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Mark Cameron Boyd

Part-time Undergraduate Faculty

Mark Cameron Boyd was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas and studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture at Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, where the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation purchased his abstract works for their collection. He received his Baccalaureate from the University of Arkansas and did graduate studies in painting at Washington University in St. Louis.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1976, working as an artist and musician and co-founding an alternative art space to exhibit the work of unknown artists. He traveled to England, France, and Germany as publicist for Nina Hagen. When he returned to the United States, he taught his self-designed courses in film and popular studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA until 1993.

Boyd moved to Maryland in 1996, where he completed his MFA in Painting at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 1999, he has taught art theory, drawing, painting and photography for University of Maryland; film noir for the Monterey Museum of Art; drawing, photography and two-dimensional design for Montgomery College; and abstract painting for The Art League. Boyd has taught his contemporary art theory classes, Theory Now and Postconceptualism at the Corcoran since 2004, and this Spring he joined the Senior Thesis Group as one of the faculty team members teaching Fine Art Core IV.

Boyd’s artwork explores “text as a language for painting” by literally using his original writings as subject for his works. Boyd’s solo exhibition at American University’s Museum at Katzen Arts Center in 2006, Logocentric Playground, expanded his practice to participatory methodologies, as visitors were free to write upon his blackboard panels. Boyd has additionally shown his work at The Warehouse Gallery, Meat Market Gallery and Prada Gallery in Washington, D.C. and he was a 2007 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist selected for exhibition at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

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