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Projects: Marlon Mullen is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work by a major museum, on view in the Museum’s free, street-level Projects gallery from December 14, 2024, to April 20, 2025. Marlon Mullen (b. 1963) uses art publications and other print material as points of departure for his paintings, generating radical reimaginings of these sources in which text and image are transformed through his dynamic color and composition. Since 1986, Mullen has been based at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, a progressive studio for artists with developmental disabilities.
Organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Alexandra Morrison, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture.
The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in part by the Elaine Dannheisser Foundation and The Young Patrons Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Images
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 40″ (121.9 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist, NIAD Art Center, and Adams and Ollman © 2024 Marlon Mullen. Photo by Chris Grunder
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 40″ (121.9 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist, NIAD Art Center, and Adams and Ollman © 2024 Marlon Mullen. Photo by Chris Grunder
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 30 1/4 × 30 1/4″ (76.8 × 76.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of AC Hudgins. © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2016. Acrylic on canvas. 36 × 36″ (91.4 × 91.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis in honor of Ann Temkin. © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 40″ (121.9 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist, NIAD Art Center, and Adams and Ollman © 2024 Marlon Mullen. Photo by Chris Grunder
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 40″ (121.9 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist, NIAD Art Center, and Adams and Ollman © 2024 Marlon Mullen. Photo by Chris Grunder
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 42 × 42″ (106.7 × 106.7 cm). Collection KAWS © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 18″ (61 × 45.7 cm). Collection Paige and Joey Hovsepyan © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 30″ (76.2 × 76.2 cm). Collection Evan Ruster © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 36″ (91.4 × 91.4 cm). Collection Joyce and Ken Siegel © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 24″ (61 × 61 cm). Collection Adam Turnbull and Elizabeth Karp-Evans © 2024 Marlon Mullen
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2018. Acrylic on linen, 36 × 26″ (91.4 × 66 cm). Collection Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg © 2024 Marlon Mullen. Photo by Charles Benton
Marlon Mullen. Courtesy of the artist and NIAD
Marlon Mullen at work in the NIAD studio. Courtesy of the artist and NIAD
Installation view of Projects: Marlon Mullen, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from December 16, 2024, through April 20, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Dorado
Installation view of Projects: Marlon Mullen, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from December 16, 2024, through April 20, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Dorado
Installation view of Projects: Marlon Mullen, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from December 16, 2024, through April 20, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Dorado
Installation view of Projects: Marlon Mullen, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from December 16, 2024, through April 20, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Dorado