• Education
  • MFA University of California at Santa Barbara
  • BA Yale University, New Haven, CT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2011 Smink, Dallas, TX
  • 2010  Smink, Dallas, TX
  • 2009  Smink, Dallas, TX
  • 2008  C Gallery, Los Alamos, CA
  • 2004  EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2003  University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
  • 2001  EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • 1996  Center Gallery, Los Olivos, CA
  • 1995  Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • ………..Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe , NM
  • 1991  Allen Hancock College Gallery, Santa Maria, CA
  • 1989  Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA
  • 1981  Alice Benjamin Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2011   Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM: 18 Days
  • …………Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM: NM Women Artists
  • 2010   Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
  • …………Zane Bennett Contemporary Art: New Mexico Women, Santa Fe, NM
  • …………SITE Santa Fe: Site Unseen, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2009  Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • …………C Gallery, Los Alamos, CA
  • 2008  Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
  • …………SITE Santa Fe: Site Unseen, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2007  Palm Springs Art Museum: 38th  Annual National, Palm Springs, CA
  • 2006  Center For Contemporary Art: Collect: Inside 8, Santa FE , NM
  • 2004  Schneider Museum of Art: Mark Making, Ashland, OR
  • …………CCA: Insight Out, Santa FE, NM
  • ………..Museum of Contemporary Art: Rocky Mountain Biennial, Fort Collins, CO
  • ………..LewAllen Contemporary: FOCA Artists Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2003  New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM
  • …………EVO Gallery: Elements of Perception, Santa Fe, NM
  • …………Albuquerque Museum: Originals 2003, Albuquerque, NM
  • 2002  EVO Gallery: Invitational, Santa Fe, NM
  • …………Plan B: Collect, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2001  Harwood Museum: Originals; New Mexico Women Artists, Taos, NM
  • …………Channing Peake Gallery: Degrees of Abstraction, Santa Barbara, CA
  • 2000  Governor’s Gallery: Fair and Square, Santa Fe, NM
  • …………Jaquelin Loyd Contemporary, Taos, NM
  • …………LewAllen Contemporary: Women Artists from the Land of
  • …………Enchantment, Santa Fe, NM
  • 1998  Los Angeles Municipal Gallery: Elements, Los Angeles, CA
  • …………Coleman Gallery: Summer Show, Albuquerque, NM
  • 1997  LA Artcore Brewery Annex: Wallworks, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1996  Korean Cultural Center: Across the Miles, Los Angeles, CA
  • ………..Los Angeles Printmaking Society:  Women Artists – Works on Paper, ………..Los Angeles, CA
  • 1995  Museum Art Center: Paper/Scissors/Stone; Nine Women Working, ………..Santa Maria, CA
  • 1991  College of Creative Studies, UCSB: Points of View, Santa Barbara, CA
  • 1990  Security Pacific Gallery: The Mark, Costa Mesa, CA
  • ………..Artspace Gallery of the City of Los Angeles: Elements, Los Angeles, CA
  • ………..The Women’s Building: Santa Barbara Artists, Los Angeles, CA

Grants and Awards

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA: 38th Annual National Juried Exhibition, 2nd place award

1986, ’87,’88  California Arts Council Artist-In-Residence (3 grants), co-sponsored by Arts Outreach, Los Olivos, Ca

1977  Missouri Arts Council Visiting Artist grant, Rockwood, MO

Collections

Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, Santa Barbara, CA

Westco Savings, Culver City, CA

Pacific Institute for Bioethics, Solvang, CA

UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Unity of All Life Church, Santa Barbara, CA

La Familia Medical Center, Santa Fe ,NM

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM

Recent Bibliography

“25 Artists to Watch: Dara Mark,” American Artists Watercolor, issue 68, Fall 2011.  illustration

Fairchild, Douglas, “A Visual Arts Exhibition,” Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, 3/18/11.  illustration

“New American Paintings;”  2005 Western Competition, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA.   illustrations

Laget, Mokha, “Dara Mark: New Work,” THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM.  10/04.  illustration

Cook-Romero, Elizabeth, “Like Water for Paint,” Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, 9/17/04.   illustration

Fisher, Zane, “SFR PIck,” Santa Fe Reporter, 9/15/04.

“Insight Out: Reversing Vandalism,” catalogue, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2004.  illustration

Tobin, Richard, “Insight Out; Reversing Vandalism,” THE Magazine, 7/04

Carlisle, Susanna, “Mary Bennett, Madalin Coit, Dara Mark; Elements of Perception,” THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM 7/03.  illustration

Collins, Tom, “Cool, Clean, and Slick: Elements of Perception Presents Work of Three Women,” The Albuquerque Journal Venue North, Santa Fe, NM 5/30/03.  illustrations

Carver, Jon, “Dara Mark: Intimate Fields,” THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, 6/01.  illustration