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Mark Sink > curriculum vitae through March 2025
MARK SINK
www.gallerysink.com
@marksink
BORN 1958, Denver, Colorado
EDUCATION:
Community College of Denver, Computer Graphics Certificate,1992
Colorado University at Denver, CO, 1979-1982
Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO, 1981-1984
Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Carbondale, CO. 1974-1976
Cherry Creek school systems, Englewood, CO. 1960s-1970s
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES:
Robin Rice Gallery NY www.robinricegallery.com
Paul Cava – Philadelphia PA www.paulcava.com
Getty Images - www.gettyimages.com
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Great memories and thanks...
RULE Gallery Denver, CO
G. Ray Hawkins Los Angeles, CA
Davud Floria Gallery Aspen, CO
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March 2025, University of Denver Vicki Myhren Gallery curated by Rupert Jenkins
“Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-95”
And book will be published by the University Press of Colorado
March 2025, The Denver Salon at Seidel City
January 2025, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) Dazzle of Darkness curated by Rebecca Didomenico
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Oct 2024, Galería Nudo - Arte Contemporáneo y Moderno San Miguel de Allende, México. Famous Dead Artists – curated by Alcides Fortes and Patrick
Oct 2024, Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Lost & Found: An Analog Forever Magazine Exhibition
June 2024, SP_ CE13 Ppl I’ve met on The Internet
curated by: Julio Alejandro
June 2024 Seidel City’s New Photography Gallery Debut , curated by @marksink
March 2024, The Wise Fool Art Podcast
Episode 262 - Mark Sink, Photographer
February 2024 Analog Forever Magazine, Cover and feature. By Michael Behlen
January 2024, BRDG Project' Roots of an Era
Mixtape to the old Denver Art Scene
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March 2023, RedLine Contemporary Art Center
typed live - excuse errors
A Mark Sink Retrospective
The interconnected World of Family, Community, and Art
Lecture with Mark Sink April 1,2023
March 2023, Denver Collage Club returns to Alto Gallery to celebrate The Month of Photography Denver
March 2023, Seidel City Exit Paradise Body based photographic works of Sherry Wiggins and Luís Branco, Kristen Hatgi Sink and Mark Sink
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March 2022, NETFLIX documentry - The Andy Warhol Diaries producer Ryan Murphy and director Andrew Rossi.
February 2022, Aspen Public Radio "Who Was The Real Andy Warhol"
Mark Sink on Warhol in Aspen. By Dominic Anthony Walsh
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September 2021, DATELINE - Show and tell: Downtown NY 1980s Art, Ephemera and personal stories from the collection of Mark Sink
December 2021, Aspen Art Museum Andy Warhol: Lifetimes
Video installation Andy in Aspen.
March 2021, Month of Photography Denver (Debut year given to Colorado Photographic Arts Center)
March 2021, The Denver Collage Club at Alto Gallery Denver Thought Objects
March 2021, RedLine Contemporary Art Center “Three Acts” asks dozens of photographers to capture aspects of an unsettling era The Denver Post Mar 15, 2021
Oct 2021, MAKE ME FAMOUS film documentary debut of artist Edward Brezinski.
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March 2020 Camino Silvestre San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Zona Maco Foto -Zona Maco Art Week
Mark Sink, Maggie Taylor, David Zimmer
Camino Silvestre Centro Citi Banamex CDMX
October 2020, LOTTE Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea “Jean Michel Basquiat:
Royalty, Heroism, and the Streets,” - Catalog Published
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2019, Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture have annually recognized individuals and organizations that make significant and lasting contributions to the arts in the City and County of Denver. Imagine 2020 Award: Mark Sink
March 2019, Month of Photography Denver - Blurb Catalog
March 2019, Denver Colllage Club Alto Gallery
March 2019, KOLA magagine review of Alto Gallery exhibition.
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March 2017, BURTON Series of images for Burton Custom Twin Snow Boards
September 2017, Love Among the Ruins: HOWL ARTS New York, NY Catalog published
October 2017, ARTFORM review “Love Among the Ruins: 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s New York
March 2017, Denver Collage Club Alto Gallery
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December 2021. Trouble Magazine Paris
TROUBLE VOL 1 No. 3 DEC 2021 - Denver Street Talk by Mathew Rose
December 2021. Cherry Creek Fashion Magazine
Legendary Artist & Photographer Mark Sink Talks About His Method, Warhol, Basquiat and Grace Jones - By Stephanie Richards
December 2021, Aspen Times - In Aspen with Andy Warhol
Denver photographer Mark Sink discusses his local adventures with Andy Warhol
by Andrew Travers
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October 2019, Rocky Mountain PBS Arts District Flour Water and Sugar
RMPBS catches up with The Big Picture Colorado
January 2019, Station16 Mark Sink X Andy Warhol
From A to D and Back Again: Untold Stories of Andy Warhol
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March 2017, The Month of Photography Denver Blurb Catalog
March 2017, The Denver Collage Club Alto Gallery Online catalog.
Febuary 2016, Weestword Cover story feature.
Big Shot Photographer Mark Sink, Under The Lens by Susan Froyd
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March 2015, Month of Photography Blurb Catalog
March 2015, Denver Collage Club Debuts Robert Anderson Gallery Cherry Creek Denver
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February 2014, Rene Ricard dies
January 1st 2024, Denver Collage Club Founded.
January 2014. Denver Collage Club and others Z Gallery Entre Nous of Z Cuisine
February 2014, Street photography at the Buffalo Exchange Gallery
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March 2013, Month of Photgraphy Denver Blurb catalog
March 2013, The Big Picture Colorado Blurb catalog
May 2013, Taylor Mead dies
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December 2012, Mark and Kristen Sink New Work at Robin Rice NYC
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March 2011, The Month of Photography Denver
March 2011, The Big Picture Colorado 2011 - First Blurb Catalog - Adam Gildar
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March 2009, The Month of Photography Denver
March 2009, The Big Picture Colorado
October 2009,. Robin Rice Gallery. The Robin Rice Gallery NYC exhibition of photography by Mark Sink & Kristen Hatgi.
December 2009, Delirium at Illiterate Gallery curated by Mark Sink
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Spring 2007, Founding Board Member of RedLine Contemporary Art Center Denver
June 2007, - Gallery Sink Last Exhibtion Menageries and the The Tented Sky
SEE BELOW PAST ARCHIVES
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
9/10 Byers-Evans Museum, Mark Sink Photographs 1975-2010: Encounters with the Past, September 3 through October 31, 2010
Catalog published.
Denver Post Review 10/01/2010 “ Showing of Mark Sink's photos just scratches surface” By Kyle MacMillan
11/09 Robin Rice gallery NYC Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi
9/09 Mr. Pool Boulder CO. Giant Wet Plate blow ups.
6/09 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art “ Pure Pleasure”.
June 5th- September 6th 2009
9/08 Rule Gallery Light and Time Mark Sink and Kristen Hatigi
included Untold Story, Andy Warhol Portraits by Mark Sink.
Reviewed by the Denver Post 12/26 “New Photos, Vintage
Process”
“ Some pictures of Andy Warhol that you haven’t seen”
Westword 12/11 Art Beat Light and Time.
8/04 At This Turn Of The Century Mark Sink, Phototroph Gallery Colorado Springs
4/97 Nymph Series Benham Gallery, Seattle
3/96 New work Robin Rice Gallery, NYC
8/94 Stilllifes: Life Death and Sensuality, Lee Arthur Gallery NYC
4/93 The Nude, Museo Ken Damy di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italia
2/93 Nudes and Nature, Felissimo, New York, NY
11/91 East/West, Lee Arthur Fine Art Studio, New York, NY
11/91 Photographs 1981-1991, Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
2/91 New Works, Real Art Inc., New York, NY
5/90 Photografias Mark Breese Sink, Gallery Via, Caracas, Venezuela
2/90 Famous Faces, Real Art Inc., New York, NY
5/89 Twelve Nudes & a Gargoyle, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
5/88 La Photographia Diana, Galeria Los Espacios Calidos, Caracas, Venezuela
7/82 Graduate Photography Show, University of Denver, Denver, CO
4/82 Famous Cats and Dogs, River Gallery, Denver, CO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
3/11 OPEN PRESS - Denver - Contemporary Photogravures - March 2nd-April 9th 2011
3/11 Center for Fine Art Photography - Human+Being
March 25 - April 23 Reception April 1, 6 - 9PM
3/11 Kaze Gallery curated by Rachel Payton March 25th , 2011.
1/11 The Kinsey Institute Gallery, As We See Them: Exotic and Erotic Images from Contemporary Alternative Process Photographers
January 21 through April 1, 2011 Catalog Published.
12/10 Denver University Myhren Gallery ‘Warhol in Colorado’–Memories and Memorabilia December 20, 2010
Denver Post "Andy Warhol in Colorado" exhibit at DU's Myhren Gallery an ambitious offering 1/28/11
Denver Post - Fetes welcome "Warhol in Colorado" show
By Joanne Davidson January 31, 2011
WestWord -Warhol in Colorado: Mark Sink's 15 Minutes of Fame January 31, 2011 by Susan Froyd
11/10 Ballet Nuovo Colorado - Mark Sink +Kristen Hatgi + Alex Ketley - Visual Artists + Choreographers - Chasing the Sublime - a shared experience in art - November 5-14, 2010
5/10 HINTERLAND - BECOMING VISIBLE - Nine subversive photographic artists form this incarnation of Heads of Hydra, and each Head creates new work.
3/10 VERTIGO Art Space A Something Or Other That Has No Name In Any Language. Heads of Hydra, a photographers' collective. Curated by Richard Peterson.
3/10 RedLine Community Space, Second Degree of Separation
2/10 Theory and Practice , Xerox blow ups
1/10 Z-Modern , portraits of Dale Chisman.
1/10 Sao Paulo Brazil – A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.
8/09 The Emily Harvey Foundation NY A BOOK ABOUT DEATH
8/09 Space Gallery CYMK Illiterate magazine
7/09 CSU Museum Andy Warhol Photographs
7/22 Reviewed The Rocky Mountain Collegian
6/09 Working With Artists Monumental
6/09 Denver Art Museum Bollywood auction
3/09 Packing House Center for the Arts Mark Sink and Kriten Hatgi
3/09 Dry Ice Factory Robert C. Strohmeier group show.
3/09 Anderson Ranch auction
2/09 Redline Love/Hate Hate/ Love Illiterate Magazine
2/09 Rule Gallery “ Red @ Rule
2/09 Madden Museum of Art, Intimacy and Seduction
9/08 Gallery 1261 Salon de Musee
9/08 Nexus Gallery TOYLAND Philadelphia PA
8/08 Belizario Galleria De Arte Brasil “ Blow Up” Catalog published
5/08 Chelsea Hotel “Though the Eyes of Photographers”
9/07 Jim Robishon Gallery Landscapes of Colorado curated by Ann Daily
Catalog/ Book published
7/07 Robin Rice Gallery Summertime Salon NYC
5/07 Vertigo Art Space, Marina Graves + 2 Mark Sink, Rachel Hawthorn
1/07 The Best of Colorado Denver international Airport
12/06 “ The Nitto Files” curated by Marina Graves Invisible Museum Denver
9/06 Collectors Preview 7@7 curated by Jina Pierce, Flash Gallery, workingwithartists.com
6/06 Decades of Influence”1985- Present Curated by Cydney Payton
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
12/05 Small Works Flash Art Gallery Belmar Center Denver
9/05 Summer Time Robin Rice Gallery NYC
12/04 Colorado Art Expo, Colorado Convention Center, Denver
9/04 Open Press 15 Year Retrospective, Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Colo.Sprngs.
9/04 Summer Time Robin Rice Gallery NYC
3/04 Matrix Art Project NY/Paris/Brussles/Denver Pirate Denver
6/02 Solar Plate Exibition Open Press Denver
9/01 Downtown 81 curated by Maripol Dietch Projects NYC , NY
Colorado Photographers curated by Hal Gould at the
2/01 Seven Point Perspective Photography from the Denver Salon, Denver Art Museum
2/01 Apparitions Rule Modern Denver Co.
12/00 Aperture Gallery Denver Co.
8/00 Call and Response curated by Simon Zalkin Mizel Arts Center Denver Co.
8/00 Fresh Eyes curated by Kathy Andrews Arvada Center Co
6/00 Botanica Spectaculum Republic Plaza Co
1/00 Plastic Fantastic E-6 Gallery NYC
11/99 Jock Sturges , Mark Sink Benham Gallery Seattle WA
10/99 Gallery Soap exchange show with The Denver Salon , Kitakyushu Japan
7/99 Mirror Mirror Matrix Art Project/ New York
6/99 Summertime Robin Rice Gallery NYC
7/98 Fashion Show, Work of and about Fashion Rule Modern and Contemporary
6/98 New York Impressions Galerie Mistral, Montreal Quebec Canada
12/97 Mark Sink and Inna Valin and selections of the Denver Salon Rule Modern and Contemporary, CO
11/97 Visions, Contemporary Colorado Photography Emmanuel Gallery, CO
7/97 Mud Men performance Cherry Creek Arts Festival, CO.
6/97 Aspen Museum of Contemprary Art , CO
6/97 Reverse Technology Toy Camera Images Benham Gallery WA
4/97 Contemporary Visions With The Plastic Camera Photocenral Hayward CA
1/97 Recent Acquisitions Denver Art Museum
3/96 The Sight, Internet page produced and curated all via e-mail.
1/96 Body Erotic Planet Off, Denver CO.
1/96 The Denver Salon Artopia Gallery, NYC
8/95 BOB Kodak Photography Forum America On Line.
7/95 The Nude The Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver CO.
6/95 The Kiss G. Ray Hawkins Gallery Santa Monica Ca.(Traveling to 15 galleries through 95-96)
2/95 Sensuality and the Nude Artopia Gallery, NYC.
1/95 OFF THE HIGHWAY (Organized and curated) Rule Modern and Contemporary , CO
1/95 Ron Wohluer Mark Sink Kevin O’Connell Daniel Murtagh Grant Gallery Denver CO.
12/94 nvitational Print Show, Mackey Gallery, Denver. CO.
5/94 Not Vital and Mark Sink Warhol Images Steve Mendelson Gallery Pittsburgh Pa.
3/94 The Nurturing Spirit Robin Rice Gallery NYC
1/94 The Denver Salon Boulder Arts Center Boulder CO.
12/94 Mark Sink, Owen Omeara, Keven O'Connell, R.Strong, Grant Gallery Denver, CO
10/93 Mind Set Robin Rice Gallery NYC NY
12/92 The Small Masterpiece Show, Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver
12/92 Eroticism and Death, Blackheart Gallery, Denver
11/92 The Nude, Grant Gallery, Denver
11/92 Transformations, Arthur•Bardenheuer Fine Art Studio, New York, NY
10/92 Arts Colorado Photography Exhibition, Traveling Show, Denver, CO
9/92 Views of The Western Landscape: Past and Present, Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery Denver
5/92 Group Show, Grant Gallery, Denver, CO
5/92 First Annual Photography Invitational, Mackey Gallery, Denver, CO
1/92 Open Press Portfolios, Ink Fish Gallery, Denver, CO
10/91 The Nine, Kent-Denver Country Day, Denver, CO
8/91 Group Show, Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
8/91 Group Show, The Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, CO
3/91 Contemporary Photography, Pyton Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
12/89 More Nudes, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
12/89 Landscapes, The Other Gallery, New York, NY
8/89 Group Show, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
8/88 Diana Photo Show, L.A. Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
8/87 Diana Show, The Pirate Art Oasis, Denver, CO
3/87 Erotica, 56 Bleecker Gallery, Ltd., New York, NY
1/85 Art Photography, Art Department, Denver, CO
9/83 Urban Aborigine Week, First Mud Man Performance, Denver Center of Performing Arts, CO
6/83 Her Body Within, Carson Dance Library, Denver University, Denver CO.
4/83 One Man Show, The New Space, Denver, CO
4/83 Student Photo Show, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO
3/83 Video Art Show, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
3/83 Images in Silver: Photographs, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO
3/83 Art Symposium, Ft. Collins, CO
1/83 Tri School Show, MSC, UCD and CCD, Denver, CO
12/82 John Doe Deer, Multi media show, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
12/82 Outsider, Pirate Art Gallery, Denver, CO
12/82 Video Art Show, Photographs, Spark Art Gallery, Denver, CO
9/82 Refuse, Pirate Art Gallery, Denver, CO
8/82 New Western Contemporary Photography, Photo Floor Group Show, New York, NY
8/82 Nefertiti's Dream, Multi-Media Theater Arts Production, Denver, CO
5/82 Dance Photography, Denver Center of Performing Arts, Denver, CO
4/82 Street Art: Photographs, Pirate Outsider Show, Pirate Art Gallery, Denver, CO
WORKS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF:
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Andy Warhol Estate, New York, NY
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
MCI Corporation New York, NY
Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Museo de Bella Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Kaiser Permanente Medical,Denver Co.
Saban Entertainment, LA. CA.
William Hunt Foundation NY
El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO
GRay Hawkins, Santa Monica CA
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Co.
Tabula Rasa, Caracas, Venezuela
Captiva Corporation Denver CO.
Ginny Williams Foundation, Denver, CO
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Bloomingdales NYC Ralph Lauren NYC
The Snell & Wilmer Photography Collection AZ
Bud Jacobson AZ
PRIVATE COLLECTORS:
NATIONAL
James and Kelly Arthur
Ernesto Abensberg und Truan
Susi Billingsley
Guido Branca
Camilla Campbell
Jeff Carpenter
Paul Cava
Leander Cohen
Mr. and Mrs.Tucker Dean
Max Dolgcier
Melinda Hackett
Fred Hughes
Lauren Hutton
Dan and Annette Jacobs
Kelly Kane
Montana Katz
Haruo Kimura
Paul and Musa Klebnikov
Victoria Lilienthal
Lynnie Lewis
Gerard Malanga
Robert Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parent
Campion Platt
Gerry Rothberg
Elizabeth Saltzman
John Sweet
Robert Sweet
Jim Signorelli
Maria Snyder
Brian and Lavinia Snyder
Jacqueline Spaniel
Charles Symington
Anna Wintour
REGIONAL
George and Joan Anderman
Alfredo Garcia-Lucio and Jim McKeever
Evan & Elizabeth Anderman
Anschutz Family Foundation
Alan Becker
Woody Beardsley
Mitzi Handler
John & Linda Berman
Tom & Michelle Bottelo
Sue Cannon
Charles Calloway
Lu Chara
Raymond Clark
David Cohen
Tom & Noel Congdon
Dana Crawford
Donna Crown
Rebecca D. Dominico
Eugene Deikman
Linda Derschang
Devon Dikeou
Partick & Lynnde Dupays
Doug and Judy Etkin
Barbara Fey
Tim Gill
Hugh Grant
John Grant
Bill Griffith
Paul & Teresa Harbaugh
Fuad & Chris Jezzini
Will Joseph
Dr. Chris Law
Tony & Delisa Mayer
McGrath & Braun
Jerry Murff
Woody and Michelle McWilliams
David and Laura Merage
Cydney Payton &
Kevin Causey
Monte Cleworth
Dr. Dean Prina
Kimiko Powers
David Raccugila
Karen & Don Ringsby
Mark Roth and James Pfister
Mimi Ruderman
Robin Rule
Anne Helke and Terry Seidel
Sol Sarny
Christy Sebastian
Joe Jenny Shanahan
Mindy Sink
Lewis Sharp
Ted & Joyce Strauss
Jock Sturges
Mark Sulivan
Thomas Tavelli
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:
2009- Gallery Sink Consulting
2008 – present Contributor Illiterate Magazine
2008 – present Contributor FM Magazine
2006- present Founder and Director of MOP ( Month of Photography)
2008- present Leadership Board and exhibitions committee Redline
1982-present Sink Photography Studios, NY / Denver
1999-2008 Owner and Director of Gallery Sink
1999-2000 Interim Director Museum of Contemporary Art /Denver
1997-2006 Founding board member Museum of Contemporary Art /Denver
2003-present Adjunct Professor, Colorado University, Boulder Fine Art Photography
1995-present Instructor Denver Darkroom / Working with Artists
2000-2008 DADA Denver Art Dealers Association
2004-2008 The Denver Public Library Acquisition Committee
1995 -1999 Alliance For Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, board member
1993 1996 Regular photography contributor ,Westword Denver Co.
1993- 2001 Director of Fine Art Photography Cooperative- "The Denver Salon"
1991 present Regular Fashion and Portrait contributor to: Aspen Magazine, Icon Magazine, Colorado Arts
1982 -1990 Published Editorial Portraits: Details Magazine, Interview, Manhattan Inc., Vogue, Electricity Flash Art, Art & Antiques, ArtForum, Art in America, City Magazine
1984-1990 MGF Magazine, (Men’s Guide to Fashion) Editor at Large/Chief Photographer, New York, NY
1983- 1990 Circus Magazine, Staff Photographer, New York, NY
1982- 1985 Interview Magazine, Regional circulation/ Advertising / Contributing Photographer
RECENT COMMERCIAL CLIENTS
Ballet Nuevo Colorado print ad /posters 2011
Clarion Distributing Absolute
Vodka packaging image 1986
NewYorker Magazine corporate report 1987
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories print ad 1988
Felissimo Dept. Store, NYC catalog 1990
Denver Art Museum print ad 1995
NewYork Times Magazine 1996
Dial Soap Corporation, packaging 1996
NYC Project Pave mailer 1996
Barrett Resources corporate report 1996
Stokes Chile packaging image 1996
Norwest Banks Print ad 1996
Revlon/ American Crew print ad 1997
Ritz Hotels purchase 1998
Founders Funds print ad 1998
17th Denver International Film Festival
print ads posters 1998
Putamyo Clothing, print ad 1988
Hallmark Greeting Cards 1998
Penguin Books book cover 1999
W Hotels NYC purchase 1999
Four Seasons Hotel NYC purchase 2000
Bloomingdales corporate purchase 2002
Ralph Lauren corporate purchase 2002
Intra West, Copper Mt. Co. purchase 2002
Hyatt Regency Hotels purchase 2005
Samsonite Luggage “Point A”. 2004
Infinite Editions print ad 2004
Andrisen Morton Men print ad 2004
Andrisen Morton Woman print ad 2004
Max Clothing Catalogs fall 2002-2006
Erotica Ball mailers/posters 2005
Mod Livin print ad and mailer 2005
Z Cusine print ad, and mailer. 2007
Colorado Homes and Lifestyles 2007
TEACHING AND LECTURE:
3/12 Houston Fotofest Meeting Place reviewer
3/11 Month of Photography Portfolio Reviewer / Director.
3/11 RedLine Lectures The Print Event - The Next Step –
Intermediate to advanced collecting
3/10 Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi Historic
Wetplate Photography Demonstration and Lecture
3/10 Houston Fotofest Meeting Place reviewer
10/09 Colorado University Colorado Springs “ Reverse Technology” lecture
10/09 Photolucida Critical Mass Reviewer
9/08 THE LAB Orientalist Photography Japan in the Baumatsu-Meiji period 1868-1912
3/08 Houston Fotofest Meeting Place reviewer
3/08 Dikeou Collection, Unseen Andy Warhol lecture
2/08 Photolucida Critical Mass reviewer
3/07 DOCA Denver Office of Cultural Affairs workshops.
3/07 World Pin Hole Day workshops
2/07 Workingwithartists.org lecture “submitting to art galleries”
2/07 Photolucida Critical Mass reviewer
3/06 Visiting professor University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
3/05 World Pin Hole Day Workshops
1/03 Adjunct Professor, Colorado University, Boulder Fine Art Photography
3/04 World Pinhole Day Workshops, Working
9/00 Photolucida reviewer Portland OR
6/00 Rocky Mountian School of Art graduate critique
4/00 SPE (Society of Photographic Educators) Panel and slide lecture
10/99 Nelson College Lecture, portfolio review and juror
1998 Houston Fotofest Meeting Place reviewer
1999 ASMP (Asso. of Magazine Photographers) annual meeting , slide lecture
1997 -present The Denver Darkroom “The Sensuous Image”
5/95 Denver Center for Fine Photography , Alternative photographic methods work shops.
6/95 Photography at the Summit, Jackson Wyoming,” Methods for the little guy in the big world”
AWARDS:
2011 Westword Best of Denver Award The Big Picture.
2006 Best of Denver Westword for Best Historic Photography Show.
2006 DAM Contemporaries honor AFKEY recipients.
2002 Celebrate Colorado Artists Festival First Place
2001 AFCA, AFKEY Award, (Alliance for Contemporary), Art, Denver Art Museum
2000 Celebrate Colorado Artists Festival First Place
1999 Best of Denver Westword Best Gallery Opening
* Best of Denver Westword Best Group Photography Show
1998 Hasselblad Awards “Beyond Words” 50th anniversary, Photonika Cologne Germany
1991 Who's Who in Photography, Five Corners Publishing
1989 Top Forty, Maine Photographic Congress, Sponsored by Kodak, Rockport, ME
1983 Images In Silver Award, Kodak, National Competition, Boulder,
1982 First Place & Honorable Mention, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Denver
1982 Best Self-Promotion Award, Westward Magazine, Denver
1976 Award of Merit, County Court House, Permanent Ceramic Installation, Denver
1975 Gold Key to Nationals from the regional Junior Scholastic Art Awards
BIBIOGRAPHY CRITICAL REVIEWS (Personal Work)
4/11 Illiterate Magazine Interviewby Adam Gildar
Friday, April 1, 2011 http://www.illiteratemedia.com
2/10 - 303 Magazine, February 20, 2010 Interview
6/00 Denver Post Walls Blooming with Blossoms, Joanne Ditmer
2/98 Wall Street Journal “Photographers Set Thier Sights on a Virtual Future”, Megen Doscher
1/98 Westword Salon Selective Mark Sink continues his family's artistic heritage, Michael Paglia
1/98 Denver Sidewalk Photo' exhibit bends the rules Simon Zalkin
12/97 Rocky Mountian News, “Surreal statements about the West”, Mary Chandler
12/97 WestWord “View Finders” Michael Paglia
4/95 American Photo “The Joy of Collecting ” Best Photographers. Russell Hart
2/15/95 Westword “Net Worth “ Hart Hill
2/95 Icon Magazine Off The Highway : The 1st Internet Art show. Leslie Petrovski
1/29/95 Denver Post Internet-spawned “Highway”show takes wrong turn. Steve Rosen
1/25/95 Rocky Mountain News, “Mark Sink’s Modem Art Vision” Mary Chandler
8/94 Pretty Decorating NYC’s downtown arts magazine, Claire Mcconagy
10/13/91 Westword “Blurred’s- Eye View” Nancy Clegg
10/10/91 Rocky Mountain News “Contrasting Work in LoDo galleries” Carol Dickinson
BIBIOGRAPHY BOOKS/ PUBLICATIONS/ GENERAL INTERVIEWS
2011
Denver Voice A Month of Photography with Mark Sink
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Denver Post - A very big month for Colorado photography
Galleries put focus on Colorado artists' work
by Kyle Mcmillan Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Westword RedLine MoP review - Three RedLine shows make up the Month of Photography's halo event. By Michael Paglia 4/20/11
2009 9/09 Pop-ology.com + FEATURE: Mark Sink | Photographer +
2009 FALL /WINTER issue FALT Magazine London Andy Warhol
2009 FLATIRON (second printing) Peter Gwillim Kreitler
2008 May issue of the Denver Voice interviewed Rhinoceropolis
2008 LUXE Magazine interview
2007 DAINA + Lomography book on toy cameras
2007 Black Pool Magazine Paris #6 interview
2006 Plastic Cameras Toying With Creativity, Michelle Bates, “Mark Sink the Diana King” Focal Press.
2006 North Denver Tribune Mark Sink: Life , Art in the Highland.
2006 DECADES OF INFLUENCE MCA/DENVER BiAnnual Catalog
2006 RMN interview “ Exbiting Patience founders see contemporary art museum turn 10 , headed for new building” Erika Gonzalez 11/16/06
2006 Metromode Denver interview issue #7
2006 Catalog essay for Susan Junker Paris France
2006 No Knock Room Italy interview “Andy Warhol the un-told stories.
2005 Andy Warhol images for “ One Hour Ahead” The Avant-garde in Aspen, 1945-2004. Dean Sobel and the Aspen Art Museum.
2003 Shots Magazine interview
2002 5280 Magazine Denver “Point And Shoot, Behind the Lens with Mark Sink
2000 THEY magazine interview
6/00 Shots Magazine My Travels with Diana
1997 Photometro interview by Peggy Sue Amison
1997 Graphistock #3
1996 Denver Confluence of the Arts, Meridian International.
1996 Graphistock #2 stock catalog
1994 American Photography The Joy of Collecting March 1994
1994 Shots Magazine regular contributor
1993 Graphis, Zurich, Switzerland, "The Nude"
1990 Petroglyphs and Pueblo Myths of the Rio Grande, Carol Patterson-Rudolph, New Mexico Press,
1990 The Flatiron, A Photo History of New York's Most Famous Building, AIA Press
1989 Warhol Diaries, Warner Publishing, Six Photo Illustrations, Six Diary Mentions
1987 New Yorker Magazine, Photographic illustration of Slaves of New York, Catcher in the Rye, Cell without a Number Prisoner Without a Name, and Silent Spring
PHOTOGRAPHY OF FINE ART CATALOGS:
1/87-present
56 Bleecker Gallery NYC.- Carl Apftelschnitt, Auste, Julian Beck, Mike Berg, Edward Bresenski, Arch Connely, Bill Gian, Robert Hawkins, Scott Kilgour, Bruno Schmidt, Stefano, Tom Woodruff
Gallerie Fabien Boulakia Paris- Jean Michel Basquait, Photographs, Portrait, '90
Marlborough Gallery NYC- John Alexander, Botero, Frederick Brown, Red Grooms, Howard Kanowitz, Larry Rivers , AlexKatz, Leger,Hugh O’Donnell, Picasso, Neil Welliver Tony Shafrazi- Mark Wilson
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery- Francesco Clemente, Jean Michel Basquiat, J. Boggs, David Bowes, Andy Warhol Keith Haring, Willem De Kooning, Quattara, Shenge, Cy Twombly,
Whitney Museum- Red Grooms installation, Jean Michel Basquiat, Portrait,
Other- Claudio Bravo, James Lee Byers, George Condo, Crash, Daze, Felix Pene DuBois, Fidel Marquez. Paul Georges, Alain Jacquet, Buffy Johnson, David LaChapelle, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol,Sylvia Martins, Dennis Oppenhiem, Rene Ricard, Miguel Rios, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Vittorio Scarpalatti, Kenny Scharf, Teresa Serano, Tom Shannon, Stephen Sprouse, Mark Wilson, Philippe Weisbecker.
Denver Artists include: Steve Alvarez, Don Carleno, Dale Chisman, Bill Gian,
John Hallen, Bill Hays, Wes Kennedy, Mary Mackey, Jesus Polanco, Emily Ripley, Jeff Star .Bill Stockman John DeAndrea, David Zimmer, Steve Batura, Matt ONeil. Scott Chamberlin, Lawrence Argent, Tree Larita, Emilio Labato
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Previous board member of Denver Art Museum and the Museum of ContemporaryArt / Denver
Previous Director and curator of The Denver Salon, a fine art photography group.
Curation of Internet photography web sites and exbitions, and traveling photography exhibitions.
Research on tenth generation NewYork heritage. Great Grandfather,
James L. Breese, society photographer, founder of the NY Camera Club and Great Uncle, Samuel Breese Morse, portrait painter and inventor of the Morse Code. Founder of the New York Academy of Design.
Polaroid Series, signed Polaroid’s of personalities, artists and writers
Experimentation with alternative developing and printing techniques.
Curated “The Codex” (Limited Edition Art Books containing original art work)
Producer of Art Performance Group, “Mud Men”, that performs semi-annually
Computer Graphics; Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express
Creating and running community gardens.
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CURATOIAL PROJECTS 1997-2011
2011
3/11 RedLine Denver - Thought Objects - New directions and ideas in photography - March 4 - April 26, 2011
3/11 RedLine Denver Modern Uses of Alternative Processes
March 4 - April 26, 2011
3/11 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER Thought Objects - in the Open Shelf Library Though March - April, 2011
3/11 Director of Month of Photography
3/11 Illiterate Gallery - The Big Picture
IMAGES INSIDE, OUT THE DOOR AND AROUND THE WORLD
March 4 - March 25, 2011
3/11 Westword Best of Denver Awards The Big Picture
2010
Delirium
Uncontrollable excitement or emotion
December 4th 2009 – January 22 ,2010
2009
March Box Car Gallery judge
2008
September THE LAB Orientalist Photography Japan in the Baumatsu-Meiji period 1868-1912 from the collection of Mark Sink
MOP Month of Photography
MOP reviewed March 15th Rocky Mt News “Len’s Flare”
MOP reviewed March 13th West Word
Core Gallery group show judge
Rinoceropolis Gallery group show
Louisville Art Assosiation Photography judge
2007
April Flash Art Alternative Processes Show
June The Kristen and Shelby show
February Critical Mass , Photolucida Portland OR ( traveling exhibit)
January- March Jason Appleton , Gallery Sink Drawings Paintings and Ceramics
2006
MOP Month of Photography over 75 venues showing photography
December Jason Appleton , Gallery Sink Drawings Paintings and Ceramics
June “and i don’t want to live on the moon” Curated by Harry C Walters and Mark Sink
Jeremiah Teustch, Chad Dawkins, Jason Blanco,Justin Beard,Terry Campbell, David Brady, John Walters, Frank Smuckendecker, Kristen Hatgi, Jason Appleton,Amy Bennett, Agnes Kunz, Harry C Walters.
January – May continued Early Contemporary Photography Gallery Sink
2005
December Early Contemporary Photography Gallery Sink
Winter Prather | Jim Milmoe | Walter Chappell Arnold Gassan | Nile Root | Syl Labrot. Reviewed RMN. Denver Post, Westword
July 8th Annual Contemporary Exhibition The Art Center Grand Junction Co
March The Painted Violin, DYAO Denver Young Artists Gallery Sink
March “The Intimate Floral” The Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins Co.
February Critical Mass ,Gallery Sink from Photolucida Portland OR ( traveling exhibit)
2004
December Mr Pool, Boulder Painting Sculture Film, Drawings Photography, Boulder
October Gallery Sink Brian Doan Landscapes
October MOP, Month of Photography Denver and region Celebrates Photography. Denver Post , RMN, Westword
October Exhibition Art Center, Manitou Springs Rocky Mountain Regional Photography
August – September Gallery Sink Jason Appleton Paintings/ Drawings Ceramics
June – August Summern Show Gallery Sink, A selection of new color work by gallery artists Rayna MangerTedford, Mindy Sink, Vanessa Gochnour,Tom Beresford, Dan Asher, Lori Nix, Kristen Hatgi, Ron Landucci
April Gallery Sink World Wide Pinhole Day www.pinhole.org
April – May 2004 Gallery Sink Jeremiah Coleman Teutshch, Amy Bennett (Westword Artbeat)
April 24th 2004 Gallery Sink Wesley Willis Art Music and Video
February- April Gallery Sink Kimberly Gremillion “Circus”
February Gallery Sink , Staged Fantasy Visual science fiction, intuition and dreams frozen in time and space. Lori Nix, “Waiting To Happen” Anne Arden McDonald Alan Rabold Julia Margaret Cameron Annie W. Brigman Ruth Thorne-Thompson Miro Svolik Francesca Woodman Syrie Kovitz Pavel Pecha Wes Kennedy Bill Thomas
2003
December- February Gallery Sink Staged Fanatsy ( RMN, Westword artbeat)
October- November Gallery Sink The Photographed Word Studies in the use of words and photography Doug Keyes : “Collective Memory” Also: Clint Imboden Susan Evans Cherie Hiser Duane Michals Roland Bernier Susan Lipper Liliana Gelman
August- September Gallery Sink Purvis Young Urban Expressionist ( Reviewed RMN, Denver Post)
May – July Gallery Sink Dresden Reliquary Photographs by Fredrik Marsh
May Gallery Sink, East High School student photography show.
2002
February – May Gallery Sink Dan Asher Icebergs, photographs and drawings
July – September Gallery Sink Platinum a rare passion. James L. Breese, Dan Burkholder, Jill Burkholder, Phil Harris, Nick Havholm, Steven Hayes, Derek Johnston, Kerik Kouklis, David Lawrence, Sally Mann, Tom Millea, Thomas Mezzanotte, Andrea Modica, Kevin O’Connell, Gonzalo Rufatt
September Gallery Sink Humor Show “a show of humorous photographic works”
Richard Bram Thomas Beresford Chris Makos Duane Michels James Soe Nyun
Clare Cornell Sandy Skoglund Michael Ensminger Elliot Erwitt Bill Owens
Bernice Halpern Cutler Joel Dallenbach Justin Quinnell Don Donaghy Alan Rabold
2001
December Gallery Sink Niki Hogan Paige Vercelline
December Mr. Pool Laurel Koessler, Niki Hogan, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Inna Valin, Christopher James, Kerik Kouklis, RJ Muna, Don Carleno,
Jason Appleton, Phil Bender, Alice Major, Bernice Halpern Cutler, Cameron Jones, Lee Anne Schmidt, Pamela Creevey, Todd Colletti, Mary Pellegrino, Jefferson Rubin, Valentine Orkokov, Presley LaFountian, Adam Felgemaker,
May Gallery Sink Human Form
Anne Arden McDonald/ Radek Grosman BB Chase Bert Stern Dominic Rouse Inna Valin Irving Claw Jock Sturges Lee Anne Schmidt Pamela Creevey Paul Schroder RJ Muna Ron Landucci Ruth Bernhard Ruth Throne-Thomsen Susan Evans Susanne Junker Tamaki Obuchi Tamara Gallegos Tia Faulk Vincent Serbin Zabo Chabiland
March – April Gallery Sink Emotional Distance
Robert Adams Walter Chappell Nathan Cranston Chuck Forsman Erik Gould Hal Gould Emmet Gowin William Henry Jackson Susan Lipper Fredrik Marsh Blake Milteer Kevin O’Connell Eric Paddock Winter Prather Paul Raphaelson Otto Roach
Charles Walters Dennis Witmer Ron Wohlauer
2000
March – May Scott Chamberlin Twelve Years : Drawing and Sculpture Museum Of Contemporary Art Denver
February Real to Surreal , Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Rebecca Alzofon Karen Bozik Don Carleno Jeff Carpenter John DeAndrea
Greg Esser Chuck Forsman John Fudge Robert Hawkins Wes Hemple Peter Illig
Terry Maker Sophie Matisse Mark Nelson Matt O’Neil Dave O’Brien Barbara Shark
Daniel Sprick Jeff Starr Bill Stockman Sandra Wittow Paul Wunderlich
September SOHO PHOTO Juror Krappy Kamera Competition NYC
September Off the Highway Gallery Sink
A fine art photography exhibition curated from an internet salon.
Michael Scott Berman NY, Darin Boville MD, Richard Bram UK, Bernice Halpern Cutler NY, Kristin Dale NY, Patrick J Donahue CA, Nic Havelome CO, Kerik Kouklis CA, Suzie Lee NY, Alice Major NJ, Monica Martin AL, Anne Arden McDonald NY,
Steven Meyers WA, Tom Miller IL, Tamaki Obuchi JP, Steve Procko, FL, Justin Quinnell UK, Paul Raphaelson NY, Francis Schanberger OH, Joe Starkey VA, Jock Sturges WA, Tim Timmermans CA, Lucille Tortora NY, AnnMarie Tornabene NY, Inna Valin MN, Gerry Walden UK, Cece Wheeler VA, Shar Wolff VA, Lois Youmans NY
November Gallery Sink Ann White “Fifty Years” A survey of paintings and watercolors, 1950-2000.
December Gallery Sink Photography as Abstract
David Brady John Halin Bryan Boettiger Anne Arden McDonald Joe Shmuckindecker Francis Schanberger Zabo; Kennith Jones Eric Havelock-Bailey Tom Aaron
Shaun GothwaiteJohn Bonath Steven Meyers Eric Havelock-Bailey Carol Peters;
Kevin O’Connell
1999
January – April Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Unique Visions, Floral Show Tamaki Obuchi, Adriene Veninger Steven N. Meyers, Carol Henry, Walter Chappell, Susan Evans, Kevin O’Connell, Karl Blossfeldt, Adam Fuss Marie Cosindas Paul Outerbridge Jr. Tom Baril, Phil Bender, Robert Mappletrope , Reviews: RMN, Denver Post, Westword , Westword Best of Denver , Best photo group Show.
October Exchange show, Denver & Kitakyushu
The Denver Salon at Gallery Soap and Gallery Soap at Gallery Sink
Gallery Soap at Gallery Sink Eight photographers living in Kitakyushu City
and Fukuoka City. Fukuoka is a big neighboring city of Kitakyushu.
Fumio Hanano Kazuaki Maeda Kazuyuki Iwata Mihoko Fukumura Toshiaki Mihara
Tamaki Obuchi Mashiro Oku Wen-Tsan Chang Philippe Wittenbergh
October The Denver Salon at Gallery Soap Kitakyushu Japan
Mark Sink Inna Valin David Zimmer Paul Schroeder John Hallin “ Eric Havelock-Bailie Susan Evans Kevin O'Connell Shaun Gothwaite Christopher James Bryan Boettiger, Jeff Hersch Micheal Ensminger Allen Birnbach Naomichi Ishibashi Reed Weimer Wes Kennedy James L. Breese. The show was visited by Mayor Wellington Webb during his tour of Japan.
Street Level: A Century of New York Street Photography,Singer Gallery of the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture co-curated with director Simon Zalkin
Don Donaghy, Alan Rabold, Arlene Gottfried, Jeff Mermelstein, Fred McDarrah , Joel Meyerowitz, Clemens Kalisher, Larry Fink, Chris Makos, Bill Witt, Nan Goldin, Elliot Erwitt, Alfred Steiglitz, Diane Arbus, Patrick McMullan, Gerard Malanga, Asako,
Orville Robertson, Laura Merage, Ralph Gipson, Satoru Yoshioka, Sam Bolton, Gary Winogrand, Cherie Hiser, Joel Dallenbach, Brendan Harrington, Ralph Gibson,,
1995
November OFF THE HIGHWAY (Organized and curated) Rule Modern and Contemportary
1982
John Doe Deer, Multi media show, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
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