Artist

Mark Klett

born Albany, NY 1952
Also known as
  • Mark Christopher Klett
  • Mark C. Klett
Born
Albany, New York, United States
Active in
  • Sun Valley, Idaho, United States
  • Tempe, Arizona, United States
Biography

Currently resides in Tempe, Arizona. Klett manages the Photography Collaborative Facility at the School of Art at Arizona State University. Recent solo exhibitions of his work were organized by the Oklahoma City Art Museum (1991), the Pace/McGill Gallery (New York, 1990), the Afterimage Gallery (Dallas, Texas, 1988), and the Phoenix Art Museum, (Phoenix, Arizona, 1987). He was a member of the Rephotographic Survey Project, 1978–79. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1979, 1982 and 1984). Klett's publications include Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project (University of New Mexico Press, 1984); Traces of Eden: Travels in the Desert Southwest (David Godine, 1986); One City/Two Visions (Bedford Arts Press, 1990); Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest by Mark Klett (University of New Mexico Press, 1992). An exhibition is planned by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, for 1992.

Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Mark Klett, Around Toroweap Point, just before and after sundown, beginning and ending with views used by J.K. Hillers, over 100 years ago, Grand Canyon, 1986, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1988.66A-E, © 1986, Mark Klett
Around Toroweap Point, just before and after sundown,…
Date1986
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Mark Klett, Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill, 1990, 13 gelatin silver prints, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt, 2017.43.8A-M
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill
Date1990
13 gelatin silver prints
Not on view