• Allegory: the Illuminated Landscapes of Mark Messersmith

    Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio July 23–September 24, 2023

  • Awards

    Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award 2006

    Le Grand Prix, XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes -sur-Mer, France, July, 2001 (Purchase award).

    Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Individual Artist
    Fellowship Awards, 2008-1999-1993-1987.

    National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation, Regional Fellowship Awards for Emerging Visual Artists, 1994 and 1988.

    Ford Foundation Artist Fellowships, 1980 and 1979.

  • Selected Museum Collections

    Selected Museum Collections

    Museum Collections

    Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana
    Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, Texas
    Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida
    Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
    Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
    Butler Institute of American Art (solo exhibition summer 2023)
    The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
    Daytona Museum of Art and Science, Daytona Beach, Fl.
Mus’ee du Haut-de-Cagnes, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France,
    Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
    Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
    The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
    Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
    Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
    Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida
    Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Fl.
    LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University
    Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans, LA
    Orlando Museum of Art , Orlando, Fl
    Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art - Auburn University
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas , Beaumont, Texas
    Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri,
    Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
    US Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
    Art Museum of West Virginia University

  • Victim of Silence
    oil on canvas
    65x82 2011

    BUILT- Sculptural Art from the Permanent Collection
    February 27 – July 25, 2021
    Ogden Museum of Southern Art

  • Flora, Fauna, and High Color: The Fantastic Florida Landscapes of Mark Messersmith

    Flora, Fauna, and High Color: The Fantastic Florida Landscapes of Mark Messersmith

    Flora, Fauna, and High Color: The Fantastic Florida Landscapes of Mark Messersmith

    November 6, 2021 through January 30, 2022

  • LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts,
    Louisiana State University collection.

  • A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon & Contemporary Art

    A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon & Contemporary Art

    Asheville Art Museum, Curated by Associate Curator Cindy Buckner.
    February 21–May 4, 2020

    Includes prints by John James Audubon from the private collection of Bill & Peg Steiner, and recent works in diverse media by Bo Bartlett, Beth Cavener, Laurie Hogin, Adonna Khare, Anne Lemanski, Kate MacDowell, Mark Messersmith, Joel Sartore, and Tom Uttech.

    www.ashevilleart.org/exhibitions/audubon/

  • Mark Messersmith, When No One is Watching. 2018, Gadsden Art Center

    Mark Messersmith, When No One is Watching.  2018,  Gadsden Art Center

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/gadsdenarts/sets/72157674600313208/
    https://gadsdenarts.org/exhibitions/Messersmith2018

  • "Florida Then and Now: Documenting The Changing Landscape”

    Curated by Keri Watson, University of Central Florida, Art Gallery
    Feb. 27-March 3, 2017

  • “Flora and Fauna”,

    Tyler Museum of Art, 2016 through March 2017, Tyler, TX (group show)

  • “When Worlds Collide”

    a dialog between contemporary painting and the Ringling’s
    permanent collection. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, August 2015 (four person exhibition), catalog

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 21, Art and Architecture, The University of Mississippi, 2012
    Painting and Painters 1980-2012, Judith H. Bonner

  • Mark Messersmith, Southern Obsessions

    Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
    August 24 - September 21, 2013
    (Solo Exhibition)

  • Suitable Subjects, Contemporary Still Lifes

    The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas,
    May 21 – August 16, 2013

  • Where Have All the Birds Gone? Mark Messersmith: New Work.

    Zadok Gallery, Miami, Florida,
    March 9, 2013.
    (Solo Exhibition)

  • J. Johnson Gallery

    Mark Messersmith | Marc Petrovic | James Prosek.
    November 13-January 25, 2013
    Opening reception to benefit Audubon Florida, raising awareness (and several thousand dollars) for their mission to preserve Florida’s natural heritage and the birds dependent upon it. By improving air and water quality for feathered friends, Audubon improves the plight of other endangered wildlife while increasing quality of life for humans.
    For more information on Audubon Florida and their conservation efforts, which include protecting the unique bird life and natural resources of the state, visit fl.audubon.org., or http://www.duvalaudubon.org/.

  • Mark Messersmith: Fragile Nature

    Mark Messersmith: Fragile Nature

    The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Miami, Florida
    The Florida Artist Series October 17, 2012 – December 9th, 2012
    (Solo Exhibition)

  • FLORIDA AND FLOWING WATERS: THE ART OF MARK MESSERSMITH

    Appleton Museum of Art/College of Central Florida
    September 15 - November 4, 2012

  • Mark Messersmith: Maximalist and Naturalist

    Mark Messersmith: Maximalist and Naturalist

    Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana.
    April 2012 (Solo Exhibition)

  • Selected Exhibitions

    Flora, Fauna and High Color: The Fantastic Florida Landscapes of
    Mark Messersmith (November 6, 2021 – January 31, 2022)
    Museum of Arts and Sciences ,Daytona Beach, Fl. (Solo exhibition)

    "The Lost Garden of Hesperides”, Venvi Art Gallery, Tallahassee, Fl.
    September, 2021 (Solo exhibition)

    “BUILT Sculptural Art from the Permanent Collection”. Ogden Museum of
    Southern Art, New Orleans, LA February 27 – July 25, 2021

    Mark Messersmith: The Weight of Everything, Valley House Gallery,
    Dallas Texas, January 23 - February 27, 2021, (Solo exhibition)

    “New American Scene:” Recent Acquisitions to the Figge Museum
    Collection, October 10, 2020 - February 7, 2021

    U.S. Embassy, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 2020, one large painting
    and one sculpture.

    “Ogallala Aquifer”, The Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas,
    October 2020. (Solo exhibition)

    “Constructed Narratives in Nature: Audubon and Contemporary Art”,
    Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, February,-November 2020

    “When Worlds Collide”, a dialog between contemporary painting and the
    Ringling’s permanent collection. John and Mable Ringling Museum
    of Art, August 2015 (five person exhibition), catalog

    “Where have all the Birds Gone ?” Zadok Gallery. Miami, Florida,
    March 9, 2013
 (Solo exhibition)

    “Messersmith: Fragile Nature,” The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art
    Museum. Miami, Florida, The Florida Artist Series October 17,
    2012 – December 9th, 2012 (Solo exhibition)

    "Mark Messersmith, Maximalist and Naturalist”, Ogden Museum of
    Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2012
    (Solo exhibition)

    Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas,
    April 16 through July 10, 2011, (Solo exhibition)

    Mark Messersmith, "Blighted Eden", Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
    Miami, Florida, May 2011 (Solo exhibition)

    Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
    October 3, 2010 through January 30, 2011 (Solo exhibition)

    "Paradise Lost / Paradise Found", The Morean Arts Center,
    St. Petersburg, Florida, January 14 – March 13, 2011
    (Group exhibition)

    "Fresh & Salty", Curated by Valley House Gallery & Sculpture
    Garden, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth,
    Texas, January 7 - 29, 2011 (Group exhibition)

    Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas
    New Works: Highlights from the Permanent Collection*
    December 22, 2009 through May 23, 2010

    "Eminent Domain", McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
    October 17, 2009. (Solo exhibition)

    Maximalist Painting, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy, May 9, 2008
    (Group exhibition)

    Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, March 1 -May 17, 2008,
    (Solo exhibition)

    J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
    January 18-Feburary 29, 2008 (Solo exhibition)

    "Mark Messersmith: Southern Mythology", Valley House Gallery,
    Dallas, Texas, February 15 - March 15, 2008
    (Solo exhibition)

    "A Southern Landscape", Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison College,
    Fort Meyers, Florida. November 2007, (Solo exhibition)

    3 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
    Program Award Winners:
    Lilian Garcia Roig, Sedrick Huckaby and Mark Messersmith,
    Valley House Gallery, at Wynwood Lofts, Miami, Florida.
    December 4, 2007

    "More is More - Maximalist Painting", FSU Museum of Fine Art, Feb.16
    March 25, 2007 (Group exhibition)

    The Art Show, Art Dealers Association of America, Valley House
    Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Park Avenue
    Armory, New York, New York, February 22, 2007,

    "30th Parallel: A Convergence of Contemporary Painting", Jacksonville
    Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville Florida, September
    2005-January 2006

    "Nature of the Beast", University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Gallery,
    January-February 2004, (Solo exhibition)

    Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C. 5 paintings for Ibsen’s play,
    “Ghosts”, directed by Edwin Sherin, staring Jane Alexander.
    June 3 thru July 27, 2003

    Cagnes-sur-Mer, XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture*,
    Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, June 30-September 30, 2001,
    organized by the Boca Raton Museum of Art,
    Boca Raton, Florida,

    "The Apocalyptic Landscape: Paintings by Mark Messersmith",
    Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, June, 2001,
    (Solo exhibition).

  • Mark Messersmith, Encounters Exhibition

    Mark Messersmith, Encounters Exhibition

    Huntsville Museum of Art
    October 3, 2010 through January 30, 2011. (Solo Exhibition) Catalogue


  • Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas
    purchase the painting, Those Who Believe, 2008 as, The Collectors' Circle purchase for 2009.