Allegory: the Illuminated Landscapes of Mark Messersmith

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

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.

Museum Collections

Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana
Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, Texas
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Daytona Museum of Art and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida

El Paso
 Musuem of Art, El Paso Texas
Mus’ee du Haut-de-Cagnes, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France,
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, Connecticut
Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida
LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana State University
The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, Florida 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
The Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, Texas
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Orlando Museum of Art ,Orlando, Florida
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
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 (loan)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Art Museum of West Virginia University
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama

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

November 6, 2021 through January 30, 2022

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/.

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

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

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

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).

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.