Mark Kessell

Selected Exhibitions

2009	March	To Be Determined University of Technology, Dresden, Germany – Solo Exhibition

2008	December	Specimen Box Helmholtz Institute, Berlin, Germany – Solo Exhibition
2008	November	To Be Determined Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY – Solo Exhibition

2007	September	Mark Kessell - Retrospective IG Halle, Rapperswil, Switzerland – Solo Exhibition
	August	Degrees of Separation Peer Gallery, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
	March	Mark Kessell - Daguerreotypes Kunstraum, Herzogenaurach, Germany – Solo Exhibition
	February	Extraordinary Bodies The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM - Group Exhibition
	January	Picturing Eden The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA - Group Exhibition

2006	October	True-Symbols: Photography in Science and Fine Arts Altana Gallery of the University of Technology, Dresden, Germany – Group Exhibition
	September	Why Look At Animals? The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY – Group Exhibition
	June	Between the Past and the Present ClampArt, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
	February	Sans Regard Musees de l’Elysees, Lausanne, Switzerland – Group Exhibition
	January	Picturing Eden The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY – Group Exhibition

2005	December	The Image Wrought - University of Texas, Austin, TX – Group Exhibition
	October	How We Look Princeton University, Princeton, NJ – Group Exhibition
	July	Sans Regard Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France – Group Exhibition
	April	Light From Silver Museum of Fine Art of Houston – Group Exhibition
	February	The Silver Garden Philadelphia Museum of Art – Group Exhibition
	January	Wetlab – The New Nexus Between Art and Science Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT – Group Exhibition

2004	October	Anxiety & Desire Metropolitan Community College, Denver, CO – Group Exhibition
	May	Florilegium Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY – Solo Exhibition
	April	Anomaly ADM Gallery, Philadelphia, PA – Group Exhibition
	April	Reprotech: Building Better Babies New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
	January	50 % Gray ADM Gallery, Philadelphia, PA – Group Exhibition

2003	December	Mirror / Image Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
	November	Divining Fragments Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY – Group Exhibition
	September	The Best of Photo & Film The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY – Group Exhibition
	August	Mutter Museum Photographs Camerawork, San Francisco, CA – Group Exhibition
	July	Identity Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA – Group Exhibition
	July	Concealed Identity Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco CA – Group Exhibition
	June	Seeing Gruss Center of Visual Arts, Lawrenceville, NJ – Group Exhibition
	April	Secret Victorians The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA – Group Exhibition
	March	Images against War Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany – Group Exhibition
	February	How Human International Center for Photography, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
	January	Suture Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada – Group Exhibition

2002	November	photoGenesis II Museum Of Fine Art, Santa Barbara, CA – Group Exhibition
	October	The Mutter Museum Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
2002	June	Feathers, Flocks & Coveys Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY – Group Exhibition
	January	Stranger Inside II University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL – Solo Exhibition

2001	November	Contemporary Daguerreotypes Daguerreian Society Exhibition, Kansas City, MO – Group Exhibition
	October	Masters of the Modern Daguerreotype from the Hallmark Collection The Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO – Group Exhibition
	January	The Crafted Image: 19th–Century Techniques in Contemporary Photography Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA – Group Exhibition

2000	September	Stranger Inside Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY – Solo Exhibition
	July	Mere Opportunities Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY – Solo Exhibition

1999	November	Contemporary Daguerreotypes Daguerreian Society Exhibition, Rochester, NY – Group Exhibition

Selected Collections		The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The University Of Texas, Austin, TX The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

Selected Bibliography		Visual Arts Journal – Spring 2008 James, Christopher: Alternative Photographic Processes, 2nd Ed. - 2008, Delmar Klochko, Deborah: Picturing Eden 2006, Steidl The New York Times – January 2006 Princeton Packet – November 2005 New England Journal of Art – April 2005 The New York Times – February 2005 Denver Post – November 2004 Rocky Mountain News – November 2004 Claremont Courier – April 2004 New York Academy of Science Journal – April 2004 American Photography Annual No. 19 – December 2003 Delve Magazine – April, October 2003 Art & Auction Magazine – March, October 2003 Canadian Medical Association Journal – March 2003 Worden, Gretchen: Mütter Museum, Blast Press 2002 Rexer, Lyle: The Antiquarian Avante-Garde 2002, Abrams 21st: Journal of Contemporary Photography 2002 Art & Auction Magazine – November 2002 The Chronicle Review – September 6th, 2002 Black & White Magazine Australia – August 2002 Fortune Magazine – April 15th 2002 Australian Art Collector – April 2000

Education		1997-2000	M.F.A. Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
		1974-1980	M.B. B.S. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (Australian equivalent of M.D.)