Featured Work


2024

One Year at Home, 96" x 50" oil and distemper on Linen, 2024


2023


Fukui During the Monsoon, 58" x 38" oil and distemper on linen, 2023Whales at Night, 48" x 36" oil and distemper on linen, 2023

2022


Girl in Landscape,  48" x 36" oil and distemper on linen, 2022

Hiromi, Layla, and Blu,  60" x 84" oil and distemper on linen, 2022


2020


* Willows,  60" x 54" oil on linen, 2020* The Yellow House,  56" x 42" oil on linen, 2020

2019


* Mount Diablo State Park,  58" x 46" oil on linen, 2019 Layla’s Dream,  17" x 15" oil on linen, 2019

2018


Fall,  36" x 48" oil on linen, 2018

2013


* Cats and Toys on Rug, 20" x 24" oil on linen, 2013

2008


Yoko and Layla, 48" x 60" oil on linen, 2008

Mark Kurdziel




SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2023
Moments and Measure, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2020
New Work, Lynn Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea

2013
Life, Love and Death, Able Fine Art Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2011
The Classroom and Other Musings, Able Fine Arts, New York, NY

2010
Place and Pattern, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
Mark Kurdziel, Puzz Gallery, Art Village, Seoul, South Korea

2006
Recent Paintings, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

2003
Recent Paintings, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

2002
Mark Kurdziel 1998-2002, Taman Batu Gallery, Westhampton Beach, NY

2001
One Man Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

1999
Small Works and American Dreamscapes, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

1996
One Man Show, 17 Creations Gallery, New York, NY

1992
New Talent, Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2023
New Beginnings, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Summer Salon, Navado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2021
Cat Daddy, AHA Gallery, Brooklyn New York, curated by Francesca Arcilesi and Jodi McDonald
Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, New Jersey
Full Bloom, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
PLAS Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
BAMA, Busan, South Korea
Quantum Sphere, Lichtundfire Gallery, LES, New York, NY
Presence, Lichtundfire Gallery, curated by Robert Curcio & Priska Juschka, LES, New York, NY

2020
Before KIAF, Lynn Fine Arts, Seoul, South Korea 
Abstract Gravity, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY

2019
Beyond, Space 776, Bushwick New York, NY
Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
Abstract Connectivity, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY

2018
Color High and Emotions Raw, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
Rise Up, M55 Gallery, New York, NY
Past as Prologue, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
New Views 4, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2017
Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
New Views 3, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2016
In Your Mind, Lynn Fine Arts, Ansan ,South Korea Art Busan, Busan South Korea
Invitation, M55 Gallery 2015 U.S.+U, Yonkers, New York
New Views 2, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2014
The Painting Center is Turning 211, The Painting Center, New York, NY 
May’s Present, Able Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea
YAW, Yonkers, New York
New Views, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2013
Pairings, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
Inside Out, Torche’ Galerie, Belmar, New Jersey
Coex Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea

2010
Poetry and Motion, Able Fine Arts, New York, NY Seoul Open Art Fair, South Korea
Bongsan Art Fair, South Korea
Daegu Art Fair, South Korea

2009
Gallery Artists Part VI, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

2008
Just the Figure, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

2005
Gallery Artists; Gallery Grand Opening Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY  Gallery Artists Part II, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

2004
Romancing Nature, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

2002
Off the Wall, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2000
Artist of the Third Millennium, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

1998
A look at Recent Figurative Painting: Nine Artists at Work, curated by Judd Tully, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

1995
SOS, 420 West Broadway, New York, NY

1994
Work in Progress Group Show, Gallery 20/20, New York, NY 
Sunday by the Bay, Bellport, NY
20th Anniversary Benefit, Artist Space, New York, NY

1993
Love and Chaos, 11 First Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Petrucci Gallery, 20 Saugerties, NY
Primrose Gallery, Rhinebeck, N
Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock, NY
The Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, NY

1992
Juried Exhibition curated by Paul Georges, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Hudson Cradle, St. Ana Cathedral, Jersey City, NJ
5.1 Show, curated by Maranushi and Lederman, NY
Heart, 21 Luquer, NY

1991
Artist of the 90’s, Stendahl Gallery New York, NY
Copper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
On Tour, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Jazz and Art Festival, Jersey City, NJ
101 Thompson Gallery, NY
Invitational, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

1998
Trans Ego, Minor Injury Gallery, New York, NY


SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS


2023
The Wonders of the Powerhouse Arts District in Four New Shows, by Tris McCall, in: Jersey City Times, March 24.

2022
Mark Kurdziel, An Artist Described by Renoir, by Marina Hadley, in: Gallery & Studio—Arts Journal

2014
The Dream, The Reality, by John Zeaman, in: New Jersey Magazine, August/September issue

2011 
Mark Kurdziel, by D. Dominick Lombardo

2010
Place and Pattern Peopled by Women, by Xu Xi

2006
Mark Kurdziel, by Desmond Barry

2005
Romancing Nature, by Arlene McKanic, in: ARTnews review, March issue

2004
Romancing Nature, catalog essay by Jonathan Goodman.
Spiritual Realms, Opulent Dreams: Fantasy and Vision in Contemporary Figuration, by David Cleveland

2001
The Recent paintings of Mark Kurdziel, by Judd Tully 1999 
The Korai of Mark Kurdziel, by Desmond Barry


TEACHING EXPERIENCES


1992 - Present
Adjunct Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY


EDUCATION


1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology - State University of New York

All works © Mark Kurdziel 1980—2023. Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Mark Kurdziel. Site design and photographs by Dahlia El Broul