Awards / Honors
Resident Artist, Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA, 2024
Artist in Residence, Tlacopac International Artist Residency, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
Creative Residency, Buinho, Messejana, Portugal, 2019
Keyholder Resident Artist, Dinderbeck, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015/16
Artist Seed Grant, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
Guest Artist, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China, 2013
40 Under 40 Honoree, Grand Rapids Business Journal, Grand Rapids, MI, 2012
Artist in Residence, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria, 2011
Artist Grant, Kultur Service Steiermark, Province of Styria Austria, 2011
Artist in Residence, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2011
Hunter S. Thompson Superlatives Award, The Rapidian, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
Artist in Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, 2009
Artist in Residence, Caravansarai, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
Solo Exhibitions & Installations
Mark Rumsey: Studio Work, 106 Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024
Small World Tees as part of Trade Fare Social, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, 2023
Objects of Consumption, University Art Gallery, SVSU, Saginaw, MI, 2021
Memory Map: Roof Line, State Street, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, 2019/20
Re:Fabricate, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Art Lab at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2019
Small World Tees, City Water Building by Richard App Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI 2017
Yardage, as part of RE, The Fed Galleries, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016
In Between Spaces as part of Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, 2016
mammatocumulus, Curfman Gallery , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2016
Rumsey Street Office of the Archivist as part of The Rumsey Street Project, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
Shoot as part of Preservatif Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2014; Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN, 2015
Baseline as part of Preliminary Study: RSI –T (PART 2), Fire Barn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI, 2014
BFly Rabble & BFly Migration, Shine Communications – Tasaki Grand Opening, Shanghai, China, 2013
Deshabille (paper chain), High Five Project Space, Grand Rapids, MI, 2012
Noctilucent, Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, 2012
Aspirate as part of Working Towards Invisible, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, 2012
Cascade, Edgewood College, Madison, WI, 2012
Cloud Key, Installation during artist residency at The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2011
Graz Cloud as part of Rondorama, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria, 2011
ASK – World Tour, Baodo Arts, Nil Project Space, Graz, Austria, 2011
ASK – World Tour, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
ASK – World Tour, West Michigan Center for Art & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
(Safety) Orange Tide, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
Spring Cloud, Ditmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2010
ASK: Tulsa, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK, 2010
Red Sky Morning, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, 2010
The Sky is Not Falling, Women’s City Club ArtPrize Exhibition Center, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
Metaphysical Wallpaper Testing Labs, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
Baldaquin, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
Box of Cloud, Installation Nation, Primary Colours, Indianapolis, IN, 2010
Cloud Form 03.09, HungryMan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
Cloud Form 02.09, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, 2009
Cloud Form 09.09, ArtPrize at The BOB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009
Canopy, collaborative installation with Shilin Hora, Gallery Sho.dan, Montreal, Canada, 2009
Doctor TJ Eckleberg, ActiveSite IV, 21st International Sculpture Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
Chenrezig Lotus as part of Virtual Identities, Real Spaces, Sego Art Center, Provo, UT, 2008
One Thousand Arms, Open Concept Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, 2016
FACES & TRACES – a tribute to freedom, creativity and vision, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, 2014/15
Preservatif Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2014; Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN, 2015
Preliminary Study: RSI –T (PART 2), Fire Barn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI, 2014
Reimagining the Landscape and the Future of Nature, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, 2013
There/Here: a mobile exhibition, GVSU Curatorial Studio, Grand Rapids, MI, 2013
Working Towards Invisible, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, 2012
Rondorama, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria, 2011
Multi Media III, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, 2011
Metaphysical Wallpaper with Phillip Hanson, Garbageman Astronaut Project Space, Portland, OR, 2010
21 Emerging Artists, Grow Studio at Gallery Sho.dan, Montreal, Canada, 2009
Virtual Identities, Real Spaces, Sego Art Center, Provo, UT, 2008
Dirty Fingernails Say A Lot II, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, 2008
What Does Compassion Look Like?, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2008
Suckers and Biters: Love Lollipops and the Exquisite Corpse, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
PS122 Annual Benefit Show, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
Collections
Tlacopac International Artist Residency, Mexico City, Mexico
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shangahi, China / The Swatch Group, Lausanne, Switzerland
Shine Communications, Shanghai, China
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Philosophy minor, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Additional graduate studies at Montana State University and The Ohio State University
Resident Artist, Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA, 2024
Artist in Residence, Tlacopac International Artist Residency, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
Creative Residency, Buinho, Messejana, Portugal, 2019
Keyholder Resident Artist, Dinderbeck, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015/16
Artist Seed Grant, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
Guest Artist, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China, 2013
40 Under 40 Honoree, Grand Rapids Business Journal, Grand Rapids, MI, 2012
Artist in Residence, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria, 2011
Artist Grant, Kultur Service Steiermark, Province of Styria Austria, 2011
Artist in Residence, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2011
Hunter S. Thompson Superlatives Award, The Rapidian, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
Artist in Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, 2009
Artist in Residence, Caravansarai, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
Solo Exhibitions & Installations
Mark Rumsey: Studio Work, 106 Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024
Small World Tees as part of Trade Fare Social, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, 2023
Objects of Consumption, University Art Gallery, SVSU, Saginaw, MI, 2021
Memory Map: Roof Line, State Street, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, 2019/20
Re:Fabricate, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Art Lab at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2019
Small World Tees, City Water Building by Richard App Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI 2017
Yardage, as part of RE, The Fed Galleries, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016
In Between Spaces as part of Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, 2016
mammatocumulus, Curfman Gallery , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2016
Rumsey Street Office of the Archivist as part of The Rumsey Street Project, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
Shoot as part of Preservatif Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2014; Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN, 2015
Baseline as part of Preliminary Study: RSI –T (PART 2), Fire Barn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI, 2014
BFly Rabble & BFly Migration, Shine Communications – Tasaki Grand Opening, Shanghai, China, 2013
Deshabille (paper chain), High Five Project Space, Grand Rapids, MI, 2012
Noctilucent, Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, 2012
Aspirate as part of Working Towards Invisible, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, 2012
Cascade, Edgewood College, Madison, WI, 2012
Cloud Key, Installation during artist residency at The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2011
Graz Cloud as part of Rondorama, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria, 2011
ASK – World Tour, Baodo Arts, Nil Project Space, Graz, Austria, 2011
ASK – World Tour, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
ASK – World Tour, West Michigan Center for Art & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
(Safety) Orange Tide, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
Spring Cloud, Ditmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2010
ASK: Tulsa, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK, 2010
Red Sky Morning, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, 2010
The Sky is Not Falling, Women’s City Club ArtPrize Exhibition Center, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
Metaphysical Wallpaper Testing Labs, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
Baldaquin, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
Box of Cloud, Installation Nation, Primary Colours, Indianapolis, IN, 2010
Cloud Form 03.09, HungryMan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
Cloud Form 02.09, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, 2009
Cloud Form 09.09, ArtPrize at The BOB, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009
Canopy, collaborative installation with Shilin Hora, Gallery Sho.dan, Montreal, Canada, 2009
Doctor TJ Eckleberg, ActiveSite IV, 21st International Sculpture Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
Chenrezig Lotus as part of Virtual Identities, Real Spaces, Sego Art Center, Provo, UT, 2008
One Thousand Arms, Open Concept Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, 2016
FACES & TRACES – a tribute to freedom, creativity and vision, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, 2014/15
Preservatif Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2014; Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN, 2015
Preliminary Study: RSI –T (PART 2), Fire Barn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI, 2014
Reimagining the Landscape and the Future of Nature, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, 2013
There/Here: a mobile exhibition, GVSU Curatorial Studio, Grand Rapids, MI, 2013
Working Towards Invisible, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, 2012
Rondorama, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria, 2011
Multi Media III, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, 2011
Metaphysical Wallpaper with Phillip Hanson, Garbageman Astronaut Project Space, Portland, OR, 2010
21 Emerging Artists, Grow Studio at Gallery Sho.dan, Montreal, Canada, 2009
Virtual Identities, Real Spaces, Sego Art Center, Provo, UT, 2008
Dirty Fingernails Say A Lot II, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, 2008
What Does Compassion Look Like?, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2008
Suckers and Biters: Love Lollipops and the Exquisite Corpse, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
PS122 Annual Benefit Show, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
Collections
Tlacopac International Artist Residency, Mexico City, Mexico
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shangahi, China / The Swatch Group, Lausanne, Switzerland
Shine Communications, Shanghai, China
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Philosophy minor, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Additional graduate studies at Montana State University and The Ohio State University
