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Mark Holmes makes objects that synthesize and extend the formal and intellectual innovations of reductive abstraction associated with Modernist, minimalist, and post-minimal art. Whether modeled from clay or constructed from wood, his sculptures hold the stable nature of the material object in tension with the perceptual contingencies of color, light and space through a deep integration visual, material and intellectual labor.
Before his current position as Professor of Art at Knox College in Illinois, Holmes spent 15 years designing and making furniture as the owner of -ism furniture in Chicago. He received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and a BA from Hope College.

Contact: mholmes@knox.edu
773 505 4529

Exhibits: (Solo unless indicated)
2022 Drew University, Madison NJ
2020 Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
2019 Borzello Gallery, Knox College
2018 Elon University, N.C.
2017 Peoria River Front Museum.(group)
2017 Carl Sandburg Community College, Il (group)
2017 Trinity Christian College. Palos Heights, Il.
2017 Mclean Arts Center. Bloomington Il. (3 person)
2016 Cornell College. Mt. Vernon, Iowa. (group)
2016 Western Il. University.
2015 Ashford University, Clinton Iowa.
2014 Figge Museum, Davenport Iowa (group)
2013 Dulgar Gallery, South Suburban Comm. College
2012 Illinois Wesleyan Univ.(2 person)
2011 Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago Il. (group)
2011 Devening Projects, Chicago Il. (3 person)
2009 Sidecar Gallery, Hammond Indiana
2008 Florissant Valley Comm. College, St Louis, Mo.
2007 Dominican University, River Forest, Il.
2007 Beverly Arts Center, Chicago Il
2005 Knox College.
2002 Judith Racht Gallery, Chicago. (group)
2002 Central Michigan University (2 person)
1997 Wheaton College, Wheaton Il
1994 Trinity Christian College, Palos, Il
1994 Rosary College, River Forest, Il (two-person)
1993 Thompson Center, Chicago Il (group)
1987 Chrysler Museum, Norfolk Va (2 person)
1985 Yale University (MFA thesis exhibit)
1986 Hampton University, Hampton Va (group)
1983 Hope College (senior exhibit)