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1997 MFA, Painting, Portland State Universite, Portland, OR
1983 BFA, Art, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1982 BS, Art, Wester Oregon State College
2020 Phalanxes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Loss of Material Evidence (collaboration with Maria TD Inocencio), Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2015 The Silk Road, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Focus on Gods Eye, Nine Gallery, Porland, OR
2012 Portals and Vestibules, Laminates and Veneers, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Recent Works, Office of the Governor, Presented by the Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2018 The Sojorn, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Scrimmage, Scramble, Scrum, Nike World Headquarter, Beaverton, OR
2005 Assemblies, and Exhortations, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Crowd Control, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2001 Sisters Embracing, Gallery Hlemmur, Reykjavik, Iceland
Landmarks and Security Zones, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Porland, OR
2000 Discreet Collections, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Tent City, Mosh Pit, Trampled Clover, the Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
1998 News Clusters, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 In Love with Gravity, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Little Dominions, Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online, Sun Valley Arts Center, Ketchum, ID
2016 Unraveled: Textiles Reconsidered, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Crafting the Future, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Transference, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Intercciones, Collaboration with Maria TC Inocencio on a magazing project by Yornel Martinez, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
Public Artists of the Norhwest, US Bank – Ascent, Seattle, WA
2014 A Sense of Place, US Bank – Ascent, San Francisco, CA
2012 Industry and Art: Celebrating the Worker, Working Waterfront Coalition, Vigor Shipyard, Portland, OR
Progressive Practice: Fundamental Work, Northview Gallery, Porland Community College, Portland, OR
2011 The Shape of the Problem, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Green Oregon, Maneul Izquirdo Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
SQFT, Traveling Exhibition, beginning at Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Making Camp, Northview Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2007 Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel/Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 Recycle, Hallie Gord Museum, Willamette University, Salem OR
Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel/Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Miami, FL
Affair at Jupiter Hotel, Jupiter Hotel/Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 War Drawing, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
Fresh Trouble, Temporary Site – 4145 SE Belmont, Portland, OR
2004 San Francisco International Art Fair, San Francisco, CA – Elizabeth Leach Gallery
2003 Recent Abstraction in the Northwest, the Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Artist and Maps: Cartography as a Means of Knowing, Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
Stitch by Stitch, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 News Clusters, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Selections 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Echoing Nature, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2001 The Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Munseum, Portland, OR
Guns in the Hands of Artists, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
1999 Natural History, Teachers Insurance, New York, NY
1998 In the Footsteps of Their Muse, A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR
1997 The Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The Garden Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1995 Keeping an Eye on the Invisible, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
The Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1993 Urban Stories, Marine Midland-Soho, New York, NY
Activated Walls, Artists Space, New York, NY
1992 Emerging Artists, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, New York, NY
1991 In Memory of Nature, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
1989 Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
Five Artists, DA Gallery, Pamona, CA
1988 Paintings, Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
Relief Printing in the 1980's, Zimmerly Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1985 Selections 1974-84, Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1984 Art Against Apartheid, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY
Selections 27, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Artist's Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, Judson Church, New York, NY
2020 Percent for Art Purchase, I Used to Think I Knew Everyone, Portland Regional County Courthouse, Portland, OR (Collaboration with Maria TD Inocencio)
2014 Connecting Lines and You Know What You Signed Up For, Percent for Art Commission, Portland Police Department Training Facility, Portland, OR
2012 All Routes Lead to the Commons, Permanent public art commission for the Oregon Department of Transportation Headquarters, Salem
2011 Cool to Warm, Warm to Cool, Earning Air, and Music at the Frontier, permanent public art commission at the Health and Wellness Center, Western Oregon University, Monmouth
2009 Reading the Street, commission for TriMet, Portland OR: 5th Avenue Transit Mall
2008 Compass, (in collaboration with Maria TD Inocencio) South Waterfront Artist in Residence, AiR Studio and South Waterfront Park, Portland, OR
2006 The Park (Palm at the End of the Mind), commission for Providence Hospital Cancer Treatment Center, Portland, OR
2005 An Intimate City, Mediating Boxes and Honeycombed News, commission for Howard Hall, Social Sciences department, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2000 Technology Sequence, commission sited in the Port of Portland headquarters, Portland, OR
1993 El Mundo Ay Mofongo, A permanent exterior mural located at E. 2nd and Havemeyer Streets, Brooklyn, NY
1992 Displacement and Replacement in the Bronx, A permanent exterior mural at E.181st Street and Mapes Avenue, the Bronx, NY
1985 Significant Movements, a permanent exterior mural and sculptural installation in collaboration with Maria TD Inocencio at E. 118th and Pleasant Avenue, New York, NY.
2019 Facebook AIR Project, Facebook Seattle Headquarters, Seattle, WA
2010 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship
2008 South Waterfront Artist in Residence, April 2008, Portland, OR
2001 Portland Art Museum, "Oregon Biennial," curators award, Portland, OR
2000 Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
1995 Portland Art Museum, "Oregon Biennial," curators award, Portland, OR
1992 Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, "Project Residencies," Brookville, NY
1985 Manhattan Community Arts Fund, New York, NY
2021 Bean Gilsdorf, “Mark R. Smith: Phalanxes,” Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture, (Online and print versions)
2020 Ford Family Foundation and University of Oregon School of Art and Design, Connective Conversations 2015-2019: Curator/Critic Tours and Lectures, full color catalog; color reproductions pp 208-9
2018 Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, L, Loss of Material Evidence, full color catalog, essay by Linda Tesner, 104 pages, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
Jeff Jahn, "Loss of Material Evidence at Hoffman Gallery," PORT
Laurel Reed, "Processing Loss at Lewis and Clark," Oregon Arts Watch
2016 Briana Miller, “Elizabeth Leach Marks 35th Anniversary with Intense But Quiet Show," Oregonian/Oregon Live - July 25
Karen S. Chambers, “Unraveled, Textiles Reconsidered,” Aequai.com, May 24
2015 Enid Spitz, “High Traffic: Camels and Crack Pipes Show Up at the Silk Road” Willamette Week, November 15, Color reproduction: Peninsular
2012 Jeff Jahn, “A Seat at the Table? Considering Soft Power: MK Guth and Mark Smith,” PORT , 12/6/12
Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 11/14/12, p.44, (color reproduction: Open Cameo with Stand)
2009 Katharine Harmon, with Essays by Gayle Clemens, The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, 2009
Princeton Architectural Press, New York. p. 164 Color illustrations: Undermining Paths (Red) and Undermining Paths, (Green).
2008 Sue Taylor, Exhibition publication, “Arrivals and Departures,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Sue Taylor, Art in America, “Mark R. Smith at Elizabeth Leach,” March, p. 162 (Color reproduction: Contest)
2005 Prudence Roberts, Artweek, "Christine Bourdette and Mark Smith at Elizabeth Leach Gallery," November, pp 23-24 (reproduction: Contest)
Harvest Henderson, The Oregonian A&E, "Thinking Outside the Sports Dome," Sept. 16, p.22 (Reproduction: Contest)
Harvest Henderson, The Oregonian A&E, "Here Comes Trouble," Sept. 30 pp 22-24
2004 Linda Brady Tesner, Honeycombed News, An Intimate City, Mediating Boxes, catalog and essay for a permanent art commission for Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2003 American Style Magazine, “Arts Tour,” August, p.38, (color reproduction: Mosh Pit)
Linda Brady Tesner, Artists and Maps: Cartography as a Means of Knowing, catalog essay, Hoffman Gallery of Art, Lewis and Clark
2001 Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson, Morgunblaid, “Craft as Art,” November 1, 2001, Reykjavik, Iceland, p.34
Pat Boas, Artweek, “Tony Evanko and Mark R. Smith at Elizabeth Leach Gallery,” September, pp. 25-26
Bob Hicks, The Sunday Oregonian: Artsweek, Section F, "The Oregon Biennial: Not the Usual Suspects," April 29, pp. 1, 2 (color reproduction)
Bruce Guenther, 2001 Oregon Biennial, catalog essay, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, pp. 15, 56-57 (color reproductions)
Lisa Lambert, Willamette Week: Visual Arts, "Best in Show," (Portland), p.62, (color reproduction)
2000 Terri Hopkins, Tent City, Mosh Pit, Trampled Clover, exhibition catalog and forward, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
D.K. Row, The Oregonian: Arts and Entertainment, "Time After Time," March 24, pp. 61, 65
D.K. Row, The Oregonian: Living, "Critic's Picks," March 2, p. E1, (color reproduction)
1997 Randy Gragg, The Oregonian: Arts and Entertainment, "Out on a Limb," Aug. 22, p. 62
Kathryn Kanjo, 1997 Oregon Biennial, catalog essay, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, pp. 31, 46
1996 D.K. Row, Willamette Week, "Art on the Move," (Portland) October 23, 1996, p.24
1995 Laura Lee Bennett, Reflex, "Portland Art Museum: Bread and Circuses?" Seattle, Oct./Nov., p. 19
Randy Gragg, The Oregonian: Arts and Entertainment, "Art Newly Awakened to a City," Dec. 8, p. 18
1989 Kim Levin, The Village Voice: Choices, "Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis," July 25, p. 48
Robert Longo, Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis, "Information is Physical," Curator's statement, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
1988 Grace Glueck, The New York Times, "An Immoveable Feast: Murals in the City," July 22, p. C1
1986 Kirk Krautler, New York Newsday, "Operation Greenthumb Touches Growing Concerns," June 24, p. 26
1983 Jacqueline Brody, Print Collectors Newsletter, "Divers and Floaters," September, p. 145