Education
1976
MFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1970
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2005
Grant, NYFA
2003
Artist-in-Residence, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2002
Grant, The George Sugarman Foundation, Inc.
1994
Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship (Works on Paper), Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1993
Arts Fellowship in Graphics (Drawing), New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Purchase Award, Esseff Foundation for the Arts
1989
Printmaking Fellowship, The New Jersey State Council, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ
Exhibition Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY
1988
Distinguished Artist, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Arts Fellowship in Experimental Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1985
Arts Fellowship in Mixed Media, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1974-6
Graduate Fellowship, The Danforth Foundation, St. Louis, MO
1973
Grant, The POINT Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1972-4
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, Institute for International Education, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Manhattan, KS; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Let Me Show You the World: The Sewn Drawings of China Marks.
2006, 4
New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery
2003
Houston, TX; University of Houston - Downtown
1998
Cranford, NJ; Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Who Killed the Queen? Part Four of the Parellel World (installation) (catalog)
1997
Kansas City, MO; Grand Arts, Drawings and Paintings (essay)
1994
Jersey City, NJ; Trans Hudson Gallery, Is There a Circus on Mars? Large Scale Drawings (catalog)
1991
New York, NY; Petrosino Park, Sacred Precinct, Part Three of the Parallel World (installation)
1990
Newark, NJ; Newark Museum, Angel Fool Prophet King (catalog)
New Brunswick, NJ; The Rabbet Gallery, Fifteen-year Retrospective (catalog)
New Brunswick, NJ; Johnson and Johnson Gallery, Recent Works on Paper
1989
Newark, NJ; Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University (catalog)
1987
Hoboken, NJ; Coup de Grâce Gallery
Morristown, NJ; The Morris Museum, A World Made Flesh, Part Two of the Parallel World (installation)(catalog)
1986
New York, NY; 22 Wooster Gallery, Two Two Raw Downstairs, Intimations of a Parallel World (installation)
New York, NY; Parker-Bratton Gallery, Towards a Theatre of the Mind
1984
Brooklyn, NY; BACA DOWNTOWN
Group Exhibitions
2007
Winston-Salem,NC, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University; Selections from Luise Ross Gallery
New York, NY, Luise Ross Gallery; Rare Birds
2006
Long Island City, NY, Dorsky Gallery; Threads of Memory
2005
Traun, Austria, Trierenberg Holding Corporate Headquarters; New Art. New York: Reflections on the Human Condition
New York, NY, Luise Ross Gallery; New Location
New York, NY; A Selection of Works from the Luise Ross Gallery: John Dilg, Tyyne Esko, Minnie Evans, China Marks, Henry Speller, Bill Traylor, Carlo Zinelli
2004
Queens, NY, Queens Museum of Art; 2004 Queens International
2003
Islip, NY, The Islip Art Museum; Noah's Ark
New York, NY, Luise Ross Gallery; Gallery Group
2002
New York, NY, George Adams Gallery; Me, Myself & I: Self-Portraits
Summit, NJ; New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Drawings, 2002 (catalog)
2001
New York, NY, George Adams Gallery; Artists Respond
2000
Kansas City, MO, Grand Arts; Fast: Five Years at Grand Arts (catalog)
Newark, NJ, City Without Walls Gallery; 25th Anniversary Exhibition (catalog)
Newark, NJ, City Without Walls Gallery; The Color Line in the 21st Century (catalog)
1999
Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Art Institute; Art Formerly Known as Prints: 1999
1998
Wayne, NJ, Ben Shahn Galleries at Wm. Patterson University, Biennial;Lines of Direction (catalog)
New York, NY, Luise Ross Gallery; Peep Show
1997
New York, NY, George Adams Gallery; A Show of Hands
1997, 96, 93, 92
Little Rock, AR; Arkansas Arts Center, Collectors Show
1996
New York, NY, George Adams Gallery; Out of 'Toon: Another Look at Art & the Comics
New York, NY, Luise Ross Gallery; Extensions: Large-Scale Drawings
Oceanville, NJ, The Noyes Museum; New Jersey State Council on the Arts 1994-6 Fellowship Exhibition (catalog)
New York, NY, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery; Black and White Sculptors' Drawings (catalog)
Tallahassee, FL, Art Museum, Florida State University; Body Language (catalog)
1995
Newark, NJ, City Without Walls Gallery; 20th Anniversary Exhibition (catalog)
Paramus, NJ, Bergen Museum of Art and Science; Curator as Artist/Artist as Curator (catalog)
1994
Jersey City, NJ, The Jersey City Museum; Passages in Sculpture: Six Sculptors
Little Rock, AR, The Arkansas Arts Center; 5th National Drawing Invitational
1993
Montclair, NJ; Montclair Art Museum, Three Hundred Years of Art of America
1992
New York, NY, Frumkin/Adams; Large Scale Drawings
New York, NY, Humphrey Gallery; Spirit of the Object (catalog)
Orlando, FL, Valencia Community College; The Forceful Gesture - Contemporary Drawings (catalog)
Public Collections
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Newark Public Library, NJ.
Recent Literature
Glueck, Grace. “Art in Review: China Marks”, The New York Times, 9 April 2004
Ostrower, Jessica. “China Marks at Luise Ross”, Art in America, February 2005, p. 132 (illus., color)
