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EDUCATION
2002 Rochester Institute of Technology, M.F.A. Fine Arts Studio (Painting/Digital Art)
1995 University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Studio Arts
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
EXHIBITIONS /SCREENINGS /PERFORMANCES
Solo Shows:
2026 Hotel, Last Thursday, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
2025 Wednesday, Hotel, peepspace, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2021 Hotel Mirror, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017 Reflex, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 9 Ace Gallery, Atlanta, GA - forthcoming
2010 Interstices, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Perch, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 Bloom, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Mark Leibert, Transgenic, Eleven50 Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1996 Mark Leibert, Paintings, Colourbox, Seattle, WA.
Group Shows:
2026
The Exquisite Corpse III, The Art Section, Atlanta GA
2025
B & W with Considerations of Grey, The Art Section
2024
Contemporary Portraiture, Gallery Walk, Atlanta, GA
2023
Extension of Nature, Arts & Entertainment Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2021
The Elusive Divide, Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab, Atlanta, GA
2020
The Elusive Divide, Hambidge Cross Pollination Lab, Atlanta, GA
2019
Turn Again to the Earth, Art Farm Serenbe, Palmetto, GA
2018
supermoon, SOUP Experimental, Tallahassee, FL
2017
The Reroute, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
2016
The Voice Never Sleeps, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
More Light, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2015
Sprawl: Drawing Outside the Lines, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Brambles, Roads, & Fields, Poem 88, Atlanta, GA
Summer Salon, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Heat Wave, Xchange Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014
Exquisite Exhibit, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA
Art & Design Faculty Triennial, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Photography+, Xchange Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Mailbox, The Weave Shed Gallery, The Hambidge Center, Dillard, GA
Second Nature, Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2013
Little Things Mean a Lot, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
2012
Tiny Universe, Gallery 307, Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, Athens, GA
2011 Dog Days, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA
2010
A Natural Eye: Photography in the Garden, Atlanta, GA
Give Me A Minute, The Shirey, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Le Flash, Atlanta, GA
Harvest, Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA
2008
Perch, Sandler Hudson, Atlanta, GA
Blooming, Terminus Gallery Walk, Atlanta, GA
Le Flash, Atlanta, GA
Hambidge Art Auction, Atlanta, GA
2007
Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
Open Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
4 Artists from the Contemporary, Art Walk at Lenox Mall, Atlanta, GA
Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta GA
2006
Silent Auction and Summer Open Studios, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Art Papers Art Auction
2005
New American Paintings, Number 58
Pinhole Views, Iris Restaurant, Atlanta, GA
Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta, GA
Les Dames d'Escoffier, Silent Auction, Atlanta, GA
2004
Paint in the Pods, Westin Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
From Frankenstein, ACS New Music Festival, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX.
From Frankenstein, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA.
Carry on Drawing, CAA and traveling exhibition, Seattle, WA.
2003
Community Values, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA.
Pin Up Show, MocaGA,,Atlanta, GA.
RED, Mitten Gallery,Harrisonburg, VA.
2002
Faculty Exhibition, Sawhill Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA.
Funkhouse Biennial, Mitten Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA.
2001
300 Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Online AIDS Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA.
2000
Imaging the Garden, M.F.A. Thesis Show, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
Imaging the Garden, ImageMovementSound Festival, SUNY Brockport, N.Y.
Xerox juried exhibition, Rochester, N.Y.
Juried exhibition, Gallery r, Rochester, N.Y.
1999
Fingerlakes Biennial, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
Big Paintings, High Falls Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
Faculty Show, Lucy Burne Gallery, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
Juried exhibition, Gallery r, Rochester, N.Y.
Xerox juried exhibition, Rochester, N.Y.
1998
Passed Over, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, N.Y.
Faculty Show, Lucy Burne Gallery, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
1997
Faculty Show, Lucy Burne Gallery, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
1993
Seductress, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
NEH - Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence. Lead PI (submitted December 2024)
Diversity & Inclusion Fellows (Georgia Tech), 2022
Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta, Atlanta Regional Commission, 2018
Studio Artist, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center 2006 - 2011
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts 2003
Teaching Fellowship, Rochester Institute of Technology 1999-2000
Creative Arts Grant, Rochester Institute of Technology 2000
Creative Projects, Tiger Fund, Rochester Institute of Technology 2000
School of Art Scholarship, Rochester Institute of Technology 1999-2000
Hendrick Dance Project Scholarship, Rochester, N.Y. 1997
Garth Fagan Dance Scholarship, Rochester, N.Y. 1993
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artists embrace, reject benefits of AI, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Felicia Feaster, October 3, 2023
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/artists-embrace-reject-benefits-of-ai/IPVPONGOQJCU7PJN4B3Z55FONY/
City Lights with Lois Reitzes, interview, WABE Radio, Atlanta, GA, August 22, 2023
https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/city-lights/art-and-ai-malcolm-jamal-warner-comedian-khaled-elchoufi/
“Extension of Nature” brings moving art to downtown Atlanta’s digital billboards, Cinque Hicks, ArtsATL, July 17 2023
https://www.artsatl.org/extension-of-nature-brings-moving-art-to-downtown-atlantas-digital-billboards/
Review: The portrait in its many iterations is Atlanta artist’s focus, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Felicia Feaster, July 20, 2021.
https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/the-portrait-in-its-many-iterations-is-atlanta-artists-focus/2PUPAJHLIZDCZBCBX5ASDX5O7Q/
Review: Leibert’s “Reflex” evokes Murakami’s slightly askew world, ArtsATL.com, Jerry Cullum, June 29, 2017. http://artsatl.com/review-leiberts-reflex-evokes-murakamis-slightly-askew-world/
Review: A face-off between portraiture and abstract work in solo show, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Felicia Feaster, June 12, 2017. http://www.myajc.com/entertainment/arts--theater/review-face-off-between-portraiture-and-abstract-work-solo-show/bdB5ct5SDoLS9TWNOa5fAJ/
New Paths Forward: Day & Night Projects at Tempus Projects, Caitlin Albritton, Creative Loafing Tampa, May 9, 2017. http://www.cltampa.com/arts-entertainment/visual-art/article/20860380/new-paths-forward-day-night-projects-at-tempus-projects
The Voice Never Sleeps, Floromancy, Jan 8, 2017. http://www.floromancy.org/submit/2017/1/4/the-voice-never-sleeps
Rejecting the Now, “More Light: Media Art from Atlanta” at Eyedrum, ArtsATL, Dan Weiskopf, April 11, 2016. http://artsatl.com/review-rejecting-now-more-light-media-art-atlanta-eyedrum/
“Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines” welcomes ATL artists into High’s permanent collection, ArtsATL, Catherine Fox, August 6, 2015. http://www.artsatl.com/review-sprawl/
Museum Quality, Welch School Well Represented at High Exhibition, Georgia State University Magazine - August 2015.http://magazine.gsu.edu/2015/08/museum-quality/
Lively “exquisite corpses” in paint, video and sculpture from the Contemporary’s studio artists, Jerry Cullum, ARTSATL.com - http://www.artsatl.com/2014/09/review-exquisite-exhibit-atlanta-contemporary-art/, September 29, 2014
“Exquisite Exhibit”: An Exercise in Collaboration at ACAC, Sherri Caudell, BURNAWAY Magazine, http://burnaway.org/exquisite-exhibit-exercise-collaboration-acac/, October 9, 2014
Curate State, Atlantan Magazine, Arts & Power Issue, 2012
Talk Sweet Nostalgia, Local Ephemera, Jonathan Bouknight, http://localephemera.blogspot.com/2011/01/talk-sweet-nostalgia.html, January 7, 2011
Mark Leibert, DearAda.org, November 25, 2008
Le Flash ‘08 / Castleberry—Highlights, Jeremy Abernathy, BURNAWAY Magazine
October 31, 2008 Visual art: Perch. See & Do, Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing, March 31, 2008
Artist’s Sculpture Finds its ‘Perch’ Atop Gallery, Kirsten Tagami, Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 16, 2008
The Buds Above, Jerry Cullum, VizArts, AJC Access Atlanta, June 22, 2006
Building Community, Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing, May 18, 2006
Picturing Plant Life, Felicia Feaster, Next Wave, Creative Loafing, July 21, 2005
From Frankenstein, Short List: Creative Loafing, March 25, 2004
PUBLISHED WORK
2014 “UnmonumentATL: Grant Park,” BURNAWAY Magazine - http://burnaway.org/mark-leibert/
2004, Animality, ed. Ron Brolio, http://lmc.gatech.edu/~broglio/animality/animality2004.pdf