lives and works in New York
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010 Data Poetics, Google Inc (curated by Chelsea Art Museum), New York (6/-8/2010)
2009 KIOSK, STRP Festival, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Fluid Architectures, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art and Electronic Media, bitforms gallery, New York
2008 Digital Safari, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age, iMAL Center for Digital Culture and Technology,Brussels, Belgium
13th Art Biennial, Pančevo, Serbia
AWARDS AND HONORS
COMMISSIONS
| 1984 |
BFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
| 2009 |
Venus 2.0, [DAM]Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 |
Mark Napier and John Simon, [DAM]Berlin, Germany. New Work Bitforms Gallery, New York City. |
| 2006 |
The Cyclops Series Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton PA. |
| 2005 |
Empire Bitforms Gallery, New York City. |
| 2003 |
Sacred Code Bitforms Gallery, New York City. |
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010 Data Poetics, Google Inc (curated by Chelsea Art Museum), New York (6/-8/2010)
2009 KIOSK, STRP Festival, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Fluid Architectures, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art and Electronic Media, bitforms gallery, New York
2008 Digital Safari, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age, iMAL Center for Digital Culture and Technology,Brussels, Belgium
13th Art Biennial, Pančevo, Serbia
| 2007 |
NETworking Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. Ars Electronica - Digital Art and Magic Moments Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China. Source Code Eyebeam Atelier, New York City. |
| 2006 |
Further Processing Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria. Am, Eretz, Medina The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel. |
| 2005 |
Bitforms Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Connessioni Leggendarie Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Milan, Italy. Pintar sense pintar Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain. |
| 2004 |
Hyper-Runt Inliquid, Philadelphia. Villette Numérique la Villette, Paris. |
| 2003 |
Pages Christine Rose Gallery, New York City. Hilchot Shchenim Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel. Interactive Design Centre Pompidou, Paris. Abstraction Now Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna. |
| 2002 |
Future Cinema ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. net.flag exhibited at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. The Waiting Room Bitforms Gallery, NY, NY. The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY. Transmediale.02, Berlin, Germany. Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. |
| 2001 |
Animations P.S.1, Long Island City, NY. net.ephemera Gallery of the Moving Image, New York City. Data Dynamics Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. 010101 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. |
| 2000 |
Call and Response The Kitchen, New York. Ideogram Part 2", Gallery of the Moving Image, New York. World Wide Video Festival Amsterdam. Protocol Prone Bard College, Annandale, New York. The Anagrammatical Body ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. AEN – Art Entertainment Network Walker Art Center. |
| 1999 |
Net_condition ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. Boston Cyberarts Festival, www.bostoncyberarts.org. Reel New York.Web New Media Group Thirteen/WNET, Online show of NYC web artists. |
| 1998 |
Transmediale 98 www.mediopolis.de, June 1998. Digital 98 Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. NY, Digital artwork group show. |
| 1997 |
Transmediale 97 www.mediopolis.de. |
| 1996 |
Art Carnival Eighth Floor Gallery, Soho, NY. Installations by 24 artists on the theme of carnival. ThreeManShow 450 Broadway Gallery, Soho, NY, Painting and sculpture by Akiva Boker, Mark Napier, Jim Toia. Sacred Space 450 Broadway Gallery, Soho, NY, 10 artist invitational (installations and sculpture about the gallery space). |
| 1995 |
Soul in C Minor 450 Broadway Gallery, Soho, NY. |
| 1993 |
Spazi Fine Arts, Housatonic, Mass. New Directions Pleiades Gallery, Soho, NY. |
AWARDS AND HONORS
| 2007 | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts . |
| 2002 |
Creative Capital grant. Nominated for Rockefeller Fellowship. |
| 2001 |
Greenwall Foundation grant for Point-to-Point. Nominated for Rockefeller Fellowship. Nominated for a Webby Award in the Arts category. New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts. |
| 2000 |
Fraunhofer Society prize for Point-to-Point. |
| 1999 |
The Shredder awarded honorable mention by Ars Electronica 99. |
| 1998 |
Digital Landfill receives first prize in ASCII Digital 99 festival. |
COMMISSIONS
| 2004 |
Pompidou Centre purchases FEED:pompidou net artwork. Hotel commissions interactive work for installation in their lobby. Whitney Museum of American Art commissions “Four” for ArtPort website. |
| 2002 |
Markle Feed customized version of "Feed", commissioned by the Markle Foundation, NYC. Artist in Residence at the Sackler Center of the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. |
| 2001 |
net.flag – net art project. Commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum for acquisition into their permanent collection. USA 1.1 – net art project. Commissioned by Altoids.com. Point-to-Point – net art installation. Commissioned by Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| 2000 |
Feed – net art project. Commissioned by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
| 1999 |
Pulse – net art project. Commissioned by Altoids.com. |