Falls Church, VA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
BA, Degree in Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

PUBLIC AND NOTABLE 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
MAC3, 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 Center, Shanghai, China

PUBLIC AND NOTABLE COMMISSIONS

2024    
Découpé 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

2019    
To be titled (Additive Sculpture, Porcelain Screen #3), Private Collection, Turks & Caicos, Commissioned by Peter Marino Architect, Architecture by Peter Marino

2018    
To be Titled (Cadmium Orange III for LV), Private Collection, Louis Vuitton, Commissioned by Peter Marino Architect for Fondation Louis Vuitton

2016    
To Be Titled (Scrambled Scottish Rite Temple Founders Wall), Private Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, Commissioned by Marciano Art Foundation

2012    
Los 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

2008    
Success in Every Direction, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027    
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, Plataforma, Guadalajara, Mexico

2026    
DIY Monsters, 3434 Wesley St. Culver City, CA 

2025    
Atado al Mástil (Tied to the Mast), Casa Limantour, Mexico City, Mexico

2023    
Transparency, HH0673, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Integración Cósmica, Galeria Tiro Al Blanco, Guadalajara, Mexico 

2022    
Terapia de Color, Saenger Galería, Mexico City, Mexico

2019    
Mexican Mammoth, Marlborough, New York, NY

2018    
Nude Group Therapy, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2016    
The Big Hole, Marlborough, New York, NY

2015    
Mark Hagen, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO
Schmanthropocene, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Rampart Tile Wall #1, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
The Outdoor Type, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA

2014    
a parliament of some things, Almine Rech Gallery, London
Guest Star, Marlborough, New York, NY

2013
Paleo Diet, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Black Swamp, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2012    
TBA de nouveau, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France

2011    
TBAA, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
TBA, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

2010    
Succession & Simultaneity, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Vapor Parade & Earth Monster, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA

2006    
Circulation & Light Visit, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025    
Foundations, 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

2024    
Contrabando y Danzon, Estudio Hospital, Guadalajara, MX 
HOLLYWOOD DREAM BUBBLE, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2023
Cerámica Suro: A story of collaboration, production, and collecting in the contemporary arts, Dallas Contemporary, TX

2021
Surfaces, 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

2020    
Three Day Weekend Presents "The Gallery is Closed", Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2019    
The Fragrance of Images (touring exhibition), Staedtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany (catalog)
Abstraction(s), curated by Nicolas Trembley, Song Art Museum, Beijing China

2018    
The Fragrance of Images (touring exhibition), Opelvillen Art and Culture Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany (catalog)
By Fire, Ceramic Works, Almine Rech, New-York, NY

2017
Flatland / Narrative Abstractions 2, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (catalog)

2016
L.A. Exuberance, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Folkeobservatoriet (People’s Observatory), Teknisk Museum, Oslo, Norway
After Effect, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Grand Opening of Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico

2015
Three Day Weekend: Party in Back, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lost in a Sea of Red, The Pit, Glendale, CA (catalog)
Sweet 16, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Eagles II, Marlborough, Spain (catalog)

2014
Sèvres Outdoors, Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, France
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
The White Album, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Too Many Things Are Too Many Things, Sputnik/Barbara Seiler Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Platform, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2013
Painting in Place, LAND, Los Angeles, CA
A Handful of Dust, Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), 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

2012
Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
TC: Temporary Contemporary, Bass Art Museum, Miami Beach, FL
XYZ, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalog)
Treating shadows as real things, curated by Lauren Mackler, Museo Sindone, Turin, Italy
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

2011
Seven Los Angeles Artists, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
California Dreamin' - Myths And Legends of Los Angeles, curated by Hedi Slimane, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Painting and Space, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Tabula Rasa, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
April, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Seven Los Angeles Artists, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
California Dreamin' - Myths And Legends of Los Angeles, curated by Hedi Slimane, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Painting and Space, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Tabula Rasa, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
April, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

2008
2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Desertshore, curated by Jan Tumlir, Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles (catalog)

2009
Extra Extra, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1999, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

2008
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Desertshore, curated by Jan Tumlir, Luckman Gallery, Cal State LA (catalog)

2006
Strange Animal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA

2005
Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY
Futurism Restated Again, Rental Gallery, 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

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, CA

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

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2025
Waligore, Athena, Interior Design, March 17, 2025,
https://interiordesign.net/projects/gensler-investment-firm-workplace-new-york/

2024
Marino, Peter, Peter Marino: Ten Modern Houses, intro by Pilar Viladas, Phaidon Press, 2024, print 
Gassmann, Gay, Inside a Sprawling Bel-Air Farmhouse Made for Sophisticated Fun, October 23, 2024, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-a-sprawling-bel-air-farmhouse-made-for-sophisticated-fun 
Owens, Mitchell, Inside an Airy, Light-Filled Haven Overlooking the Mediterranean, April 19, 2024, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-an-airy-light-filled-haven-overlooking-the-mediterranean 
Artful Living, "An Exclusive Look at Architect Peter Marino’s Private Residential Designs", May 15, 2024, online, https://artfulliving.com/architect-peter-marino-private-residential-designs-tour/

2022
Romeyn, Kathryn, Bringing a Laurel Canyon house back to life, June 15, 2022, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/tour-the-los-angeles-home-of-troye-sivan-and-lizzos-manager

2020
Bollinger, Medicus, Stressing Wachsmann, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2020, https://www.dieangewandte.at/en/news/publications/publications/publication_detail?publikation_id=1597154053695 

2018
Sandaker, Eggen, Cruvellier, The Structural Basis of Architecture, 3rd edition, Routledge, UK, 2018 https://www.routledge.com/The-Structural-Basis-of-Architecture/Sandaker-Eggen-Cruvellier/p/book/9781138651999 
Messina, Rab, “Mark Hagen Does Nude Group Therapy”, TL Magazine, Jan 16 2018, https://tlmagazine.com/mark-hagen-nude-group-therapy/
Cascone, Sarah, “Editors’ Picks: 14 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week”, artnet news, December 3, 2018, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-december-3-14025462019
Bollinger, Klaus; Medicus, Florian, Konrad Wachsmann USAF Aircraft Hangar, Birkhäuser Basel

2017
Stromberg, Matt, “Inside The Marciano Art Foundation, L.A.'s Newest Museum”, LAist.com, May, online
Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer, Flatland / Abstractions narratives, catalog, Mudam Luxembourg, Mrac Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditérranée, Éditions Cantz
Bhuiya, Hannah, “Meet the Hottest New Sculptors in LA”, Amuse, May 23 2017, online

2016
Goldfarb, Brad, Peter Marino: Art Architecture, Phaidon Press
Hagen, Mark, “Untitled” Artist’s Project, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, print/online, https://www.x-traonline.org/article/artists-project/
Colacello, Bob, “Lure of LACMA, A New Crop of Artists Re-create a Famed 1968 LACMA Photograph”, Vanity Fair, December issue 2016, print/online,
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/11/lacma-artists-re-create-1968-lacma-photograph
Boutboul, Charlotte, "Final Week to See Mark Hagen’s Coca Cola anodized titanium at Marlbourough Chelsea", whitewall, April 21, 2016, online, https://www.whitewall.art/art/final-week-to-see-mark-hagens-coca-cola-anodized-titanium-at-marlbourough-chelsea

2015
Vicente, Alex, “Los Ángeles, capital del arte”, El Pais, November 11, print/online https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/06/eps/1446827160_003636.html
Preston-Zappas, Lindsay, “Mark Hagen at JOAN”, CARLA, July 15, online
Hagen, Mark, “A Picture and a Poem”, The New York Times T Magazine, Spring, print/online, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/t-magazine/picture-poem-michael-dickman-mark-hagen.html
Hagen, Mark, interview, Paddle 8, online, https://paddle8.com/editorial/mark-hagen-what-inspires-me/
Brazilian, Alexa, “Gallerist Almine Rech’s Eclectic and Elegant Paris Apartment”, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Feb. 11, 2015, online, https://www.wsj.com/articles/gallerist-almine-rechs-eclectic-and-elegant-paris-apartment-1423671202
Tschorn, Adam, “Louis Vuitton’s Rodeo Drive renovation a mix of classic and cool”, Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2015, print/online

2014
Reynolds, Cory, “ARTBOOK | D.A.P. Presents Mark Hagen's 'Ramada Santa Monica' Bookstore Installation at Art Los Angeles Contemporary”, Artbook.com, Jan 31, 2014, online, https://www.artbook.com/blog-event-art-los-angeles-contemporary-2014.html
Bambic Kostov, Ana, ‘a parliament of some things’ , Widewalls Magazine, October, online
Interview magazine, May 2014, print
Bailey, Stephanie, “A conversation with Mark Hagen”, Ocula, October, online, https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/mark-hagen/
Hagen, Mark, High School Drawings, 1987-1990, aREa sNEAKs, Issue 3
Allenova, Ekaterina, et al., Structures. Novelty. Stripes., SNS Collection, BALTO Print
Baumgardner, Julie, “Meterorite Falls on Car, Car Becomes Artwork”, The New York Times T Magazine, May 9, online, https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/mark-hagen-guest-star-asteroid-chevy-malibu-marlborough-chelsea-gallery/
Black, Ezrha Jean, “The Postconceptual Multimedia”, Artillery Magazine, November 4, 2014, online
SFAQ, International Art and Culture magazine, SFAQ Pick: “THE WHITE ALBUM, Group Exhibition at Richard Telles”, online, http://sfaq.us/2014/07/sfaq-pick-the-white-album-group-exhibition-at-richard-telles-fine-art-los-angeles/
McKnight, Jenna, “Standard Architecture creates minimal Hollywood showroom for Helmut Lang”, dezeen.com, April 6, 2016, online, https://www.dezeen.com/2016/04/06/standard-architecture-minimal-fashion-showroom-helmut-lang-melrose-avenue-hollywood/

2013
Tumlir, Jan, “Mark Hagen: Paleo Diet”, Artforum, December, print
Mizota, Sharon, “Mark Hagen at China Art Objects”, Los Angeles Times, September 24, print/online, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-review-mark-hagen-at-china-art-objects-20130916-story.html
Knight, Christopher, “Review: ‘Painting in Place’ flings open conceptual abstraction doors”, Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2013, print/online
Herren, Michael, “LA Artists to Watch”, Los Angeles Confidential, October, print
Shaw, Michael, “Mark Hagen”, ArtScene, October , print
Klee, Miles, “2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner”, Brooklyn Rail, July 15, online
Steverlynck, Sam, “Mark Hagen: Black Swamp”, ArtReview, May, print/online, https://artreview.com/reviews/review_mark_hagen/
Launay, Aude, “Mark Hagen”, Zérodeux, Numéro 65, print
Mohseni, Yasmine, “A Handful of Dust”, ArtInfo.com, February 21, online
Heller, Nathan, “Hedi Slimane Thrills and Scandalizes as Director of Saint Laurent,” Vogue, Sept, print
Carmichael, Elisa, “25 Artists to Watch in 2013,” Complex, January 2, 2013, online
Moore, Caitlin, “Rocks & Clocks at Ambach & Rice”, Daily Serving, May 3, 2013, online

2012
Hagen, Mark, 2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner, Paper Chase Press
Paper Chase Press, “2013?: An interview with Mark Hagen and Jessica Fleischmann”, online
Griffin, Jonathan, “Made in L.A.”, Frieze, September, print
Stromberg, Matt, “From Los Angeles: Made in L.A. 2012”, Art Practical, July 10, online, http://www.artpractical.com/review/made_in_la_2012/
Ellegood, Anne, “Los Angeles Is Everywhere”, Made in L.A. 2012 catalog, Hammer Museum/Delmonica Prestel, print

2011
Berardini, Andrew, “Natural History: Mark Hagen”, LA Weekly, June 16, print/online https://www.laweekly.com/natural-history-anthony-lepore-and-mark-hagen/
Coles, Alex, “Mark Hagen”, Man About Town, Summer, print
Kowalinski, Michael, “Mark Hagen Dreams On”, interview, i-D Magazine, 2011, online
Kowalinski, Michael, “Art Talks Hedi Slimane”, AnOther Magazine, March 2011, print

2010
Young, Paul, “The New Garde: Five emerging artists: Annie Lapin, Carter Mull, Andrea Bowers, Mark Hagen, Mark Flores”, Angeleno Magazine, Dec 2010, print

2009
Huffman, Jibade-Khalil, After Stan Donen, Eighth Veil Press, print
Berardini, Andrew, “2008 California Biennial”, Frieze magazine, March, print, https://frieze.com/article/2008-california-biennial

2008
Mizota, Sharon, “Desertshore”, at Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles Times, September 12, print

2007
Berardini, Andrew, Critic Pick, November, online, https://www.artforum.com/picks/mark-hagen-18908

2006
Hagen, Mark, “A Few Questions Regarding Our Possible Post-Civilization Future”, Arthur Magazine, Winter 2006, print

2004
Hagen, Mark, “Your Pretty Face Isn’t Going to Hell”, Cakewalk, Issue 6, 2004, print

2003
Hagen, Mark, Poster Project, w/ Olga Koumoundouros, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Fall 2003, print

TEACHING

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
Volunteer Art Instructor, SPECIAL PROJECTS, Everlasting Elementary, Los Angeles, 2020 – 2024 
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

RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, SCULPTURE, California State Summer School for the Arts, Valencia, CA, 2002 
Graduate Teaching Assistant, INTRO TO ART HISTORY, Instr: Thomas Lawson, CalArts, 2000 – 2002 
Graduate Teaching Assistant, PAINTING SEMINAR, Instr: Thomas Lawson, CalArts, 2000 – 2002 
Teaching Assistant, INTRO TO DRAWING, Instr: Susana Terrell, UC Santa Cruz, 1996 – 2000 
Teaching Assistant, INTRO TO PHOTO, Instr: Suzanne Olmsted, UC Santa Cruz, Spring 2000
Teaching Assistant, IMPRESSIONISM TO POP, Instr: Donna Hunter, UC Santa Cruz, Winter 2000 
Teaching Assistant, MANET TO MINIMALISM, Instr: Donna Hunter, UC Santa Cruz, Fall 1999 
Teaching Assistant, INTRO TO DIGITAL ART, Instr: EG Crichton, UC Santa Cruz, Winter 1996

CURRENT AND PAST GALLERY AFFILIATIONS

Saenger Galería
Mexico City, Guadalajara

Almine Rech Gallery
Paris, Brussels, London, NYC

Marlborough
NYC, London

Anthony Meier
San Francisco

China Art Objects
Los Angeles, CA

Travesia Cuatro
Madrid, Guadalajara, Mexico City