Mark Sheinkman was born in New York City in 1963 and received his B.A. from Princeton University, summa cum laude in 1985. His recent solo exhibitions include Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich, Germany in 1999; Thomas Healy Gallery, New York in 1998; and S65 Gallery, Aalst, Belgium in 1998.
Mr. Sheinkman’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Mark Sheinkman, John Zinsser, at Art Resources Transfer, New York in 1999; One by One; Painting Versus Drawing, Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich in 1999; and Large-scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1998.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Fogg Art Museum, and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Sheinkman currently lives and works in New York City.
During his residency Mr. Sheinkman created a large series of works on paper and, following his residency, a selection of these newly finished pieces were installed in the Lannan Foundation gallery.