Mark Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in three-dimensional media and
photography. He was a founding member of Bricolage, an experimental theater collective based in Philadelphia and New York. For over twenty-five years Mark’s works have referenced urban and landscape theory, with contents and forms derived from the built environment and the interface of constructed and natural systems.

 

Exhibitions include: Suburban Escape - The Art of California Sprawl: San Jose Museum of Art, Beijing Biennial: The National Museum of Art, China, Situated Realities: Maryland Institute College of Art and the Art Center in Pasadena CA, Treasure Island: Locks Gallery in
Philadelphia and Biennial 2000: The Delaware Art Museum. Additional exhibition and
performance venues include; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Institute of Contemporary
Art in Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop And Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn NY, The Oscar Friedl Gallery in Chicago Ill,
Tyler School of Art, and The Rosenwald/Wolf Gallery at The University Of The Arts,
 

Grants include: two Pennsylvania Council On The Arts Fellowships, a National Endowment For
the Arts Project Grant and two Pew Fellowship Discipline Awards.

Recent lectures and presentations include: Dewey and Neo-Confucianism - A Comparative Study, and Art and Social Value, both at Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin China; Naïve Direct Realism and the Case for Visual Studies, presented at Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Ill; Art As Social Practice, delivered at the 2017 Beijing International Art Biennial, Beijing, China; and panelist, Making And Materiality, a visual studies symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Mark Campbell is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts (UArts).
Academic appointments at UArts include: Dean, College of Art, Media and Design; Director,
School of Art; Co-chair Foundation program.