Mark Anthony Brown Jr.

Mark Anthony Brown Jr. (b. 1991) is a journeyman. He currently lives and works between Cincinnati, Durham, Atlanta, and now, Ithaca. His practice is research-driven and interdisciplinary; rooted in a photographic sensibility, it spans sculpture, drawing, and printmaking and explores interests in vernacular aesthetic practices and sensibilities, critical engagements with the vernacular landscape, and the manifestation of Afrikan cultural retentions in the diaspora.

Brown has received a Bachelor of Science in Technology from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a fellow in museum practice at the Ackland Art Museum. His work has been exhibited at various institutions, including the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. Brown has received various fellowships and awards, including an Emerging Lens Fellowship from ArtWORKS Projects in Chicago, a Nexus Fund grant from Atlanta Contemporary, and residencies at Shandaken: Storm King and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.

In conjunction with his art practice, Brown is also an archivist and an educator, currently serving as an Instructor at Cornell University as a Strauch Early Career Fellow in Art.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Adaptive reuse
  • Digital media
  • Drawing
  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Photography
  • Print media
  • Public art
  • Sculpture
  • Urbanism
  • Visual representation

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Classes (Selected)

  • ART 4003/4004 B.F.A. Senior Thesis

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2025)
  • Shandaken: Storm King (2024)
  • Summer Artist-in-Residence, Artspace Raleigh (2024)
  • Majorie Bond Rare Book Fellow, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2024)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • Then and There, Here and Now: Contemporary Visions of North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art (2025)
  • low-bearing fruit in a field of dreams, SEEK Raleigh (2025)
  • Sing About Me, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina (2024)

Selected Work

  • Basketballs strung up in netting and hanging from tall trees.

    low bearing fruit in a field of dreams (2025), dimensions variable, installation view. image / provided

  • A parking lot with a large sign that says plantation square and a building in the background.

    Plantation Square, or The Mordecai Family Plantation (2023), archival pigment print, 5" x 7", Raleigh, North Carolina. image / provided

  • A wooden column covered in black and white photographs and protruding nails.

    evil spirit charm (2024), reclaimed wood, laser jet prints, staples, nails 12" x 48.5" x 12". image / provided

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