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Mark Anthony Brown Jr.

  • Strauch Early Career Fellow
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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Academic Research Areas

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

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.

Headshot of Mark Anthony Brown Jr headshot (cropped)

Academic Research Areas

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

Classes

  • B.F.A. Senior Thesis

    ART 4003/4004

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • 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

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • 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.