Mark Dion – Arabesque Rarities
Texte de Natacha Pugnet

L’histoire des cabinets de curiosités, des "wunderkammern" puis du musée ont profondément nourri la démarche de Mark Dion. Pensées comme des microcosmes, l’armoire et la vitrine lui offrent un contexte où la mise en exposition des éléments matériels agit comme un révélateur de nos relations au monde. Arabesque Rarities n’échappe pas à la règle ;  cependant, contrairement à la plupart des cabinets réalisés par l’artiste, celui-ci ne comporte aucun objet trouvé. Les naturalia et artificiala – coquillages, coraux, plantes étranges jouxtant silex, statuettes anatomiques ainsi que divers prodiges techniques – ont ici pour modèle des gravures empruntées à un ouvrage datant de 1704, Die geöffnete Raritäten- und Naturalien-Kammer, attribué à Paul Jacob Marperger. Révélateur du goût d’une époque et d’une réflexion théorique en cours d’élaboration, ce type d’inventaire éclectique prévaut jusqu’aux Lumières. Les mirabilia, rappelle Patricia Falguières, «  excèdent les catégories du beau et de la représentation […] elles nous renvoient à la logique du mémorable ». En effet, de l‘Antiquité à la Renaissance, l’art de la mémoire reposait sur un classement des collections au sein d’une structure mobilière telle que le cabinet.

À l’origine de toute collection, et quelle qu’en soit la visée, préside un geste d’appropriation. Il y a quelques siècles, une main anonyme a ramassé – nous ne saurons jamais en quel lieu – l’étoile de mer dont nous contemplons la réplique. Avant cela, elle a été dessinée, une gravure en a été tirée, le désir de nomination et de connaissance du visible allant de pair avec sa traduction et réduction iconiques. Modelés en plastiline blanche, selon un procédé voulu plus proche du travail de l’amateur que de celui du sculpteur, les spécimens et curiosités de Dion sont une nouvelle fois appauvris : neutralisés, la diversité de leurs matières gommée, ne subsiste que l’apparence fantomatique de leur configuration. Ce qu’ils gagnent en qualité plastique, ces simulacres aux pures arabesques le perdent en réalité. Des artefacts reproduits, nous avons d’ores et déjà oublié le sens de leur usage. Et si nous sommes encore capables, par l’esprit, de redonner texture et couleur au règne du vivant, sa réification n’en apparaît que plus mortifère. Procédant d’une suite de représentations, les abstractions d’Arabesque Rarities se présentent comme un condensé temporel. Cependant, de transposition en transposition, l’existence première des choses s’estompe irrémédiablement. Chez Dion, la création et l’histoire sont envisagées comme des processus dynamiques, lesquels engendrent de l’entropie. Simultanément parabole de la perte de l’origine et constat lucide, ce cabinet contemporain apparaît comme l’emblème d’une dissolution du réel dans ses doublures. Il montre le spectacle uniformisé d’une coupure d’avec le sensible, signe d’un rapport au monde désormais archéologique.

Expositions personnelles
2018 Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB

2017 Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, US
American Politics–Dirty Tricks, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, AT Mark Dion, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, FR The Wondrous Museum of Nature, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, US Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Topical Research Field Expeditions, The Drawing Center, New York, US Waiting for the Extraordinary, U-M Institute of the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US   2016 Mark Dion: Fieldwork IV, Cairn Centre D’Art, Digne-les-Bains, FR
Wayward Wilderness, Marta Herford, Herford, DE
Against the Current, Ormston House, Limerick, IR
Library for the Birds of New York and Other Marvels, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
Reconnaissance, Wounters/ Waldburger, Brussels, BE
Recent Mischief, Ruffin Gallery, Richmond, US
The Universal Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, NY, US
ExtraNaturel: Voyage initiatique dans la collection des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR The World in a Box and Other Adventures in Cosmology: Recent Print Editions of Mark Dion, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virgina, Charlottesville, US
2015
Mark Dion: Matrix 173, The Wadsworth Atheneum's Great Chain of Being, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, US Mark Dion, Museum Marta Herford, Herford, DE Mark Dion: The Phantom Museum-Wonder Workshop, Clifford Gallery and Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, US Mark Dion: The Undisciplined Collector, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
The Trouble with Jellyfish (Mark Dion with Lisa-Ann Gershwin), Le Laboratoire, Cambridge, US
Future Histories, curator Magnus af Petersens, Casa dei tre Oci, Venice, IT
The Lost Museum: A Project of the Jenks Society, Department of Social Humanities, Brown University, Providence, US
Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, Massachusetts Museum, North Adams, US Wunderkammer Oberösterreich, IM OÖ, Kulturquartier, Linz, AU Against the Current, Ormston House, Limerick, IR

2014 The Lost Museum: A Project of the Jenks Society, Department of Social Humanities, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, US
Cosmographia: Selected works on paper, 1991-2014, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR
The Academy of Things, HfBK Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE   2013
The Macabre Treasury, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NE
Mark Dion: Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
The Pursuit of Sir William Hamilton, Museo Pignatelli, Naples, IT The Curator's Office, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, US Field Station Honda, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, CO
2012 Mark Dion: Phantoms of the Clark Expedition, The Explorers Club, New York, US
Mark Dion: Twenty One Years of Think in Three Dimensions, Galerie Christain Nagel, Berlin, DE
Troubleshooting, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, US
Fresh Skulpture (in collaboration with Dana Sherwood), Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, AU

2011
Oceanomania, Souvenirs from A Mysterious Sea, from the Expedition to the Aquarium, Musée océanographique de Monaco, MC
The Marvelous Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, US
The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Miami Art Museum, US Waiting for the Extraordinary, Michigan State University, Institute for the Humanities, East Lansing, US

2010
A World for the spoiling, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR Travels of William Bartram, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
A World For The Spoiling, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR
Winged Defense, Presidio Habitats with Nitin Jayaswal, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco, US
The Amateur Ornithologist Clubhouse, Emscher Kunst, Ruhr, DE

  2009
Zwischenzonen, Muséo Jumex, Mexico City, MX
Permanent installation for the Springhornhof Institute of Neolithic Archeology, Kunstverein Stiftung Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, DE
Le départment archeologique des recherches archeologiques subaquatiques et sour-marines du Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence Antiques, Musée departmental d'Arles antique, Arles, FR
Permanent public garden installation, Tooley Street Hanging Garden, London, GB
Concerning Hunting, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, DE
Mark Dion, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems-Stein, AU
Mark Dion: Collected Editions 1984 - 2009, Trisolini Gallery, Baker University Center, Ohio, US   2008
Inspired by the Wagner: Mark Dion Speaks on his Work, The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, US
Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Mark Dion on Robert Smithson, Dia Art Foundation, New York, US
Mark Dion: Travels of William Batram-Reconsidered, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, US
Concerning Hunting, Galleria Civica di Modena, IT
Concerning Hunting, Kunstraum Dorndirn, AU
Mark Dion: Maquettes, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, CA
Concerning Hunting, Aarhus Kunstbygning, DK
Bartrams' Travels Reconsidered, Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, US
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, CH
Maquettes, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, CA
The Octagon Room, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US

2007
Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, AU Library for the birds of Paris and other fables, Université de Paris 1, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, FR Systema Metropolis, The Natural History Museum, London, GB Tooley Street Hanging Garden (commission in collaboration with Gross Max), London, GB Buchsdom Tower (commission), Schlossgravnik, AU Le bureau des fondateurs, Musée de la chasse et de la nature (permanent exhibition), Paris, FR The Natural History of the Museum, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaeffikon, CH The Natural History of the Museum, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE The Natural History of the Museum, Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, FR Seattle Vivarium, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, US Maquettes, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, CA Memorial to Thomas Bewick, St Michael's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne Public Art Project, Newcastle, GB Salon Jacqueline Sommer, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
2006
The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
Dundee Bear Broch, Camperdown Wildlife Center, Dundee, GB
Microcosmographia, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, US
Microcosmographia, Oriel Mostyn, Llundudno, Wales Bureau of the Center for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, The Manchester Museum, GB
Neotropic, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR
2005
The Brazilian Expedition of Thomas Ender - Reconsidered, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, AU
Art Unlimited 2005, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, Basel, CH
Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, Manchester Museum, GB
Dungeon of the Sleeping Bear, the Phantom Forest, the Birds of Guam and other Fables of Ecological Mischief, Château d'Oiron, Oiron, FR
Microcosmographia and the Secret Garden Biological Field Unit, South London Gallery, GB Salon de Chasse, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Château de Chambord, Chambord, FR
The Curiosity Shop, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
Memento Mori (My Glass is Run), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, US
Dundee Bear Broch, Camperdown Wildlife Center, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, GB   2004
Projects 82: Mark Dion Rescue Archeology, A Project for the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, US
Universal Collection, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE
American Politics, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, DE
Mark Dion: drawings and printed works, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, CA
Urban Field Station, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, US
Tropical Travels, Thomas Ender (1817-1818) and Mark Dion (2003), Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, AU
2003
The Icthyosaurus, the Magpie, and Other Marvels of the Natural World, Musée Gassendi, la Réserve Géologique de Haute Provence, Musée de Digne, Digne-Les-Bains, (catalog), FR
Encyclomania, Kunstverein Hanover, Hannover and Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
Mark Dion: Collaborations 1987-2003, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut and Americana Fine Arts, Co., New York, US
Full House, 9th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, US
RN: The Past, Present and Future of the Nurse Uniform, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US
2002
Microcosmographia, University of Tokyo Museum, Tokyo, JP
Mark Dion: Encyclomania, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE
Vivarium, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City, US
New England Digs, List Art Center, Providence, US
The Hamburg Canal Field Station, Galerie für Landshaftkunst, Hamburg, DE
Urban Wildlife Observation Unit, The Public Art Fund, Madison Square Park, New York, US
Ursus Maritimus, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, CA
2001
New England Digs, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, US
Cabinet of Curiosity for the Weisman Art Museum, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, US
Theatrum Mundi : Armarium, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR  
2000
The Museum of Poison, Galerie Bonakdar Jancou, New York, US Nature Bureaucracies, American Fine Art Co., New York, US   1999
Tate Thames Digs (Two Banks), Tate Gallery, London, GB
Art Now 20: Tate Thames Dig, Tate Gallery, London, GB
Where the Land Meets the Sea, organized by Arnold J. Kemp, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
1998
Adventures in Comparative Neuronatomy, organisée par Suzanne Witzgall, Deutsches Museum, Bonn, DE
The Natural World, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Loot, Raiding Neptune's Vault, Galeria Emi Fontana, Milan, IT
Private Property, Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg-Altona, DE
1997
Trophies & Souvenirs, London Projets, London, GB
Mark Dion : Musée d'histoire naturelle et autres fictions, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB
Kunstverein, Hamburg, DE
Hommage à Jean-Henri Fabre, Galerie des Archives, Paris, FR
Cabinet of Curiosity, Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus, US
1996
Two Trees, American Fine Arts Co., New York, US
Along the Shores of the North Sea and Baltic Sea and What they Found There, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, DE  
1995
Unseen fribourg, Fri-Art Center d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, CH
A Vital Matrix, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, American Fine Arts Co ., New York, US
Dodo, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Amsterdam, NL
Flotsam and Jetsam (The End of the Game), de Vleeshal, Middleburg, NL
1994
Artoteles, Rachel Carson, Russel Wallace, Galerie Metropol,Wien, AT
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth ( Toys R U.S.), American Fine Art Co., New York, US
Angelica Point, Galerie Emi Fontana, Milan, IT
1993
The Great Hunter, The Marine Biologist, The Paleontologist and the Missionary, Galerie Marc jan cou, Zurich, CH
The Great Munich Big Hunt, K-Raum Daxer, Munich, DE
1992
American Fine Art Co., New York, US
Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, SE
1991
Launching, Shark Editions, Spring Street Lounge, New York, US   1990
Extinction, Dinosaurs and Disney: The Desks of Mickey Cuvier, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, FR
Frankenstein in the Age of Biotechnology, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, DE  

Expositions collectives

2018
O Triângulo Atlântico, 11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, BZ

2017
Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expedition, co-curated with Katherine McLeod and Madeleine Thompson, The Drawing Center, New York, US
En marge, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR
Constructing Paradise, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, US
Just the Facts, The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Frederick Layton Gallery,  Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wundercamera, Telefair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, US
The Garden — End of Times, Beginning of Times, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK

2016
The Trouble with Jellyfish, Le Laboratoire Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
20 - An Exhibition in Three Acts, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, DE
Emscherkunst 2016, multiple locations, DE
Don’t Look Back: The 1990’s at MOCA, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, US
Sublime. The Tremors of the World., Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, FR
Come as you are: Art of the 1990’s, Musée d’art Blanton, UT Austin, US
To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienne, AT
Radical Seafaring, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New-York, US
Mark Dion, Jessica Rath, Dana Sherwood, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremeont, CA, US
Dead Animals, or the Curious Occurrence of Taxidermy in Contemporary art, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, US
Come as you are: Art of the 1990's, Blanton Museum of Art, UT Austin, US

2015
Late Harvest, Musée d'Art du Nevada, US
Hunters and Gatherers Contemporary Art, Musée Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
Come as you are: Art of the 1990's, Montclair Art Museum, US
Come as you are: Art of the 1990's, Telfair Art Museum, US
Come as you are: Art of the 1990's, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, US
Global Imagination, Museum De Lakenhal, Leyde, NL
Construire une Collection, 2nd Volet - Villa Sauber, Nouveau Musée Nationale de Monte Carlo, MC

2014
As I run and happiness comes closer, Paris, FR
Orders in Motion: On Collecting, Dynamic Histories, and Lost Things- 250 years of the Dresden Art Academy, The Art Academy of Dresden, DE
The Trouble with Jellyfish, Le Laboratoire, Paris, FR
Noah's Ark, Ostwal Musée, Dortmund, DE
Groundwork: life spent with nature. Jardin public Wave Hill and Centre culturel, US
Anthropocène Monument, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
GYRE : The Plastic Ocean, Anchorage Museum, US
Take It or Leave It : institution, image, ideology, Hammer Museum, US
Forecast, Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery, US
New York Makers Open, Museum of Arts and Design, US
Mansion as Muse : Contemporary Art at Victorian Mansion, US
The Lost Museum, a Project with the Jenks Society for Lost Museums, Brown University, US
Beyond Earth Art : Contemporary Artists and the Environment Johnson Museum of Art, US
CAFAM Biennal 2014, Beijing, CAFA Art Museum Beijing, CN
Come As You Are : Art of the 1990's, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, US

2013
Arqueologica, Matadero Madrid, ES
Arctic, Lousiana Museum, Humlebaeck, DK
Le Surrealisme et l'Objet, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Collection Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Arctic, Lousiana Museum, Humlebaeck, DK
The Way of the Shovel, MCA (Chicago), US
L'arbre de vie, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, FR
Chasse et chassé, Domaine Départemental de la Garenne Lemot, Loire Atlantique, FR

2012
Cibles, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
Spécimens, Collections, croisements, sentinelles & Résidents, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France, FR
100 sculptures animalières - Bugatti, Pompom, Giacometti.., (13 avril - 28 octobre 2012), Boulogne-Billancourt Documenta 13, Kassel, DE

2011
Musée d'histoire naturelle et Jardin des plantes, Paris, FR
Minusubliminus, Musée de la Loire, Cosne-Cour-sur-loire, FR
Belvedere, Warum ist Landschaft schoen, Arp Museum Bahnof Rolandseck, Remagen, DE
Collection Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, FR
Art/Système/Poésie, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR
The Luminous Interval: an Exhibition of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, ES
Editions ex Libris # 1-20
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, US
Kunstfestivalen Tumult, Nykobing F, DK
Ship In A Bottle, Public commission for Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Enhancement Project, Cabrillo Way Marina, San Pedro, CA, US
2010
Weltwissen World Knowledge. 300 years of Science in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE
Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US
New Acquisitions of the Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Majorca, ES
Investigations of a dog, Works from the FACE Collections, DESTE Foundation, Athens (GR), Foundation, Cascais (PT), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT), La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris (FR) and Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE).
Strange Travelers, Curated Project by the Artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
Doppler Effect: Images in Art and Science, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, DE
Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, ES; traveling to Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, ES
The Traveling Show, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, MX
Larger Than Life - Stranger Than Fiction, Triennial Kleinplastik 11, Fellbach, DE
Adaptation: Between Species, curated by Helena Reckitt, The Powerplant, Toronto, CA
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, curated by Nathalie Karg/Cumulus Studios, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
The Crude and the Rare, curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam, 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, US
Kunstfestivalen Tumult, Kykobing, DK
The Morning After- The Prompt, The Silver Shed, New York, US
Emscherkunst 2010, Norsternpark Gelsenkirchen, DE
Théorie des modèles / Art & science: trop simple, trop complexe, Espace d'éxposition de la Head, Geneva, CH
Serpula Lacrymans, Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, DE
Weisser Schimmel / You can observe a lot by watching, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg-Harburg, DE   2009
Nature en Kit, Mudac, Lausanne, CH
Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, US
Human Nature, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, US
Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Art Gallery, London, GB
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, US
Classified, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, GB
Dream Time, Les Abattoirs and the La Grotte dumas d'Azul, Toulouse, FR
Surrealism and Beyond, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
C'est notre terre II, Site Tour & Taxis, Watou, Bruxelles, BE
Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
Ferne Naehe: Nature in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunst Museum, Bonn, DE
Collections Collected, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, GR
Interstices: Works from the Jumex Collection, MUMOK, Vienna, AT
Be sure to attend carefully to what I have to say to you, Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, DE
en vue...des manières de voir. la nature mise en images et en vitrine, Passerelle, Centre d'art, Brest, FR
Schoene neue Welt, Museum modernen Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, AT
«N'importe Quoi/Everything», Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, FR
2008
Human Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, US
Struggle for life - Artenwandel und Artensterben im Anthropozaen, ERES-Stiftung, Muenchen, DE
ARCHEOLOGY OF MIND - MORRA GRECOS FONDATION, Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo, SE
Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE
observing beast, time, evolution. Kunst und Naturwissenschaft, Kunstverein Hildesheim/ Roemer- und Pelizaeus, Hildesheim, DE
Tales of Time and Space, Folkstone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
Selective knowledge, ITYS, Institute for contemporary art, Athens, GR
Néofutur, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
Comme des bêtes, l'ours, le cochon, le chat et Cie, Musée cantonnal des Beaux-arts, Lauzanne, CH
Estratos, PAC MURCIA, ES
Des coiffes, décoiffes, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR
Genesis : Die Kunst der Schoepfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, DE
The Sydney Biennale, Australia, AU

2007
Hansarviertel Projekt, Berlin, DE
Genesis, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL

2006
The Tar Museum, Georg Kargl Gallery, Wien, AT
Ecotopia, International Center of photography, New York, US
Drawing as Process in contemporary art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
Cryptozoology : out of time place scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, US
Becoming Animal, Mass Moca, North Adams, US
Jagdsalon, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Sammlung Graesslin, Raeume Fur Kunst, St. Georgen, DE
Zerstoerte Welten und die Utopie de Rekonstruktion, Kunstraum Dornbirn, AT
2005
Le Bois sacré, Castel of Chambord, Chambord, France Dundee Bear Broch, Dundee Contemporary Arts, GB
2004
Braunschweig parcours 2004, Kulturinstitut Braunschweig, DE
For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, US
Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line, Main Line Art Center, Lower Marion, USA Field. Science, Technology and Nature, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, US
2003
RN : The Past, Present and Future of the Nurses, Uniform, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US
Confini, Cesac, Caraglio, IT
Imperfect Marriages, Galeria Emi Fontana, Milan, IT
Jean Henri Fabre, Fondation Electra, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, FR
2002
Factory Direct, Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy New York, US
Fresh Kills, Snug Harbor, Centre Culturel, Staten Island, New York, US
Words and Things, CCA Glasgow, GB
2001
Fresh Kills, Sag Harbor Center for Contemporary Art, New York, US
Crossing the Line, Art Museum of Queens, New York, US

2000
American Art Today : Fantasis & Curiosities, Art Museum of the University of Florida, Miami, US
The Shape of the World, The End of the World, Pac Padiglione de Arte Contemporaneo de Molano, Italia Small World- Dioramas, MCA, Chicago, US
Sequences, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, FR

1999
The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Carnegie International, 99/00, Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, US
1997
The Spiral Village, Musée Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL
Città Natura, Palace de l'Exposition et Musée Zoologique, Rome, IT
Veilleurs du monde, Centre Culturel Français, Cotoriuo, BJ
Venice Biennale, Nordic pavillon, XL VII Venice Biennale, IT Skulptur Projekte in Muenster, Muenster, DE
1996
Vehicle, Galerie Paolo Baldacci, New York, US
Multiple Pleasure, Galerie Tanya Bonakdar, New York, US
Berechenbarkeit der Welt, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
Cabinet de Bain, Piscine de la Motta, Fri-Art, Centre d'art Contemporain-Kunsthalle, Fribourg, CH
Hybrids, de Appel, Amsterdam, Holland, NL
21st Century sculpture, Galerie John Gibson, New York, US
Campo 6, Galeria Civica d'Art Moderne et Contemporaneo, Turin, IT
Let's Talk About Art, Metropole de l'Art, Toronto, CA
25th Anniversary : 25 young artists, Galerie John Weber, New York, US

1995
Mapping : A Response to MoMA, American Fine Arts Co., New York, US
Zeichen und Wunder/Signos y Milagros, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland ; Centre Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, ES
It's not a Picture, Galerie Emi Fontana, Milan, IT
Searching for Sabah, Musée Sabah, Sabah, MY
Platzwechsel, Kunsthalle, Zuerich, CH
Schoharie Creek Field Station, Art Awareness, Lexington, US
Das Ende der avant Garde, Kunst als Dienstleistung, Kunsthalle des Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, DE
Aufforderung, in Shönster Weise, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, DE

1994
Living in Knowledge : Une exposition à propos d'une question pas demandée, Duke Université Musée d'Art, Durham, US
Pro-Creation, fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, CH
Don't Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
Services, Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich, DE
Temporary Translation(s), Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE
Garbage, Real Art Ways, Hartford, US
Green, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
The Media and Art Exhibition 94, Compagnie Magic Media, Cologne, DE
Concrete Jungle, Galerie Marc Jancou, London, GB Frauenkunst/Maennerkunst, Kunstverein Kippenberger, Musée Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte de la Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES

1993
Galerie Annina Nosei, Nosei, New York, US
Simply Made in America, Aldrich Musée d'Art Contemporain, Ridgefield Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Travelogue/Reisetagebuch, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in collaboration with the Metropol gallery, Vienna, AT
Prallax View, P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City,  Goethe House, New York, US
Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, US
Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Holland, NL
Spielhoelle ; Esthetique et Violence, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, FR
Project Unité, Unité d'habitation, Firminy, FR
Sonsbeek 93, Arnhn, NL
Kinder, Galerie Ruediger Schoettle, Munich, Grafical 1, Innsbrick, Tyrol, AT
Naturkunden, Galerie Paszti-Bott, Cologne, DE
Restaurant La Bocca, Paris, FR
Art-Culture-Ecology, Galerie bea voigt, Munich, DE
What Happened to the Institutional Critique, American Fine Arts Co., New York, US
Installation, Project for the Birds of Antwerp Zoo, DE

Bibliographie

Catalogues

2017

"Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist". Yale University Press, 2017.

2015

"Mark Dion: The Academy of Things". Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2015.

2011

"Mark Dion: Oceanomania". Mack, 2011.

2009

Manacorda, Francesco. "Radical Nature –Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009", Koenig Books Ltd. for Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2009, pp. 103-110.

2008

"Mark Dion, Travels of William Bartram: Reconsidered". John Bartram Association, 2008.   "Mark Dion: Concerning Hunting". 2008.

2007

"Art in Action: Nature, Creativity and Our Collective Future". Natural World Museum and United Nations. 2007.

"Mark Dion: The Natural History of the Museum." Carré d'Art Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes. 2007.

2005

Parsy, Paul-Hervé. "Mark Dion presents: Dungeon of the Sleeping Bear, The Phantom Forest, The Birds of Guam, and Other Fables of Ecological Mischief". Château d'Oiron, 2005.

"Microcosmographia." South London Gallery, 2005.

Kantor, Jordan. "Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005." The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2005.

Dion, Mark. "Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy." The AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies. London, 2005.

2003

"Microcosmographia: Mark Dion’s Chamber of Curiosities". 2003.
"Mark Dion's Field Guide to the Wildlife of Madison Square Park". Mark Dion Essays by Michael Crewdson, Marga, 2003. "Drawings, Journals, Photographs, Souvenirs, and Trophies 1990-2003". Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. 2003.   1996   Dion, Mark. "Concrete Jungle", Juno Books, 1996.  

Presse

2016
Stoilas, Helen. "Mark Dion goes inside the mind of a plant explorer". The Art Newspaper, 2 dec. 2016.
Farrell, Barbara Gallo. “Objects have voice in assemblage art at Vassar”. Poughkeepsie Journal, 2 nov. 2016.
Trechka, Mark. “A Giant Cabinet of Curiosities Challenges Taxonomy Traditions, Liberal Arts”. The Creator Projects, 29 sep. 2016.
Goodeve, Thyrza. “Mark Dion: Mourning is a Legitimate Mode of Thinking”. The Brooklyn Rail, 16 may 2016.
BlouinArtInfo, 4 apr. 2016.
Lynch, Scott. “Step Inside This Giant Birdcage in Chelsea”. Gothamist, 25 mar. 2016.
Behringer, David.  “Mark Dion: A Library For The Birds”. Design Milk, 23 mar. 2016.
Buntaine, Julia. SciArt in America, 28 mar. 2016.
“Mark Dion.” The New Yorker, 28 mar. 2016. pp. 13.
Allison, Meier. “Cage aux Folios: Mark Dion Makes a Library for Birds”. Hyperallergic, 21 mar. 2016.
Halle, Howard. “Mark Dion, The Library for the Birds of New York and Other Marvels”. Time Out New York, 16 - 22 mar. 2016. p.49 (illus.)
Newman, Caroline. “Hidden Treasures”. University of Virginia Today, 10 mar. 2016.
Indrisek, Scott. “5 Must-See Gallery Shows During Armory Week”.  BlouinArtInfo, 29 feb. 2016.
Vu, Mimi. “Artful and Stunning Cabinets of Curiosities, Decoded.”. The New York Times Style Magazine, 25 feb. 2016.
Wouk Almino, Elisa. “ArtRx NYC. A library for Birds”. Hyperallergic, 23 feb. 2016. 
“Winging it.”. The Art Newspaper, Number 276, February 2016.p. 15 Hickson, Patricia. “Meeting Ground.”. Antiques. jan./feb. 2016. p. 126-127

2015
Hillarie, M. Sheets, “A Wink at the Quirks of a Famed Collector”. The New York Times, 6 mar. 2015
Schwendener, Martha. “A Time When the World Seemed Larger”. The New York Times, 4 apr. 2015.
Archer, Sarah. “Contemporary Artists Creat a New Kind of Order at the Barnes Foundation.”. Hyperallergic, 28 jul. 2015.
Lange-Berndt, Petra and Dietmar Rubel, “Mark Dion: The Academy of Things,” Walther Konig, Germany.
Brooks, David. “Courious by Nature. Into the wild with assemblage artist Mark Dion”. Man of the World, Issue No. 11, spring 2015, pp. 142-149.
Venkatraman, Vijee. “At Le Laboratoire, jellies tell the story of the oceans’ woes”.The Boston Globe, 17 sep. 2015.
Dunne, Susan. “Artist Pokes Fun At ‘Great Chain of Being’ With New Wadsworth Exhibit”. Hartford Courant, 1 oct. 2015.
“Cost puts paid to art restoration hope.”. Lancaster Guardian. 7 oct. 2015.
Urist, Jacoba. “U-Turn on Lancaster garden artwork”. Lancaster Guardian 4 nov. 2015.

2014
Pechman, Ali. “Critics’ Picks: Between the Lines”. ArtForum online, jan. 18.
Feldman, Hannah, “The Way of the Shovel”. Artforum, feb. 2014.
Goudouna, Sozita, “Mark Dion”. Naked but Safe, Issue 6, apr. 2014
Meier, Allison, “The Artistic Influence of an Overlooked Explorer”. Hyperallergic, 2 may 2014
Wecker, Menachem. “Getting Back to the Garden (of Eden)”. Forward, 21 jul. 2014.
Mallonee, Laura C. “Mark Dion’s Penchant for the Past”. Hyperallergic, 15 jul. 2014.
Johnson, Ken. “A Garden Divine: Beware of Snake”. The New York Times, 17 jul. 2014.
Cotter, Holland. “‘The Fifth Season’”. The New York Times, 7 aug. 2014.
2013
Ter Borg, Lucette. “Mark Dion’s Macabre Treasury.” Sleek magazine, 22 jan. 2013.
“Dions moderne wonderkamer.” NRC Handelsblad, 11 feb. 2013.
Steinberg, Claudia. “Naturgewalt.” Art Investor, jan. 2013, pp. 68-74 (illust.)
Cembalest, Robin. “The Curator Vanishes: Period Room as Crime Scene.” ARTnews, 28 feb. 2013.
Russeth, Andrew. “Explorers’ Club: Mark Dion Has Turned Globe-Trotting Natural Science Into an Art Form.”. Gallerist NY (The Observer), 5 mar. 2013.
Kazakina, Katya. “Sex Toys, Piped Pollution, African Lesbians: Chelsea Art.” Bloomberg, 21 mar. 2013.
Conley, Kevin. “Mark Dion.” The Exhibitionist in Town & Country, 29 mar. 2013.
Goukassian, Elena. “Mark Dion: DEN.” Sculpture Magazine, apr. 2013, P. 19
Smith, Roberta. “Mark Dion: Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures.” The New York Times, 5 apr. 2013, p. C29
Berk, Anne. “Mark Dions Installations.” Sculpture Network, 5 apr. 2013.
Budick, Ariella. “Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, review.” Financial Times, 21 may 2013.
Lookofsky, Sarah. “Mark Dion | Trash on the Beach.” Disillusioned Magazine, 10 oct. 2013.

2012
Beeson, John. “Mark Dion’s Twenty One Years of Think in Three Dimensions.” Art agenda, 21 may 2012.
Lewis Jim. “The Know-it-All.” T Magazine: New York Times Style Magazine, 30 mar. 2012.
Saltz, Jerry. “Eleven Things That Struck, Irked, or Awed Me at Documenta 13.” New York Magazine, 15 jun. 2012.
Ed. “Mark Dion, Janet Cardiff, and Tomas Saraceno in New York City”. Culture Spectator.com, 28 jun. 2012.
Gat, Orit. “Mark Dion.” Modern Painters, oct. 2012, p. 93
Armstrong, Elizabeth. "More Real ? Art in the Age of Truthiness. Minneapolis, MN". Minneapolis Arts Institute. Pp. 238-239
Landes, Joan B., Paula Young Lee, Paul Lundquist. “Gorgeous Beasts.” The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. pp. 167-178
Ronning, Svein. “Curare Il Paesaggio.” Abitare, September, pp. 48-49 and cover.

2011
Robertson, Rebecca. “The Elephant in the Room.” ARTnews, jan. 2011, p. 26
Juarez, Kristin and Alana Wolf. “CENCIA invites Mark Dion to blur the traditional lines of art and study.” Burnaway, 9 mar. 2011.
Ed. “Geballtes Wissen.” Welt Wissen, 2011. John Carlos. “U-M Institute for the Humaniries installation toys with university history.” Ann Arbor.com, 9 oct. 2011.

2010
“Marvelous Museum.” Oakland Museum of California and Chronical Books
Shaw, Cameron.
“Critic’s Picks: Mark Dino.” Artforum, 27 jan. 2010.
Hauser, Ethan. “Art of the Road Trip: Mark Dion’s Souvenirs.” T Magazine –New York Times Style Magazine, 29 jan. 2010.
Basciano, Oliver. “A croquet set in a coffin.” Art Review, jun. 2010, p. 70.
Sheehy, Colleen. “Taxidermy and Extinction: Considering the Work of Mark Dion.” Constellation, jun. 2010.
Boal, Iain. “Irruptions of the Marvelous.” SFMoMA Open Space Blog, 22 nov. 2010.
Ramirez, Loreto. “Mark Dino” Dissections in Art.” Arte al Limite, mar./apr. 2010,  pp. 100-106

2009
Dion, Mark. "Mark Dion on Robert Smithson", Art World Magazine, feb./mar. 2009, p. 126 (illust.)
Bindi, Gaia. "Towards an anti-oedipal relationship with nature", Inside Magazine, issue 20, apr. 2009, pp. 48-55 (illust.)
Kastner, Jeffrey. "Critical Mass", Modern Painters, mar. 2009, pp. 28-29 (illust.)
Connor, Steven. "The Right Stuff", Modern Painters, mar. 2009, pp. 59-63.
Sasse, Julie. "Trouble in Paradise: Examining the Discord between Nature and Society".  Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art, 2009, pp. 76-77.
Ferrarri, Silvia. “Archive.” FMR White Edition, no. 7, 2009, pp. 84-97.
Sherwin, Skye. "Review: Art and nature collide at the Barbican", The Guardian (online), 19 jun. 2009.
Knoth, Natalie. "Artists uses local finds for exhibits", The Athens News, 17 sep. 2009, p. 27.
"Renowned artist gets inside Athens, OU for the fall", The Athens News, 2 sep. 2009, pp. 50-51.
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte and David Hodge. "The Contemporary Art Book", Goodman/Carlton Publishing Group: London, 2009, p. 63 (ill.)

2008
Gopnik, Blake. "Dion Wins Lucelia Prize with Edgy Pseudo-Exhibits", The Washington Post, 26 sep. 2008, p. C05. Mark Dion: Mobile Gull Appreciation. Field Guide. Ex cat.Folkestone Triennial. 2008.

Kennedy, Beverly. "Other Sustainable Voices, Other Unnatural Rooms". Observer: University of Hart- ford. Spring 2008, p. 6.
Heartney, Eleanor, "Art & Today". Phaidon Press Inc. 2008. (illus.)
Kazakina, Katya. "Tuymans's Riff on Disney, Dion's Clutter: Chelsea Galleries", Bloomberg News On- line. 22 feb. 2008.

2007
Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 3, (Art 21 PBS S) pt.3, New York; 2007. pages 78 through 89, (illus.)
Environment Programme. Palace Press: Earth Aware, 2007, pp. 66-67, ill.
Pes, Javier. "Marking Time", Museum Practice, autumn 2007. p. 32-35.
Paterson, Vicky. Mark Dion: Systema Metropolis.Natural History Museum, London, 2007.
Cookson, Clive. "Systema Metropolis, Natural History Museum, London", The Financial Times, 25 jun. 2007.
"The Israel Museum. Listing." International Herald Tribune Magazine, 3-4 mar. 2007, p 26.
David, Sandrine Ben. "Saison surréaliste au musée d'Israel". Le Jerusalem Post Édition Française, Art section, 6-12 mar. 2007, p 20.
"The Israel Museum. Listing". International Herald Tribune Magazine, 14-15 apr. 2007, p 20.
Santiago, Fabiola. Art, "Naturally: Sculptures vie for Glory on Tropical Turf".The Miami He- rald, 28 jan. 2007.
Bayliss, Sarah H. "Brown Paper Packages Tied Up with String", Artnews, may 2007.
Shaw, Lytle. "Mark Dion: Musee d'Art Contemporain". Artforum, Nimes, France, summer 2007.
Mangion, Éric. "Mark Dion- taxidermie de l'erreur", Art Press 332, mar. 2007. pp 46-51.
Rattlemeyer, Christian. "Mark Dion, Carré d'Art", Artforum, jan. 2007. p 125.
Taubman, Lara. "Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art", Artforum, jan. 2007.   2006
Beechem, Stephanie. "Man. Woman. Squirrel : Documenting Contemporary Experience at the Hoffmann", The Pioneer Log, 15 sep. 2006. p. 18-19.
Berstein, Amy. "Artists and Specimens at Lewis and Clark College", portlandart.net, 12 oct. 2006.
Libby, Brian. "Examining the evidence of the human experience", The Oregonian, 8 sep. 2006.
Graves, Jen. "Richard Likes It." The Stranger, 20-26 jul. 2006.
Keyes, Bob. "Artists hope viewers let imaginations run wild", Portland Press Herald, 25 jun. 2006.
"Ecotopia for ICP Triennial", Artnet, 23 may 2006.
"Rare Specimen", The New Yorker, 3 apr. 2006.
Williams, Robert, and Jack Aylward-Williams, et al. Thesaurus Scienta Lancastriae. Preface by Mark Dion. Unipress Cumbria, Cumbria, UK.
Hudson, Suzanne. "Mark Dion", Artforum, feb. 2006.
"Goings on About Town Drawings by Dion", The New Yorker, 9 jan. 2006.
"Mark Dion". The New Yorker, 9 jan. 2006.
Trainor, James. "Odd Lots". Frieze.com, jan. 2006.
"Mark Dion, The Curiosity Shop". Time Out New York, issue 536, 5-11 jan. 2006.

2005
Higgins, Shaun OL., and Colleen Striegel. "Press Gallery: The Newspaper in Modern and Postmodern Art." Spokane, Washington: New Media Ventures, 2005.

"Voice Choices". The Village Voice, 21-27 dec. 2005, p.79
"Goings on About Town, listing for Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates", The New Yorker, 17 oct. 2005.
Miller, Francine Koslow. "Becoming Animal". Frieze.com, oct. 2005.
Coxon, Ann. "Mark Dion: South London Gallery." Art Monthly, oct. 2005.
Art of the Natural World. Creative Week, sep. 2005.
"Wacky Wildlife". Southwark Weekender, 2 sep. 2005.
Haddrell, James. "Holey moley. The Pulse". South London Press, 16 sep. 2005.
"Mark Dion: Microcosmographia". London Student, 20 sep. 2005.
Lack. Jessica. "Preview: Microcosmographia". The Guardian, 3-9 sep. 2005.
Adams, Amy and Conal Hanna. "Don't miss Mark Dion: Microcosmographia'.  TNT Magazine, 7 sep. 2005.
"What's on: United Kingdom". The Art Newspaper, no.161, sep. 2005.
Hammonds, Kit. "American Naturalist". Untitled, spring 2005.
"Mark Dion: Microcosmographia." www.artrepublic.com, sep. 2005.
De Cruz, Gemma." Art meets science at the South London Gallery". BBC Collective Online, 15 sep. 2005.
Haddrell, James. "Microcosmographia at the South London Gallery". Indielondon.co.uk, sep. 2015.
Clayton, Richard. "Back to Nature". Design Week, 8 sep. 2005.
Falconer, Morgan. "The mole that stole the show". The Times, London, 21 sep. 2005.

Hackworth, Nick. "Mark Dion: Microcosmographia". The Evening Standard, 26 sep. 2005.
"What was that all about Mark Dion's Microcosmographia." The Guardian, 14 sep. 2005.
Glueck, Grace. "The Line Between Species Shifts, and a Show Explores the Move". The New York Times, 26 aug. 2005.
Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom. MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.
Eleey, Peter. "Mark Dion, The Museum of Modern Art, New York." Frieze, issue no. 90, apr. 2005, p 110.
Leffingwell, Edward. "Report from Sao Paulo: the Extraterritorial Zone", Art In America, feb. 2005, pp 48 - 55.

2004
McCormack, Christopher." Previews." Contemporary, issue no. 68, 2004. pp 54-55.
Smith, Roberta. "In the Shards of the Past, The Present Is Revealed". New York Times, 19 nov. 2004.
Dion, Mark. "1000 Words: Mark Dion Talks About Rescue Archaeology". Artforum, nov. 2004, pp 180-181.
Birke, Judy. "A Fowl Menagerie", New Haven Register, 14 mar. 2004.
Johnson, Ken. "Art In Review: Field at Socrates Sculpture Park". The New York Times, 23 jul. 2004.
Crivellaro, Serena. "For the Birds not for the weak of heart, flighty". The Yale Herald, 23 jul. 2004.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Not Only Watching, Painting and Sculpture Too". New York Times, 15 feb. 2004.

2003
Dion, Mark. «Best of 2003: Books». Artforum, dec. 2003, p.50.
Mark Dion: Notes Towards a Dystopian Dictionary. A Short History of Performance - Part II, Whitechapel, 2003, pp. 16-19.
Schwendener, Martha. «Mark Dion: American Fine Arts / Aldrich Museum.» Artforum, summer 2003, p. 192.
Dion, Mark, L'Ichthyosaure La Pie et autres merveilles du monde naturel, Images En Manoeuvres Editions, 2003.
Johnson, Ken, «Mark Dion: Collaborations». The New York Times, Friday, apr. 18, 2003, p. E34.
Ward, Ossian. «The Ordering of Species». Art Review, mar. 2003, pp. 100-103.
Levin, Kim. «Voice Choices: Mark Dion,» The Village Voice, 16-22 apr. 2003.
Mittelbach, Margaret and Michael Crewdson. «In Winter, There's an Art to Birding» The New York Times, Friday, jan. 31, p. E33.
Klein, Richard, Ed. Larry Aldrich Award, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield, CT.
Pollack, Barbara. «Animal House». Art News, jan. 2003.
Ganim, Elaina. «Living and Dying with Mark Dion.». NY ARTS, jan. 2003, p.15.

2002
«Mark Dion at Tanya Bonakdar». Village Voice: Recommended, 20 dec. 2002.
Ammann, Daniel. «Das Bedrohte Tier» The Animal in Contemporary Art (Das Tier in der zeitgenoes- sischen Kunst), 2002.
Uta Grosenick and Burkhard Riemschneider. ''Art Now: 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millenium''. 2002, p.120-123.
Vogel, Carol. «Inside Art.» The New York Times, Friday, 17 may 2002. Fine Arts/Leisure, p. 3.
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. ''The Drama of Digging in New England's Trash''. The New York Times, Sunday, jan. 6, 2002, Arts/Architecture, p. 36.

2001
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Mark Dion et al. Ecologies. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2001.
Ollman, Leah. «Losing Ground: Public Art at the Border» Art in America, may 2001, p.68-71
''Jana, Reena, Mark Dion and Claire Corey Honored by Aldrich Museum'', Artforum.com, 15 aug. 2001.
''Mark Dion: New England Digs''. The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA.
Vail, Amanda. «Mark Dion». Knot Magazine, jun. 2001.
American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiousities. Florida International University Art Museum, p.26.   2000
''Mark Dion'' New York, 17 apr. 2000.
«Mark Dion» Time Out New York, 6-13 apr. 2000. Wagner, Sandra. «inSITE2000,» Camera Austria, International, 74/2001, p. 87-88, 2000.
Cotter, Holland. «Mark Dion», The New York Times, 14 apr. 2000.
Leffingwell, Edward and Carnegie Ramble. Art in America, mar. 2000, pps. 86-93.
Ellis, Samantha. "Tate Thames Dig". Evening Standard, 24 feb. 2000.
Cotter, Holland.  "Surging into Chelsea". The New York Times, 21 jan. 2000, p. E41.
Lewinson, David. "Small World - MCA San Diego". Artweek, mar. 2000.
Weiner, Jessica. ''It's a Small World After All''. The Weekly, 11 feb. 2000.
Pincus L. Robert. ''World toys with magic of dioramas''. San Diego Union Tribune, 6 feb. 2000.
Ollman, Leah. "Tiny Worlds Create grand Illusions". Los Angeles Times, 23 jan. 2000
Pincus, Robert L. ''One man's trash''. San Diego Union Tribune, jan. 2000. Camper, Fred. "Ecologies - Nature Containers". Chicago Reader, aug. 2000.
Kley, Elisabeth.''Mark Dion''. ArtNews Summer 2000, pp.206-207.
Hofman, Irene. ''The 1999/2000 Carnegie International''. Art Nexus, may/jul. 2000, p.114.
Schwabsky, Barry, "Review of the Archeology book", Bookforum, summer 2000.
"Living vegetation in contemporary art". Transplant, 2000, p. 44-47.
Bollen, Christopher, "The Museum of Poison". Time Out New York, 20-27 apr 2000, p. 61.
"Mark Dion", The Village Voice, April 25, 2000, p. 1 1999
Mark Dion: Archaeology, Editors Alex Coles and Mark Dion, 1999 Carnegie.
Grynsztejn, Madeleine. International 1999/2000. pp. 28, 29, 108, 168.
Heartney, Eleanor. "A Cabinet of Critiques". Art in America, dec. 1999, pg. 73.
Birnbaum, Daniel. "Stream of Conscience". Artforum, nov. 1999, pp. 116-121.
Pincus, Robert L. "World-class exhibition" The San Diego Union-Tribune, nov. 1999.
Herbert, Martin, "Mark Dion: Classified Information", Dazed & Confused, oct. 1999, pp. 104- 108.
Riemschneider, Burkhard and Grosenick, Uta. "Art At The Turn Of The Century", Taschen Verlag GMBH, pp. 126-129
Grant, Simon, "Deep and Meaningful". London Evening Standard, 2 nov. 1999, p. 53.
Grant, Simon, "Oozing authenticity", The Guardian, 30 oct. 1999.
Haigh, Gerald, "Striking discoveries", The Primary, 27 sep. 1999.
"Do it all Dion". The Guardian, Guide Section, 17 jul. 1999.
"Museum Fun", Southwark News, 22 jul. 1999.
Pile, Stephen. "Meanings wrenched from Thames", Sunday Telegraph, 31 jul. 1999.
"Here's mud in your eye", The Monday Review, The Independent, 26 jul. 1999.
"Out and about", Art Monthly, jul./aug. 1999.
"What's on, Space" The Guardian, 1 jul. 1999.
Kent, Sarah. "Mark Dion, Tate", Time Out London, 15 jul. 1999. Negrotti, Rosanna. "Mark Dion/Tate Gallery, What's On in London." 1999. Kemp, Arnold J., "Where the Land Meets the Sea, Ecotopias".
Text zur kunst-Edition Heft Nr. 36, dec. 1999, p.168-169.

1998
Amirrezvani, Anita. "A kindergarten in Chernobyl". Contra Costa Times, 15 nov. 1998.
Maclay, Catherine. "An eyeful of eco-damage." Mercury-News, 6 dec. 1998.
Bonetti, David. "Art meets science in Yerba buena's Ecotopia". San Francisco Examiner, 20 nov. 1998.
Zannari, Bonny. "Exhibit raises questions concerning our future". San Mateo Times, 20 nov. 1998.
Mates, Randy. "Natural Instincts". Ststation.com, 8 dec. 1998
Helfand, Glen. "Naughty by nature". San Francisco Bay Guardian Examiner. 1998.
"Two Essays", published in conjunction with the exhibition The Natural World, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

1997
Steihaug, Jon-Ove. "(naturally artificial:)", 1997.

MacRitchie, Lynn. "Stuff of Life". The Guardian, London, 28 jan. 1997.
Meyer, James. "The Macabre Museum", Frieze, London, jan. 1997.

1996
Levin, Kim. "Mark Dion". Village Voice, New York, 30 jan. 1997.
Karmel, Pepe. "Mark Dion". New York Times, 2 feb. 1997.
Chervokas, Jason and Watson, Tom. "Guyana: 3 Artists Thrash Romance in Trek through Heart of Darkness". New York Times Cyber Times, 26 aug. 1996.
Schwendener, Martha. "Mark Dion". Time Out New York, 7-14 feb. 1996.
Turner, Grady T., "Mark Dion at American Fine Arts Co.". Art in America, New York, may 1996. Theewen, Gerhard, "Das Kunstkebinett als Ausstellung". Salon Verlog, Cologne, 1996.
Theewen, Gerhard,  "Mark Dion, Where are You Now?: The Attempt to Correspond with a Travelling Artist", Kuenstlerhaus Bathanien, Berlin 1996.
Litz, Christine. "Das Pippi-Langstrumpf-Prinzip", Rhein Art, Germany, jun. 1996.
Runnette, Charles. "Pictures from an Expedition", New York Magazine, sep. 1996.
Williams, Gilda. "Mark Dion, London Projects, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham", Art Monthly, London, mar. 1996.
"Guyana", WORD Magazine, 1996.
Designed sets for Gregg Bordowitz's film, "The Suicide".
Concrete Jungle, Juno Books, New York. "Den naturhistoriske kasse-Konservering, Kategorisering of udstillung", Oejeblikket: Tidsskrift for Visuelle Kulturei, Copenhagen, summer 1996.

1995
Leturcq, Armelle. "Mark Dion", Blocnotes, 21, Paris, 1995.
Krebs, Edith. "Fribourg: Mark Dion im Centre D'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle", Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich, oct. 1995.
Salvadé, Christine. "Quand un artiste new-yorkais gratte le sol de Fribourg", Le Nouveau Quotidien, Paris, 4 oct. 1995.
Ursprung, Philip. "Mark Dion: Unseen Fribourg", Springer, Vienna, nov. 1995.
J.D.F., "Le New-Yorkais Mark Dion se penche sur l'homo friburgensis", La Liberté, Switzerland, 1 sep. 1995.
J.D.F., "Entre Berlin et Rio, Mark Dion sonde l'invisible qui respire sous nos pieds, interview", La Liberté, Switzerland, 9-10 sep. 1995.
Volkart, Yvonne. "Platzwechsel", Springer, Vienna, sep. 1995.
Simon, Jason. "Jean Painlevé and Mark Dion", Parkett, no. 44, Zürich.
Gorney, S.P., "Mark Dion", Juliet, Paris, jun. 1995.

Decter, Joshua. "Mark Dion at Galerie Metropol", Artforum, New York, jan. 1995

1994
Germer, Stefan. "Unter Geiern, Kontext-Kunst im Kontext". Texte zur Kunst, Cologne, aug. 1994.

"Fuelung des Naturhistorischen Museums". Texte zur Kunst, Cologne, nov. 1994.
Krumpl, Doris. "Meister Reineke, mit vielen Dioptrien". Der Standard, Vienna, 20 jul. 1994.
Horny, Henrietta. "Ein Fuchs macht Urlaub oder die andere Naturgeschichte". Kurier, Vienna, 25 jul. 1994.

Hofleitner, Johanna. "Mark Dion". Flash Art, Milan, 1994.
Tager, Alexandra. "Review of Concrete Jungle". Art and Auction, New York, dec. 1994.
Lisa Corrin and Gary Sangster. "Culture is Action: Action in Chicago". Sculpture, Washington, D.C., mar./apr. 1994.
Huebner, Jeff. "Chicago Students Green Their Habitat". E Magazine, Chicago, jan./feb. 1994.

Hoffman, Justin, "Jager der Verborgenen Tier-Welt". Heaven Sent, Frankfurt, feb. 1994.

Hoffman, Justin, "Ein Gersprach mit Mark Dion". Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich, mar. 1994.

1993
Kurjakovic, Daniel. "Zürich: Mark Dion bei Marc Jancou". Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich, apr. 1993.
Kurjakovic, Daniel. "Jagen, Tauchen, Ausgraben, Bekehren". Zuerichsee- Zeitung/Allgemiener Anzeiger/ Grenzpost, Switzerland, 24 mar. 1993.
Bonami, Francesco. "Parallax View, P.S. 1 Goethe Institute, New York". Flash Art, Milan, oct. 1993.
Heartney, Eleanor. "The Dematerialization of Public Art". Sculpture Magazine, Washington, D.C., mar./apr. 1993.
Cameron, Dan. "Culture in Action, Eliminate the Middleman". Flash Art, Milan, nov./dec. 1993. Kimmelman, Michael, "Of Candy Bars and Public Art", New York Times, Sunday 26 sep. 1993. Scanlan, Joseph. "Culture in Action", Frieze, London, nov./dec. 1993.
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  Artmontecarlo Salon d'Art
  

  2018

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  Theatre of the Natural World
  

  Whitechapel Gallery, 2018

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  Artgenève Salon d'Art
  

  2018

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  Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art Torino
  

  2017

• Artmontecarlo Salon d'Art
  

  Grimaldi Forum, 2017

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  Wayward Wilderness
  

  Museum Marta Herford, Herford, Germany, 2015

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  Fiac 2015
  

  2015

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  ARTDUBAI
  

  2015

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  ARCO MADRID
  

  2015

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  FIAC
  

  Booth O.C03, 2014

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  Cosmographia : Selected works on paper, 1991 - 2014
  

  In situ, 2014

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  ART DUBAI
  

  Dubai, UAE, 2014

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  ARCO MADRID
  

  Madrid, Spain, 2014

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  Artistes de la galerie
  

  In situ, 2013

Art Gallery of Ontario, CA
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales, AU
Aspen Re Collection, New York, US
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, FR
Camperdown Wildlife Park, Dundee, GB
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, US
CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Majorca, ES
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, US
Château d'Orion, FR
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, FR
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, NE
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, US
Henry Moore Institute, US
Het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, DE
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, GB
Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, IL
Kunsthaus Zurich, CH
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
Kunstwegen EWIV, Nordhorn, DE
Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, AU
Manchester Museum, GB
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
Minneapolis Institute of Art, US
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Museum Gassendi, Digne, FR
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NE
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, DE
New York Public Library, New York, US
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MC
Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives, GB
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, US
Storey Institute, Lancaster, GB
Tate Gallery, London, GB
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, US
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
 
Commandes publiques (sélection)
City of Braunschweig, DE
City of Newcastle, GB
Hofgarden, DE
Johns Hopkins University Library, US
Norway National Tourist Route, NO
Ship in a Bottle for Port of Los Angeles, US
Vertical Garden in Tooley Street, GB

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  33rd BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO 2018
  

  Mark Dion
  07.09.2018 - 09.12.2018
  

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  O Triângulo Atlântico
  

  Mark Dion
  11th Mercosul Biennal 06.04.2018 - 03.06.2018
  

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  Theatre of the Natural World
  

  Mark Dion
  Whitechapel Gallery 14.02.2018 - 13.05.2018
  

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  Artistic Interventions at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Round IV.
  

  Mark Dion
  Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 30.01.2018 - 29.04.2018
  

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  Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
  

  Mark Dion
  ICA Boston 04.10.2017 - 31.12.2017
  

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  Mark Dion
  

  Mark Dion
  FRAC PACA & Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle - Marseille 25.08.2017 - 24.09.2017
  

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  Dioramas
  

  Mark Dion
  Palais de Tokyo 14.06.2017 - 10.09.2017
  

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  Exploratory Works : Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions
  

  Mark Dion
  The Drawing Center - New-York 14.04.2017 - 16.07.2017
  

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  The Wondrous Museum of Nature
  

  Mark Dion
  17.12.2016 - 17.09.2017
  

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  ExtraNaturel
  

  Mark Dion
  Voyage initiatique dans la collection des Beaux-Arts de Paris 18.05.2016 - 14.07.2016
  

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  The order of things
  

  Mark Dion
  Barnes Foundation 16.05.2015 - 03.08.2015
  

• 56e Biennale di Venezia
  

  Mark Dion, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Athi-Patra Ruga
  09.05.2015 - 22.11.2015
  

• Future Histories
  

  Mark Dion
  Future Histories 09.05.2015 - 23.08.2015
  

• Chasseur Sachant Chasser
  

  Mark Dion
  Château de Kerjean 28.03.2015 - 01.11.2015
  

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  The Incomplete Writings of Mark Dion
  

  Roel Arkesteijn,

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  Mark Dion - Microcosmographia
  

  South London Gallery,

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  Mark Dion - L'ichthyosaure La pie et autres merveilles du monde naturel
  

  Images en manoeuvres éditions,

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  Mark Dion - The Natural History of the Museum
  

  archibooks,

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  Mark Dion - New england digs
  

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  Mark Dion
  

  Phaidon,

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  Oceanomania - Mark Dion
  

  Nouveau Musée National de Monaco,

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  Mark Dion - Misadventures of a 21 st-Century Naturalist
  

  The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and Yale University Press,

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  Mark Dion - Theatre of the Natural World
  

  Whitechapel Gallery, London,

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  MARK DION Whitechapel Gallery, London
  

  01.04.2018 , Frieze
  

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  Le monde merveillieux de Mark Dion
  

  06.03.2018 , Le Petit Bulletin, Édition de Lyon
  

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  L'univers poétique et faussement nostalgique de Mark Dion à Londres
  

  05.03.2018 , Connaissance des arts
  

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  Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
  

  01.02.2018 , Mousse 64
  

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  Artful and Stunning Cabinets of Curiosities, Decoded
  

  25.02.2016 , T - THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE
  

  By Mimi Vu