Mark Anthony Brown Jr. (b. 1991) is a journeyman of sorts, he currently lives and works between Cincinnati, Ohio, Durham, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Mark has received a Bachelor of Science Technology from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a fellow in Museum Practice at The Ackland Art Museum.  

Mark’s art practice is research driven and interdisciplinary; utilizing photography, sculpture, drawing and painting with interests in vernacular aesthetic practices & sensibilities, the manifestation of African cultural retentions in the diaspora, semiotics, and archival practices.

His work has been exhibited nationally; including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mint Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia and The Contemporary Art Museum  in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mark has received various fellowships and awards including an Emerging Lens Fellowship from ArtWORKS in Chicago (2022), the Nexus Grant from Atlanta Contemporary (2022), and a Visiting Researcher Fellowship at Wilson Special Collection Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023).

M: markanthonybrownjr.us@gmail.com

P: +1-678-653-1105

Artist Statement

My art practice is photographic. My access point to art making is through photography, specifically through the genre of street and the diaristic.  With no formal, technical training, the camera functioned for me as a vehicle for expression that can assist me in articulating experiences and ideas that are otherwise difficult to quantify. In the camera’s ability to index and archive experiences, is its power to isolate subject matter and to re/de/contextualize.  To expand on the potential of the camera and photograph to re/frame, I work with the photograph as object, or material itself, using sculpture and installation to further emphasize the physicality of the printed photograph. (full artist statement available on request)

Mark Anthony Brown Jr., 2024