MARK BREST VAN KEMPEN ENVIRONMENTAL ART
HOME LARGE SCALE SITES SMALL SCALE SITES DRAWINGS/PHOTOS/PLANS OTHER CV LINKS
MARK BREST VAN KEMPEN ENVIRONMENTAL ART
HOME LARGE SCALE SITES SMALL SCALE SITES DRAWINGS/PHOTOS/PLANS OTHER CV LINKS
MARK A. BREST VAN KEMPEN
3835 Delmont Avenue
Oakland, California 94605
510.325 3709
EDUCATION
1989-91MFA San Francisco Art Institute, (with Honors, David S. McMillan Memorial Prize, Cadogon/Murphy Scholarship), San Francisco, CA
1980-85 University of Utah Art Department, Salt Lake City, Utah
GRANTS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002 Finalist, SECA award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
2001 California Arts Council Fellowship Award.
2000 Member, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery Advisory Board.
2000 Creative Work Fund Grant Award, Haas Foundation.
2000 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts.
1998-00 Member, San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee.
1998 Juror, City of Oakland Public Art Committee.
1993-99 President, Board of Directors, Secession Gallery, SF ,CA.
1993 California Artist in Residence, California Arts Council.
1980-86 Illustrator for Hansen Planetarium, Salt Lake City, Utah.
TEACHING
2000-03 Stanford University, Continuing Studies (with Elizabeth Miller PhD, Jim Mason PhD) Palo Alto. CA
2000 San Francisco Art Institute, Visiting Faculty, Graduate Tutorial, Department of New Genres
1999 University of Washington, Visiting Artist, Seattle, WA
1996-98 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Drawing and sculpture instructor, Palo Alto, CA
1991-98 Community School of Music and Arts, Drawing and sculpture instructor, Mountainview, CA
1989-90 San Francisco Art Institute, Teaching assistant, with Antonio Muntadas, John Woodall, Sharon Grace, CA
1988-89 Oasis Alternative School, Art instructor / designed art program, Salt Lake City, Utah
1988-89 Horizons Program, Art instructor, Salt Lake City, Utah
1987-88 Visual Arts Institute, Drawing instructor, Salt Lake City, Utah
LECTURES
2005 California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
Mills College, Oakland, CA
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco State University (Panel) San Francisco, CA
Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
GGNRA, San Francisco, CA
2004 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2003 CCA, San Francisco, CA.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
2002 Desert Practices: Land Art, Stanford University.
2000 Art in the Age of Biotechnological Reproduction (Panel). The Lab, San Francisco,
2000 Solano College, Fairfield, CA
2000 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito,CA
Marin Museum Association, San Raphael, CA
Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1998 Guest Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, Doug Hall, instructor, CA
1997 Valand University, February 22, Gothenburg, Sweden
1995 Guest Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, Sharon Grace, instructor, CA
Guest Artist, San Francisco State University, Paula Levine, instructor , CA
1993Guest Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, Sam Cucher, instructor, CA
1991Guest artist, California College of Arts and Crafts, Karen Bermann, Instructor, Oakland, CA.
1994Xian Academy of Art, December 13, Xian, China
China National Academy of Art, December 5, Hangzou, China
The World Studio, September 1, Iowa State University
1990An Experiment in Sovereignty, April 17, UC Berkeley, CA
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2006Market Street Art in Transit Project, San Francisco Art Commission
Sculpture Commission, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2005Temescal Greenbelt Project, Oakland Art Commission, Oakland CA
Watershed Wall, Youth Science Institute, Los Gatos, CA
2004Living Filter, One Colorado, Pasadena, CA
2002-5Ravenna Creek Project, Seattle, WA
2002Xerces Blue, Golden Gate Park Pavilion, San Francisco, Art Commission
2002-5Six Signs, Various locations San Francisco, CA. Creative Work Fund Grant, Haas Foundation.
2002-3Baron Park, Palo Alto, CA.
200015 Cubic Meters of San Francisquito Creek, City of Palo Alto
Marsh Zone, Fairfield Art Commission, CA
1999c.1700: Landscape Reconstruction Project, San Francisco Art Commission.
1997Leona Terrace Research Center, , San Francisco, CA
1994Land Exchange, Group Six, Hangzhou, China / Mendecino, CA, USA
1994Transformation of Pacific Ocean into Clouds, , San Francisco.
1994Weed Monument, self produced, Various locations, North America
1993One Year Circle, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
1992Graffiti Billboard Project, Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990Free Speech Monument, U.C. Berkeley, CA
1988Moving Words, Utah Arts Festival Environmental Art Project.
1988Art on the Town, Salt Lake Arts Council, Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001Domestic California, California Academy of Sciences, Wild California Hall, San Francisco, CA
2000Four Fairfield Interventions, City Hall, Fairfield, CA
1997American Trash, Amerikahaus, Gothenburg, Sweden
1994Mark Brest van Kempen, September 1-20, Gallery 181, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Landscapes, April 16-23, College of Environmental Design gallery, Berkeley, CA
1991Inside Outside, Jan.9 - Feb.12, Lab Gallery, San Francisco, CA
EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES
2000c. 2000 Landscape Destruction Project. S.F. Art Commission.
1998Living From Land: a thirty day performance, Colusa County, CA
1994Transnational Footprints, San Diego, CA / Tijuana, Mexico
1993Free Speech Monument Restoration and Poppy Planting, democratic action, Berkeley, CA
1988 Trampling, (with R. Victor Kastellic) Salt Lake City, Utah / Turin, Italy
1988World Footprint Series, various locations
1988 Action with Bread Dough, Trout, Ice and Salt, January 9, at The Gallery at Positively Fourth Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
1987 Regret Eating, various locations
1987Life Trading Project, October, Salt Lake City, Utah
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005Eco, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
reGenerations, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2005Monument Recall, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR
2004Monument Recall, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2003R+D, The Lab, Glen Helfand curator, San Francisco, CA
2002Chlorophilia, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1999Spaces of Nature, Peter Selz curator, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena / Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1998Work in Progress, Second Space Gallery, San Francisco
1997Community School of Music and Arts Faculty Show, Center for Performing Arts, Mountainview, Ca
1997Mark Brest van Kempen and Michael Asbill, Crucible Steel Gallery SF, CA
1996Rice, Snails, Pigeons, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995Next Time, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1994China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
1993Six, Belcher Street Studios, San Francisco, CA
1991SFAI MFA Exhibit, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
1990Proposals for Free Speech Monument, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
In the Public Eye, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
Corners, Art Space Annex, San Francisco, CA
1989Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA
1988JFK Memorial Exhibit, Richmond College, Dallas, Texas
Collecting and Arranging, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2006 Art of Engagement, Peter Selz, UC Press, pub.
2005 Site Matters, Carol Burns, Andrea Kahn ed. Routledge, NY, pub
2005 Freedom of Speech, Eric Barendt, (cover) Oxford Press, pub.
2003 The Primal Feast, Susan Allport, Harmony books, NY, pub.
2001 University of California Berkeley, Harvey Helfand, UC Press, pub
1997 The Lure of the Local, Lucy Lippard, The New Press, NY, pub.
Periodicals
2005 Oakland Tribune, Quynh Tran, “Exhibit Links Society, Landscape”
2004 Leonardo Magazine, Phillip Ross, vol 37, no 3
2003 Seattle Sun, James Bush, vol. 7, issue 11
2001 Artweek Magazine, April, Alicia Miller “The Growing Impact of Environmental Art”
2000 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, “Mark Brest van Kempen at City Site”
Fairfield Daily Republic, May 1, 2000, Mark Simborg “Exhibit Highlights Encroachment”
1999 Los Angeles Times, September 3, Leah Ollman “Nature isn’t Simple”
LA Weekly, September 3, Peter Frank, “Spaces of Nature: Pick of the Week”
1998New York Times Magazine, June 28, Shoshana Berger, ”Snake: Its What’s for Dinner”
1996Oakland Tribune, April 2, Dave Becker, “Symphony in Sea”
1994 Artweek, Nov17, Merideth Troemble, “Group Six goes to China”
San Francisco Examiner, Susan Kichinus, “Site Generated Exhibit”
1993Oakland Tribune, October 1, William Brand, “Free Speech Design Reborn”
San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, Kenneth Baker, “In the Galleries: Sketch Artists Raves”
Spy Magazine, April, Daniel Radosh and Timothy Long, “U.S.A. Tomorrow”
1992Newsweek, December 28, George Will, “1992: Came the Revolution”
LA Times, July 14, Jennifer Packer, “Unsolicited Expressions”
San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, April Lynch “Free Speech Monument Covered With Graffiti”
1991Artweek, July 4, Mark Van Proyen, “Consistency Reigns in the Bay Area”
1990Time Magazine, April 30, (American Notes).“A Tower of Hot Air,”
New York Times, Feb. 9, (National).“Art Contest Resurrects Memories of 1964”