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China has several drawings in two shows in Munich, Germany.

Hans Kern, founder of the [Re]generator (www.regenerator.earth), organized these exhibitions to showcase a new wave of artists from around the world.The organizers of [RE] GENERATION believe that social, political and ecological healing must begin with the imagination.

One show is at:
Daniel Blau
Maximilianstraße 26, 80539 Munich
from July 2nd until July 16, 2021.
contact@danielblau.com
www.danielblau.com
+49 (0) 89 297342

And from July 2nd, 2021 through July 7th, two of the artists, China Marks and Chris Bianchi, will also be exhibiting in a two-person show, BONKERZ GARDEN, at:

Knust Kunz
Ludwigstraße 7, 80539 Munich
www.sabineknust.com
+49 (0) 89 29160703
http://viewingroom.sabineknust.com/re-generation

China had three drawings of landscapes in LandX, which closed on July 4 at:

Red Fox Contemporary Art
55 Westchester Avenue
Pound Ridge, NY 10576

And a new drawing, Gossip, was recently acquired by a collector.

China is one of three artists whose work can be seen in Music for the End of Time, an exhibition at the Owen James Gallery through November 21.

Owen James Gallery
59 Wooster Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10012
phone: +1 (718) 395-4874
www.owenjamesgallery.com

Three of China’s darker drawings accompany Jackal Pattern by Jason Schwartz in the new issue of the Evergreen Review.

Read Jackal Pattern online at the Evergreen Review.

Four of China’s drawings will be shown by the Owen James Gallery as part of Intersect Chicago, the online replacement for the SOFA fair, in collaboration with Artsy. The fair dates are November 6-12, with the Artsy portion up through December 5th.

Breakdown was an online group exhibition this past summer. It featured four of China’s recent drawings. It can still be seen here.

You can also read an interview with curator Andrea Burgay, and Andrea Burgay's interview with China here.

And you can buy a catalogue of the show here.

On November 19, 2020, 5:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada), join China for an informal conversation with Elizabeth Seaton, curator of the Beach Museum, about her drawing, Monkey Boy and the Magic Beans, seen in the museum’s current “Inspirations: Art of Storytelling” exhibition (through December 12).

Join the free program via ZOOM.

To register in advance, go here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program.

China’s work was shown in Chicago, IL and Amherst, MA, a drawing of hers is featured in a summer exhibition, and she was just awarded a second Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.

Because of the “exceptional quality” of her drawings and the “extent of her artistic achievement,” China was just awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The grant will pay for materials and a machine essential for use in her work. She received a first grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in March of 2013.

Though it’s impossible to make a studio visit right now and galleries and museums are closed, China’s artwork can always be seen on her website, recently updated through 2019.

Three prints by China were part of an Anchor Graphics retrospective exhibition. China made them during a three-week residency at Anchor Graphics in 2011.

Anchor Graphics: 25 Years of Printmaking
The Hokin Gallery,
Christopher Flynn, curator. Columbia College, Chicago

October 17, 2019 – January 24, 2020

A catalogue can be seen here.

China had three drawings in A Horse Walks into a Bar, D. Dominick Lombardi, curator, Hampden Gallery, UMASS Amherst. March 7 – April 12, 2020, but because of the pandemic, after two weeks it was closed to the public.

A digital catalogue and virtual tour of the exhibition can be seen here.

Each summer the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS collaborates with the Manhattan KS Public Library to host an exhibition in connection with the American Library Association's Summer Reading theme.

The 2020 theme, Imagine Your Story, celebrates myths, fairy tales, and fantasy. Whimsical art from the museum’s permanent collection, including Monkey Boy and the Magic Beans, a drawing by China Marks, acquired in 2007, will inspire visitors to create their own stories.

The museum's newest tool "Thinking About Pictures" (TAP) offers images of artworks in the current exhibition: Inspirations: Art for Storytelling.

Day Tripper, 2015 a Short Subject, was recently acquired for a private collection.

Several of China’s books can be seen at the Owen James Gallery booth during the EAB Fair, Oct. 24-27, 2019, featuring 40 exhibitors of contemporary prints, multiples and artists’ books, at the Caldwell Factory, 547 West 26th St. For more information, https://10times.com/eab-fair

Pocket Opera, 2016, was acquired by a private collector.

The Toss-Up, 2017, was acquired by a private collector.

For the second year in a row, China will participate in the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium, Art Wave, on November 2, 2018 at The Alexander Library, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

She will read from and show images of the pages from three of her one-of-a-kind books.

169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
12 PM – 2 PM

https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/bookarts/symp24.html

In connection with the Symposium, one of her small drawings and one of her broadsides will be displayed on the fourth floor of the Alexander Library, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, from November, 2018, through January, 2019.

China has two drawings in Water Over the Bridge, an exhibition of contemporary art dealing with global warming at the Morean Art Center in St. Petersburg, FL, through June 29, 2018.

www.moreanartscenter.org/morean-arts-center-current-exhibitions/

China will be one of three artists having work in the KCAI Alumni Biennial Exhibition 2018 at the Epsten Gallery, Leawood, KS.

August 19- September 30, 2018.

https://epstengallery.org/kcai-alumni-2018-biennial-exhibition/

China will show a 2018 diptych in the summer exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, 3rd Fl. 28 West 27th St., NYC. July 11- Sept. 22, 2018.

Opulence: Not Everything that Glitters is Gold, highlights work that looks behind the velvet curtain at complex contemporary issues. This exhibition explores the works of book artists whose work alludes to a depth of layered meaning and interpretation, often addressing current economic, social, political, ecological, and cultural issues/concerns.

https://centerforbookarts.org/event/opulence-not-everything-that-glitters-is-gold/

Lost in Space, 2006, was acquired by a private collector.

A Singular Occasion, 2017, was acquired by private collectors.

A copy of The Wax Boy, 2018, ed. 50, a book printed by Barbara Henry of the Harismus Press, was acquired for the Rare Books Collection at the Alexander Library, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ.
Five more copies of The Wax Boy were acquired by private collectors.

Recent drawings, broadsides, and books by China Marks will be shown at the Owen James Gallery, 59 Wooster, 2nd Floor.

The exhibition opens on Thursday, February 15, 6-8 PM,

and runs through Saturday, March 17, 2018.

http://www.owenjamesgallery.com

On Tuesday March 20th at 7:30 pm, in connection with Booked, an exhibition of books by the members of the Artists Books Roundtable at the Pierro Gallery at the Baird, China will discuss her work in a program titled Alive to the World: The Books and Drawings of China Marks at the Baird Center, 5 Mead Street, South Orange NJ 07079. China’s artist’s talk is open to the public.

For more information, contact Ann Vollum at annvollum@verizon.net

A 2017 broadside by China Marks was recently acquired by a private collector.

Knee Deep in a Sea of Tears, a drawing from 2013, just entered a private collection.

Continuing a more than 30-year tradition of supporting the arts in New York State, China Marks was awarded a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in the category of Crafts/Sculpture for her drawings.

On September 8, 2017, Gods and Men, a solo show of China’s 2016-17 drawings, opens at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.

http://avagallery.org/

China will talk about her work at 4 PM on the 8th, live-streamed on Facebook

www.facebook.com/AVAgallery/

A reception will follow from 5 to 7 PM. The exhibition runs through October 6, 2017.

On Friday, November 3, 2017, China will present examples of her work and speak at the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium 2017. The Symposium, sponsored by Rutgers University, is now in its twenty-third year and is the oldest North American conference with a primary focus on artists' books.

This year's symposium will be held at the Alexander Library on the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University.

The daylong event is attended by artists, librarians, collectors, writers, critics, scholars, teachers, students and the general public.

In connection with the Symposium, from November 2017 through January 2018, two of China’s recent drawings, as well as her 2010 book, Pressing Questions, and one of her broadsides will be on display in the Special Collections and University Archives Gallery at the Library.

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/bookarts/intro.htm

China has a drawing in Fight or Flight, an exhibition of politically-oriented art at The Painting Center, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, New York, NY 10001, (212) 343-1060. June 20-July 15, 2017. Opening reception, Thursday June 22, 6-8 PM.

thepaintingcenter.org/exhibitions/fight-or-flight

In June of 2017, the Rutgers University Libraries acquired two broadsides by China Marks for their Rare Books Collection.

Curious Creatures, an exhibition of contemporary representations of man/animal hybrids, at the Studio 509 Gallery, Riker Hill Art Park in Livingston, NJ., May 13 through May 28, 2017, included several of China’s drawings.

There was a long article in the Sunday, May 21st, 2017, issue of the Newark Star Ledger about the Riker Hill artists’ studios, which mentioned the Curious Creatures show and featured details from two of China’s drawings.

The New Normal, a group exhibition at the Owen James Gallery, 81 Greenpoint Ave., Suite 315, Brooklyn, NY 1122, included China’s drawings and one of her broadsides. January 18 through February 20, 2017.

www.owenjamesgallery.com/