Markus Baenziger

(American/Swiss, born 1959)

pioneer wagon series: embryonic state by markus baenziger

Markus Baenziger

Pioneer Wagon Series: Embryonic State, 1993

2,500 USD

Biography

Timeline

1959
Born: Switzerland
1981 - 1982
University of St. Gall, Switzerland - Business and Law
1984 - 1987
Parsons School of Design, New York - BFA in sculpture
1989
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT - MFA in sculpture
1998
Yale University, Rebecca Taylor Porter Award
Yale Norfolk Fellowship
2000
State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Artist Fellowship
2003
The Sculptors Guild, New York, NY
2005
Theodore and Jane Norman Award, Brandeis University
2006
Guggenheim Fellowship

Exhibitions

2005
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2004
Touch and Temperature, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
Greetings from Chelsea, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Take Out, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Miraculous: Contemporary Evotos Paintings, ChezTGN Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibition, Elizabeth Heskin Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2002
From Chelsea with Love, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2001
Fellowship Artists Exhibition, Commission on the Arts Gallery, Hartford, CT
Never Never Land, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2000
Never Never Land, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Literature

2004
Patricia Johnson, "Touch and Temperature, Markus Baenziger", Houston Chronicle, October 12, 2004
2003
Ken Johnson, “Take Out, Markus Baenziger”, The New York Times, July 4, 2003
“Take Out, Markus Baenziger”, The New York Sun, July 3, 2003
“What’s On”, The Art Newspaper, No. 138, July - August 2003
2001
Mary Ann Marger, “It’s a play world, after all”, St. Petersburg Times, September 6, 2001
1997
Kim Levin, “Voice Choices” The Village Voice, September 23, 1997, p. 12.
1996
Jude Schwendenwien, “Markus Baenziger”, Sculpture, May/June 1996, pp. 72-73
Mark Van de Walle, “Markus Baenziger”, Artforum, January 1996, p. 82
1994
Kim Levin, “Voice Choice, Markus Baenziger”, The Village Voice, January 1994
Angela Choon, “Openings”, Arts&Antiques, January 1994