Mark Flores

Critic

Mark Flores is an artist born in Ventura, CA in 1965. He received a BA from UCLA in 1999 and an MFA from Cal Arts in 2002. Flores has had solo exhibitions at UCLA Hammer Museum; Alison Jacques Gallery, London; Cardi Black Box, Milan; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; California State University, Los Angeles; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; and the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA. He has recently had two-person exhibitions with his partner William E. Jones at Nothing Special, Los Angeles; and Private Places, Portland, OR. Reviews and articles about Flores’s work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, the Los Angeles Times, Frieze and The New York Times. Flores has received a California Community Foundation Fellowship. He lives in Los Angeles.