Mark Brautigam attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps for four years. He has exhibited at the Haggerty Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and the Newspace Center for Photography. His work is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Racine Art Museum, as well as numerous private collections.
Solo Exhibitions
This is Summer, Mutton Dressed as Lamb, muttondressedaslamb.co, 2021
On Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2011
Group Exhibitions
What On Earth: Contemporary Artists + The Landscape, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2021
10th Anniversary Fall Exhibition, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Downtown, MOWA | DTN, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Among the Wonders of the Dells: Photography, Place, Tourism, Museum of Wisconsin Art,
West Bend, WI, 2019
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
The Salon Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2017
Roadside Attractions, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI, 2016
Museum of Wisconsin Art, Modern and Contemporary Gallery, West Bend, WI, 2015
The Salon Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
Pacific Midwest 2.0, Inova, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
Clear Picture: Looking at Communities from an Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
WisconsinCity, Art Start, Rhinelander, WI, 2014
Pacific Midwest: A Milwaukee Group Show, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2013
Up North, Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI, 2012
Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2012
3rd Annual Photography Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2011
Current Tendencies II, Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2011
Homeless is Not My Name, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, 2011
LOOKbetween, Featured Artist Projection, “On Wisconsin,” Charlottesville, VA, 2010
Emerging Photographers Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, 2009
Wisconsin Photography 2009, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, 2009
The 20th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2008
Photo Midwest 2006 (juried by Catherine Edelman), Madison, WI, 2006
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Spring 2006
Collector’s Series I, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2006
Collections
Milwaukee Art Museum
We Energies Foundation Art Collection
Museum of Wisconsin Art
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University
Racine Art Museum
Online
Slate.com, 2014
Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views, 2012
collect.give
The 50 States Project, 2009
Humble Arts Foundation, Group Show, 2007
Awards & Recognition
Critical Mass, 2011
Review Santa Fe, 2011
Arthur P. Haas Memorial Photography Purchase Award, 2009
Artist Lectures & Panels
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Publications
Pacific Midwest 2.0, Inova, 2015
Pacific Midwest, Newspace Center for Photography, 2013
Stand, Issue 01, 2012
100 Artists of the Midwest, Schiffer Books, 2011
collect.give, The Book, collect.give, 2011
The Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, 2009
Press
Wisconsin People and Ideas, “Diversions of a Different Nature: The Many-Storied Career of Wisconsin Dells,” John Gurda & J Tyler Friedman, Spring 2019, pp. 12-18
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Seeking Solitude,” Mary Louise Schumacher, September 25, 2011
Wisconsin People and Ideas, “On Wisconsin,” Andy Adams, Summer 2009, pp. 28-36
Interviews
Lenscratch, 2012
The Morning News, 2009