16 Facts About Mark Wallinger

Mark Wallinger was born on 25 May 1959 and is an English artist.

Mark Wallinger represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

Mark Wallinger trained at the Chelsea School of Art in London, from 1978 to 1981, before studying for an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London from 1983 to 1985.

In 1998, Mark Wallinger won the Henry Moore Fellowship, British School at Rome, an award offered to outstanding scholars and artists with the opportunity to work in Rome for 3 to 12 months.

In 2001, Mark Wallinger was honored with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, one of the world's most respected artist-in-residence programmes for established artists working in the fine arts, film, literature and music.

In 2003, Mark Wallinger was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Central England in Birmingham, UK.

Mark Wallinger was awarded the 2007 Turner Prize for State Britain, a direct meticulous replica and reconstruction of Brian Haw's protest peace camp outside the Houses of Parliament against policies towards Iraq.

Mark Wallinger put a black line on the floor of the Tate and through the middle of his exhibit to mark part of a 1 kilometre exclusion zone from Parliament Square.

In 2001, the British Council revealed that they had selected Mark Wallinger to produce a solo show of new and past artworks for the British Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale.

Mark Wallinger presented the site-specific work, Facade, which wrapped the front of the British Pavilion with an identical size replica colour photograph of the Pavilion itself printed on vinyl-coated material attached from scaffolding.

Mark Wallinger has said that the title might be taken as a double meaning: arrival at the United Kingdom, but at the kingdom of heaven, with a security guard playing the part of St Peter.

Mark Wallinger was one of the five artists shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project in January 2008, and in February 2009 it was announced that his design had won the competition.

Mark Wallinger curated the exhibition "The Russian Linesman: Frontiers, Borders and Thresholds" at the Hayward Gallery in London, which lasted from February to May 2009.

In February 2013, it was announced that Wallinger had created Labyrinth a set of 270 enamel plaques of unicursal labyrinth designs, one for every London tube station, to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground; each will be numbered according to its position in the route taken by the contestants in the 2009 Guinness World Record Tube Challenge.

In 2019 Mark Wallinger displayed his sculpture entitled The World Turned Upside Down at the London School of Economics.

In October 2019, Mark Wallinger featured in a group show at Tension Fine Art alongside artists Julian Lowe and Stuart Elliot.