About
Born in Poland in 1947 and educated at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada; Mark has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1978) and seventeen Canada Council Grants (to name just two examples.) He was honored in 1975 with an invitation from the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst Guest Artist in Berlin Program, and spent nearly two years in Germany. His work has been exhibited extensively all over the world, and his solo shows have been featured at such prestigious institutions as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland; the Akademie Der Kunst in Berlin, Germany; and the Musee d’art contemporain in Montreal, Canada.
Three documentary films have been made in Canada about his work, as well as volumes of newspaper and magazine articles, catalogues and commentaries. He has lectured and taught workshops in hundreds of institutions over the years and continues to do so. Back when workshops were offered at the bi-annual Sculpture Conferences of the International Sculpture Center, he routinely presented the life-molding workshop.
In the early 1980’s Prent moved with his wife to the U.S. and settled in the beautiful Champlain Valley of Vermont where they developed Pink House Studios Inc. as a way of marketing his technical expertise and providing the superior products and customer support that he knew, from his own experience, was so badly needed in the field of life-molding.
Curriculum Vitae
1947 Born in Lodz, Poland
1948 Immigrated to Canada
1970 BFA, Sir George Williams University; Montreal, Quebec
Residing in the United States since 1984.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Birth Machine Baby” w/ H.R. Giger, Gagosian Gallery Park &75, NYC
2018 “Excursions” Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario Canada
2017 “Original Sin” Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
2010 Pink Eye, St. Albans, Vermont, U.S.A.
2005 Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
2005 Pink Eye, St. Albans, Vermont, U.S.A. (performance)
2004 Pink Eye, St. Albans, Vermont, U.S.A. (performance)
2001 PURE, Taos, New Mexico U.S.A.
2000 pink eye, St. Albans, Vermont (U.S.A.)
1993 Centre d’Exposition Circa; Montreal, Canada
1993Galerie de la Tour; Basel, Switzerland
1991 Glendon Gallery; Toronto, Canada
1991 Galerie Experanza; Montreal, Canada
1990 The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Canada
1990 Galerie Esperanza; Montreal, Canada
1987 Powerplant Gallery; Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
1987 Chaffee Gallery: Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.
1987 Saw Gallery; Ottawa, Canada
1986 Galerie Esperanza; Montreal, Canada
1986 The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Canada
1985 Forest City Gallery; London, Ontario; Canada
1984 The Isaccs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1984 Galerie Fucito; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1983 Galerie Matane; Matane, Quebec (Canada)
1982 Salle Tremble; Alma, Quebec (Canada) brochure
1981 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1979 Musee d’art contemporain; Montreal, Quebec (Canada) catalogue
1979 Saw Gallery; Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
Art Space; Peterborough, Ontario (Canada)
1978 Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam, (Holland) catalogue
1978 Sir George Williams Art Gallery; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1978 The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1976 Kunsthalle Nuremberg; Nuremberg, (Germany) catalog
1975 Akademie der Kunste; Berlin, (Germany) catalog
1974 York University; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1972 The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1971 The Warren Benedek Gallery; New York, NY
1971 Sir George Williams Art Gallery; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “70+Gero-Transcendence”, Gallery 77, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.
2018 Usine106u, Montreal, Quebec Canada
2017 “What’s up doc?” New Galerie, Paris, France2017 “Condo New York” Mitchell Algus Gallery, NY, NY2017 “Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters” Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
2016 “Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters” Los Angeles County Museum, CA
Minneapolis Museum of Art, MN
2016 “Zombie Formalism” Mitchell Algus Gallery, NY, NY
2015 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2015 “Getting Naked,” THE MUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
2014 “Natural Beauties”: Jewelry from Art Nouveau to Now” Pizagalli Center, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, U.S.A.
2014 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2013 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2013 “Through the Eye,” curated by David Cronenberg, Museum of Contemporary
CanadianArt, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2011 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2010 “Humanimal,” Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
2010 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2009 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2008 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2007 Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2004 “Re-Con-Figuration,” Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada
2001 Galerie Bernard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2000 Espace D. Rene Harrison, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1999 “De la Montuosite”; Galerie Espace D Rene Harrison, and Galerie Harrison Art International, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1999 “L’etat des Chose Photographique”; Galerie Espace D. Rene Harrison; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1992 “Miniatuur-Museum” Reflex Modern Art Gallery; Amsterdam (Hol.)
1992″Small Villages-Isaacs Retrospective” Art Gallery of Hamilton;
Hamilton, Ontario (Canada)
1989 “Artluminium”; a joint initiative of Alcan and Lavalin. Contemporary art
featuring the use of aluminum. Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1986-87 “The Human Touch”; Le Botanique. Centre Culturelle Bruxelles
(Belgium)touring Liege, Knokke and Paris (France)
1986-87″Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque”; Alternative Museum
New York, New York (U.S.A.)
1985 “East-West Visual Arts Encounter”; Bombay (India)
1983 Art Bank Exhitit; Galerie UQAM. Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1982 “Art Against Repression”; Artspace. Peterborough, Ontario (Canada)
1982″The First International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition”; The University
of Hawaii Art Gallery. Honolulu, Hawaii; travelling in U.S. and Japan.
1981 “Prince, Prent, Whiten”; The Agness Etherington Art Centre.
Kingston, Ontario (Canada)
1981University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, Hawaii (U.S.A.)
1981″Panic Internationale”; Maison de la Culture Rennes. Rennes (France)
1980 “Quebec Sculpture 1970-80”; Chicoutimi, Quebec and
Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1980 “Sculpture 1980” ; Maryland Institute College of Art.
Baltimore, Maryland (U.S.A.)
1980 “11th International Sculpture Conference”; Dupont Centre (Cochran
Annex) Washington, D.C. (U.S.A.)
1979 “The Birmingham Festival of the Arts”; Birmingham, Alabama (U.S.A.)
1979 “Festival of the Performing and Visual Arts”; Wilfrid Laurier, Univers.
Waterloo, Ontario (Canada)
1978 “Canadian Contemporary Sculpture”; Centre Saidye Bronfman
Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1978 Ontario College of Art; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1978 “Performance”; Harbourfront Art Gallery. Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1978 The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1975 “Nine Out of Ten: A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Art”
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery,
Ontario; The Gallery, Stratford, Ontario (Canada)
1974 “The Isaac Gallery at the Owens Art Gallery”; Mount Allison University
Sackville, New Brunswick (Canada)
1974 Gallery Rebecca Cooper; Washington D.C. (U.S.A.)
1973 “Eighth Biennale de Paris”; Musee national d’art moderne,
Musee d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (France)
1972 “Realism: Emulsion and Omission”; Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario and Art Gallery of the University of
Guelph Ontario (Canada)
1971 “Royal Canadian Academy Travelling Exhibition”
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Quebec and Confederation
Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown P.E.I. (Canada)
1970 “Winnipeg Biennial” Winnipeg Art Gallery; Winnipeg, Manitoba
1970 “Survey ’70” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Quebec
GRANTS & AWARDS
1996 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1993 Art Matters Inc.
1993 Canada Council Project Cost Grant
1992 Canada Council Project Cost Grant, Japan-Canada Fund
1991 Canada Council Senior Arts Award, Japan-Canada Fund
1990 Canada Council Project Cost Grant, Japan-Canada Fund
1988 Art Matters Inc.
1987 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1987 Art Matters Inc.
1985 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Fellowship
1985 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1984 Canada Council Short-Term Grant
1983 Canada Council Short-Term Grant
1981 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1980 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1979 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1978 Victor M. Lynch-Staunton Award
1978 Canada Council Arts Award
1977 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1975 Canada Council Arts Award
1975 Guest of The Deutsches Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD) Artist in Berlin Program
1973 Canada Council Arts Award
1972 Canada Council Arts Award
1971 Canada Council Arts Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)
Vancouver Art Gallery (British Columbia, Canada)
Art Bank of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario, Canada)
Musee d’art contemporain (Montreal, Quebec; Canada)
Musee du Quebec (Quebec, Canada)
Sir George Williams Art Gallery (Montreal, Canada)
“Festival de le Rire” (Montreal, Canada)
McKenzie Art Gallery (Saskatchewan, Canada)
Musee des beaux arts de Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada)
Musee de la ville de Lachine (Quebec, Canada)
Reflex Modern Art Museum (Amsterdam, Holland)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON MARK PRENT
1997 “Prent’s Universe”
Twenty-five minutes. 16mm color documentary
directed by Martial Ethier; Montreal, Quebec
1980 “Mark Prent: Overmood”
One-half hour. 16mm color documenttary; directed by Brian McNeil
Montreal, Quebec
1976 “If Brains Were Dynamite, You Wouldn’t Have Enough
To Blow Your Nose”
One-half-hour.16-mm color documentary ; directed by Tom Burstyn
Briston Productions and St. Cloud Films: Montreal, Quebec
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Royal Canadian Academy (RCA)
International Sculpture Center
COLLABORATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
1996 “Pupae” solo Butoh Performance; Montreal, Quebec
1992 “Winds from the Future” Butoh Performance Series, with Tetsuro
Fukuhara. Sculptural costume with fiber-optics by Mark Prent.
Tokyo, Japan
1991 “Tetsuro Fukuhara and BODHI SATTVA, Mark Prent and Sue Real”
Dance performance tour by Japanese Butoh troupe choreographed
around Mark Pent’s and Sue Real’s original sculptural installation and
costumes. Supported by the Canada Council Touring Office and the
Japan-Canada Fund. Boreal Multimedia, L’annunciation, Quebec;
National Gallery, Ottawa; Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal; Glendon
Gallery, Toronto; Harbourfront, Toronto; Nippissing University, North
Bay, Ontario; Artcite, Inc., Windsor, Ontario; Concordia University,
Montreal; Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, and The Triplex
Center for Performing Arts, New York City, New York
1987 “Le Festin Chez La Comtesse Fritouille”
Figure for the original production staged by Suzanne Lantagne and her
company at Espace Libre in Montreal, Quebec
PARTIAL SUMMARY OF LECTURE APPEARANCES:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Arizona, Tucson
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
University of Ottawa; Ontario CANADA
CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal, Quebec CANADA
York University; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Alberta College of Art; Calgary, Alberta CANADA
Concordia University; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Halifax NS CANADA
Emily Carr College of Art and Design; Vancouver, BC CANADA
Vancouver Society of Art, BC CANADA
University of Calgary; Alberta CANADA
University of Windsor; Ontario CANADA
ARTSPACE; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Off-Center Center; Calgary, Alberta CANADA
Dawson College; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
Brock University; St. Catherines, Ontario CANADA
Queen’s University; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Cambrian College; Sudbury, Ontario CANADA
Wilfrid Laurier University; Kitchner, Ontario CANADA
Beale College; London, Ontario CANADA
Trent University; Peterborough, Ontario CANADA
Johnson State College; Johnson, Vermont
Fanshaw College; London , Ontario CANADA