Lives and works in London

1973       Born in Luton
1991-92 Hertfordshire College of Art & Design
1992-95 Central St Martins College of Art & Design

Solo Exhibitions
2011
New Art Gallery, Walsall
2010
Vilma Gold, London
Motto, Art House Foundation, London
2009
The Age of Happiness, Hellenic American Union, Athens
Disclosure, Broadway cinema/backlit studios, Nottingham
2008
Mark Titchner, Peres Projects, Berlin
Run, Black River, Run, BALTIC, Gateshead
2007
The Eye Don’t See Itself, Vilma Gold, London
Vertigo: Marcel Duchamp and Mark Titchner, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Commission for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
2006
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
IT IS YOU, Arnolfini, Bristol
2005
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Vilma Gold project space, Berlin
Behold the Man, Waiting For the Man, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
After the Punchline… Eternity, Vacio 9, Madrid
2004
20th Century Man, Vilma Gold, London
Mark Titchner, Carlos Amorales & The Sun City Girls, De Appel, Amsterdam
I, WE, IT, (public art commission), Platform for Art, London
2003
Be Angry But Don’t Stop Breathing, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
Do Not Attempt To Reform Man. We Are What We Are, Galerie Jorg Hasenbach, Antwerp
We Were Thinking Of Evolving, Vilma Gold, London
2001
Love, Work & Knowledge, Vilma Gold, London
1999
Mark Titchner, Vilma Gold, London
1998
Mark Titchner, One in the Other, London

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2012
Made in Britain, Benaki Museum, Athens
2011
An Action, Event or Other Thing That Occurs To Happen Again, One Thoresby Street and Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
Trompe La Monde, Galerie Transit, Mechelen
Change The World Or Go Home, Down Stairs, Madley
Train Fantome, Cruise and Callas, Berlin
Art Paris - Just Art, Grand Palais, Paris
Made In Britain: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980 - 2010 (touring exhibition in partnership with the Sichuan Provincial Museum, Xi’an Art Museum, Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Suzhou Museum)
Peeping Tom, KAde Kunsthal, Amersfoot, The Netherlands
2010
The Future Demands your Participation, China, Shanghai, Minsheng Art Gallery
Art Moves 2010, 3rd International Festival of Art on Billboards, Torun, Poland
Peeping Tom, Vegas Gallery, London
Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London
Deptford X, London
The Dark Monarch, Tate St. Ives and touring to Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2009
Black Hole, CCA Andratax, Mallorca, curated by Friedrieke Nymphius
Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
State of the art - the condition of liberty and the art of objection, European Commission Headquarters, Hague
Art Moves: The 2nd International Festival of Art on Billboards, Torun, Poland
Dreaming The Mainstream, Vilma Gold, London
Mark Titchner - Debating Society & Run, Commissioned by Radar Arts Programme, Loughborough University
On Joy, Sadness and Desire, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Rank: picturing the social order 1516-2009, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2008
Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, Art on the Underground
GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy, London
Material Presence, 176, London
ARTLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Summer Video Program, Peres Projects, Berlin
Nature is a Workshop, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Here and Now, Regina Gallery, Moscow
In The Beginning, University of California Art Gallery, San Diego
The Brotherhood, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg
2007
Fusion Now, Rokeby, London, Curated by JJ Charlesworth
Hopes and Despair, Cell Project Space, London curated by Bob Matthews
Frozen Waves, Yama, Istanbul
Its Simply Beautiful, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial (cat)
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC, Newcastle (forthcoming)
A Poem about an Inland Sea 52nd Venice Biennale, Ukraine Pavillion with Serhiy Bratkov, Dzine (Carlos Rolon), Alexander Hnilitsky, Boris Mikhailov, Juergen Teller and Sam Taylor-Wood, Venice, Italy
Left Pop, The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka, Russia
Art Plus Drama Party 2007 with Fiona Banner, Jenny Holzer and Ed Ruscha, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Between Two Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat)
Los Vinilos, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Metal, Walsall New Art Gallery, Birmingham
2006
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, (touring) (cat)
SCAPE – Don’t Misbehave!, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (cat)
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney (cat)
XII Biennale of Visual Arts, Pancevo, Serbia (cat)
Momentum (Nordic festival of Contemporary Art), Moss, Norway (cat)
EV+A, Limerick (cat)
Check-in Europe, European Patent Office, Munich
His life is full of miracles…Animation Videotheque, Site Gallery, Sheffield
And yet it moves! MOT, London
The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp
59th Minute, (public video commission organized by Creative Time), Times Square, New York
Metropolis Rise, CQL Design Centre, Shanghai (cat)
Para todos los publicos, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (cat)
Black and White, American Helllenic Institute, Athens
Sculpture Grande 06, Prague
2005
British Art Show 6, touring exhibition beginning Baltic, Newcastle (cat.)
British Art Show 6, public billboard commission, Newcastle
Hidden Rythms, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (cat.)
Odiseado Tra Tempo, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich
Offside, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
Summer Daze, South London Gallery, London
Centrifuge: For Spirit and Ritual, The Drawing Room, London
Jaybird, Zero, Milan
The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss, The Gallery at Wimbledon School of Art, Wimbledon (cat.)
The Music of the Future, Gasworks, London
2004
showCASe, South London Gallery, London
Vilma Gold at Galerie Diana Stigter, Galerie Diana Stitger, Amsterdam
If you think you see with just your eyes you are mad, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Expander, Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)
Plaza Suite, Union, London
Wilkommen, Metropole Galleries, Plymouth
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (cat.)
Britannia Works, British Council, Athens (cat.)
Nocturnal Emissions, The Groninger Museum, Groninger
Asphalt and Neon, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (cat.)
Happy Go Lucky, (public art commission), VHDG, Leeuwarden (cat.)
Nit Niu, commissioned by Vacio 9, Mallorca
A Secret History of Clay, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (cat.)
Now is Good, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (cat.)
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London
Candyland Zoo, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury
2003
Matchine Machine, (curated by Chris Noraika) One in the Other, London
Electric Earth, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (cat.)
Strange Messengers, Breeder Projects, Athens
PONR, Pallas Heights, Dublin
Talking Pieces, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkeusen (cat.)
Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
2002
The Movement Began With A Scandal, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)
The Dirt of Love, (with Roger Hiorns & Gary Webb), The Mission, London
Strike, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery (cat.)
Exchange, Richard Salmon, London
Loco for Rococo, The Nunnery, London
Mathematique, Danielle Arnaud, London (cat.)
2001
Sages, Mystics & Madmen, One in the Other, London
Brown, The Approach, London
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art, London (cat.)
City Racing (A Partial History), ICA, London (cat.)
Curatorial Mutiny Pt 4, Nylon, London
Best Eagle, (with Michele Naismith & Duncan McQuarrie), Transmission, Glasgow
Fear it, do it anyway, Vilma Gold Project Space, London
2000
Mark Titchner & Lena Seraphin, Sali Gia, London
Very Nice Film Club, Vilma Gold, London
Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (cat.)
Heart & Soul, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
The Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London
Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
Point of View, (collection of Thomas Frangenburg), Richard Salmon, London
Mark Titchner & David Musgrave, Grey Matter, Sydney
297 x 210, The Art House, Dublin (cat.)
1999
Limit Less, Galerie Krinziger, Vienna
297 x 210, Arthur R Rose, London (cat.)
…..Nice to Meet You, Kunstbunker, Nuremburg
New Build, Platform, London
Cave, Sali Gia London
297 x 210, Firestation, Dublin
The Poster Show, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York
Heart & Soul, 60 Long Lane, London
Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London
1998
Social Security, Ex Teresa, Mexico City / Royal College of Art, London (cat.)
True Science, Curated by BUND, KX, Hamburg
Surfacing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Kling Klang, HMS Plymouth in association with Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Show me the money 3, 8 Dukes Mews, London
The Bible of Networking, Sali Gia London (Touring)
Sociable Realism, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
1997
Show 47, City Racing, London
Peripheral Visionary, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
High Precision/Low Maintenance, 172 Deptford High St / Hales Gallery, London
Recent Acquisitions, BUND, London
TransMat, One in the Other, London
Physionomical Corpus, One in the Other, London
1996
LIFE/LIVE, ARC, Museum of Modern Art, Paris (cat.)
BANK TV/Viper, DOG (BANK), London
Is this Happening, 112a Denmark Hill, London

Selected Bibliography

Publications
2010
Russo, Karen, ‘The Remote Viewing Project’, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2010
‘Art, Word and Image’: 2000 Years of Visual/ Textual Interaction, Hunt, John Dixon, Lomas, David and Corris, Michael, Reaktion Books, London, 2010 p.231
2009
‘Lubok 8’, ed. Ruckhäberle, Christophe and Siemon, Thomas, Lubok Verlag, 2009
The Age of Happiness - Mark Titchner', Exhibition catalogue, published by Hellenic American Union, Athens
'The Dark Monarch', Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Publishing
Selby, Aimee, 'Art and Text', Black Dog Publishing
'On Joy, Sadness and Desire', The Smart Papers, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam.
2008
'Rank Picturing the Social Order 1516 - 2009', (Exhibition catalogue) Northern Gallery for Contermporary Art
'Material Presence', Exhibition Publication/Edition, Zabuldowicsz Collection, 176, London
'The Hey Hey Glossolalia' Mark Beasley, Creative Time, New York
'Has man a Function in Universe', Curated by Gavin Wade, Bookworks/Eastside Projects
2007
Dillon, Tamsin, Platform for Art; Art on the Underground, Black Dog Publishing
Its Simply Beautiful, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creation Industrial, CajAstur
Marcel Duchamp and Mark Titchner, Vertigo, Chelsea Space
Ensslin, Felix, Between Two Deaths, Exhibition Catalogue, ZKM
2006
Mark Titchner, Exhibition Catalogue, Arnolfini, 2006
Para Todos Los Publicos, Exhibition Catalogue, Rekalde, BFA/DFB, 2006.
Turner Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Britain
How to Improve the World, Exhibition Catalogue, Hayward Gallery Press
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Exhibition Catalogue, Compton Verney
SCAPE ­ Don’t Misbehave!, Exhibition Catalogue, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand XII Biennale of Visual Arts, Exhibition Catalogue, Pancevo, Serbia
Momentum (Nordic festival of Contemporary Art), Exhibition Catalogue, Moss, Norway
EV+A, Exhibition Catalogue, Limerick
Metropolis Rise, Exhibition Catalogue, CQL Design Centre, Shanghai
Para todos los publicos, Exhibition Catalogue, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
2005
Hidden Rythms, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss, Exhibition Catalogue, Wimbledon School of Art
Art Now Yearbook, Tate Publishing, January
Sodio y asfalto, British Council, exhibition Catalogue
British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery Publishing
2004
Britannia Works, Exhibition Catalogue, British Council, 2004.
Rear View Mirror, Exhibition Catalogue, Kettle’s Yard, 2004.
Asphalt and Neon, Exhibition Catalogue, British Council, 2004.
Expander, Exhibition Catalogue, Royal Academy of Art, 2004.
Nocturnal Emissions, Exhibition Catalogue, Groninger Museum, 2004.
Tate Art Now Yearbook, Tate Press, 2004.
The Secret History of Clay, Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Press, 2004.
Why and Why Not, Bookworks, 2004.
Annual, Exhibition Catalogue, KIAD Press, 2004.
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2004, Frieze Publications, 2004.
Now is Good, Exhibition Catalogue, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Happy Go Lucky, Exhibition Catalogue, VHDG, Leeuwarden
2003
Electric Earth, Film and Video from Britain, Exhibition Catalogue, British Council, 2003.
Talking Pieces, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 2003.
Fox, Dan, ‘Mark Titchner’, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2003, Frieze Publications
Beasley, Mark, ‘Earache My Ear’, Ledworth, Colin, ‘Powers of Ten’, Electric Earth, Carey-Thomas, Lizzie, Art Now, Tate Britain
Riess, Ute, Talking Pieces, Exhibition Catalogue Text, Museum Morsbroich
2002
City Racing 1999-1998, Black Dog Publishing, 2002.
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Exhibition Catalogue, Royal College of Art
The Galleries Show, Exhibition Catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts
Mathematique, Exhibition Catalogue, Danielle Arnaud, London
Platforms, Jubilee Arts, 2002.
Am Anfag der bewgung stand ein skandal, Lenbachhaus Museum, 2002.
2000
Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Exhibition Catalogue, Royal College of Art Press, 2000.
1999
Some Stuff, ZING, Spring, 1999.
297 x 210, Arthur R Rose Publications
1998
Social Security, Exhibition Catalogue, Ex Teresa, Mexico City / Royal College of Art, London
1996
Life/Live, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Articles
2011
Beanland, Chris, Praise the Sabbath: now Birmingham shows its metal, The Independent, Friady, 6 May 2011
Art Paris - Just Art, Grand Paris 31.3-3.4.2011, www.artParis.fr
2010
Sherwin, Skye, Mark Titchner, Guardian Guide, September 4 2010, p.38
Gavin, Francesca, Power, Consumption and Lies, Twin Magazine
Potts, Rachel, ‘A Multi-Faceted Zone of Protection’, Garageland, Issue 10, pp.22-25
2009
Eleftherios, Arelis, The Age Of Happiness, Nictoglobe, Online Magazine of Transmedial Arts & Acts Vol. 18, Ed. 4, Fall 2009
Titchner, Mark, ‘Futurama’, Art & Music, Issue 08, Winter 2009
Griffin, Jonathan, 'Material Presence', Frieze, 7 January
2008
Gavin, Francesca, 'Mark Titchner - Artist, On Religious Tracts', Another Magazine, 15th issue Bi-Annual Autumn/Winter, pg. 108
I Can't Make Out A Peace Sign To Save my Life, Dominikus Müller, Artnet, 20 November
White Light, Founding and Fleetness, ARTLV_8: Prologue, September 27-October 18
'Mark Titchner: In the Studio, Time Out, November 27- December 3 2008
Jankowicz, Mia, 'Fusion Now', Frieze
Saville, Helen, 'Mark Titchner', North East Times Magazine, 1 February
'Run, Black River, Run', Citylights, 8 February
Whetstone, David, 'Questioning the Truth', The Journal, 30 January
'Mark Titchner: Run, Black River, Run', The Metro, 29 January
2007
Martin, Francesca, 'Arts Diary', The Guardian
Cohen, Louise, 'Tube Giveaway Lets Commuters Take Art', The London Paper
Arts Professional, News
'Take Home A Masterpiece for Free', Metro
Jones, Jonathon, 'Art's Bright Ideas Ignite Debate', Guardian Unlimited Blog
Mr Motley Magazine, NL
Button, Virginia, 'The Turner Prize', Tate
Thornton, Sarah, 'Reality Art Show', The New Yorker, March 19
2006
Maddocks, Fiona, 'Turner's Poster Boy', Evening Standard, March
Hack, Jefferson, 'Burning Questions', Another Magazine
'And Yet It Moves', The Guardian Guide, 12 August
Dorment, Richard, ''One Of The Most Exciting Artists In Britain Today', The Telegraph
Wullschlager, Jackie, 'Turner prompts fresh attack on female body', The Financial Times, Wednesday 4 October
Duguid, Hannah, 'Mark Titchner: Turner Prize Nominee', The Independent, September 'Is Art Power?' The Power 100 Issue, Art Review, November
Mulholland, Neil and Hunt, Andrew British Art (does it) Show?, , Frieze, January-February
Herbert, Martin, Mark Ttchner, Art Monthly, April
2005
Wilson, Michael,Words to Live By – Michael Wilson on the Art of Mark Titchner, ArtForum, May
Sodio y asfalto, British Council, exhibition Catalogue
2004
20th Century Man, Craig Burnett, Guardian Guide, 2 October
Mark Titchner: 20th Century Man, Flash Art, November
Baulking at Bulk, Fisun Gruner, Metro, 22 December
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook, Frieze
Why & Why Not, Bookworks, London
The Best of British, Geraldine Bedell, Observer Monthly Magazine, 31 October
Rear View Mirror, Mark Wilsher, Art Monthly issue 281
Exhibitions Pick of the Week, Guardian Guide, 9 October
La Jornada Newspaper, Section – La Jornada de Enmedio, page 2, 9 July
Excelsior Newspaper, page 5B, 24 July
Sodio y asfalto, Donde Ir Magazine, page 92, July
Brillo y color, El Norte, 5 November
Sodio y asfalto, Quien Magazine, page 138, August
Sodio y asfalto, Map Magazine, issue 1, Spring
2003
Art Now, Tate Britain, text by Lizzie Carey-Thomas
Earache My Ear, (Mark Beasley) Powers of Ten, (Colin Ledworth) cat. text Electric Earth
Talking Pieces, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Morsbroich, catalogue text by Ute Riess
Black Magic Mind War, Frieze: issue 74, Mark Beasley
Mark Titchner, Tema Celeste, issue 97, Chris Hammonds
2002
Exchange, Sally O’Reilly, Frieze, May
Exchange, Mark Beasley, Art Monthly, April
Exchange, JJ Charlesworth, Contemporary, April
2001
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Exhibition Catalogue, Royal College Art publication
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Stephen Beasley, Untitled, Summer
Thanks for the Memory, David Littlefield, BLUEPRINT, March
Mark Titchner, David Musgrave, Untitled, March
Mark Titchner, Duncan Maclaren, The Independent on Sunday, 21/1
Mark Titchner, Izi Glover, Time Out, January
2000
Invasive Properties, Neil Zakiewicz, Artists Newsletter, October
Mark Titchner & David Musgrave, Dick Price, ZING, Fall
Mind over Matter, Courtney Kidd, Sydney Morning Herald, 7/3
1999
New Build, Dave Beech, Art Monthly, November
Mark Titchner, Michael Wilson, Art Monthly, July/August
Heart & Soul, Duncan Maclaren, Independent on Sunday, 5/9
Heart & Soul, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 24/8
Heart & Soul, Gilda Williams, Art Monthly, September
Kling Klang, Nigel Prince, ZING, Summer
Art London, Martin Coomer, Elipsis Press
Painting Lab, Alex Farquharson, Art Monthly, April
Briten mit Pappnase, Katrin Parmentier, Abendzeitung, Nuremberg, 2/10
Kreatives Mischverhaltnis, Regina Urban, NurnBerger, 2/10
1998
Mark Titchner, Edwina Ashton, Untitled, Summer
Mark Titchner, Martin Coomer, Time Out, June
Show 47 & Gonzo, Gavin Wade, ZING, Summer
Sociable Realism, Dave Beech, Art Monthly, March
Show 47, Ian Geraghty, Untitled, Spring