Artist

Kelly Mark

1967 - 2025

Born: Welland, Ontario
BFA with a Minor in Art History: Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1994
Art Diploma: The Dundas Valley School of Art, 1991

Has exhibited widely across Canada, and internationally. Such venues include: The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Darling Foundry (Montreal), Musee d'Art Contemporain (Montreal); MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax), Bass Museum (Miami), University of Houston (Texas), Real Art Ways (Hartford), The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Ikon Gallery (UK), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), The Physics Room (NZ), Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art (Belgium) ... Represented Canada at The Sydney Biennale (1998) and Liverpool Biennale (2006).

Is represented in the public collections of The National Gallery of Canada, The Canada Council Art Bank, Canadian Foreign Affairs, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Musee D'Art Contemporain and many other public, corporate and private collections.

Recipient of numerous Canada, Ontario & Toronto Arts Council grants as well as the KM Hunter Artist Award, and Chalmers Art Fellowship.

Works in a variety of media including: sculpture, video, installation, drawing, photography, sound, multiples, performance & public interventions.

Artist Code: 2186

Videography

Trying to Remember, Sometimes Wishing I Could Forget

2016, 33:03 minutes, colour, silent

108 Leyton Avenue

2014, 10:13 minutes, colour, English

Public Disturbance HB Series: Take 1, Take 2, Take 3

2010, 16:19 minutes, colour, English

The Kiss

2007, 15:00 minutes, colour, silent

REM

2007, 136:36 minutes, colour, English

Glow Series: Porn

2005, colour, silent

I Really Should (Audio CD)

2002, 49:16 minutes, English

Hiccup #1 (Toronto)

2000, 15:00 minutes, colour, silent

Sniff

1999, 07:30 minutes, colour, sound (no dialogue)

33 Minute Stare

1996, 33:00 minutes, colour, silent

Critical Writing

Remembering Canadian artist Kelly Mark, the 'working-class...
by Dave Dyment. CBC Arts, Mar 5, 2025. CBC, 2025.
Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT
Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2018.
Under "The Half-Lit Moon": Theories of Expanded Cinema and Nuit...
by Lydia Miliokas. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Spring 2018, v. 27, no. 1. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Kelly Mark Made This
by Micah Lexier and Jeff Hamada.
Everything and Nothing
by Kelly Mark. Halifax: NP, 2013.
Head to Head: Micah Lexier and Kelly Mark
by Daniel Joyce. Visual Arts News, Spring 2012.
Kelly Mark, Public Disturbance
by Gabrielle Moser. Esse, 2011. Toronto: Esse, 2011.
Kelly Mark
by Bill Clarke. ARTnews, May 2011, v. 110.
Where the Art Is
by Betty Ann Jordan. Fashion, Winter 2010.
Kelly Mark
by Christian Bök. Speechless, 2010, v. 3.
Scream and Scream Again
by Stuart F. Andrews. Rue Morgue, Jan/Feb 2009, no. 86.
Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008 Zone B:: Reflections on Art and Artists...
by Wayne Baerwaldt. POV, Spring 2009, no. 73.
Here Now or Nowhere: Reflections on Art and Artists in the...
by Robin Laurence. Border Crossings, 2009, v. 28, no. 110.
Here Now or Nowhere: Reflections on Art and Artists in the...
by Amy Fung. Canadian Art, Summer 2009, v. 26.
Kelly Mark: Reflections on Art and Artists in the Financial District
by Sandra Q. Firmin. Art Papers, 2008, v. 32.
Elegant Stupidities: Reflections on Art and Artists in the...
Border Crossings, Feb. 2008, v. 27, no. 105.
Kelly Mark. Stupid Heaven
by Barbara Fischer. Montréal: VOX, 2008.
Always Working: The Aesthetic Labours of Kelly Mark
by Rosemary Heather. Canadian Art, Winter 2007, v. 24, no. 4.
Projections
by Barbara Fischer..
How Much Longer
by J.J. Kegan McFadden..
Me & Them
by Micah Lexier..
Kelly Mark thanks everyone for everything
by Sara Krajewski. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2006.
Liverpool A-Z
by Kelly Mark. Liverpool: Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 2006.
Infinity, Etc.
by Dave Dyment..
From Nature to Psychobabble: Beyond/ In Western New York bridges...
by Cynnie Gaasch and Eric Jackson-Forseberg. Art Voice (AV), May 16, 2005.
Not-so-stupid art tricks: Looking carefully at the works in this...
by Sarah Milroy. The Globe and Mail, July 25, 2005.
Video HEROES
by Sylvie Gilbert. Cambridge/Montreal: Cambridge Galleries, 2004.
Beyond Words
by Ingrid Jenkner..
Fall art harvest big on ideas: Visual Art
by Peter Goddard. The Toronto Star, Oct. 2, 2003.
Remote Control
by Craig Buckley..
Obvious
by Shelley Ouellet. Fuse, 2001, v. 25, no. 3.
Important Instructions for Changing the World
by James Patten. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2001.
No More Boring Walls
by Gil McElroy. Art on Paper, 2001, v. 5, no. 5. Art in Print Review, 2001.
Performing Generations
by Jessica Wyman. Lola, Summer 1999, no. 4.
Kelly Mark
Canadian Art, Winter 1999.
Biennale of Sydney: Every Day
by Ihor Holubizky. Canadian Art, Winter 1998.
Kelly Mark: Art Gallery of Ontario
by Lisa Gabrielle Mark. Artforum, Summer 1998, v. 36, no. 10.
Present Tense: Contemporary Project Series / Présence actuelle:...
by Christina Ritchie. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997.
Kelly Mark: Approximately
by Ingrid Jenkner. Halifax: Eyelevel Gallery, 1997.
Small As a Way of Working
by Barbara Carter..
Spotlight: Kelly Mark
by Robin Metcalfe. Canadian Art, Winter 1995.