Biografia

Born 1951  Los Angeles, California

Education

 

1987  M.F.A. (Painting and Drawing) California State University at Los Angeles

1973  B.A. Art (Education) California State University at Long Beach

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022  “Mark Steven Greenfield : A Survey, 2001-2021, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

2020  “Black Madonna” William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica,CA

2018  “ Love and Loathing” Ronald H. Silverman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

2018  “ Spirits, Ghosts and Other Distractions” California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA

2017  “Mantras and Musings” Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2015  “ The Egun Quad”, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2014  “Lookin’ Back In Front of Me : Mark Steven Greenfield 1974-2014, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2011  “ Doo Dahz” , Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2011 “ Blackatcha…Once Again”, ISI Arti, Associate, Naples, Italy

2009 “Othello’s Ghost”:, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, Ca

2008 “Mammygraphs”, Wignal Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

2008 “Incognegro”, Sweeney Art Museum, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

2007 “Incognegro”, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA

2004 “Post Minstrel”, Steven Turner, Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

2000 “Blackatcha”, Reginald Ingraham Gallerey, Los Angeles, CA

2000 “ Iconography”, Mount San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA

1998  “ Spirit House”, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

1997  “ Iconography : The Banner Series”, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles, CA

1987  “Crenshaw Consciousness” California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

1986 “Crenshaw Consciousness” William Grant Still Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibits

2023 “Bold Expressions, The Collectiion of Lorlee and Arnold Tenebaum”, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah ,GA

2022  “Space In Bertween”, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Let Me Talk”  Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA

“Black, White and Shades of Gray” Kellogg Gallery, California State Polytechnic University , Pomona, Ca

2021 “Betwixt and Between”, Angeles Gate Art Gallery, San Pedro, CA

“Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel”, USC Fisher Museum of Art, University of Soiuthern California, Los Angeles, CA

“Configured Landscapes”, Launch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Otherwise/Revival”, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2020  “We Are Here/Here We Are” Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Skin In The Game”’, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

“Examining Identity Construction”, MW Gallery, Flint, MI

“Verbis Artis”, Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

“Graphic Subversion”, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, CA

2019 “Celebrating a Cultural Heritage: Selections From the Mott Warsh Collection, Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI

“Personal Truth”, El Camino College, Torrance, CA

2018  “Four Million Angels”, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, CA

“Visions of Elysium”, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, CA

“Conjurations: Varieties of Abstract Experience”, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA

2017 “Legacies” California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

“In Pursuit of Beauty”, 3331 Arts and Imagine Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“Made In Cotton” California State University, Dominguez Hill, Carson, Ca

“Dimensions of Black”, Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California Davis, Davis CA

“One Year: The Art of Politics in LA”, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA

2019 “Made In Cotton” LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

“Farewell Eden”, Sturt Haaga Gallery, La Canada, CA

“Recharging the Image, Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2015  “Los Angeles Art Now”: The Culturally Diverse Spirit of the City”, IBox Gallery, Chengdu, Peoples Republic of China

“Los Angeles Art Now: The Culturally Diverse Spirit of the City”,Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, Peoples Republic of China

2014  “Recent Works by Quentin Bemiller, Anita Bunn and Mark Steven Greenfield, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena,CA

“Visual Exchanges” , Korean American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

“The Armory Show, with Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

2013  “EXPO Chicago, with Ricco Maresca Gallery, Chicago, Il

“One Shot”, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2012  “Go Tell It On the Mountain”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

“Sea of Exchange, Ireland-Los Angeles”, L.A. Print Space, West Hollywood, CA

“International Exchange Exhibition Korea-USA”, Gang Dong Art Center, Seoul, Korea

“COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011   “Los Angeles Artist Laboratory Fellowship Exhibition”,  Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA

2010  “Places of Validation, Art and Progression”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

“Testimonies  Two”, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA

“Inscription”, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

“Social/Political Content”, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

“Latitude 34-40”,  ART 1307, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy

4th Thai-USA Exchange Art Exhibition, Chiang Mai Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2009  4th Thai-USA Exchange Art Exhibition, Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand

“Small Works”, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2007  “Distinctly Los Angeles: An African American Perspective, M.Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“West / Southwest”, 516 Arts, Albuquerque,NM

2006  “Blacks In and Out of the Box”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

“Impressions”, El Camino College Art Gallery, El Camino College, Torrance, CA

2005  “Alterations”, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2004  Marks, Scratches and Doodles, Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes,CA

“Confessions” , Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

“Surface Tension”, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

“Whiteness: A Wayward Construction”,  University of Virginia Museum, Charlottesville, VA

“Fade”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

“Broad Territories”, University of California Riverside , California  Museum of Photography, Riverside CA

“Identification” ,Highways Gallery, Santa Monica,CA

“Only Skin Deep”, International Center  for Photography, New York,NY

2003  “Whiteness:  A Wayward Construction”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“Redux”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002  “Color, Culture and Complexity”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

“Sketches and Gestures”, Mullin Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

“In Pursuit Of Peace” ,18th Street Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“History and Mystery”, Steve Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

“Storefront Live” ,Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2001  “Blackface/Whiteface” ,LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

“Represent” ,Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA

“Banned & Barred”, BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“Bridging Time”, L. A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Politically Incorrect” ,Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

“Skin/Veneer”, Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA

“Capital Art”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000  “Charm Offensive”, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

“Looking Forward, Looking Black” ,Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA

“Dae Jon – LA Contemporary Art Exhibition” ,Woo Yeon Gallery, Dae Jon, South Korea

1999  “Do You See What I See”, Articulture Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA

1998  Kings Art Center, Hanford, CA

1997  Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

“Crosses, Crossroads & Crucifixes”, Gallery Lakaye, Los Angeles, CA

1996  “Affirming A Visual Heritage” ,California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

“Reflections” ,City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA

1995  “Faces” ,South Bay Contemporary Museum, Torrance, CA

“Collaborations”, Black Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Death’s Domain”, The New Gallery, Santa Monica,CA

Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA

1994  “Tribute to Maya Angelou” ,National Arts Club, New York, New York

Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

1993  “Fusion 93” ,Pauline Hirsch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1992  Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

1991  “Tribute to Carter Woodson”,California State University Dominguez Hills,Carson,CA

“Art Central” ,Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA

1990  M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA

1988  Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

1986  L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA