*Selected Past Exhibitions*
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, Park Avenue Armory,
New York, New York, February 22, 2007,
Kingdom Animalia, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December 1st.- 23rd
2006 (Group Exhibition)
Emblematic, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina,
August 29th-September 29th, 2006 (Group Exhibition)
Taking the Dog for a Walk, Leo Kamen Gallery Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
May 26- September 2, 2006 (Group Exhibition)
Under the Fort, The Rhys Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
(Group Exhibition), curated, by Evelyn Rudz, June-July 2006
New Paintings, 2000-2005, Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida,
December 10 2005 -February 5, 2006 (Solo Exhibition), Catalogue
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 Ibsens play, Ghosts,
directed by Edwin Sherin, staring Jane Alexander. June 3 thru July 27, 2003
Wild Life: The Other Tradition, January 12-April 16, 2002, Polk Museum of Art,
Lakeland, Florida.
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, Color Catalogue
The Apocalyptic Landscape: Paintings by Mark Messersmith, Center for the
Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, June, 2001, (Solo Exhibition).