born 1963 lives and works in los angeles

EDUCATION

1981-1985 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1984 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff

SELECTED ONE and TWO ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

2025 Jacob Jiayi Zhang / Mark Verabioff: PNP, Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto

2023 VERBIAGE;, O-Town House, Los Angeles

2021 Michael St. John: The Passions (with special guest Mark Verabioff), de Bore Gallery, Los Angeles

2020 Forsaken States, M. LeBlanc, Chicago

2019 Art Cologne.53, Cologne Mark Verabioff Seminal Videotapes 1984-1992, M. LeBlanc, Chicago Poolside Drive-by, Team Bungalow, Los Angeles BURY THE BODY: Amanda Ross-Ho / Mark Verabioff, Team Bungalow, Los Angeles *performance

2018 TEARS, Team Gallery, New York

2017 CIVIL PISS WAR, The Pit, Los Angeles

2016 FASCIST GERD Private, Private Places, Portland

2015 UN-ZIPPED:  Bobbi Woods and Mark Verabioff, Ditch Projects, Springfield

2010 Secret Spill: 2010, LAND, Los Angeles * Speaker Boot performance mark verabioff abled woman train wreck hard fuck hairy la, DAN GRAHAM, Los Angeles

2009 OUTWARD MODEL, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles Forum Lounge: mark verabioff / outward model, museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara

2008 overawe, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles

2007 mark verabioff oinks faculty insurgent phyllis allen 570-6 for model pleasure III, Mandrake, Los Angeles

2000 DART-ACTION, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art *guerrilla intervention

1999 dartmissions, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, The Eagle, San Diego; 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica; Sunset Palms Motel, Hollywood; Times Square / Meat Packing District, West Chelsea Arts Building, New York; A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco; Bathhouse, Portland *guerrilla interventions

1997 The Works of Mark Verabioff, Knitting Factory Video Club, New York

1995 porkvideostall, The LURE, New York

1992 Mark Verabioff, Video In, Vancouver

1985 de-constructing sexual spectacle quality control performance desire of SKIN, Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism, The Box, Los Angeles Made in hell.a. 2025, o-town house + casual encounterz + on the rag, los angeles The Seven Year Itch, O-Town House, Los Angeles (CUPPED), Wolford House, Los Angeles FRIDGE LA, Pio Pico, Los Angeles Christopher Baliwas, Mark Verabioff, Erin Calla Watson, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles

2024 White Columns Online #2: Postcards from the Edge of Time, White Columns, New York Speculative Readings, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles A Project Curated by Artists: 15 Years of ACP, Morán Morán, Los Angeles

2023 My Condolences, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles

2021 I was looking at the black and white world (it was so exciting), ASHES/ ASHES, New York The Cinematic, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver Dark Waters, exhibition benefiting the Better Watts Initiative, Watts Labor Community Action Committee, Los Angeles 100 Sculptures - NYC, anonymous gallery, New York Pathologically Social, O-Town House, Los Angeles

2020 The Spread, de boer gallery, Los Angeles group exhibition, m. leblanc, chicago Afterlife: epoch gallery

2019 Scenes of the American Landscape, Team Gallery, New York Circus of Books, Fierman, New York

2018 Annunciations: Michel Auder, Darja Bajagic, Rosalind Nashashibi, Mark Verabioff, M. LeBlanc, Chicago Tragedy Plus Time, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles 100 Sculptures, anonymous gallery, Mexico City 2018 white columns benefit auction, white columns, new york

2016 Made In L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Brancusi 2.0, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles GERD (the failed promise of enigma), Phil Gallery, Los Angeles

2014 Another Cats Show, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles Another, Once Again, Many Times More­, Martos Gallery, New York

2012 BLACK BOX by Liz Glynn (Night 5), Pacific Standard Time Performance Public Art Festival, LA><ART / The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Spare Me, Night Gallery, Los Angeles A Romantic Measure, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

2011 X-TRA's 1 Image 1 Minute, Creative Artist Agency, Beverly Hills 12:12/Song, Actual Size, Los Angeles

2010 Perform! Now!, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles The Secret (Still) Knows, LAND, Los Angeles Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom, David Castillo Gallery, Miami FAST-FORWARD: A Screening of Contemporary American Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara The Secret Knows, LAND, 508 8th Street, Austin

2009 EXTRA EXTRA, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles Potluck, curated by Christine Nichols, Country Club, Los Angeles

2008 Notes on Cultural Preservation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York

2007 Existencia: Modes of the Body: Teresa Margolles, Mark Verabioff, Lawrence Weiner, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge Artslut Video, LACE, Los Angeles

2006 25 Bold Moves, House of Campari, Los Angeles Brave New World, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles the backroom: LA, SF Camerawork, New Langton Arts, San Francisco

2005 Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York the backroom, 2692 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles

2004 e-flux Video Rental (EVR), e-flux Storefront, 53 Ludlow Street, New York; Artprojx Cinema Series, Prince Charles Cinema, London (2004); Insa Art Space, Arts Council Korea, Seoul (2005); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2005); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2005); Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam (2005); The Moore Space, Miami (2005); I Bienal de Canarias, Tenerife (2006); Arthouse at The Jones Center, Austin (2006); PiST///, Istanbul (2006); unitednationsplaza, Berlin (2006); Műcsarnok, Budapest (2006); Location Project, Antwerp (2006); Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2006); 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2007); Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, Paris (2007); Carpenter Center, Boston (2007); the building, Berlin (2008); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2008); 41 Salòn Nacional de Artistas de Colombia, Cali (2008); Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea, Rome (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana (2011)

1997 Queer Looking Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular, curated by Robin Metcalfe, James McSwain, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax

1995 Maricas (Faggots), curated by Bill Arning, Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires

1993 Performances, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

1992 Tattoo Collection, Air de Paris, Nice; Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Nantes 42.Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin East Village Video, Wonder Bar, New York Performance (behind the curtain), White Columns, New York Queer Pavilion, Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg

1990 Video Library, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

1989 Aurora Borealis: Canadian Video Art, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; The Műcsarnok, Budapest; The Old Student House, Helsinki; Canada House, London; Cultural Centre Nova Huta, Krakow; Westwork e.V., Hamburg How Do I Look, curated by Bill Horrigan, Martha Gever, Collective for Living Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, New York

1988 Comment, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta New-Erotic Video, The Kitchen, New York How Soon Is Now, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto Nitelife: Three Evenings of Experimental Performance, curated by William Olander, Russell Fergusion, Laura Trippi, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Other Versions (Perversions), Artists Space, New York

1987 Visual Evidence, Pitt International Gallery, The Western Front, Vancouver Only Human: Sex, Gender and Other Misrepresentations, American Film Institute, Los Angeles Underground Canada, curated by Richard Fung, The National Film Theatre, Filmmakers Co-op, London

1986 Poetic Signals, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Videonale. 2, Bonn Life Like It: Some Halifax Video, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax; Plug-In Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; EM Media, Calgary; Latitude 53, Edmonton; Video In, Vancouver; A Space, Toronto; SAW Gallery, Ottawa

1985 Video Kanada, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Exhibition of Canadian Video Art, SAW Gallery, Ottawa Images of Sexuality, Galerie 101, Ottawa

1984 British / Canadian Video Exchange, AIR Gallery, London Wendy Geller, Jan Peacock, Mark Verabioff: A Screening, A Space, Toronto New Work Showcase, The Funnel, Toronto Screening / Performance, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax

PRESS

2025 Matt Stromberg, LA Fairs Move Forward, Calling on Art World’s Support, Hyperallergic, January 17 Chris Waywell, Los Angeles According to: Alex Tuttle of David Zwirner, Frieze, January 31 Jasminne Morataya, Christopher Baliwas, Mark Verabioff, Erin Calla Watson at Ehrlich Steinberg, MOUSSE Magazine, January 27

2024 Hugo Bausch Belbachir, Gaylord Fine Arts, Arcane 3, December Small Night Press, TNTNTNT Boxset, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, March 19

2023 Gracie Hadland, Dean Sameshima “being alone” and Mark Verabioff “VERBIAGE;” O-Town House / Los Angeles, Flash Art International, May 13

2020 Jane Ursula Harris, The Specter of What’s to Come: Mark Verabioff’s Forsaken States, FORSAKEN STATES catalog, M. LeBlanc, Chicago Evan Moffitt, Circus of Books and the Lost Pleasures of Print Pornography, Frieze, May 8

2019 Christie Hayden, Mark Verabioff at team (bungalow), CARLA | Contemporary Art Review LA, January 30 John Martin Tilley, Poolside Drive-By, Office Magazine, January 3

2018 Editors of Art News, Pictures at an Exhibition: ‘Annunciations’ at  M. LeBlanc, ArtNews, August 3 O.C. Yerebakan, New York – Mark Verabioff: TEARS At Team Gallery Through March 3rd, 2018, Art Observed, January 28 John Martin Tilley, Pronunciation Optional: TEARS at Team Gallery, Office Magazine, January 11 Barry N. Neuman, A Talk About TEARS at Team Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, February

2016 Andrew Berardini, a, the, though, only, Made In L.A. 2016, e-flux criticism, July 22 Anne Buckley, A Mediation on Contemporary Art: Made In L.A.: a, the, though, only, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 3 Johnathan Griffin, Made In L.A.: a, the, though, only, Frieze, no.181, September Matt Stromberg, The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA, Hyperallergic, August 19

2006 Lauri Firstenberg, Reviews: The Backroom, Frieze, Issue 96, January 15

2005 Holland Cotter, Art In Review: Log Cabin, New York Times, January 28

PUBLIC insitutional COLLECTIONS

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Eileen Harris Norton Foundation, Santa Monica Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Oakland Museum of California LUX Collection, London Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

public archives

Contemporary Art Library Interlude Docs Art Viewer Los Angeles Contemporary Archive Centre For Art Tapes Archive The Getty Research Institute Video Out Distribution Vtape | The Source for Artists’ Video

AWARDS

Rauschenberg Emergency Grant California Community Foundation Relief Fund for L.A. County Visual Artists Pollock-Krasner Foundation Canada Council for the Arts

VISITING ARTIST / TALKS /teaching

2025 Visiting Artist Lecture, Claremont Graduate University, School of Art, October 30, 12noon-1pm, claremont.

2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, department of expanded media, NSCAD University, April 17, Halifax. Adjunct Faculty, Part-time / spring & fall terms, Grad Art Department, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.

2023 Graduate Art Seminar, Invited by Diana Thater, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena

2015 ART NOW: Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Willamette University, Salem