Mark Tribe (born 1966) is an American artist. He is the founder of Rhizome, a not-for-profit arts organization based in

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. In 2013, he was appointed chair of the MFA program of the

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. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, Director of the Digital Media Center at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence at

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. He is the author of '' The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of Historic Protest Speeches'' (Charta, 2010) and the co-author of ''New Media Art'' (

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, 2006). He received an MFA in Visual Art from the

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, California in 1994 and an BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990.

Work

Tribe's drawings, performances, installations and photographs often deal with social and political issues. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the

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in Washington, D.C.; Momenta Art in Brooklyn, New York;

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(LACE) in Los Angeles, California; and DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the

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;, the Queens Museum in

; the

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; the

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; Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris;

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in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the

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in San Diego, California; Museo de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia;

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in Montclair, New Jersey; and the

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in Lincoln, Massachusetts. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, a not-for-profit arts organization that supports and provides a platform for new media art. Tribe has curated exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and inSite_05 in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico.

External links

Mark Tribe's WebsiteRhizome (organization) website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tribe, Mark 1966 births Living people American art curators Brown University alumni Brown University faculty University of California, San Diego alumni Cultural historians American digital artists Postmodern artists Artists from New York (state) New media artists American art historians Jewish American artists 21st-century American Jews