Mark Messersmith
W e l c o m e    A b o u t    R e s u m e   P a i n t i n g s   C o n t a c t

Education
  • Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1980, Painting.
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Missouri, 1977, Painting.
Selected Awards
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Award, 2006
  • Le Grand Prix, XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes -sur-Mer, France, July, 2001 (purchase award).
  • Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Individual Artist Fellowship Awards, (1999 and 1993 and 1987).
  • National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation, Regional Fellowship Awards for Emerging Visual Artists, (1994 and 1988).
  • Ford Foundation Fellowships, (1980 and 1979).

Selected Exhibition
  • Kingdom Animalia, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December 1-23 2006 (Group Exhibition)
  • Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland Florida, December,2007-February2008, (Solo Exhibition)
  • EMBLEMATIC, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, August 29th -September 29th, 2006 (Group Exhibition)
  • Taking the Dog for a Walk,  Leo Kamen Gallery Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 26- September 2, 2006 (Group Exhibition)
  • Under the Fort, The Rhys Gallery , Boston, Massachusetts (Group Exhibition), curated by Evelyn Rudz, June-July 2006
  • High Roads and Low Roads, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, February 17-March 26, 2006 , The Arts Center Galleries of Okaloosa-Walton College Arts Center Galleries, October 15- November 30, 2006. (Group Exhibition) Catalogue
  • New Paintings,2000-2005 ,Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida, December 10 2005 -February 5, 2006 (Solo Exhibition), Catalogue
  • 30th Parallel: A Convergence of Contemporary Painting, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville Florida, September 2005-January 2006
  • Florida Focus, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo Florida, September-November 2005
  • Nature of the Beast, University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Gallery, January-February 2004, (Solo Exhibition) Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C. 5 paintings for Ibsen's play, "Ghosts", directed by Edwin Sherin, staring Jane Alexander. June 3 thru July 27, 2003
  • Luminous Nightmares Creald'e School of Art,Winter Park, Florida, April 18 May 31, 2003, (Solo Exhibition)
  • Wild Life: The Other Tradition, January 12-April 16, 2002, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida. (Group Exhibition) Catalogue
  • Cagnes-sur-Mer, XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture , Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, June 30-September 30, 2001, organized by the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, Color Catalogue
  • The Apocalyptic Landscape: Paintings by Mark Messersmith, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, June, 2001, The Apocalyptic Landscape: Paintings by Mark Messersmith , Loyola University, October 2000 - January 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, (Solo Exhibition).
  • Contemporary Citrus Imagery by Florida Artists , Tampa Museum of Art, May, 1999, Tampa, Florida, (Group Exhibition).
  • Paintings by Mark Messersmith, University of Alabama at Birmingham, July 1999, Birmingham, Alabama, (Solo Exhibition).
  • New Mythologies, Florida Gulf Coast Arts Center, December 1996 - February 1997, Belleair, Florida, and touring December 1997 - January 1998, (Solo Exhibition), Color Catalogue.
  • Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship Exhibition , Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art (SECCA), 1994, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Currently

Professor of Art, Florida State University ,Tallahassee, Florida