Kelly Mark sees the light, harnesses and amplifies it in a brilliant outdoor installation titled “Glowhouse” - a vacant home flickering with the blue light of thirty-five televisions, conspiratorially set to the same channel. The cartoon plutonium-like glow pulsing through the house, like the heartbeat of the home. Like a jack-o-lantern.  

 

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Kelly Mark was born in Welland, Ontario and currently lives and works in Toronto.  She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (w/ a Minor in Art History) in 1994 at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (N.S.C.A.D.).   Kelly has exhibited widely across Canada, and internationally (including the United States, Australia, & Europe). Venues include: Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Saidye Bronfman Art Center (Montreal), ZieherSmith Gallery (NY), Leadbased (NY), Museum of New Art (Detroit), University of Houston (Texas), Real Art Ways (Hartford), Ikon Gallery (UK), Lisson Gallery (UK), the Physics Room (NZ) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle) etc...

Kelly Mark has represented Canada at both the Sydney Biennale (1998) and Liverpool Biennale (2006).  She is the recipient of numerous Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council & Toronto Arts Council grants as well as the KM Hunter Artist Award (2002), and Chalmers Art Fellowship (2002).