mark vERABIOFF

Born in 1963 on the Traditional Territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples - which is present-day Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Currently lives and works on Kizh Nation-Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indian Territory - which is present-day Los Angeles. Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Banff Centre for the Arts were conducted 1981-1985.

ONE- AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025 Jacob Jiayi Zhang / Mark Verabioff: PNP, Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto, April 17-May 24

2023 VERBIAGE; O-Town House, Los Angeles, April 1-May 13 *publication

2021 Michael St. John: The Passions (with special guest Mark Verabioff), de bore gallery, Los Angeles, September 18-November 6

2020 FORSAKEN STATES, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, September 19-November 10 *publication

2019 Art Cologne 2019, Cologne, under the auspices of M. LeBlanc, April 11-14

Mark Verabioff: Seminal Videotapes 1984-1992, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, October 12 *screening

Poolside Drive-by, Team Bungalow, Los Angeles January 6-March 3

2019 BURY THE BODY: Amanda Ross-Ho, Mark Verabioff, Team Bungalow, Los Angeles, February 16 *performance

2018 TEARS, Team Gallery, New York, January 11-March 3

2017 CIVIL PISS WAR, The Pit, Los Angeles, January 22-February 26 *publication

2016 FASCIST GERD Private, Private Places, Portland, November 19-December 19

2015 UN-ZIPPED: Bobbi Woods, Mark Verabioff, Ditch Projects, Springfield, November 7-28

2014 Mark Verabioff: Seminal Videotapes 1984-1992, 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, June 4 *screening

2013 BREAKDOWN, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, May 14 *performance

2012 CRACK ATTACK, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, March 30-April 7 *performance

Mark Verabioff: Page Tears, Artist Curated Projects (ACP), Los Angeles, March 31-April 13

2010 Secret Spill: 2010, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, July 24 *performance

mark verabioff abled woman train wreck hard fuck hairy la, DAN GRAHAM, Los Angeles, September 17-October 23

2009 OUTWARD MODEL, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, July 10 *performance with Flora Wiegmann

Forum Lounge: Mark Verabioff, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, April 2 *performance with Flora Wiegmann

2008 overawe, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, January 26-March 8

2007 mark verabioff oinks faculty insurgent phyllis allen 570-6 for model pleasure III, Mandrake, Los Angeles, September 15-October 13

2002
mark verabioff, helen keller and another abled woman, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, March 1-26

2000 DART-ACTION, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, February 20 *public intervention

1999 dartmissions, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego; 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica; Sunset Palms Motel, Hollywood; Times Square, New York; Meat Packing District, New York; West Chelsea Arts Building, New York; A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco, January 15-December 15 *public intervention

1997 The Works of Mark Verabioff, Knitting Factory Video Club, New York, March 28 *screening

1995 porkvideostall, The LURE, New York, November 1-22

1992 Mark Verabioff: Wantfull Judgement, Video In, Vancouver, June 27 *screening

1985 de-constructing sexual spectacle quality control performance desire of SKIN, Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax, March 11-16

selected group EXHIBITIONS

2025

FRIDGE LA, Pio Pico, Los Angeles, February 21-March 8

Christopher Baliwas, Mark Verabioff, Erin Calla Watson, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, January 4-February 8

2024

White Columns Online #29, White Columns, New York, September 24-November 5

Speculative Readings, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, April 6

A Project Curated by Artists: 15 Years of ACP, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, November 11-February 3

2023 My Condolences, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, January 21-February 18

2021 I was looking at the black and white world (it was so exciting), ASHES/ ASHES, New York, April 2-May 9

The Cinematic, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, June 5-July 3

Dark Waters, Watts Labor Community Action Committee, Los Angeles, November 20-December 15

100 Sculptures, anonymous gallery, New York, June 30-August 21; Travels to: anonymous gallery, CDMX, September 2018; 18 Rue Dussoubs, Paris, May 17-31, 2019; No Gallery, Los Angeles, January 18-February 16, 2020; MECA, Antiguos Arsenales de la Armada Española, San Juan, November 21-24, 2019

Pathologically Social, O-Town House, Los Angeles, January 22-April 11

2020 Quid Tum? (What Next?), Wil Aballe Art Projects at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, October 28 - November 8

The Spread, de boer gallery, Los Angeles, August 1-September 5

https://epoch.gallery/afterlife/

www.Passing-Time.org, organized by Cecilia Bengolea, Neville Wakefield

2019 Scenes of the American Landscape, Team Gallery, New York, April 25-June 1

Circus of Books, Fierman, New York, March 16-May 6

2018 Annunciations: Michel Auder, Darja Bajagic, Rosalind Nashashibi, Mark Verabioff, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, June 23- August 3

Tragedy Plus Time, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, May 19–June 23

2016 Made In L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 12-August 28 *publication

Brancusi 2.0, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, May 20-June 20

GERD (the failed promise of enigma), Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, October 29

2014 Another Cats Show, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, August 16-September 14

Another, Once Again, Many Times More, Martos Gallery, New York, July 12-September 1

2012 Pacific Standard Time: Performance Public Art Festival: Black Box by Liz Glynn, 830 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, LA><ART, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, January 19-29

Spare Me, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, February 7-16

_____A Romantic Measure, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, July 23- August 25 *publication

2011 X-TRA's 1 Image 1 Minute, Creative Artist Agency, Beverly Hills, January 28

12:12/Song, Actual Size, Los Angeles, May 29

2010 Perform! Now!, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, July 30-31 *performance

Second Story, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, August 20-September 4

The Secret (Still) Knows, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, July 10-August 16

Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, March 13-April 3

FAST-FORWARD: A Screening of Contemporary American Video Art, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, July 21

The Secret Knows, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, SXSW 2010, 508 8th Street, Austin, March 17-21

The Company Presents: Volume II, The Sagamore, Miami Beach, March 11

2009 EXTRA EXTRA, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, May 7-23

Potluck, Country Club, Los Angeles, July 11-29

2008 Fall Collection, Kreiling & Dodd, Los Angeles

Notes on Cultural Preservation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, May 22-August 4 *publication

2007 Existencia: Modes of the Body: Teresa Margolles, Mark Verabioff, Lawrence Weiner, Sert Gallery / Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge, March 22

ARTSLUT VIDEO, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, February 15

2006 25 Bold Moves: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, House of Campari, Venice Beach, July 14-August 13

Brave New World, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, July 1-August 12

the backroom: LA, SF Camerawork, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, January 6-February 6

2005 Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York, January 18-February 26

Group Show, MC, Los Angeles, November 5-15

the backroom, 2692 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, September 5-December 5

2004 e-flux Video Rental (EVR), e-flux Storefront, 53 Ludlow Street, New York; Travels to: 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; MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, 2011 *publication

1997 Queer Looking Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, October 11-November 16 *publication

1995 Maricas / Faggots, Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. Buenos Aires

1993 Sign-Up Performances, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, January 19-23

1992 Tattoo Collection, conceived by Air de Paris, Urbi et Orbi, Air de Paris, Nice, March 12-June 2; Travels to: Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, June 3–July 18; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, October 23-November 28; Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Nantes; Luring Augustine, New York, 15 February 15-March 14, 1993; Rubin Spangle, New York, February 15-March 14, 1993

42.Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin: Videofest, Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, Berlin, February 13-24 *publication

Performance (behind the curtain), White Columns, New York, April 24-May 17

Queer Pavilion, Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, August 4

East Village Video, Wonder Bar, New York, April 10

1990 Video Library, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, January 11-March 23

1989 Aurora Borealis: Canadian Video Art, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Travels to: The Műcsarnok, Budapest; The Old Student House, Helsinki; Canada House, London; Cultural Centre Nova Huta, Krakow; Westwork e.V., Hamburg *publication

How Do I Look?, Collective for Living Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, New York *publication

1988 Comment, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, November 19-December 23 *publication

New-Erotic Video, The Kitchen, New York, March 1-31

How Soon Is Now, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto

Nitelife: Three Evenings of Experimental Performance, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, April 7-9 *publication

Other Versions (Perversions), Artists Space, New York, January 14-February 13 *publication

1987 Visual Evidence, Pitt International Gallery, The Western Front, Vancouver, April 25-May23

Only Human: Sex, Gender and Other Misrepresentations, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, October 22-25 *publication

Underground Canada, The 10th Tyneside Festival, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, October 12-14; Canada House, London, October 16, 23, 30; The National Film Theatre, London, October 17; London Filmmakers Co-op, London, November 6, 7, 13 *publication

1986 Poetic Signals / Signaux Poetiques, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, July 21-August 17 *publication

Videonale. 2, Bonn, September 13–21 *publication

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

Audio By Artists, Centre For Art Tapes / National Film Board, Halifax, March 2-29

1985 Video Kanada, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, November 12

Exhibition of Canadian Video Art, SAW Gallery, Ottawa

Images of Sexuality, Galerie 101, Ottawa *publication

1984 British/Canadian Video Exchange, AIR Gallery, London, March 7-31 *publication

Wendy Geller, Jan Peacock, Mark Verabioff, A Space, Toronto, April 24

New Work Showcase, The Funnel, Toronto

Screening / Performance: The Halifax Show, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, September 14- October 1

SELECTED bibliography

2025 Chris Waywell, Los Angeles According to: Alex Tuttle of David Zwirner, Frieze, January 31

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, catalog, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL 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

insitutional COLLECTIONs

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art Eileen Harris Norton Foundation, Santa Monica Oakland Museum of California LUX Collection, London Video Out, Vancouver Museum of Modern Art | Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana V/tape, Toronto

AWARDs

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

visiting artist / lecturer

2024 Visiting Artist Talk, NSCAD University, Halifax Visiting Guest Artist, Graduate Art Department, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

2023 Graduate Art Seminar, organized by Diana Thater, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena