Mark Dion

Mark Dion (b. 1961) is an American artist whose practice draws on natural history, archaeology, and the institutional systems through which knowledge is collected, classified, and displayed. Working with the conventions of the museum, the field expedition, and the scientific survey, Dion stages encounters between the methods of natural science and the logic of contemporary art.

His projects frequently take the form of expeditions, cabinets of curiosity, and research archives — structures that mimic institutional authority while exposing its assumptions. The reading list, the field guide, the annotated bibliography: these are not merely research tools in Dion's practice but materials in their own right.

Publications gathered here include exhibition catalogues, artist books, and printed matter documenting Dion's work across institutions in Europe and North America. Original period items.

  • Stack of art theory books spine-out including Roland Barthes Camera Lucida, Mythologies, Image Music Text, Walter Benjamin Illuminations, Jean Baudrillard America, Douglas Crimp On the Museum's Ruins, and Mark Dion Natural History and Other Fictions. Second stack including Art After Modernism, Harrison & Wood Art in Theory 1900–1990, Lucy Lippard Six Years The Dematerialization of the Art Object, Beyond Recognition by Owens, and Modernism in Dispute.

    Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor — Bibliomania 1998–1999, 1999

    Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor — Bibliomania 1998–1999, 1999