Introduction to the Artist
Mark DeMuro
Born in Washington State, lived in California, Michigan, Japan, Virginia,
Miami, New York
BFA University of Miami, Florida
Mark DeMuro lives and works in New York City. He is a Founder and Director
of the Beaux Arts Foundation and The Downtown Arts Club. In addition to
making art, he has over twenty years experience working as a private art
dealer, curator, lecturer and consultant. He has advised collectors, dealers,
galleries, and corporations on building collections and making acquisitions
of Modern and Contemporary art.
Mark DeMuro has sold works by Andy Warhol, Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Matisse,
Degas, Bonnard, Signac, deKooning, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Marsden
Hartley, Jean Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt, Louise
Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Claes
Oldenburg, Keith Haring, Miro, Chagall, Yayoi Kusama, Gilbert & George,
Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, William
Wegman, Christo and others.
Mark DeMuro has exhibited paintings with The New York Museum of Water, Gracie Mansion Gallery, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, Germans Van Eck, P.B. Van Voorst Van Beest, Nohra Haime, Annina Nosei, Bjorn Ressle Art of the 21st Century, Art Gotham, Barbara Braathen, M-13, COLAB, River Gallery, Seventeenth Street Gallery, Fine Art and Artists, Six to Six Gallery, and others, in New York, The Hague, Zurich, Los Angeles, Sedona, Southampton, Chicago, Miami, Washington D.C., and Planet Entropia in cyberspace. His work has been featured in Figaro Japan, New York’s Hottest Young Artists; L’Art Vivant, Paris; Bomb Art Quarterly, N.Y; New York Arts Journal; The Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal, HG TV, and The Washington Times. He has received the Dean’s Purchase Award from the University of Miami, the Ludwig K. Vogelstein Foundation Grant for Painting, and a Dow Material grant. He has presented a filmed on-line lecture at the New Oxford Academy for Project Entropia.
Collections include: U.S. State Department, Harvard University, Hess Corporation, Systems Products International, Meier Inc, Komar Inc, Gracie Mansion, NY, Jane Holzer, NY, Tim Forbes, NY, Jerry Magnin, Beverly Hills, David Murdoch, Hawaii, Victoria Baden-Powell, London, Daniel Boulakia, Paris, Jonathan Bourke, Dublin, Olivier des Clers, NY, Erin McKinnon, NY, Paul Olsen, Az, Sharon and Michael Fortenbaugh, NY, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kellogg, NJ., Margot de France, NY, Cati Van Milders, NY, Mr. & Mrs. Bo Polk, NY.