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Projects: Marlon Mullen

December 14, 2024 – April 20, 2025

The Museum of Modern Art

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.

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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. Courtesy of the artist and NIAD

Marlon Mullen at work in the NIAD studio. Courtesy of the artist and NIAD