Mark Francis

Solo Exhibitions

*denotes catalogue

2011
Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

2010
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Arena, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (Cumbria), England*

2009
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2008
Mark Francis, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland*
Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
Mark Francis, Neue Bilder, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2007
Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain*
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

2006
Mark Francis: Pendulum, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2005
Mark Francis, Paintings 2002 – 2005, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (09 June – 07 August)*
Mark Francis, New Paintings, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2004
Mark Francis: New Etchings and Monoprints, Marlborough Graphics, London (24 November – 31 December)
Mark Francis, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Mark Francis, New Paintings, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

2003
Mark Francis, New Paintings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (22 February – 29 March)*
Mark Francis, New Paintings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (11 October – 15 November)
Mark Francis: Drawings, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

2002
Mark Francis, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Mark Francis, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

2001
Mark Francis, New Paintings, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2000
Mark Francis, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (24 November – 06 January 01)
Mark Francis, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Mark Francis: Elements, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes College, London * (15 January – 12 March)

1999
Mark Francis, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (20 February – 20 March)

1998
Mark Francis, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Mark Francis, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Mark Francis, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

1997
Mark Francis, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (17 October – 10 November) *
Mark Francis, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (04 January – 22 February)
Mark Francis, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt

1996
Mark Francis: Terra Nova – New Territories, Harewood House, Leeds
Mark Francis, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
Mark Francis, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

1995
Mark Francis, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London *
Mark Francis, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Mark Francis, Galerie Thieme+Pohl, Darmstadt
Mark Francis, City Art Gallery, Manchester

1994
Mark Francis, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London *

1992
Mark Francis, New Paintings and Monotypes, Jill George Gallery, London (16 June – 10 July) *

1990
Mark Francis, Paintings and Monotypes, Thumb Gallery, London (16 October – 16 November) *

 

Group Exhibitions

*denotes catalogue

2011

ShowRoom #1, Scheublein Fine Art, Zürich, Switzerland

2010

Next Generation. Einblicke in junge Ostschweizer Privatsammlungen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (curated by Konrad Bitterli)

2009

Into Irish Drawing, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France

2008

Genesis – Die Kunst der Schöpfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Austria
For the Spirit – From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Graphics, Galerie Bode, Nürnberg, Germany
Celebrating 20 years, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
What lies beneath the surface, Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
black mirror, curated by Marco Costantini, Centre d’art contemporain de Neuchatel, Switzerland

2007

Die Kunst zu sammeln, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Timeless, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Summer Group Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2006

Hirst and his Contemporaries, The Andipa Gallery, London
Diagnose [Kunst] – Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen
Silent Inside, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Summer Group Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2005

Lines and Traces, Galerie Bernard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany
After the Thaw, AIB Art Collection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Size Matters, Art Council of Great Britian Touring Collection
Art futures 2005, Bloomberg Space, London, Germany

2003
Before & After Science, Marcella Arte Contemporanea, Milan

2002
Eight New Paintings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (25 April – 25 May)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Essor Project Space, London
Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka, The Design Museum, London (touring)
The Saatchi Gift, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
The Rowan Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Scratch the Silence, Whitford Fine Art, London

2001
Irish Art Now, From the Poetic to the Political, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin*
Fluid, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Irish Art Now, From the Poetic to the Politcal, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago *

2000
Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin *
Irish Art Now, From the Poetic to the Politcal, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada * (30 January – 09 April 2000)
Premio Michetti: Europe, different perspectives in painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare
The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London

1999
Irish Art Now, From the Poetic to the Politcal, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston * (03 October – 12 December)
drei positionen in der malerei, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart,
Negotiating Small Truths, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin
A Quiet Storm: Painting in Abstraction, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Zero Zero Four Four, PS1 Museum, New York and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico

1998
Sensation – Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin*
post Naturam – nach der Natur, Stadt, Munster
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena

1997
Interior, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Surface, GOW Langsford, Aukland, New Zealand
Sensation – Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Acadamy of Art, London *
Beau Geste, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Nat West Painting Prize, London

1996
Scattering Matrix, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (curated by Jane Hart)
Black, Grey & White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf
British Abstract Art III, Flowers East Gallery, London
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Mark Francis, Leonardo Drew, Oliver Herring, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
IMMA / Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

1995
Testing the Water, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool
Voyage Anglais, Rheimes, France, 1996
John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 1996
From Here, Galerie Karsten Schubert and Waddington Galleries, London
The Adventure of Painting, Kunstvereine, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart
Painter’s Opinion, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam

1994
Human Nature, Mark Francis & Brad Lochore, Herve Mikaeloff, Paris
The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
New Modern British Paintings 1988 -1994, Richard Salmon Ltd, London
East 1994, Norfolk Institute of Art & Design, Norwich
Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Unveiled, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Europa 94, Munich Order Center, Munich

1993
Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London
An Undiscovered Country: 10 Abstract Painters, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London (IKON touring exhibition curated by Charles Hall)
Snap Shots, Eagle Gallery, London (curated by Anthony Wilkinson)
A Decade of Collecting, Tate Gallery, London
International Print Exhibition, Machidi Museum of Graphic Art, Tokyo

1992
South Bank Show, Royal Festival Hall, London

1990
Four Painters, New Academy, London
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1989
Christie’s New Contemporaries, Royal College of Art, London

1986
4 New Painters, Paton Gallery, London
On the Wall Gallery, Belfast

1984
Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1983
Summer Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin
New Contemporaries, The Mall Gallery, London

Museum and Corporate Collections

ACC Bank, Dublin

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Allied Irish Bank

American Express Collection

Bank of America, Dublin

British Council, London

British Credit Trust

Caldic Collection, Amsterdam

Chelmsford Borough Council

Cleveland Clinic Art Foundation Program, Lyndhurst, Ohio

Contemporary Art Society, London

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Deutsche Bank, Germany

Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, London

The Economist Collection of Art, London

European Parliament

General Mills Inc., Minneapolis

Goldman Sachs International, London

Government Art Collection, London

The Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri

Hammersmith & Fulham Education Authority

Heytesbury Holdings

The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey

IIB Bank, Dublin

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Lambert Collection, Zürich

Leceister Education Authority

Machida City Museum of Graphic Art, Tokyo

Manchester City Art Gallery

Mead Gallery, Warwick University

Merrill Lynch & Co,. New York

Merrill Lynch International Bank, London

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

Saatchi Collection, London

Simmons & Simmons, London

Southhampton City Art Gallery

Stanhope Properties Plc

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

St. Peter´s College, London

The Tate Gallery, London

UBS Art Collection, Switzerland

Ulster museum, North Ireland

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

De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco