Mark Handforth (Hong Kong, 1969) lives and works in Miami.

Mark Handforth's works are in perpetual state of flux: sculptures and installations are constantly being constructed, dismantled, and reconfigured. Exhibitions provide Handforth a momentary stasis in this process, and even then one might sense that the work is incomplete. The unfinished appearance of his installation raises the expectation that the space eventually will be filled. Handforth appropriates thing and ideas directly from his surroundings. He looks at the world as a kind of readymade to draw from, reappropriating the sensibility and the implicit logic that resides in the way objects exist and function in everyday life.

His work has been shown in solo exhibition in international public and private institutions, including: Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar, EAU (2020); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy (2016); Governor’s Island, New York, USA (2014); Bard College (CCS Bard), New York, USA (2011); MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (2011); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (2009); Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA (2007); Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France (2005); Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (2005); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2003); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA (1996).

He has also taken part in many group exhibitions in Institutions such as: Kode Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway (2024); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (2023); MOCAD – Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA (2017); FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Poitou-Charentes, France (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2015); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France (2015); The Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium (2014); MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (2013); Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, USA (2012); Hessel Museum of Art, New York, USA (2010); Palazzo Grassi/Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2009); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (2007); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA (2006); ZKM - Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (2005); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2004) among others. 

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