Mark Anthony Brown Jr.: i’ll tell you what

Strauch Early Career Fellow in Art Mark Anthony Brown Jr. (b. 1991) is a journeyman. An itinerant approach to living has influenced how he has chosen to navigate the current social landscape and, indelibly, his art practice. He currently lives and works between Cincinnati, Durham, Atlanta, and now, Ithaca, New York. His practice is research driven and interdisciplinary; with a photographic sensibility at its foundation, it spans sculpture, drawing, and printmaking with interests in vernacular aesthetic practices & sensibilities, critical engagements with the vernacular landscape, and the manifestation of Afrikan cultural retentions in the diaspora.

Brown has received a Bachelor of Science Technology from Bowling Green State University and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a fellow in both Museum Practice at The Ackland Art Museum and in Critical Ethnic Studies in the Center for the Study of the American South. He was a 2024 resident at Shandaken: Storm King and a 2025 resident at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. In conjunction with his art practice, Brown is also an archivist and an educator, currently serving as a Visiting Faculty at Cornell University as a Strauch Early Career Fellow in Art.

Photo by Jaylan Rhea (2024).