Mark Mulroney bio

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mark mulroney

Born in Dutton, Pennsylvania, 1975
Studied at San Diego State University and University of California at Santa Barbara
Lives and works in Berkeley, California

Mark Mulroney is the product of a brief détente between the godless communists and the patriotic fighting men of the 435th Air Base Wing of the United States Air Force stationed in West Germany. Mulroney’s mother, Marcia, was sent from Tallin, Estonia to West Germany to live with her aunt where she could enjoy color television and glossy magazines filled with ads for cosmetics and detergents that could remove bloodstains. It was there that she met her husband to be, an enlisted man in the United States Air Force. Mulroney was present on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down. He has stated that this was truly a transformative and divine event in his life.

The fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to drive him to create a world that operated on his own terms, where events of a similar magnitude were a common occurrence. These events were constantly changing Mulroney’s imaginary world for the better and his characters appreciated their newly remodeled environment. In the past two decades he has pretty much managed to stay attached to this world and to create work that lets others see what can be achieved if only they believe in divine intervention.

Selected recent exhibitions

2007	What fits in your mouth doesn't always fit in your stomach, Greg Lind Gallery, San Francisco, California Elemental Tangents, California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo University Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California
2006	A Schizophrenic Collapse, Mixed Greens, New York New York Material Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California F(acts)igures, Staatsliedenbuurt Amsterdam, Netherlands Winter Wonderland, The Lab 101 Gallery, Los Angeles, California 666, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, California “BEAST”, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas Transformers, University of Nevada Las Vegas
2005	Dropping Rocks from Helicopters, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, California Postcards from Poketo, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, California Circa ’75, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California Paradise Paved, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho Works on Paper, Evergreene Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland Paper Awesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004	I’d like to pitch a tent and live on your shoulder, Mixed Greens, New York Cerca Series, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California The Ripe Fruit, Cassius King Gallery, San Diego California The Big Spin, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2003	The Empty Sex Experiment, Mandeville Gallery, University of California San Diego Becoming A Better Person Through Art, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, Fresh StArt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California Whiteness, A Wayward Construction: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

Selected public collections
The West Family Collection, SEI, Pennsylvania
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California