Marc Manning

Marc Manning is an artist living and working in San Francisco. His work includes painting, embroidery, and sound performance. His work is heavily influenced by his gay perspective, Italian futurism, abstraction, theoretical physics, and German expressionism. In both his visual and audio works he explores the possibilities of sound, color, charged symbols abstraction to summon complex emotions; a synergistic living cauldron of sound.

2013, MFA in Painting, California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
1996, BFA in Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA

Solo Exhibitions:
2014, “Ecstacy HD” Maniac Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001, “Burning houses and other things” Spector Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2001, “27 complaints, or keeping track of nothing” The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
2000, “Everything is fine, or disaster is one step behind you” Nexus foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia PA

Select Sound Performances:
2019, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2017, Gays Hate Techno Gathering, Upper Lake, CA
2016, “Unseen”, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
2016, Gays Hate Techno Gathering, Upper Lake, CA
2015, Gays Hate Techno Gathering, Upper Lake, CA
2012, “A Slow Unraveling”, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010, “Presence” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA

Select Group Exhibitions:
2017, “Mind Control Art Fair” Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2013, “MFA Thesis Exhibition” California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
2013, “Dirty Drawings” We are Will Brown, San Francisco CA
2012, “Sweet Sheets” Zelle Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
2012, “Abbey of Thelema Show” Abbey of Thelema, Cefalu’, Italy
2008, “Poppers” The Texas Fire-House, Queens NY
2006, “Portland Modern” Portland Art Center Annex, Portland OR
2004, “New work, traveled work” Di...