CV & Bio
Marc Lepson (b.1970) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
His print and photography based installations are concerned with the places in between thought and experience; moments of dislocation within landscape and language.
Since the events of September 11 2001, Marc’s projects have focused on the political and emotional climate in New York City and the greater US. Working on his own and with activist groups, Marc has done print work for public performances such as Our Grief is Not A Cry For War (2001), and created a solo exhibition examining the contemporary climate of war and the intense scrutiny of immigrants with the US. The exhibition, Breathe: A meditation on claustrophobia, confinement and comfort (2002), was excerpted in Open House: Working in Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2004. In 2005 he presented Winter, a large scale installation of digital prints at SPACES gallery in Cleveland OH. Winter brings together original and appropriated imagery and texts to create a seasonal document of public and personal events. In 2008 his installation Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow was exhibited at M.Y. Art Prospects NYC.
Marc earned his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked as Programs
Director and Master Printer at the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC. He currently teaches at
State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase College, and Parsons School of Design. His work
has been included in exhibitions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Vienna Austria, Berlin
Germany and Torino Italy among others. In 2001 he was the recipient of a grant from the
Pollock - Krasner Foundation, and reproductions of his work have appeared in the September
and October 2004 issues of Art in America.
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Master of Fine Arts, May 1997. Printmaking.
State University of New York at Albany . Bachelor of Arts, 1991. English Literature, Fine Arts.
La Cipressaia. Cerbaia, Italy. Summer 1993, 1994.
Scuola Lorenzo Dei Medici. Florence, Italy 1990-1991. Studio arts and art history.
Studio Art Center International. Florence, Italy. Summer 1989.
2002 M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC. Breathe
2001 Queens Theater in the Park, Queens NY. Seven Swans, in collaboration with Erika deVries
2000 Mobius, Boston MA. Wanderlust
1999 Artemesia, Chicago IL. Surface Tension.
Group Exhibitions
2007
Crossman Gallery, Whitewater WI. Paper Politics.
Lava, Stockholm Sweden. Yo! What Happened to Peace?
2006
M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC. A Distant Mirror.
Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC. A Usable Past.
Five Myles, Brooklyn NY. Actions III
2005
Chashama, NYC. Dark Nature Part II.
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL. On The Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989-2004
Five Myles, Brooklyn NY. Actions.
SPACES, Cleveland, OH. Dissent: Political Voices.
International Print Center New York, NYC. New Prints/Spring 2005.
Gallery Klink Og Bank, Reykjavik, Iceland. America vs. America
Office Ops, Brooklyn NY. Image Acts.
2004
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY. Open House: Working in Brooklyn
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna Austria. American Visions and Revisions
Berlin Kunst Projekt, Berlin Germany. Scapes: A binocular experience.
Gigantic Artspace, New York NY. Tactical Action
Chisolm Gallery, New York NY. Peace Signs.
Studio 6 Gallery, Queens NY. Pressed and Pulled.
Buzzer 30, Queens NY. Roads and Pastimes.
SAC Gallery, Stonybrook NY. This is for Real: War and the Contemporary Audience.
2003
En Plein Air, Torino Italy. En Plein Video.
IT IN Space, New York NY. Art During Wartime.
450 Broadway, New York NY. Art Against War.
Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn NY. Decade
2002
White Box, New York NY. The Blame Show (with Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!)
450 Broadway, New York NY. Phalanges.
International Print Center New York, NYC. New Prints 2002/Summer.
College of New Jersey, Ewing NJ. National Drawing. Purchase award.
2001
New York Design Center, NYC. Bright Ideas
Union Square & Times Square, NYC. Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War, performance.
Raw Space, New York NY. August Art
Arena @ Feed, Brooklyn NY. New Photography.
Metropolitan Building, Queens NY. Nostalgia.
International Print Center New York, NYC. New Prints 2001.
2000
Ampersand gallery, San Francisco CA. Multiplicity in Time and Space.
Andrew Kreps gallery, New York, NY. Postcards From the Edge
International Print Center New York, NYC. New Prints
Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago IL. Chicago Printmakers Collaborative: A Decade of Printmaking
1999
Goethe Institut, New York NY. Messages.
Hi/lo film festival, San Francisco CA.
Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston IL. Secondary Spaces.
1998
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York NY. Self Portrait. Artist postcards.
William King Regional Arts Center, Abington VA. The Human Habit
Mobius, Boston MA. Housebuiliding/Homemaking. Collaboration with Andrew Fearnside
Marwen Foundation, Chicago IL. Those who do, teach.
1997
Workshop Print Gallery, Chicago IL. Small Print.
School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL. of nothing in particular, and everything. Master’s Thesis
Columbia College Center For Book and Paper, Chicago IL. Past, Present Post.
1996
Mars Gallery, Chicago IL. CPC at Mars.
Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY. New Work; Melora Kuhn, Marc Lepson, Joel Lewitsky, Roslyn Savage and Paco Rodriguez.
Cozzi Metal and Iron, Chicago, IL . Sculpture Exhibition.
1995
Center For Book Arts, New York, NY . This Day in History.
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY. 30 Artists from the Lower East Side Printshop.
Circa Gallery, Chicago IL. American Nomads.
1994
Workshop Print Gallery, Chicago, IL. Anne Karsten and Marc Lepson, Prints Using Photographic Processes.
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee Belguim. Artist in Residence, 2006.
Kent State University. Resident Artist, Blossom program. 2003
Syracuse University. Visiting Artist, Printmaking Dept. 2002.
Rotunda Gallery / BCAT, Brooklyn NY. Fellowship recipient 2000.
Henry St. Settlement, NYC. Artist in Residence 1998/1999.
Middlebury College, Middlebury VT. Visiting Artist, April 1999.
Evanston Arts Center, Evanston IL. Visiting Artist, May 1997.
Puffin Foundation. Grant recipient 2004.
Pollock - Krasner Foundation. Grant recipient 2001
Watch What We Say. Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn NY. 2004. (click here).
American Archetypes. Visual AIDS web gallery (click here), February 2004. Art During Wartime. IT IN Space, New York NY. 2003.
Yo! What Happenned to Peace. Exhibition Catalog. 2007.
Water Based Screen Printing Today. Roni Henning, 2006.
Art in America, October 2004. Graphic Art in the Summer of Discontent, by Faye Hirsch.
Art in America, September 2004. Big Brash Borough, by Gregory Volk.
Open House. Exhibition Catalog, The Brooklyn Museum. 2004
Peace Signs. Editoriale Gustavo Gilli, Spain. 2003
Art on Paper, June 2001. Working Proof.
Free Williamsburg.com. June 2001. Review of New Photography, Arena@Feed
Messages, Exhibition Catalog. Birmingham Print Workshop. 1999.
New City, Chicago IL. March 18, 1999. Five Shows to See Now, Review by Michael Weinstein.
The Human Habit, Exhibition Catalog. William King Regional Art Center 1998.
Journal of the Mid Atlantic Print Council., Summer 1994. Anne Karsten and Marc Lepson, An Exhibition of Prints Using Photographic Processes at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. By J.C. Ryding.
Chicago Weekly Reader, May 9, 1994.
