Curriculum Vitae
EXHIBITIONS:
ONE PERSON SHOWS-
1976 Belleville Area College; Belleville, IL
1977 The Terry Moore Gallery; St. Louis, Mo.
1978 “Recent Works”; St. Louis Community College at Meramec; Kirkwood, MO
1979 “Mark Weber/Watercolors”; Louis D. Beaumont Gallery; Maryville College; St. Louis, MO
1980 Timothy Burns Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1983 “Art About Art, 1976-1983”; Messing Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1984 “Recent Work: Paintings & Drawings”; Belleville Area College; Belleville, IL
1986 “Tornado Trees”; Locus Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1988 “Night Fishing”; Locus Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1990 “Recent Paintings”; Morton J.May Gallery; Maryville University; St. Louis, MO
1990 “Recent Works”; Belleville Area College; Belleville, IL
1996 “Layers”; Midtown Art Center; St. Louis, MO
1999 “Wanderer”, Ethical Society of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
1999 “Recent Work”, MOSA Design Center, St. Louis, MO
2000 “Recent Works”, Three Sinks Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2000 “Recent Work”, Mayor’s Office, City Hall, St. Louis, Mo.
2000 “Selected Work”, World Trade Center, Clayton, Mo.
2001 “New Work”, Three Sinks Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2001 “Special Intentions”, Three Sinks Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2004 “Third Night”, William & Florence Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL.
2005 “The Chosen – Landscapes” SLCC – Gateway Tower Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2008 “100 Special Intentions” Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis Mo.
2009 “Mark Weber: 20 Years of Painting, PHD Gallery. St. Louis, Mo.
2012 Mark Weber Recent Work: MRH Elementary School, Richmond Heights, Mo.
2012 “Perspectives” PHD Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2017 “Weber: Father and Son” Paintings: Mark Weber Photographs Matthew Weber St. Charles Community College Gallery of Art.
2018 “A Matter of Course, Not Concern” Mo. Valley College
2021 “Reverie” Gallery of Contemporary Art. SLCC Meramec. STL Mo.
GROUP SHOWS-
1973 “Wisconsin ‘73”; University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Stevens Point, WI
1976 “New Gallery Artists”; Emden Gallery; St. Louis, Mo.
1976 “New Directions in Drawing and Painting”; National Exhibition; The Rising Company Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1977 “The National Cape Coral Annual Arts Exhibition, No. 11”; Edison Community College; Fort Myers, FL
1977 “National Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings”; Salt Lake City, UT
1978 “Group Exhibition”; Messing Gallery; Country Day School; St. Louis, MO
1979 “Mid-Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition”; Nelson-Atkins Museum; Kansas City, KS
1979 “New Talent”; Morgan Gallery; Shawnee Mission, KS
1979 “New Photorealist Works”; Hansen Galleries; New York, NY
1979 “Grey”; Timothy Burns Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1979 “Small Packages”; Timothy Burns Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1980 “Watercolor, U.S.A.”; Springfield Art Museum; Springfield, MO
1980 “New Gallery Artists”; Carlson Gallery; New York, NY
1981 “St. Louis Editions Print Competition”; Missouri Arts and Humanities Commission; National Endowment for the Arts; St. Louis, MO
1982 “Prints from the Greenberg Gallery”; Highlander Gallery; St. Louis Community College at Forest Park; St. Louis, MO
1982 “Mid-Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition”; Nelson-Atkins Museum; Kansas City, KS
1982 “Western Imagery”; Community Cultural Center; Brookings, SD
1983 “Jim Morgan Memorial Show”; Morgan Gallery; Shawnee Mission, KS
1983 “Contemporary Figurative Art”; Wabash College: Crawsfordsville, IN
1983 “Metro St. Louis Figurative Exhibition”; Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville; Edwardsville, IL
1985 “Five Choose Five”; Arts Coordinating Council for the Area; Messing Gallery; St. Louis, MO
1985 “Mid-Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition”; Nelson-Atkins Museum; Kansas City, KS
1985 “Art St. Louis”; St. Louis Arts Festival; St. Louis, MO
1985 “Artists for Nuclear Disarmament”; Greenpeace; St. Louis, MO
1986 “Art St. Louis”; St. Louis Arts Festival; St. Louis, MO
1987 “Faculty ‘87”; St. Louis Artists Guild; St. Louis, MO
1987 “Living at the Emden”; Highlander Gallery; St. Louis Community College at Forest Park; St. Louis, MO
1988 “An Affair of the Arts”; Client Care Services Benefit for AIDS; St. Louis, MO
1988 “Alumni Art Show”; Skylight Lounge Gallery; University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire; Eau Claire, WI
1988 “Prints & Drawings”; St. Louis Artists Guild; St. Louis, MO
1988 “Drawing Invitational”; The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery; Webster University; Webster Groves, MO
1988 “Art St. Louis”; St. Louis Arts Festival; St. Louis, MO
1989 “Return of the Masters”; Foster Gallery; University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire; Eau Claire, WI
1989 “Watercolor, U.S.A.”; Springfield Art Museum; Springfield, MO
1989 “Art St. Louis”; St. Louis Arts Festival; St. Louis, MO
1991 “Alumni Art Exhibit”; Foster Gallery; University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire; Eau Claire, WI
1992 “The Large Drawing Show”; Group Invitational; The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery; Webster University; Webster Groves, MO
1992 “Realism Today”; The Evansville Museum of Arts & Science; Evansville, IN
1992 “Figure Drawing in St. Louis”; Highlander Gallery; St. Louis Community College at Forest Park; St. Louis, MO
1992 “Pertinent Dissimilarities: The Figure”; Group Invitational; The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery; Webster University; Webster Groves, MO
1995 “Community + (Cross) Project”; Invitational; Forum for Contemporary Art; St. Louis, MO
1995 “Falling and Flying”; Gallery of Art; St. Louis Community College at Forest Park; St. Louis, MO
1997 “St. Louis Figurative Artists”; Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO
1998 “Colleagues”; University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
1999 “Painted Plates – A Century Ending Collaboration of Paint and Clay”, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo.
2000 “Landscape Painting”, Desmond Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2000 “Art on Art” Collaborative, Repetory Theater of St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.
2000 “Colleagues II”, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Mo.
2002 “Six St. Louis Artists/Three Sinks Gallery” Three Sinks Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2002 “Colleagues III”, SLCC at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Mo.
2004 “Works on Paper”, Maryville University, St. Louis, Mo.
2005 “Colleagues”, SLCC-MC, St. Louis, Mo.
2006 “An Uncompressed Life: A Tribute Exhibition to John Ortbals” SLCC Florissant Valley Art Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
2007 “Creative Spirits” Gallery Visio, University of Missouri –St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2008 Realism Redefined, Surplus Gallery, SIU- Carbondale Ill.
2010 What’s the Buzz on the Playground? Art of Today from St. Louis, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL.
2015 Dialogue with Nature. Gallery of Contemporary Art – SLCC Forest Park. St. Louis, Mo.
2016 “Tributaries: Centennial Celebration of Art and Design Alumni”. Foster Gallery. Eau Claire, Wis.
2019 “The Art of Me” Gallery of Contemporary Art – SLCC Wildwood. St. Louis, Mo.
2021 “Places” COCA Gallery. St. Louis, Mo.
COLLECTIONS:
Barnes Hospital; St. Louis, MO
Belleville Area College; Belleville, IL
The Nelson-Atkins Museum; Kansas City, KS
Mark Twain Banks; St. Louis, MO
Ralston Purina Company; St. Louis, MO
The Seven-Up Company; Houston, TX
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company; St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Community College; St. Louis, MO
Tom’s Bar and Grill; St. Louis, MO
Hunan Normal University; Changsha, China
St. Louis Community College - Meramec
Various Private Collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
“Washington University ‘Graduate Thesis’ Show”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 5/1/76.
“Graduate Student Exhibition”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/3/76.
Works of Eight Artists Exhibited”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/18/76.
“Mark Weber Paintings at Moore Gallery”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 5/14/77.
“Mark Weber Exhibit: Lyrical Photorealism”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/12/77.
“Potter and Paintings at Three Area Galleries”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/14/78.
Two Art Shows”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/20/78.
“Mark Weber”, New Art Examiner, 3/78
“Burns Opens with ‘Gray’ Exhibit”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 11/79.
“Various Works at Burns Gallery”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11/79.
“Good Things Still Come in Small Packages”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 12/29/79.
“‘Packages’ for Holiday”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/28/79.
“Artist Weber Displays His ‘Natural Talent’ at the Burns Gallery”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat,12/12/80.
“Artists Sellard and Weber Manipulate Object’s Context”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 12/27/80.
“Mark Weber’s Work Continues Tradition of Irreverent Fun”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/27/80.
“Showcase for Local Artists”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/15/81.
“Seven-Up Promotes Work of Artists Here”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1/20/82.
“Tempting Showcase for St. Louis and Its Printmaking”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1/24/82.
“Seven-Up Teams with Artists to Promote St. Louis”, St. Louis Business Journal, 2/15-21/82.
“St. Louis Editions’ Gives Visibility to Area Artists”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 2/20/82.
“Mark Weber”, New Art Examiner, 6/83.
“Installation Weakens ‘Five Choose Five’ Show”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/8/85.
“Mark Weber’s Paintings Are Focused on Trees”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4/86.
“CWE Artist Tries to Balance Art, Marketing”, West End Word, 6/5/86.
“Faculty Art Show Demonstrates Talent”, The Scene, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 11/1/87.
“Mark Weber, David Saunders”, New Art Examiner, 12/88.
“Art St. Louis”, New Art Examiner, 1/89.
“New Gallery Debuts”, The Scene, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 11/1/89.
“Artists Seduced by the Human Form”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/8/92.
“Faculty Art Show Opens in Highlander Lounge”, The Scene, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 2/7/94.
Contemporary American Drawing; China: Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, 1998.
Contemporary American Oil Painting; China: Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, 1999.
“Mark Weber is true to blue in his latest nature paintings”, St. Louis Post – Dispatch, 3/11/01
“Special Intentions: Works on Paper”, Art St. Louis Vol. 15, No.1 Spring/Summer 2002
“Third Night” by John Hess, The Scene, February 17, 2004
EDUCATION:
B.F.A. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
M.F.A. Washington University; St. Louis, MO
TEACHING CAREER (Retired):
ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE at WILDWOOD, Wildwood, MO
January 2009-2019 Retired Professor of Art
Arts and Humanities - Department Chair
Courses taught: Life Drawing I, II, and III, Drawing I, II, III; Painting I, II, Advanced Painting, Art Appreciation, History of Modern Art.
ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT FOREST PARK; St. Louis, MO
Fall 1995-2009
Courses taught: Life Drawing I, II, and III
Drawing I, II, III; Painting I, II, Advanced; Design I, II; Art Appreciation
Art Department Chair
Acting Dean – Humanities and Social Sciences - 2005
Acting Executive Dean – 2006 - 2007
BELLEVILLE AREA COLLEGE; Belleville, IL
Spring 1976-Fall 1984 Part-time Art Instructor
Fall 1978 Full-time Art Instructor (Sabbatical Replacement)
Courses taught: Art Appreciation; 2-D Design; Drawing; Painting
MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY; St. Louis, MO
Fall 1977-Summer 1995 Part-time Art Instructor
Courses taught: Art Appreciation; Contemporary Art History; 2-D Design; Drawing; Painting; Survey of Contemporary St. Louis Art
ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT FOREST PARK; St. Louis, MO
1986-Summer 1995 Part-time Art Instructor
Director, Highlander Gallery
Courses taught: Art Appreciation; Design I; Design II (Color Theory); Drawing I, II, III; Life Drawing
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS; St. Louis, MO
Fall 1981 Part-time Art Instructor
Courses taught: Watercolor
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE); St. Louis, MO
Fall & Spring 1980 Part-time Art Instructor
Courses taught: Painting
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY; Webster Groves, MO
Fall 1991-Spring 1995 Part-time Art Instructor
Courses taught: Drawing; Foundations I & II