Mark Behme

836 Gist Avenue
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
301-585-3495
mabehme@earthlink.net
www.markbehme.com

Selected Exhibitions

• Toys of Chance, Takoma Park Community Center, Takoma Park, Maryland, September 2009
• My Space on 7th, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2009
• BareBrush.com-April 1, 2009 Juried by Tom Taffe, artist and officer of the Salmagundi Club, the oldest art club in NYC, has a definite sense of art and fun. Taffe launches the month with humor in the shape of Mark Behme's "The Other Woman" a fully functional guitar...
• Mark Behme and Judy Goodkind, Gallery Neptune, Bethesda, MD, March 2009
• The Crow Show, The Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2008
• Heads, Torsos, Legs, Le Cadavre Exquis, Curator, Gateway Heliport Gallery, July 2008
• See What You Want To See, Gallery Neptune, Bethesda, MD, January 2008
• Images of Justice, The Catholic University of America - Columbus School of Law, October 2007
• HEAT II, The Next Tortured Genius, juried show, Monkdogz Urban Art, NYC, July 2007
• My Space on 7th, group show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D C, July 2007
• Exquisite Corpse, Gallery Neptune, Bethesda, Md , April 2007
• Erotica 2007, MOCA, Washington, DC, March 2007
• Selected Work, Alchemy, Silver Spring, Md, February 2007
• Annual All-Media Juried Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. February 2007
• Mud, Sand and Straw; juried show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC    August 2006
• A Celebration of the Figure, MOCA, Washington, D.C. August 2005
• “I Really Want to See”, group show, Gallery Four, Baltimore, Maryland    May 2005
• Commission Work- private collections    September 1991- present
• Sculpture Furniture, one-man show, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC     May 1991
• Figures, group show, Washington Square, Washington, DC     February 1987  
• Portraits and Roses, sculpture exhibit, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC    December 1986
• East Village Show, group show, Palladium, NYC    September 1985
• Saints and Sinners, one-man show, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, NYC    April 1985
• Metro, group show, Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD    August 1984
• Art 84, one-man show, DC Convention Center, Washington, DC    July 1984
• In the Still of the Night, group show, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC    December 1983
• Group Show, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC    October 1983
• Saints and Sinners, two-man show, (the) Olshonsky Gallery, Washington, DC    October 1983
• Interiors, group show, Art Barn, Washington, DC    January 1982
• Art 80, one-man show, DC Armory, Washington, DC    May 1980
• Third Rate Romances, one-man show, Felluss Gallery, Washington, DC    February 1980
• Emerging Washington Painters, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC September 1979

Commissions/Awards/Highlights
Corpus, Saint Bede Catholic Church, Williamsburg, VA	September 2002
Third Place Award, Images-African American Celebrations Marlboro Gallery, Prince Georges Community College, MD	March 1992
Commission for Temple Sinai, Washington, DC	April 1987
Cafritz Foundation Guest Art Instructor, Art Barn, Washington, DC	August 1982
Feature Artist, Washington Review of the Arts Magazine	October 1981
Rock Lobster, Grand Prize Winner Corcoran Gallery of Arts, Beaux Arts Masquerade, Washington, DC.  Andy Warhol, Juror	November 1980

Education

University of Maryland, University College, College Park, Maryland   1979
Fine Art classes

Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia 1973
Fine Art classes