Mark Steven Greenfield


Born: 1951 Los Angeles, California

Education: 1987 M.F.A. (Painting and Drawing) CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT LOS ANGELES
1973 B.A. Art (Education) CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT LONG BEACH

Solo
Exhibitions:
2022 “Halo”, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Mark Steven Greenfield–A Survey 2001-2021”, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA
2020 “Black Madonna”, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 “Love and Loathing”, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Spirits, Ghosts and Other Distractions”, California State University,
Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2017 “Mantras and Musings”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 “The Egun Squad”, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2014 “Lookin’ Back in Front of Me”, Mark Steven Greenfield 1974-2014, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Doo Dahz”, Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
“Blackatcha … Once Again”, ISI Arti Associate, Naples, Italy
2009 “Othello’s Ghost”, Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2008 “Mammygraphs”, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
“Incognegro”, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
2007 “Incognegro”, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2004 “Post Minstral”, Steven Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2000 “Blackatcha”, Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Iconography”, Mount Saint Jancinto College, San Jancinto, CA
1998 “Spirit House”, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
1997 “Iconography”, The Banner Series, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles, CA
1987 “Crenshaw Consciousness”, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1986 “Crenshaw Consciousness”, William Grant Still Art Center, Los Angeles, CA


Selected
Group
Exhibitions:
2022 “ Migrant Madonna”, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Otherwise / Revival”, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Art & Hope at the End of the Tunnel”, Fisher Museum, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Graphic Subversion, Cal State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA
2019 “Personal Truth”, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
Celebrating a Cultural Heritage: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Lansing
Community College, Lansing, MI
2018 “Four Million Angeles”, Annenberg Beach House Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Visions of Elysium”, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, CA
“Conjurations, Varieties of the Abstract Experience”, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
“Legacies”, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “In Pursuit of Beauty”, 3331 Arts Gallery and Imagine Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Made in Cotton”, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
“Dimensions in Black”, Manetti-Shrem Museum, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
“One Year, Art of Politics Los Angeles”, Brand Library Gallery, Burbank, CA
2016 “Made in Cotton”, LA Art Core, Los Angeles, CA
“Recharging the Image: Selections from the Warsh-Mott Collection”, Visual Arts Center,
Summit, New Jersey
“Farewell Eden”, Stuart-Haaga Gallery, La Canada, CA
“Abstraction” , Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Los Angeles Art Now”, The Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
“Los Angeles Art Now”, I Box Gallery, Chengdu, China
2014 “Visual Exchanges”, Korean American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
“The Armory Show”, (Ricco Maresca Gallery) New York, New York
2013 “Chicago Art Expo”, (Ricco Maresca Gallery) Chicago, Illinois
“One Shot”, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Sea of Exchange, Ireland – Los Angeles”, LA Print Space, West Hollywood, CA

2011 “COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Places of Validation: Art and Progression”, California African American Museum,
Los Angeles, CA
“Inscription”, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk CA
“Social/Political Content”, Jose Drudis Biada Gallery, Mt. Saint Mary’s University,
Brentwood, CA
“Latitude 30-40”, Art 1307, Naples, Italy
2009 “4th Thai-USA Exchange Art Exhibition”, Chiangmai Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand
“4th Thai-USE Exchange Art Exhibition”, Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand
“Small Works”, Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 “Distinctly Los Angeles: An African American Perspective”, M. Hanks Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
“West/Southwest”, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, CA
2006 “Blacks In and Out of the Box”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Impressions”, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2005 “Alterations”, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2004 “Marks, Scratches and Doodles”, Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center,
Palos Verdes, CA
“Confessions”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
“Surface Tension”, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Whiteness: A Wayward Construction”, University of Virginia, Museum, Charlottesville, VA
“Fade”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Broad Territories”, University of California Riverside, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
“Identification”, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Only Skin Deep”, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2003 “Whiteness: A Wayward Construction”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
“Redux”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 “Color, Culture and Complexity”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
“Sketches and Gestures”, Mullin Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
“In Pursuit of Peace”, 18th Street Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“History and Mystery”, Steve Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
“Storefront Live”, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001 “Blackface/Whiteface”, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
“Represent”, Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA
“Banned & Barred”, BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
“Bridging Time”, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Politically Incorrect”, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
“Skin/Veneer”, Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA
“Capital Art”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 “Charm Offensive”, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Looking Forward, Looking Black”, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
“Dae Jon/LA Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Woo Yeon Gallery, Dae Jon, South Korea
1996 “Affirming a Visual Heritage”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA


Awards:
2021 Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville, TN
2016 McColl Center for Art + Innovation Residency, Charlotte, NC
2013 Instituto Sacatar Fellowship and Residency, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2012 California Community Foundation Fellowship
2011 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Los Angeles Artist Fellowship Laboratory Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Center for Cultural Innovation, ARC grant, Los Angeles, CA
2006 6th International Art Festival Workshop Award, Chiang Rai,Thailand
1998 LA Artcore Crystal Award, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Project Row Houses Residency, Houston, TX
1986-87 House of Seagrams Graduate Fellowship
1969 Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company Scholarship






Selected
Collections:
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Permanent Collection
Menelik-Woolcock Collection, Charlotte, NC
Cerritos College Public Art Collection, Cerritos, CA
Monte Cedros Collection, Pasadena, CA
Robert and Karen Duncan Collection, Omaha, NE
Bert Voorhees and Catherine Arias Collection, Malibu, CA
Olga Garay and Kerry English Collection, Highland Park, CA
Charmaine Jefferson and Garrett Johnson Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. William Weathers Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Cynthia Simonelli and Renato Pena Collection, Naples, Italy
CCH Pounder Collection, New Orleans, LA
University of California Santa Barbara Special Collections, Santa Barbara, CA
Jack and Mary Lou Rutberg Collections, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Stephen Kanter Collection, Pasadena CA
California African American Museum Collections, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence Fishburne Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Nia Long Collection, Beverly Hills, CA
Joan Arestad and David Oswalt Collection, Pasadena, CA
Lyndon and Janine Barrois Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Zimmer Children’s’ Museum Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Mitch Loch and Taylor Van Horne Collections, Paris, France
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Baltimore Museum of Art Collected, Baltimore, MD
City of Los Angeles Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Mott-Warsh Collection, Flynt, MI
Steve Tisch Collection, New York, NY
Tufts University Collection, Medford, MA
Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Collection, Los Angeles, CA
John and Angela Witherspoon Collection, North Hollywood, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Print Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. V. Joy Simmons Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Lamonte and Martina Westmorland Collection, Pasadena, CA
Richard Pryor Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Cecil Ferguson Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Steve Turner and Victoria Dailey Collections, Beverly Hills, CA