Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake city, now lives in New York. His works are held in museum collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, Graphische Sammlung, and others worldwide as well as over 100 private collections. A visit to Mark Beard’s studio is like discovering Michelangelo’s lair: oil paintings layer the walls, life drawings litter the table at the feet of heroic bronzes; ceramics and architectural maquettes abound; virtuosity, in every medium. And then it gets even more interesting. Mark’s talent is so overflowing that, years ago, he needed to channel himself into alter egos. Mark invented the persona of “Bruce Sargeant,” an imagined English artist, contemporary of E. M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, and John Sloan. Mark also created Bruce Sargeant’s teacher, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon, a 19th-century French academist. Michallon also taught Edith Thayer Cromwell, an American avant-gardeist; and Brechtolt Steeruwitz, the German expressionist, a most complex personality. Peter Coulter, the newest persona, represents the "third generation" as he was taught briefly by Thayer Cromwell and Streerowitz. The style of each of these artists is individual, brilliant and true.Mark Beard is unprecedented, but not singular. Accomplished in every medium, he is more than a complete artist—he is at least six. Curriculum Vitae Selected Solo Exhibitions 2021 ‘Visions: Real & Imagined’, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2020 ‘Bruce Sargeant (1898 – 1938): Private Paintings’, ClampArt, NYC ‘Plugged In!’, Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival (Solo Booth Online with ClampArt)2019 ‘Myths, Saints, and Mortals’, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2018 ‘Figures We Fancy’, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY ‘Bruce Sargeant (1898 – 1938): The Lost Murals’, ClampArt, NYC2017 ‘Summer Exhibit’, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2016 Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France “Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938): Parlor, Gymnasium & Field”, ClampArt, NYC2014 Solo Exhibit, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson2014 “Alter Egos,” ClampArt, New York City2013 “Alter Ego: Bruce Sargeant | Mark Beard,” Mattatuck Museum (Munger Room), Waterbury, Connecticut “Mark Beard and His Entourage,” Mila Kunstgalerie, Berlin2012 “Master and Apprentice,” ClampArt, New York City2010 “Bruce Sargeant and His Circle,” ClampArt, New York CityCarrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York2008 “Gracious Dictator,” ClampArt, New York City Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York2007 John Stevenson Gallery, New York City Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York2005 John Stevenson Gallery, New York City Jonathan Edwards House Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut2004 John Stevenson Gallery, New York City2003 John Stevenson Gallery, New York City1999 Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York City Galerie Wolf, Berlin Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York City1998 Rivaga Gallery, Washington, D.C.1997 Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York City1995 Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City1994 Here Art, New York City1991 Galerie Niel Ewerbeck, Vienna1990 Recent Works at Helio Gallery, New York City Theatre Portraits, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York City1988 Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst, MunchGalerie Biedermann, Munich1987 Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York City1986 Galerie Biedermann, Munich1985 The Harcus Gallery, Boston Selected Group Exhibitions2014 “A Nod to the Past,” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York2012 “Naked Before the Camera,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City2007 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York2005 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York2003 John Stevenson Gallery, New York City2000 Columbia University, New York CityMorris-Healy Gallery, New York CityArt and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida1997 The Andy Warhol Museum, PittsburghFeature Gallery, New York City521“Emergency Art Fund Benefit Exhibition,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City1995 Artopia, New York City1993 Franklin Furnace, New York CityLyrik Kabinet, MunichGrolier Club, “Fifty Great Artist’s Books of the Twentieth Century,” New York CityCleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, Ohio1992 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Graphische Sammlungen, Munich1991 Prix de “HOME,” Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York City(Curated by Mark Beard)1990 “ICI Exhibition,” Bess Cutler Gallery, New York City“Eighty from the Eighties,” New York Public Library, New York City“The 1980s: Prints from the Joshua P. Smith Collection,” The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.“Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image,” The Franklin Furnace, New York City1989 The Toledo Museum of Fine Art, Toledo, Ohio1988 The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New YorkThe Boston Athenaeum, BostonThe American Craft Museum, New York City1986 The Harcus Gallery, Boston1984 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York CityThe Harcus Gallery, Boston1981 Alexander Carlson Gallery, New York City1980 Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UtahInstallations and Murals2007-2005 Mural painting, friezes, and bronze sculpture, Abercrombie & Fitch, New York City, Los Angeles, London, and Tokyo2004 Bronze door, Safra Synagogue, New York CityGrill Room, Dorchester Hotel, London1996 Children’s Opera House, Foyer, Opera House, Cologne1995 Painted murals, Foyer, Opera House, Cologne1993 Designed and painted new seventy-five-seat theater: West-End / StateTheater, Kölnershauspiel, Cologne1991 Mural Commission: The public spaces of das Schauspielhaus, Vienna1984 “Windows on White”, New York City1983 “The Parallel Window”, New York CitySelected CollectionsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York CityMuseum of Modern Art, New York CityWhitney Museum of American Art, New York CityBoston Museum of Fine Arts, BostonWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, ConnecticutPrinceton University, Princeton, New JerseyHarvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsGraphische Sammlung, MunichAlbertina, ViennaThe Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, ConnecticutThe Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TexasUtah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake CityUniversity of Missouri, Kansas CityThe New York Public Library, New York CityThe Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City Toledo Museum of Fine Art, Toledo, OhioNew Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, ConnecticutMattatuck Museum, Waterbury, ConnecticutJane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New JerseyMitchell Wolfson Collection, MiamiNational Academy of Arts and Letters, New York CityHouston Zoo, HoustonBooksLeddick, David; Gorgeous Gallery: The Best in Gay Erotic Art; Bruno Gmünder, Berlin (2012)Beard, Mark; Bruce Sargeant and His Circle; Chronicle Books, San Francisco (2010)Harp, Grady; Powerfully Beautiful: Classically Inspired Living Painters of the Male Figure; FirehouseStudio, New York (2009)Beard, Mark; Works by “Bruce Sargeant” and His Circle; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut(2004)Beard, Mark; Manhattan Fifteen Year Reader, 51 reduction linoleum cuts, collaged and hand- colored (2003)Sargeant, Bruce; Fifteen Corporeal Poems, etchings and chine-collé by Mark Beard’s alter-egoBruce Sargeant (1998/1938)Brandy, Aiden and Mark Beard; Aiden, etching and Polaroid transfers by Mark Beard (1992)Beard, Mark; Nineteen Famous People, Twenty-two Friends, and Six Nudes, Polaroid transfers byMark Beard; Freard Press, New York (1992)Brecht, Bertolt; The Seven Deadly Sins, music by Kurt Weill, etchings and lithographs by MarkBeard (1993)Beard, Mark; Pleasure and Pain, linoleum cuts and hand-painted binding (1988)Beard, Mark; Utah Reader, collaged linocut with hand coloring (1987)Rumi (translated by Zhore Partovi); Moses and the Shepherd, etchings by Mark Beard (1986)Beard, Mark; Neo Classik Comix, etchings with selectively-wiped monoprinting by the artist (1985)Kondoleanm Harry; The Cote d’Azur Triangle, etchings and litographs by Mark Beard (1985)Beard, Mark; Manhattan Third Year Reader, collaged linocuts with hand coloring (1984)Sitwell, Edith; The Death of Venus, lithographs by Mark Beard; Vincent FitzGerald and Company,New York (1983) Theater Sets1997-1986 Designed over twenty theatrical sets in New York City, London, Cologne,Vienna, and Frankfurt1993 Nomination for Drama Desk Award for set design1991 The Village Voice Obie Award for sustained excellence in set design