Mark Boren

Boren’s artwork has been exhibited at Thread Waxing Space, NY (1997) and Whitechapel Gallery, London (1998) alongside the work of Guillaume Apollinaire, Vito Acconci, Renato Bertelli, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, Richard Hamilton, Fernand Leger, Wyndham Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Le Corbusier, Filippo Marinetti, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Ed Ruscha, Walter Sickert, Robert Smithson, Martha Rosler, Leslie Thornton, and Andy Warhol. Boren’s art has been reproduced in or reviewed in: Frieze: Magazine of Contemporary Art and Culture; The London Times; The Times Literary Supplement; London Metro; London Evening Standard; The Observer; Guardian; Tunbridge Wells. It has been published in: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace (Threadwaxing 1997); Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age (Whitechapel 1998). He is the author of Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (Routledge 2001, 2nd ed. 2019), Sugar, Slavery, Christianity and the Making of Race (Caribbean Studies Press 2013), Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, 1999-2009 (Seven Stories Press 2021), and Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos 2010-Present (Seven Stories Press 2021). Boren has also published scholarship on the works of Blake, Byron, Eliot, Faulkner, James, Melville, O’Connor, Poe, Shelley, Stoker, and Wheatley. He currently lives, makes art and writes in Wilmington, North Carolina.