best in Show: The Port Huron Project, Julian Schnabel's Drawings, and Artists Against the War." Village Voice, January 15, 2008. Article includes review of Port Huron Project. | |
| 2007 | Falk, Leora. "Times, Faces Change; Struggle Remains." Chicago Tribune, July 31, 2007. Article on new SDS discusses Port Huron Project. |
| Kennedy, Randy. "Giving New Life to Protests of Yore." New York Times, July 28, 2007. Article on Port Huron Project 3: We Must name the System. | |
| Johnson, Ken. "Rallying 'Round the Past." Boston Globe, July 22, 2007. Article on Port Huron Project 2: The Problem Is Civil Obedience. | |
| 2005 | Bosco, Roberta. "The Black Box of Digital Art." El Pais, February 5, 2005. Review of "The Black Box." |
| 2000 | Basting, Barbara. "The Stargazer of Silicon Alley: New York Media and Net Art Archive Rhizome Undertakes Pioneering Work." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 2000. Article on Rhizome. |
| 1999 | Howe, Jeff. "Artistic License: Creating a Space for Net Art." Village Voice, July 7, 1999. Article on Rhizome. |
| 1994 | Leopold, Lillian Salazar. "Parked Cars Can Produce a Lot of Art." San Diego Union-Tribune, September 6, 1994. Article on Carpark. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY (ONLINE PUBLICATIONS AND RADIO PROGRAMS)
| 2023 | Hovey Brock. “Mark Tribe: Learning to Love the Future.” Art Spiel, July 7, 2023. |
| 2019 | Eric Johnson. "How do you preserve art when it was made for people using Netscape Navigator on Windows 98?" Vox, February 25, 2019. |
| 2018 | Dube, Ilene. "Artists Urge Us to Get Outside and Smell the Moss." Hyperallergic, September 11, 2018. Review of group show discusses Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY, October 15, 2016. |
| 2016 | Berkovitch, Ellen. “Dystopia Files, Five Years After, Makes Past Prologue.” Adobe Airstream, July 2016. Feature discusses Dystopia Files. |
| 2015 | Richards, Ryder. "Mark Tribe: New Landscapes, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas." Eutopia, April 12, 2015. Review of solo show. |
| 2014 | Backof, Peter. "Drohnen-Kunst: Für Künstler geradezu sexy." Deutschlandfunk, October 10, 2014. Radio feature discusses Plein Air. |
| 2013 | Imus, Valerie. "Port Huron Project." Stretcher, April 2013. Review of The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008. |
| Asfour, Nana. "The Reality Behind Virtual War Zones." New York Times, February 21, 2013. Blog post discusses Rare Earth. | |
| Martínez, Israel. "New Media and Their Possibilities: An Artistic Approach. An interview with Mark Tribe." New York Magazine of Contemporary Art and Theory, Issue 06, February 2013. | |
| Cheng, Mimi. "Posse Comitatus: Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe." Title Magazine, January 24, 2013. | |
| Gopnik, Blake. "Dances of Death: Mark Tribe and Chelsea Knight compare choreography and assault strategies." The Daily Beast, January 14, 2013. | |
| 2012 | Newsweek and Daily Beast Photo Editors. "The Skin We’re In: Group Show at Yossi Milo Gallery." Picture Dept. Blog post describes Rare Earth photographs. |
| Lee, Adriana. "Artists Mine Video Games for Virtual Landscape Art." TechnoBuffalo, June 15, 2012. | |
| Brandom, Russell. "Making Art From Video Game Landscapes." Buzzfeed, June 11, 2012. Article discusses Rare Earth photographs. | |
| Romero, Chris. "Virtual Rarity." Killscreen, June 10, 2012. Interview discussing Rare Earth at Momenta Art. Article discusses Rare Earth photographs. | |
| Silas, Susan. "A Building Portends the Future of Bushwick." Hyperallergic, June 4, 2012. Blog post on Bushwick Open Studios discusses Rare Earth at Momenta Art. | |
| Christoph, Sara. "Nature of Mass Destruction: Mark Tribe’s Rare Earth at Momenta Art." Brooklyn Based, June 1, 2012. Review of Rare Earth at Momenta Art. | |
| von Messling, Christina. "Mark Tribe’s Rare Earth at Momenta Art." Studio Visit, May 23, 2012. Review of Rare Earth at Momenta Art. | |
| 2011 | Donovan, Thom. "Melanie Crean: How To Do Things With Words." Bomblog (Bomb Magazine), Nov 30, 2010. Review discusses Chinoise A. |
| 2010 | Ptak, Laurel. "Interview with Mark Tribe, Founder, Rhizome." Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP), Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Interview discussing history of Rhizome. |
| Hunger, Frances. "Mark Tribe." Not Here Not There, September 17, 2010. The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2010 featured on German art blog. | |
| Cole, Lori. "Resurrectine." Artforum.com, May 27, 2010. Review of group exhibition features Port Huron Project video. | |
| 2009 | Haithman, Diane. "Port Huron Project Videos on View at LACE." Culture Monster (Los Angeles Times), October 20, 2009. |
| "Port Huron Project (Mark Tribe, 2008)." Cahiers du 2006, October 6, 2009. Review of Port Huron Project installation at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. | |
| Mitter, Siddhartha. "Armory Show Explores ‘Democracy in America.’" WNYC Radio, September 24, 2008. Radio program on "Democracy in America" exhibition discusses Port Huron Project. | |
| Hockenberry, John and Adaora Udoji. "University Professor Stages a 1969 Angela Davis Civil-Rights Speech." The Take Away, National Public Radio, August 4, 2008. Interview discussing Port Huron Project. | |
| Guzman Lopez, Adolpho. "Part History Lesson, Part Performance Art." KPCC Radio, July 17, 2008. Port Huron Project. | |
| 2007 | Harlow, John. "Art and Politics Collide in Port Huron Project." DCist, July 25, 2007. Interview discussing Port Huron Project. |
| Numerous blog posts discussing the Port Huron Project on Art(h)ist’ry, Art Threat, DC Independent Media Center, Do No Evil, MTAA-RR, Newsgrist, remove the labels, We Make Money Not Art, and WorldChanging. | |
| 2006 | Guglietti, María Victoria. "Tijuana Calling: An Exercise on Virtual Coyote Tactics." Furtherfield.org, September 8, 2006. Review of Tijuana Calling. |
| 2003 | "On Revelation 2.0." Deeplinking, March 14, 2003. Review of Revelation 2.0. |
| 2002 | Jana, Reena. "Net Gambit: See Art, Pay Amnesty." Wired, February 27, 2002. Review of group exhibition discusses Revelation 1.0. |
| 2000 | Fuller, Matthew. "Network artists - Matt Fuller interviews Mark Tribe." BBCi, the website of the British Broadcasting Corporation. |
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2022 | Eleanor Briggs Fellowship, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH. |
| 2020 | Two Trees Subsidized Studio Program, Two Trees, Brooklyn, NY. |
| 2019 | Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Saint Paul, MN. |
| Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Artist-in-Residence Program, Ashland, OR. | |
| Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ. | |
| 2012 | Richard B. Salomon Research Award, Brown University, Providence, RI. |
| 2010 | Experimental Television Center, Newark Valley, NY. |
| National Performance Network ,New Orleans, LA. | |
| 2009 | New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY. |
| 2008-2009 | Creative Capital, New York, NY. |
| 1995 | CEC ArtsLink, New York, NY. |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
| 2013-present | Chair, MFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. |
| 2011-2014 | Faculty, MFA Art Practice Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. |
| 2005-2013 | Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies, Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI. |
| 2003-2005 |
Director, Digital Media Center, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY. |
| 2001, 2003 |
MFA Thesis Advisor, Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. |
| 2002, 2004 | Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO. |
| 2002 | Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence, Department of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. |
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1996-2003 | Founder and Executive Director, Rhizome, New York, NY. |
| 1995 | Web Designer, Pixelpark GmbH, Berlin, Germany. |
EDUCATION
| 1995 | MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. |
| 1990 | AB, magna cum laude, honors in Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI. |
Art CV - updated 11/12/2021
Academic CV - updated 11/12/2021