Mark Dion

Artist

New York, NY

Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, MA, in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford, School of Art, CT. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) scientific methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences.