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Mark Workman Biography

Born

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

Artists for Environment Foundation, Union of Independent Colleges, New Jersey

Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, BFA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

“Floral Expressions/ Two Perspectives”, Millport Museum, Lititz, Pennsylvania

Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Fischbach Gallery, New York

Growth, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Fields of Vision, Bernarducci/Meisel, New York, traveling to:
Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA Catalog

The company of Trees, Bernarducci/Meisel, New York

Selected Group Exhibition Awards

May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

7th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society” Kutztown, Pennsylvania (purchase award)

The Lancaster Scene, Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA

Tyler Alumni Exhibition, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

28th Annual Open Award Art Show, Lancaster Museum, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania (best of show)
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
(Purchase award)

Lebanon Valley College Annual Exhibition, Lebanon, Pennsylvania
(best of show award)

29th Annual Open Award Art Show, Lancaster, (First place award)
Elizabethtown College Spring Juried Exhibition, Elizabethtown,
Pennsylvania (purchase award)
Riverwalk Arts Festival, York, Pennsylvania (first place)
Watercolor USA Honor Society Exhibition

Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
(Purchase award)
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
(purchase award)
Paintings from the Commerce Bancshares Collection,Lakeview Museum
Of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL

Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (museum cash
award and Patron purchase)
Contemporary American Landscapes, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Wet Paint, Fischbach Gallery, NYC, New York

Town and Country, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, NYC, New York

State Farm Show Juried Art Show, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
(Best of Show)
Large Works, York Arts, York, Pennsylvania
Trains of Thought, Suzanne Arnold Gallery, Annville, PA
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Midsummer Nights Dream,Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, NYC, New York
Redefining Reproduction, Millport Conservancy Gallery, Millport, Pennsylvania
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO ( Patron purchase)
66th National Midyear Show, The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2nd Biennial Brinton Invitational, Bradford Brinton Memorial, Big Horn,Wyoming Catalog Historic Sites and Structures, Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, NYC, New York
Transforming The Commonplace, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Catalog
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (Museum cash Award and
Patron Purchase)
Hot Water, Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, NYC, New York
Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Old Forge, New York
Snow, Bernarducci/ Meisel, New York

Works on Paper, Philadelphia Watercolor Society, The American College,
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

WATERCOLOR, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary American Realism VII, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulas, OK
Summer Is, Bernarducci/Meisel, New York

Selected Grants and Honors

Lancaster City Arts Grant

Elected to Watercolor U.S.A Honor Society

E.D. Foundation, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant

Selected Bibliography

Corn, Alfred, review of exhibition, Artnews, May
Kopf, Jennifer, “NYC gallery stages show for the artist Mark Workman”,
Lititz Record Express, February 4

The New York Review of Art, December, review of exhibition

Readers Digest, August Cover Illustration

Decker, Joan, Lancaster artist feels farmer, harvest kinship
Neighbors Northern Lancaster County October 12

William and Mary Review, The College of William and Mary, Virginia

McLaughlin, Glory, Regional Winners, Watercolor Magic Winter

Johnson, Nicole, In The Spotlight Lancaster Sunday News March 16

Weil, Rex, Heaven In Earth, Artnews, March

Driscoll, John, and Arnold Skolnick, The Artist and the American
Landscape First Glance Books, San Francisco

Sullivan, Terry The Best Of Sketching and Drawing
Rockport Publishers Inc., Gloucester, Mass.
William and Mary Review, The College of William and Mary, Virginia

Mullarkey, Maureen, review of exhibition, Review Magazine

Holihan, Jane, Welcome to His World, Lancaster New Era, March 2
Knowles, Laura, Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA March 3

Long, Sue, Lancaster County Magazine, cover story, June

Forst, Elizabeth, Tension in the Balance, Watercolor Magazine, Fall Issue

Palsgrove, Grace, Pretty as a Picture, AAAdvantage, May-June Issue
Landis, Daphne S., Speaking for Themselves: The Artists of Southeastern
Pennsylvania, Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA

Selected Corporate Collections
American General Corporation, Texas
Armstrong World Industries, Pennsylvania
Bank of Tokyo, New York
Berliz, Inc, New Jersey
Camhay, Kalinsky and Stein, New York
Cardiovascular Associates, Pennsylvania
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Missouri
Exxon Corporation, Texas
FGIC, New York
First National Bank of Maryland
General Electric Company, Connecticut

Groom Law Group, Washington, DC
Hamilton Bank, Pennsylvania
High Industries, Pennsylvania
Little Caesar’s Enterprises, Inc., Michigan
MasterCard International, New York
Nomura Securities, New York
OBGYN and Associates, Pennsylvania
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc., Pennsylvania
Van Guard Industries, Pennsylvania
Zurich Kemper Financial Corporation, Illinois

Selected Public Collections
The Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Missouri

Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania
Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Millport Conservancy, Pennsylvania
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

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