GRAHAM MARKS 
b. 1951, United States 

EDUCATION

1976
M.F.A., New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY

1974
B.F.A., Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
For Joy and Grieving, HB381, New York, NY

2022     
It Can Be What It Becomes, Sculpture Space NYC, Long Island City, NY

1993
Habatat/Shaw Gallery, Farmington Hills, MI

1992
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991
New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

1990     
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI 
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

1988
Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY

1986-87
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
    
Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (Catalogue)

1984
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1983
Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

1981
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 

1979
Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

1978
Exhibit A, Evanston, IL 

1977
University Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 

1976
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
The Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup, ATLA, Los Angeles, CA

2021
With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2016
Empirical, Intuitive, Absorption, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY 

2014
Gifts from America: 1948–2013, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

1991     
National Objects Invitational, The Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR 
Refuse, Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, MI 
50th Annual Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
The Stephane Janssen/Michael Johns Collection, Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ

1990
American Ceramics, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan 
Building a Permanent Collection: Perspective on the 1980s, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Craft Today: USA, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 
Clay, Color, Content, 28th Ceramic National, Invitational Section, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1989
Surface and Form: A Union of Polarities in Contemporary Ceramics, The National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD (Catalogue) 
Shared Boundaries: The Cranbrook Tradition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (Catalogue)
Six Master Craftsmen, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Fifteen Years, Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY
Craft Today: USA, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Applied Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt, Germany

1988
Power Over the Clay: American Studio Potters, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Alfred and Mary Shands Collection, J.P. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY (Catalogue)
Selected Works 1987–1988, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 
    
The Aesthetic Edge, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR

1987
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
The Cranbrook Vision: Past and Present, Artrain, MI

1987–1990
The Eloquent Object, Traveling: The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; Chicago; Library and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan

1986
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, Travelling: American Craft Museum, New York, NY; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Contemporary Arts: An Expanding View, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA; The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ (Catalogue)
Big Containment, Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Organic Abstractions, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA; Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985
Contemporary American Ceramics: Twenty Artists, New Port Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (Catalogue)
American Craft, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
American Ceramics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Surface/Function/Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL (Catalogue)
The Educated Eye, The State Museum of Albany, The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
The Presence of Clay, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Vessel and its Variation, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Of the Artist, by the Artist, Wilson Center, Rochester, NY (Catalogue) 

1984
Multiplicity in Clay, Fiber and Metal, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (Catalogue)
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 
Crafts: A Selected View, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Personal Imagery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT 

1983
A Passionate Vision: Contemporary Ceramics from the Daniel Jacobs Collection, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (Catalogue) 
Who’s Afraid of American Pottery?, Travelling: Dienst Beeldende Kunst, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium; Stedelijke Musea, Gouda, The Netherlands (Catalogue)
Art in Architecture, Merritt Gallery, Rochester, NY
Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology with Robert Rauschenberg, Rochester, NY
Selections from the Joan Manheimer Collection, University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO (Catalogue)
Selections from the Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1982
American Clay Artists, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 
Six Plus 12, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
Graham Marks and Cary Griffin, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Group Invitational, Haber/Theodore Gallery, New York, NY
Young Americans—Award Winner, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Sculpture Invitational – Three Man Show, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Group Invitational, D.B.R. Gallery, Cleveland, OH 

1981
Beyond Tradition: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Centering on Contemporary Clay: Ceramics from the Joan Mannheimer Collection, Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (Catalogue) 
Clay, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (Catalogue)
Recent Acquisitions, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Contemporary Approach to American Craft, Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY

1980
Ceramic Sculpture, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgewood, Museum of the Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA (1980-1982 Traveling nationally)
Iowa Invitational, Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IA 

1979
Group Invitational, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
Ten Personal Approaches, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
Contemporary Crafts, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

1977
The Ceramic Vessel as Metaphor, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (Catalogue)
American Art: Contemporary Crafts, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Scripps College 33rd Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 

1976
New Views by Young Ceramics, Exhibit A, Evanston, IL 
M.F.A. Thesis Show, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Fragment Show, Carborundum Museum of Ceramics, Niagara Falls, NY

1975
Group Show with Claes Oldenberg and Lucas Samaras, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Stockton State College Sculpture Show, Pomona, NJ
Supermud Invitational, Carborundum Museum of Ceramics, Niagara Falls, NY
Group Show of Clay and Glass, Carborundum Museum of Ceramics, Niagara Falls, NY

TEACHING

1976–78
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

1980–86
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1986–92
Artist in Residence and Head of Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

AWARDS

1985
Fellowship, The New York Foundation for the Arts

1984
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Sponsored Project Grant, New York State Council on the Arts

1978
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ 
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Lannon Foundation, Miami, FL 
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramics, New York State College
of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC 
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 
Stedelijk Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands 
University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT