Mario Marzan

www.mariomarzan.com

www.campoarts.org

mmarzan@email.unc.edu

Education

2005 Carnegie Mellon University M.F.A. Studio Art

2002 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH B.F.A. Studio Art

Professional Experience 

2023-Present   Founder + Co-Director, Drawn to the Camino Walking Artist Residency Program

2016-Present   Campo Research Studios:  In Collaboration with Artist and Faculty Associate Professor Roxana Perez-Mendez

2013- Present, Associate Professor of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2007-2013       Assistant Professor of Art, Drawing and Painting. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2005-07           Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications

2024    “Pilgrimage as a Medium: Teaching the Camino de Santiago.”

Campo Research Studios. Ad Limina Journal. Revista de Investigación del Camino de Santiago y de las Peregrinaciones. Xunta de Galicia

2023    “Pilgrimage as a Tool for Perception and a Form of Counter-Cartography.”

Campo Research Studios. Special Issue Walking Art Research Practice (WARP) x Soap Box: A Journal for Cultural Analysis. In collaboration with the CUS - Centre of Urban Studies (UvA), ASCA - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (UvA), ARIAS – Platform for Research through the Arts and Sciences and NICA - Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. Published September 1, 2023

Select Grants/Awards

2012    University Research Council Grant / UNC / $1,800

2011    NFA - NALAC Fund for the Arts, Artist Grant / $5000

            The Drawing Center, Slide Registry and Viewing Program, New York, NY .

2007    Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant / $1,500
2006    Orange County Arts Commission Purchase Award, Hillsborough, NC.

2005    Carolina Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC

Paper Presentations

2024    “Navigating after the Storm: Touchstone.” Walking Art in Relational Geographies International Encounters and Conference.  University of Corona, NaoCoclea Centre de Creació Contemporània. Girona, Spain

2023    “Navigating after the Storm:  Campo Research Studio.” Multifarious Identity and Contemporary Visualization Panel SECAC, Richmond VA

2022    “Pilgrimage as an Artist Practice.” WARP Conference (Walking as a Research Practice, University of Amsterdam. Allard Pierce Museum. Amsterdam Netherlands.

“Pilgrimage as Medium: Teaching with the Spirit and the Mind.” Walking Art and Relational Geographies International Encounters and Conference. University of Girona, University of Vic, NauCoclea Centre de Creació Contemporània Girona, Spain

2021    “Pilgrimage as a Medium” Institute for Pilgrimage Studies Conference. William and Mary University

Select Solo/Two Person Exhibitions

2016    Flux, Rutledge Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC

            Environmental Identities, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC

2013    Flood, Acorn Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Alternating Currents, Baum Gallery/ Museum, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

2011    Sink or Swallet, Lowercase Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

2010    Layers (with Eugene Korsunskiy), Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC

2009    Daily Image Project, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC

           Cycles of Deconstruction w/ Stephen Floyd, Flanders 311, Raleigh, NC

2008    Dive and Reappear, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC

Select Group Exhibitions

2023    Walking as Research Practice (WARP): Special Issue WARP x Soapbox Journal – Book Presentation and Exhibition. ‘A Space for Books’ Amsterdam, Netherlands. As part of Campo Research Studios in collaboration with Roxana Perez-Mendez

Place of Encounters/Lugar de Encuentros. Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC. As part of Campo Research Studios in collaboration      with Roxana Perez-Mendez

2020    Escapes and Revelations. As part of Campo Research Studios in collaboration with Roxana Perez Mendez. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem.

2017    New Work: Campo Research Studio.  AADK Centro Negra: Centro De Investigación y Creación Contemporanea. Blanca, Murcia Spain

2014    The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

            State of Emergency, Van Avery/Smith Gallery, Davidson College, NC

2013    TINY: Attention, Exploded, Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

Residencies

2023    Proyectos Artísticos Casa Antonino. Gijón, Asturias, Spain

            Grotta Artist Residency Aracena, Huelva, Spain

            Artenatura Artist Residency, Huelva, Spain 

2017    Foundation Valparaiso. Mojácar, Spain

AADK Centro Negra: Centro De Investigación y Creación Contemporanea. Blanca, Murcia Spain

            AARK: Archipelago Art Residency.  Korpoo, Finland

            Joya: Arte + Ecologia.  Velez-Blanco Almeria, Spain

            Artist in Residence, El Status Studio, San Juan , PR

Select Bibliography / Publications / Press

2023    Place of Encounters | Lugar de Encuentros Catalogue Essay. Rojas Sotelo, Miguel (2023).             Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/28556

2016    Sumter Item, Art Column “Exhibitions Intriguing, Creative, Challenging”, Feb. 23, 2016. 2013             Culture Str/ke, “The Judge” (Story by Daisy Hernandez), Sept. 24, 2013

2012    Gainesville Scene, “Artists Interpret Below the Belt” Mar 1, 2012

            Gainesville Today, “Bringing Art to the Masses” Mar 4, 2012

2011    Grants Pass Daily Courier, “Wiseman’s Gallery Water Themed...” Nov 14, 2011.

            NC Artblog, “The Art of The Urban Jungle”, October 7th, 2011

            Rough Cuts / The Kalm Report, “Winter Break at MOMENTAart and The Constructed     Landscape”, Video review by James Kalm (Brooklyn, NY), Jan. 11, 2011.
            The L Magazine, “The Constructed Landscape”, Brooklyn, NY, Jan 12, 2011.
            Village Dog Blog, March. 2011.

2010    ARTPAPERS, “Necessary Fictions” Review by Laurel Fredrickson, Nov/Dec Issue, 2010.

            Map Mint Blog, “Let’s Get Lost Part II”. October 21, 2010.

            Race, Space, Place Blog, “ARTiculating Caribbean Imaginaries”, October, 2010.

            NC Artblog, “Wayfindings”, September 29, 2010

            Independent Weekly, “Misshapes: New Ways of Seeing in Layers”, Sept. 1st, 2010

            Independent Weekly, “Ways of Being Latino...”, June 30th, 2010

Conference and Public Lectures

2016    Artist Lecture, Rutledge Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC

            Artist Lecture, Sumter County Gallery, Sumter, SC

2014    Visiting Artist Lecture, Davidson College, NC

            “Visualizing the Caribbean”, Lecture, Duke University, Durham, NC

2013    Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

2013    Visiting Artist Lecture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

2013    Public Lecture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (Tenure Talk)

2011    Artist Lecture, “Sink”, Green Hill Center for the Arts, NC

2011    Visiting Artist Lecture, “Views from the First House”, Middle Tennessee State University, TN

2010 Gallery Talk, ARTiculating Caribbean Imaginaries, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Univ., Durham, NC

Artist and Associate Professor Mario Manuel Marzán:

Mario Marzán is an artist whose work includes drawing, painting, installation and sculpture. He grew up in Puerto Rico and now lives in Durham, NC where he is an Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work is about the constantly shifting, changing and evolving negotiation of landscapes in relation to individual identities and histories. Using scale models to relate to the characteristics of sculpture and architecture, his work addresses the spontaneous phenomena and transient moments that occur in nature as a way to talk about culture and assimilation. His investigations, often informed by peripatetic structures, are symbolic of place and space and use cartographic languages as modes of representation. Mario Marzán teaches all level drawing courses as well as an immersive summer seminar on the intersections of art and nature. An avid hiker and long distance backpacker, Mario carries a NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute Wilderness First Aid certification and has walked both the Camino del Norte and the Camino Frances. He holds a BFA from Bowling Green University and a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.