Mark Dion

Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present four new editions by renowned New York-based artist Mark Dion. Completed during his Winter 2025 Publishing Residency, Whippet Timeline and Mosquito – An Authoritarian Checklist encompass the scientific references and wit for which the artist is so revered. Known for his explorations of the natural world, human history, and the interplay between science and culture, Dion investigates the recording of time and invites the viewer to engage with the complex relationships between humanity, culture, nature, documentation, and the scientific process.

Whippet Timeline and Mosquito – An Authoritarian Checklist are one-color screenprints measuring 16 x 25 in. (40.64 x 63.4 cm) and 15 3⁄4 x 24 in. (40 x 60.9 cm), printed each in an edition of 30 on Fabriano Tiziano blue and in an edition of 10 on Coventry Rag 320 gsm in white. These new editions were printed in collaboration with special guest Master Printer Nathan Catlin and published by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.

Mark Dion (b. 1961, New Bedford, MA) received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford, School of Art, Connecticut. From 1983 to 1984 he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and then the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program (1984-1985). He is an Honorary Fellow of Falmouth University in the UK (2014), and has an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (Ph.D.) from The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia (2015).

Dion has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001) The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2007) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucida Art Award (2008). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); Tate Gallery, London (1999), and the British Museum of Natural History in London (2007). “Neukom Vivarium” (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion produced a major permanent commission, ‘OCEANOMANIA: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas’ for the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco. In 2016 Dion and his curatorial collaborator Sarina Basta produced the large-scale exhibition, ExtraNaturel: Voyage initiatique dans la collection des Beaux-Arts de Paris, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld is currently on view at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. February 14 – July 19, 2025