Education
Master of Fine Arts, 1987
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1984
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design
Los Angeles, California
Awards / Grants
1992-1993
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
(LACE) Artists Project Grant
(not completed at the time of death)
1990-1991
Los Angeles Department of Cultural
Affairs Individual Artist Grant
Solo Exhibitions and Installations
1993
Mixed Blessings
Ruth Bloom Gallery
Santa Monica, California
1992
Personal Best “Out of the Blue”
Vignes Building
Los Angeles, California
Tales from a Boyhood “Counterweight”
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Santa Barbara, California
Pleasures of Melancholy
The Art Works
Riverside, California
Personal Best “Affliction and Transcendence”
South Bay Center for Arts, El Camino College
Torrance, California
1991
Tales from a Boyhood, “Expeditions: Paths to Identity”
California State University
Fullerton, California
Untitled (Memories) “Environmetal Legacies: Countdown to the Millennium”
Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, California
1990
War Stories: 1970-1990
Social and Public Art Resource (SPARC)
Venice, California
Salvation: Portraits and Remembrance
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Los Angeles, California
1989
Untitled (Observations)
Beyond Baroque Literary / Arts Center
Venice, California
War Stories: Installation
Installation Gallery
San Diego, California
1988
Untitled (Dream) Installation
New Langton Arts
San Francisco, California
Public Art
1991-1992
Little Stories, Big Concerns
AIDS-related public art / 60 locations citywide
Los Angeles, California
1991
Empower Life
Billboard for All Saints AIDS Center
Pasadena, California
1990
Lies Have Been Told, Window installation
“Windows on AIDS
Pasadena, California
Busz Words
Los Angeles Arts Festival
Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibitions
1993
“Theme: AIDS.”
Henie-Onstad Art Center
Hovikodden, Norway
“Theme: AIDS.”
Art Association of Bergan
Bergan, Norway
“Artists Writing Reading Room”
Side Street Projects
Santa Monica, California
“TranscEND” AIDS”
Watts Tower Art Project
Los Angeles, California
“Theme: AIDS.”
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum
Hagen, Germany
1992
“LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition ‘92”
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Los Angeles, California
“LA Xtension”
ART / LA, Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
“Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape”
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, California
“World News”
Muckenthaler Cultural Center
Fullerton, California
1991
“The Fabric of Life”
Riverside Art Museum
Riverside, California
Powers of Desire exhibition
ART / LA, Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
“World News”
Beyond Baroque Literary / Arts Center
Venice, California
“Busz Words”
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art
Buffalo, New York
1990
“Taking Liberties”
The Woman’s Building
Los Angeles, California
“Day of the Dead: Homelessness”
Alternative Museum
New York City
“Raging at the Visible”
Municipal Art Gallery
Los Angeles, California
“Plus”
The Art Works
Riverside, California
Venice Art Walk and Silent Auction
Venice Family Clinic
Venice, California
1989
“Loaded”
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery
Santa Monica, California
“AIDS: The Artists’ Response”
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts
University of Ohio, Columbus
“The Subject is AIDS”
Nexus Contemporary Center
Atlanta, Georgia
1988
“Small Works”
California Institue of the Arts
Valencia, California
1985
“The New Abstract”
Brand Art Gallery
Los Angeles, California
“Farewell Show”
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Los Angeles, California
Publications, Catalogs and Reviews
1995
“Personal Best: the work of Mark Niblock-Smith”
Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, California / 1995
1993
“Jump-Starting Masculinity: Queer Artists Expand an Arrested Development”
Jennie Klein-Davis
Afterimage / October 1993
“Artworld: Obituaries”
Walter Robinson
Art in America / May 1993
“Surprised by Joy”
M.A. Greenstein
Artweek / April, 22, 1993
“The Artifacts Ma’am, Just the Artifacts: Objects as Cultural (Dis)Locators in Southern California”
M.A. Greenstein
Visions Art Quarterly / Spring 1993
“Mark Niblock-Smith: Artist Examined AIDS” (Editorial obituary)
Shauna Snow
Los Angeles Times / February 24, 1993
1992
“Identity Crisis”
Joan Crowder
Santa Barbara News-Press / November 13, 1992
“Art Notes”
Shauna Snow
Los Angeles Times / September 20, 1992
“Against Ignorance”
M.A. Greenstein
Artweek / September 17, 1992
“World News” (catalog)
Muckenthaler Cultural Center
Fullerton, California
“Other Side’ of Gulf War Spotlighted”
Cathy Curtis
Los Angeles Times / May 4, 1992
1991
“Reliving the Painful Search for One’s Identity”
Cathy Curtis
Los Angeles Times / September 16, 1991
“Shuttle Service”
The Advocate / December 31, 1991
“Artist Aims to Humanize AIDS Epidemic”
Shauna Snow
Los Angeles Times / December 20, 1991
“Reaching Out to a Mass Transit Audience”
Jessica Crosby
Los Angeles Independent / December 11, 1991
“Into Sight, Into Mind: Place and Message in Los Angeles Installations”
John O’Brien
Visions / Fall 1991
“Pick of Week”
Peter Frank
LA Weekly / May 31, 1991
“The Future is Here”
Sheila Lynch
Artweek / May 9, 1991
“Artists’ Varied Visions of Our Legacy to Earth”
Shauna Snow
Los Angeles Times / April 22, 1991
“They Put the Art in Earth Day”
Meg Sullivan
Los Angeles Daily News / April 19, 1991
“Artists Contributing to the Solution”
Suvan Geer
Art Scene / May 1991
“Eroding Environment on Display”
Kathy Register
The Star News / May 10, 1991
1990
“Day of the Dead: Homelessness” (catalog)
Alternative Museum
New York City / November 1990
“Local Arts Group Will Memorialize AIDS Toll”
Shauna Snow
Los Angeles Times / November 30, 1990
“Remembering AIDS-Fallen Artists”
Kathey Register
Arts Beat - Pasadena Star News / November 25, 1990
“The Path Through Limb–Salvation at LACPS”
Nancy Ann Jones
Artweek / August 30, 1990
“Mark Niblock’s Salvation”
Jody Zellen
Art Scene / July –August 1990
“Celebrative Endurance”
Lance Carlson
Artweek / June 21, 1990
“Raging at the Visible” (catalog)
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Los Angeles, California
1989
“L.A. in Review”
Susan Kandal
ARTS Magazine / November 1989
“At the Galleries”
Cathy Curtis
Los Angeles Times / August 18, 1989
“Observations on the Homeless”
Lesa Sawahata
Exposure Magazine / July-August 1989
Annual Catalog
New Langton Arts
San Francisco, California 1989
“Colorful Images Turn Ominous”
Susan Frusdenheim
The Tribune
San Diego, California / February 10 1989
At the Galleries
Leah Ollman
Los Angeles Times / March 3, 1989
“Three Shows Use Art for Social Critique”
Robert Pincus
The San Diego Union / March 9, 1989
“AIDS: The Artists’ Response” (catalog)
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 1989
The Subject is AIDS (catalog)
Nexus Contemporary Art Center
Nexus Press
Atlanta, Georgia
A Hundred Legends (book - untitled short story)
Northern Light Alternatives Press
New York City 1989
Selected Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Reverend Carl Bean Hospice
Los Angeles, California
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
New York City
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission
Los Angeles, California
AIDS Service Center
Pasadena, California
Anne and Greg Avis
Palo Alto, California
Ruth and Jacob Bloom
Los Angeles, California
Elisa Greben Crystal
Pasadena, California
Renee Edgington and Matthew Francis
Los Angeles, California
Mick Haggerty and Terri Phillips
Fillmore, California
Eric and Peggy Lieber
Los Angeles, California
Jeffrey Liefer
Pasadena, California
Margaret Neilsen
Los Angeles, California
Tom Patchett
Sanat Monica, California
Connie and Roger Ransom
Riverside, California
Kerry Smith
Edwardsville, Illinois
Judith Teitelman and Aaron Paley
Los Angeles, California
Roger Workman
Los Angeles, California
