Solo exhibitions
2024
Excavations, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Delirious Toys, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, GE
Mark Dion: Investigations, Inquiries and a Few Good Jokes, Galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris, FR
2023
Delirious Toys - The Berlin Toy Cabinet of Wonder, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany
Field Station of the Melancholy Entomologist, Ice House Project Space, Sharon, CT
Systema Naturae, Saskia Neuman Gallery, Stockholm
Bureau de l’ornthologue, Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, FR (commission)
Journey to Nature’s Underworld, organized by American Federation of Arts The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT [traveling to Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA ; The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore, Saratoga Springs, NY; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, University Park, PA] (two-person)
2025
Journey to Nature's Underworld, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Journey to Nature's Underworld, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvanie, USA
Why Look at Animals, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Grece
2024
Désordres, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, FR
Journey to Nature's Underworld, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Journey to Nature's Underworld, The Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, New-York, USA
Home Again, Newfields , Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
The World In Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
2023
Über den Wert der Zeit / On the Value of Time, Ludwig Museum, Köln, AL
Touch Nature, Austrian Culture Forum New York, New York, USA
Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, Hudson River Museum, New-York, USA
Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
"A singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce": The Cultures of Seaweed, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Journey to Nature's Underworld, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Tossed: Art from Discarded, Found and Re-purposed Materials, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
Favoloso Calvino, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
O Triãngulo Atlãntico, 11th Mercosul Visual Biennial, BZ
Affective Affinities, The 33rd São Paulo Biennial, curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, São Paulo, BR
Wild Designs, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, US
Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity, Whatcom Museum, Belingham, US
The Magic Kingdom, curated by Avi Lubin, Beit Uri and Rami Nehoshtan Museum, Ashdot Ya'akov Meuhad, ISR
Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, US
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitney Independent Study Program, curated by John Tyson and Sam Toabe, University of Massachusetts, Boston, US
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Musem of Art, Bard College, NY, US
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
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
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
Hansarviertel Projekt, Berlin, DE
Genesis, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
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
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
Catalogs
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.
Press
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.
«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.