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WAGNER, MARK
American, B. 1976
Artist, writer, publisher, etcetera

For books and posters go to X-ing Books
Inquire about original currency collages at Pavel Zoubok Gallery
Inquire about artists books at The Booklyn Artists Alliance
In the Chicago area contact Western Exhibitions

Inquire about image use with Amy Mees
To receive updates send an email to list@x-ingdesign.com
Postal mail: P.O. BOX 50203, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Don't bother Mark too much with electronic mail or he'll hold it against you: Mark

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Mark Wagner was born quietly in the rural Midwest at the tail end of thirteen children. Since leaving the sandbox at the age of fourteen, he has continued his creative career in the fields of writing, collage, and bookmaking. He is co-founder of The Booklyn Artists Alliance, and has published books under the name Bird Brain Press and X-ing Books.

Wagner's work is collected by dozens of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution. It has shown at The Metropolitan Museum, The Getty Research Institute, and The Brooklyn Museum.

STATEMENT ON COLLAGE WITH CURRENCY
The one dollar bill is the most ubiquitous piece of paper in America. Collage asks the question: what might be done to make it something else? It is a ripe material: intaglio printed on sturdy linen stock, covered in decorative filigree, and steeped in symbolism and concept. Blade and glue transform it-reproducing the effects of tapestries, paints, engravings, mosaics, and computers—striving for something bizarre, beautiful, or unbelievable... the foreign in the familiar.

GENERAL CREATIVE STATEMENT
My creative production includes work in many media: from writing and artist bookmaking to drawing, collage, and assemblage. Though varied, this work is far from eclectic-forming several discrete bodies that both stand on their own and link in nature and theme to their counterparts.

In whatever media employed I have a tendency toward meticulous production and solid graphic presentation. Usually fantastical, occasional surreal, and often interdisciplinary- I am satisfied only when concept and craft meet on equally firm footing.

MARK WAGNER...a selective and orderly listing of his art-related pursuits to date: 2011

AFFILIATIONS AND EMPLOYMENTS:
X-ing Books / X-ing Art: partner (2008-present)
Ugly Duckling Press(e): board member (2011-present)
International Collage Center: advisory board member (2011-present)
Booklyn Artists Alliance: founder, president emeritus, publisher (1998-present)
BirdBrain Press: proprietor (1997-present)
Ruth Lingen: print and binding assistant (2000-04)
Art Industry: designer (1998-2000)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin: paper conservator (1994-96)

COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque National de France, Paris
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC
Clark Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Dennison Library, Mills College, Claremont, CA
Elmer L. Anderson Library, Minneapolis, MN
Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, Los Angeles, CA
Golda Meir Library, Milwaukee, WI
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttle, Germany
Houghton Art Library, Cambridge, MA
Klingspoor Museum of Art, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Kohler Art Library, Madison, WI
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Long Island University Library, Brooklyn, NY
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Mata and Arthor Jaffe Collection, Boca Raton, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Milwaukee Public Library, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Multnomah Public Library, Portland, OR
Museum of Modern Art, Library Collection, NYC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, NYC
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Reed College, Portland, OR
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT
Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA
University of California, Irvine, CA
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
UVM, Burlington, VT
Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
2010 Face Value, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell Colege, IA
2008 My Portfolio, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
Creative Accounting, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2006 Tags and Bills, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2003 Library in a Book in a Library, Parson's School of Design, NYC
1997 Would I, Wood Eye, Gallery 214, Madison, WI
1996 New and Used Art, Memorial Union Gallery, Madison, WI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Americans Now, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
     People Don't Like to Read Art, Western Exhibition, Chicago, IL
     Sweet and Savory, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
     The Bank and Trust Show, The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY
     Borders and Frontiers, Oakland University Art Gallery, MI
     Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
     Paper Cuts, Fullerton College Art Gallery, CA
2010 Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, NYC
     Size Does Matter, The Flag Art Foundation, NYC
     Pop Goes the World, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
     A Reader's Art, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
     Nothing To Say, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
     Under the influence of Fashion and Finance, Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
2009 Text / Message: Books by Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
     Wall Rockets, The FLAG Art Foundation, NYC and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
     Moving Money, SAC Gallery, NYC
     Liberty, special project Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL
     Collage, London / New York, FRED, London, England
     Paper Trail v.5, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
     The New Deal, Art and Currency, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 1968/2008: The Culture of Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
     Messages & Magic, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
     Attention to Detail, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC
2007 The Colonial Show, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
     Money, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount College, NYC
     Making the Most of It, Islip Art Museum, East Islip , NY
     Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2006 Alternating Currency, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
     The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC
     Money Changes Everything, Schroeder Romero, NYC
2005 The Artist Turns to the Book, Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Jonathan Mason, Christian Uhl, and Mark Wagner, 7/3 Split, Chicago, IL
     A Perfect Union...More or Less, Renaissance Society / University of Chicago, IL
     What the Book?, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
     Another Voice, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
     Artists Interrogate Politics and War, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
     Selfish: Self portraits by 128 artists, Gallery 128, NYC
     This Thing We Do, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
     Making Meaning: The Artist Book, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
     So Far..., Occasional Art, St. Paul, MN
2003 Rutgers Books Arts Symposium Exhibition, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
     Overlooked and Looked Over, Occasional Art, St. Paul, MN
     Home Office, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, NYC
     Five Degrees, White Couch Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
     Even the Birds Were on Fire, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
     Hamady's Problems, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002 Rare Books of the Future, Center for Book Arts, NYC
     Parallel Botany, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
     Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, Madison, WI
     Chance Encounters, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2001 Million Dollars, 16 Beaver Group, NYC
     Scott's Tissues, 16 Beaver Group, NYC
     Growing Books, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
     Lawn D'Art, Pyramid Art Center/Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2000 Artists Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
     Recent Acquisitions from the Print Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
     Made in Book Land, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
     Books by Artists, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
1999 Artwork from the 1999 Progressive Calendar, Ground Zero Gallery, Madison, WI
     Supermarket II, Slop Art Shop, Kansas City, MS
1997 Document-uh, performance arts festival, Madison, WI
     Documents and Documentation, Gallery 214, Madison, WI
     Supermarket, Madison, WI
1996 Well-Worn Text, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
     That's Incredible (the fantastic, the grotesque, and the banal), Gallery 214, Madison, WI
     Elective Surgeries, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
     Pieces and Pieces of Pieces, BFA exhibition, Humanities building, Madison, WI

PUBLICATIONS
2010 Fortune's Daughter, Bird Brain Press
     Mr Handshake's Last Gasp (with Jeremy Schmall), X-ing Art
     "Piece by Piece" essay for "C. K. Wilde, Tender" catalog, Pavel Zoubok Gallery
2009 Alphabet City, with Scott Teplin, X-ing Art
     "The Capitalist Manifesto," cover essay by Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, June 22
     "Infinite Debt," essay by Thomas Geoghegan, Harpers Magazine, April
2007 Scream at the Librarian, with Joel Rane, Raymond Pettibon, and Cristin Sullivan, Booklyn Artists Alliance
     The Slapdown, with Damara Kaminecki and Jeremy Schmall, Booklyn Artists Alliance
     "Twenty questions poems," The Agriculture Reader Number 2
2005 ABC (Another Booklyn Chapbook), Volume 1, with various artists
     Tag, with Kathryn Gritt & Dylan Graham, Bird Brain Scriptorium
2004 Dylan Graham's Library in a Book, Bird Brain Press
     The Tragic Tale of Dan Foreman of Construction, with Dylan Graham, Bird Brain Press
     "In This Together," essay, Turn a New Page Catalog, Booklyn
2003 A Revisioning of the Preamble, with Jen Benka, Booklyn Artists Alliance
     IX XI MMI, with Mac McGill, Booklyn Artists Alliance
     Souvenir, with Marshall Weber & Amy Mees, Booklyn Artists Alliance
2002 "If Libraries were Cafeterias", short story, Link Magazine
     Library in a Book (Seven Books in One), BirdBrain Press
2001 12/11, with Marshall Weber, Booklyn Artists Alliance
     Japanese Vending Machines, with Kathryn Gritt, BirdBrain Press
     Tag, BirdBrain Press
     Professor Plumb and the Kissing Report, BirdBrain Press
     The Fastener Incident, BirdBrain Press
     The Man Who Married the Sky, BirdBrain Press
     The Honey Broker, BirdBrain Press
     Incident at the Butcher's, BirdBrain Press
     Printing Wheel, BirdBrain Press
2000 Fortune, with Scott Teplin, BirdBrain Press
     Lvs., with Patrick Flynn, Ding Dang Press, Madison, WI
1999 "The Princess and the Pee", review of the Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue, Artzine Magazine, October
     Cover Illustration, Progressive Magazine, February
1998 Smoke in My Dreams, BirdBrain Press, Madison, WI
     "Stain", a real review of an imagined show, Artzine Magazine, November
     Cityscape, print, Published by Artzine Magazine, Madison, WI
1997 "What's in a (Written) Name", essay, Artzine Magazine, September
1996 Cover Illustration, Progressive Magazine, December
1994 Travel By Dancing, self-published, Madison, WI

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 Borders and Frontiers, exhibition catalog
     Papercraft 2, Gestalten, Berlin
2010 Size Does Matter, exhibition catalog
     Face Value, exhibition catalog
2009 "Million Dollar Babies," Nicole Pasulka, The Morning News, April 6, 2009
     "Mark Wagner: Fortune's Daughter," Francisco Vaz Fernandes, Parq, March 2009
     Wall Rockets, exhibition catalog
2008 My Portfolio, exhibition catalog
     "Chuck Close as Curator", Lapiz Magazine, April 2008
     "Mark Wagner: My Portfolio," Art in America, December 2008
     "Creative Accounting," New City, April 17, 2008
     "Cut-and-Paste, Then and Now", The New York Sun, July 3, 2008
     "Mark Wagner: My Portfolio", Gallery Listing, The New York Observer, September 9, 2008
     Attention to Detail, exhibition catalog
     Messages & Magic, exhibition catalog
     The Culture of Collage, exhibition catalog
2007 The Colonial Show, exhibition catalog
     "Collages Go to College, And Behave Accordingly", The New York Times, December 16, 2007
     "Hang, Man," Trader Monthly, September 2007
     "Schein-Welten" Hauke Herffs, Maxim Fashion 2007
2006 "Money Changes Everything", The New York Times, July 14, 2006
     "Alternating Currency," Museum and Gallery Listing, The New York Times, September 29, 2006
     Alternating Currency, exhibition catalog
     The New Collage, exhibition catalog
2005 "Making Meaning", Review Magazine, February 2005
     Overlooked and Looked Over, show catalog
2003 "Booklyn: an artist defined aesthetic...", Artist's Book Yearbook, Impact Press, 2003
     Hamady's Problems, exhibition catalog
2000 Made in Book Land, exhibition catalog
     Artists Books, exhibition catalog
1999 Supermarket II, exhibition catalog
1997 "Mark Wagner, Would I Wood Eye", Artzine Magazine, July, 1997
     "WalmART: Slop Art wallows in consumer culture", Isthmus, February 21, 1997
1996 "Well-Worn Text," Chicago Reader, November 29, 1996
1995 "Scavenger hunters", Isthmus, July 14, 1995