Mark Hosford

Associate Professor of Art

Mark Hosford was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1974 and grew up in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas. He moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1993 to pursue a BFA in Studio Arts at the University of Kansas with a concentration on printmaking. He received his MFA in 2001 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. That same year, Hosford accepted a teaching position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Art. Hosford has a national and international exhibition record, including exhibitions in Poland, Germany, South Korea, China, New York, Boston, and California. His work is included in numerous public and private collections. He is represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Specializing in drawing, printmaking, and animation, Hosford’s work draws from a fascination with nature, counter-culture imagery, spiritualism, random curiosities, obsolete technology, stream of consciousness, and personal narratives.