About
Born in Washington State, lived in California, Michigan, Japan, Virginia, Miami, New York

BFA University of Miami, Florida
Advanced Studies, Mudd Club, NYC

Mark DeMuro lives and works in New York City. In addition to making art, he has over thirty five years experience working as a private art dealer, curator, lecturer and consultant. He has advised collectors, curators, dealers, galleries, and corporations on building collections and making acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary art. He has worked with Impressionist, Modern, and Abstract Expressionist paintings, Minimalism, and especially POP art and art from the 1980s to the present. He has lectured for private banking groups at Art Basel Miami, and the Armory Show, NY. You can contact Mark to discuss selling or purchasing art for your collection.

Mark DeMuro was a Founder and Director of the Beaux Arts Foundation and The Downtown Arts Club. He curated 11 shows in Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, 2001 to help with the recovery of downtown and to emphasize the importance of the arts to the vitality of our city's life. Mark DeMuro has sold works by Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Matisse, Degas, Willem deKooning, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Keith Haring, Sol Lewitt, Yayoi Kusama, Rashid Johnson, Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Wayne Thiebaud, William Wegman, Christo, Louise Bourgeois, and many others. He is the owner and director of Air Mattress Gallery, showing works by established and emerging artists.

Mark DeMuro has exhibited with Gracie Mansion Gallery, The Flag Art Foundation, Jackie Klempay Gallery, The National Arts Club, Tansy Xiao / Wenlu Bao, The New York Museum of Water, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery, Chowaiki & Co., Germans Van Eck, P.B. Van Voorst Van Beest, Nohra Haime, Annina Nosei, Bjorn Ressle Gallery, Art of the 21st Century, Art Gotham, Barbara Braathen, M-13, COLAB (Barbara Gladstone, and Puttin' on the Ritz, an NEA Show in Washington DC), River Gallery, Seventeenth Street Gallery, Fine Art and Artists, Six to Six Gallery, and others, in New York, The Hague, Zurich, Los Angeles, Sedona, Southampton, Chicago, Miami, Washington D.C., and Planet Entropia in cyberspace.

His work has been featured in Figaro Japan, New York's Hottest Young Artists; L'Art Vivant, Paris; Bomb Art Quarterly, N.Y; New York Arts Journal; The New York Times online; The Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal; HG TV; The Washington Times; New York Art Beat; and Resolve40 on YouTube.

Mark DeMuro won the Dean's Purchase Award from the University of Miami, has received the Ludwig K. Vogelstein Foundation Grant for Painting, and a Dow Material grant.

Collections include: U.S. State Department, Harvard University, Hess Corporation, Systems Products International, Meier Inc, Komar Inc, Gracie Mansion, Jane Holzer, Tim Forbes, Jerry Magnin, Carol Hayes, Stanley Moss, David Murdoch, Victoria Baden-Powell, Ezra Chowaiki, Ed Meisner, Bjorn Ressle, Daniel Boulakia, Jonathan Bourke, Erin McKinnon, Jeanine Moss, Paul Olsen, Sharon Phair Fortenbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kellogg, Margot de France, Cati Van Milders, Mr. & Mrs. Bo Polk, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Kaye, Diane Wegee.