Mark Kasumovic is a Hamilton, Ontario born artist currently sharing his time between Canada and the UK. His work revolves around the inherent truth-value of the photograph and the many limitations within the medium. His most recent work investigates the relationships between technology and knowledge production within the context of scientific research. This includes working with climate scientists to imagine creative ways of disseminating climate knowledge, but also the development of a large interdisciplinary programme of research. Other projects include: Picture/Perfect, which uses the tourist as a backdrop to explore the explosion of digital images as data in the information age, An American Landscape, which explores the multiplicity of meaning possible through the process of picture making with a camera, and Ideal Landscapes, which challenges the value of traditional landscape photography by turning the natural landscape into an artificially lit stage. In 2008, Mark was selected as the Ontario winner of the BMO Art First National Competition along with being credited best in show of his graduating class exhibition at Ryerson University, and receiving the Snap! Stars art award sponsored by TD Canada Trust. The following two years, Mark was featured in Magenta Foundation's annual publication, Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers. Since then, Mark has received grants and honours from the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Culture Nova Scotia, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. As an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, Mark was awarded Junior Visiting Research Fellowship a the University of New South Wales School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science). His recent exhibitions and projects include working with the GardenShip and State Collective (Curated by Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas) to explore notions of climate and colonialism; photographing the Ontario Greenbelt for Canada's largest outdoor exhibition space at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto; and publishing new ideas regarding the role of documentary photography in a contemporary context. |
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Ph.D | 2013-2018 | Fine Arts and Visual Communication - Western University |
MFA | 2010-2012 | Fine and Media Arts - NSCAD University |
2009-2010 | Documentary Media MFA - Ryerson University | |
BFA | 2005-2009 | Image Arts (Photography) - Ryerson University |
Certificate | 2004-2005 | Media Studies - Humber College |
Mentorship | 2009-2010 | Phil Bergerson, Artist |
2022 | A Human Laboratory - Leicester Gallery, Leicester |
2019 | A Human Laboratory - Bad Spirits Gallery, Gateshead |
2018 | A Human Laboratory - McIntosh Gallery, London |
Instrumental II - DHP (Double Happiness Projects), Toronto | |
2017-18 | PICTURE/PERFECT - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth |
2016 | Instrumental - ArtLab, London |
Instrumental - Art Gallery of Mississauga | |
2013 | PICTURE/PERFECT, Telephone Booth Gallery, Toronto |
2012 | PICTURE/PERFECT, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax |
Peggy's Cove Reconstructed, Nocturne Halifax (Outdoor Installation) | |
2011 | In Plain View, Telephone Booth Gallery, Toronto |
2010 | I Can Hear You Humming, Department of Canadian Heritage, Toronto |
I Can Hear You Humming - Toronto Imageworks, Toronto | |
HUMAN / NATURE, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto (w. Amanda Arcuri) | |
2007 | Lens Factory, Toronto, Contact Festival 2007 |
2024 | Gardenship and State, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham |
2021 | Gardenship and State, Museum London, Ontario |
2015 | Terroir, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia |
Norte-South, Gallery 44, Toronto | |
Norte-South, Museo de Arte Contemporaneao de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina | |
Periphery/Core, Satellite Art Space, London | |
2014 | Suburbed, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto |
2013 | Peggy's Cove Syndrome, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax |
2012 | New Toronto Works (screening), Pleasure Dome, Toronto |
1812: A Contemporary Perspective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto | |
Searching For Jesus, Raw Foo (video Screening), Gladstone Hotel, Toronto | |
Recent Aquisitions, Art Gallery of Peel, Peel | |
2011 | Snap! Fundraiser, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto |
Preface, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax | |
2010 | NEW, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax |
Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario's Greenbelt, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto | |
Flash Forward 2009, Griffith Museum of Photography, Boston | |
Timeraiser: Toronto, The Fermenting Cellar (Distillery District), Toronto | |
2009 | Flash Forward 2009, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto |
Flash Forward 2009, FotoWeek Central 4, Washington | |
BMO 1st Art! Invitational, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto | |
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto | |
Hang with the Best, Toronto Imageworks, Toronto | |
MaxEx, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto | |
Snap! '09, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto | |
Public Commisions
2013 | Peggy's Cove: Reconstructed, Harbourfront Centre (outdoor installation), Canada Square, Toronto |
Ideal Landscape, Harbourfront Centre (outdoor installation), Ontario Square, Toronto | |
Public Workshop Architecture, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto | |
2012 | 1812: A Contemporary Perspective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto |
Peggy’s Cove: Reconstructed (Installation), Battery Wharf, Halifax | |
2010 | Beyond Imaginings, Harbourfront Centre/Greenbelt Foundation, Toronto |
Publications/Press
2018 | "Mark Kasumovic: Instrumental II", Elliot Wright, Exhibition Text |
2014 | Kapsula, Pixel World - Berlin, Cover |
2013 | Kapsula, A Collection of Notes While Photographing Near the World's Most Photographed Places, Issue#2, Aug.15 |
The Atlantic Symposium: Art Crit As Nowhere…Or Everywhere, Canadian Art | |
2012 | Hamilton Spectator, Artists Reflect on the War of 1812 |
Toronto Star, War of 1812: Seen through the eyes of modern Artists | |
2010 | Recreational Photography, National Post |
Greenbelt Gambol, Now Magazine | |
2009 | Artist Feature, The Magazine Show, Cable 14 (Interview) |
MagentaTV: Flash Forward 2009, MagentaTV (Interview) | |
BMO 1st Art!, Exhibition Catalogue | |
Flash Forward 2009: Emerging Photographers, Magenta Foundation | |
Featured Portfolio, Function Magazine (2009) | |
Ontario: Seasons of Discovery, Ontario Tourism | |
Snap! '09, Exhibition Catalogue | |
2008 | Photo Editor, Function Magazine (2008) |
Photography, Function Magazine (2008) | |
Collections
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia | |
Beaverbrook Provincial Art Gallery | |
Art Gallery of Peel | |
Ryerson University, Toronto | |
EQ Bank, Toronto | |
TD Canada Trust | |