Mark Hagen
Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
BA, Degree in Art, University of California, Santa Cruz
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027(forthcoming), Plataforma, Guadalajara, Mexico
2025Atado al Mástil (Tied to the Mast), Casa Limantour, Mexico City, Mexico
2023Transparency, HH0673, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Integración Cósmica, Galeria Tiro Al Blanco, Guadalajara, Mexico
2022Terapia de Color, Saenger Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
2019Mexican Mammoth, Marlborough, New York, NY
2018Nude Group Therapy, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2016The Big Hole, Marlborough, New York, NY
2015Mark Hagen, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO
Schmanthropocene, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
To Be Titled (Additive Sculpture, Rampart Tile Wall #1), LA><ART, Los Angeles
The Outdoor Type, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
2014a parliament of some things, Almine Rech Gallery, London
Guest Star, Marlborough, New York, NY
2013Paleo Diet, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Black Swamp, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012TBA de nouveau, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Vapor Parade (for Chris Marker), the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris
2011TBAA, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
TBA, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2010Succession & Simultaneity, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Vapor Parade & Earth Monster, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2007Give it up smooth, Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA
2006Circulation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026Plus One (+1), Saenger Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
2025Foundations, La Ayuda Network at Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Go Bag, Rainbow in Spanish at Claysita, Los Angeles, CA
To LA with LOVE, The Future Perfect, Los Angeles, CA
2024Contrabando y Danzon, Estudio Hospital, Guadalajara, MX
HOLLYWOOD DREAM BUBBLE, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
2023Cerámica Suro: A story of collaboration, production, and collecting in the contemporary arts, Dallas Contemporary, TX
2021Surfaces, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cerámica Suro: A story of collaboration, production, and collecting in the contemporary arts,
The Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), October 31, 2021 to May 15, 2022
2020Three Day Weekend Presents "The Gallery is Closed", Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2019The Fragrance of Images (touring exhibition), Staedtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany (catalog)
Abstraction(s), curated by Nicolas Trembley, Song Art Museum, Beijing China
2018The Fragrance of Images (touring exhibition), Opelvillen Art and Culture Foundation, Frankfurt,
Germany (catalog)
By Fire, Ceramic Works, Almine Rech, New York, NY
Mark Hagen / Imi Knoebel / Olivier Mosset, De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2017Flatland / Narrative Abstractions 2, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (catalog)
SOCIAL EMOTION, Cc Foundation & Art Centre, Shanghai, China
THE WHITE HEAT, Marc Strauss, New York, NY
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?, Mark Hagen / Imi Knoebel / Jason Martin / Olivier Mosset / Jessica Sanders, De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2016L.A. Exuberance, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Folkeobservatoriet (People’s Observatory), Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo, Norway
After Effect, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Group show, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Grand Opening of Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Ballet Mécanique, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, NY
2015Three Day Weekend: Party in Back, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Lost in a Sea of Red, The Pit, Glendale, CA (catalog)
Sweet 16, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Eagles II Artistas Contemporaneos Americanos, Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (catalog)
2014Sèvres Outdoors, Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, France
Dans un intérieur Meubles, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Show Off, Associate Mission Building, Rockbound Art Museum, Shanghai
The White Album, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Too Many Things Are Too Many Things, Sputnik/Seiler Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Platform, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013TC: Temporary Contemporary, Bass Art Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Painting in Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA
A Handful of Dust, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
Endless Bummer II, Marlborough, New York, NY
And Mae and Mac and Me, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Rocks and Clocks, Ambach and Rice, Los Angeles, CA
19 rue de Saintonge, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Flicker, curated by Jan Tumlir, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
2012Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Art Basel Miami Beach Art Public, Curated by Christine Kim, Bass Art Museum, Miami
XYZ, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalog)
Shadows as real things, curated by Lauren Mackler, Museo Sindone, Turin, Italy(catalog)
Venice Beach Biennial, curated by Ali Subotnick, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Bass elegy/Devil’s Night (for Mike Kelley) collaboration with Scott Benzel, performances at LA><ART and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
One Day at a Time, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Perfect, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Hagen, Richard Hoblock, Lesley Vance, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, SF, CA
Spare Me, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
More and Different Flags, Marlborough, New York, NY
2011Seven Los Angeles Artists, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
California Dreamin' - Legends of Los Angeles, curated by Hedi Slimane, Almine Rech, Paris
Painting and Space, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Tabula Rasa, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2010RE-DRESSING, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Points of View, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal
Current Trends in Modern Painting, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
2009Extra Extra, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2008California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Desertshore, curated by Jan Tumlir, Luckman Gallery, Cal State LA (catalog)
Constellation, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
HOST, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
The Writing on the Wall, Parks Gallery, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2006Strange Animal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
2005Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY
Futurism Restated Again, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004Art of Zines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2003Zine Scene, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Exquisite Corpse, screening at LA Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
2002MAKING, LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC ART AND COMMISSIONS
2025Découpé Ville (Cut City), Public Collection, 1136-1142 La Cienega Blvd., Commissioned by City of West Hollywood, CA, Architecture by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
2023 Sea Wall (Additive Sculpture, Cast Aluminum Screen, Unit I, Assemblage I), Private Collection, NYC, Commissioned by UAP for Gensler Architecture
2022 Mexican Mammoth (Additive Sculpture, Cement Screen), Private Collection, Punta Mita, MX, Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
2019To be titled (Additive Sculpture, Porcelain Screen #3), Private Collection, Turks & Caicos, Commissioned by Peter Marino Architect, Architecture by Peter Marino
2018To be Titled (Cadmium Orange III for LV), Private Collection, Louis Vuitton, Commissioned by Peter Marino Architect for Fondation Louis Vuitton
2016To Be Titled (Scrambled Scottish Rite Temple Founders Wall), Private Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, Commissioned by Marciano Art Foundation
2012Los Angeles Screen, for Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
To Be Titled (Additive Sculpture, Cement Screen #14), Bass Art Museum, Miami Beach, FL, Commissioned by Art Public/Art Basel Miami Beach
2008Success in Every Direction, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Cedars-Sinai Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The Fundación Ernesto Ventós, Barcelona, Spain
Zarur Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico
Cc Foundation & Art Centre, Shanghai, China
Kelly Ying and David Chau collection, Shanghai, China
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Guest Thesis Reviewer, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), 2025
Artist’s Studio Presentation, Yunhee Min’s UC Riverside MFA Students, 2023
Visiting Artist (Artist Presentation), Begovich Visual Arts Lecture series, Cal State Fullerton, 2022
Guest Lecturer, Sculpture, Instr: Matteo Tannatt, Cal State Fullerton, CA, 2022
Guest Lecturer, M. Hafif’s An Extended Grayscale, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022
Visiting Artist (and MFA Studio Visits), Fine Art Lecture Series, UC Riverside, 2018
Artist Presentation, X-TRA with editor Shana Lutker at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, 2016
Visiting Artist (and Undergradute Studio Visits), UC Santa Cruz, CA, 2016
Visiting Artist (and MFA Studio Visits), Visiting Artist Lecture Series, UC Irvine, CA, 2014
Visiting Artist (and Undergradute Studio Visits), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2014
Artist Book Presentation, LA Art Book Fair, MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles, 2013
Visiting Artist, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Visiting Artist (and MFA Studio Visits), Fine Art Lecture Series, UC Riverside, 2013
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2017“Urban Ecology and Archeology in Contemporary Art Practice: Mark Hagen, Analia Saban, and
Anna Sew Hoy” moderated by Head of Contemporary Art Rita Gonzalez, LACMA, Los Angeles
2015“Architectones”, panel discussion with Xavier Veilhan, Neutra scholar Barbara Lamprecht, art critic Jan Tumlir, and artist Mark Hagen, MOCA Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA
2013“Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection”, with Head of Contemporary Art Rita Gonzalez and artist Liz Glynn, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Artists’ Completion Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
The James Irvine Foundation Scholarship, San Francisco, CA
Art School Grant, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Dean’s Project Grant, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Interschool Interdisciplinary Project Grant, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Ahmanson Project Grant, CalArts, Valencia, CA
The Helen and Felix Juda Foundation Grant, CalArts, Valencia, CA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Part-time Faculty, Beginning Sculpture, Cal State Fullerton, Spring 2027
Adjunct Faculty, Beginning Drawing, Los Angeles Mission College, Fall 2026
Adjunct Faculty, Beginning 2D Design, Los Angeles Valley College, Fall 2026
Part-time Faculty, Beginning Sculpture, Cal State Fullerton, Fall 2025
Lecturer, Beginning Drawing and Design, UC Riverside, Summer Session B 2025
Lecturer, Intermediate Painting, UC Riverside, Summer Session A 2025
Lecturer, Beginning Drawing and Design, UC Riverside, Summer Session A 2025
Lecturer, Advanced Sculpture, UC Irvine, Fall 2011
Lecturer, Advanced Sculpture, UC Irvine, Spring 2011
Lecturer, Intermediate Sculpture, UC Irvine, Fall 2011
Lecturer, Intermediate Sculpture, UC Irvine, Spring 2011
Lecturer, Basic Sculpture, UC Irvine, Fall 2010
Lecturer, Basic Sculpture, UC Irvine, Spring 2010
Lecturer, Basic Sculpture, UC Irvine, Fall 2009
Volunteer Art Instructor, Digital Art, Community Arts Partnership (CAP), Inner City Arts, LA, CA, 2002
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Marino, Peter, Peter Marino: Ten Modern Houses, intro by Pilar Viladas, Phaidon Press, 2024, print
Bollinger, Medicus,
Stressing Wachsmann, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2020
Sandaker, Eggen, Cruvellier,
The Structural Basis of Architecture, 3rd edition, Routledge, UK, 2018
Messina, Rab, “
Mark Hagen Does Nude Group Therapy”,
TL Magazine, Jan 16 2018
Derrien, Marianne, Ihler-Meyer, Sarah, Flatland/Abstractions narratives, catalog, Mudam Luxembourg, Mrac Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditérranée, Éditions Cantz, 2017
Goldfarb, Brad, Peter Marino: Art Architecture, Phaidon Press, 2016
Hagen, Mark, “
Untitled” Artist’s Project,
X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2016, print/online
Vicente, Alex, “
Los Ángeles, capital del arte”,
El Pais, November 11, 2015, print/online
Preston-Zappas, Lindsay, “
Mark Hagen at JOAN”,
CARLA, July 15, 2015, print/online
Hagen, Mark, “
A Picture and a Poem”,
The New York Times T Magazine, Spring, 2015, print/online
Tschorn, Adam, “
Louis Vuitton’s Rodeo Drive renovation”,
Los Angeles Times, Jan 30, 2015, print/online
Errera, Alexandre, “Art Basel Hong Kong: Just Another Fair?”, Forbes, 2015
Bambic Kostov, Ana, ‘a parliament of some things’, Widewalls Magazine, October, 2014, print
Interview magazine, May 2014, print
Bailey, Stephanie, “
A conversation with Mark Hagen”,
Ocula, October, 2014,
Hagen, Mark, High School Drawings, 1987-1990, aREa sNEAKs, Issue 3, 2014, print
Allenova, Ekaterina, et al., Structures. Novelty. Stripes., SNS Collection, BALTO, 2014, print
Baumgardner, Julie, “
Meterorite Falls on Car, Car Becomes Artwork”,
The New York Times T Magazine, May 9, 2014
Tumlir, Jan, “
Mark Hagen: Paleo Diet”,
Artforum, December, 2013, print/online
Mizota, Sharon, “
Mark Hagen at China Art Objects”,
Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2013, print/online
Knight, Christopher, “
Review: ‘Painting in Place’ flings open conceptual abstraction doors”,
Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2013, print/online
Shaw, Michael, “
Mark Hagen”,
ArtScene, October, 2013, print/online
Klee, Miles, “
MARK HAGEN’S 2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner”,
Brooklyn Rail, July 15, 2013, online
Steverlynck, Sam, “
Mark Hagen: Black Swamp”,
ArtReview, May, 2013, print/online
Launay, Aude, “Mark Hagen”, Zérodeux, Numéro 65, 2013, print
Mohseni, Yasmine, “A Handful of Dust”, ArtInfo.com, February 21, 2013
Heller, Nathan, “
Hedi Slimane Thrills as Director of Saint Laurent,”
Vogue, Sept, 2013, print/online
Hagen, Mark, 2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner, Paper Chase Press, 2012, print
Griffin, Jonathan, “
Made in L.A.”,
Frieze, September, 2012, print/online,
Stromberg, Matt, “
From Los Angeles: Made in L.A. 2012”,
Art Practical, July 10, 2012
Ellegood, Anne, “LA Is Everywhere”, Made in L.A. 2012 catalog, Hammer Museum/DelmonicaPrestel,2012
Berardini, Andrew, “
Natural History: Mark Hagen”,
LA Weekly, June 16, 2011, print/online,
Coles, Alex, “Mark Hagen”, Man About Town, Summer, 2011, print
Kowalinski, Michael, “Mark Hagen Dreams On”, interview, i-D Magazine, 2011
Kowalinski, Michael, “
Art Talks Hedi Slimane”,
AnOther Magazine, March, 2011, print/online,
Huffman, Jibade-Khalil, After Stan Donen, Eighth Veil Press, 2009, print
Berardini, Andrew, “
2008 California Biennial”,
Frieze, March, 2009, print/online,
Mizota, Sharon, “Desertshore”, at Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2008, print
Berardini, Andrew, Critic Pick, Artforum.com, November, 2007,
CURRENT AND PAST GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Travesia Cuatro
Madrid, Guadalajara, Mexico City
Saenger Galería
Mexico City, Guadalajara
Almine Rech Gallery
Paris, Brussels, London, NYC
Marlborough
NYC, London
Anthony Meier
San Francisco, CA
China Art Objects
Los Angeles, CA