马克·夏兹在密歇根大学获得雕塑系的美术学士学位，在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校获得雕塑系的美术硕士学位。 他的作品涉及雕塑、装置艺术、画画、摄影等多个领域，曾展於圣安东尼奥市的McNay艺术博物馆所举办的“新想象雕塑”展览。 他的作品被德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的德克萨斯州立大学以及其他个人和公共机构收藏。 马克·夏兹现为肯特州立大学艺术学院的助理教授，并担任基础课程项目协调员。

当今有越来越多的移动和流水性的景致，埋藏在人们内心深处的悠闲意味变得更有趣味且弥足珍贵。 人们依然在寻寻觅觅中孕育、申张和不断转变这些记忆中的意义。这些意义也依然受到了寻求它们的那些人持续的培养，责备和改造。

我常常利用已存在的空间、简单的建筑材料和堆积的废弃材料，尝试用一种令人吃惊的方式唤起人们极为熟悉的事物。 我认可并且享受对人们记忆中某地方的破碎、扭曲和再造。

Mark Schatz received his BFA in Sculpture from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas in Austin.

His practice includes sculpture, installation, drawings, and photography and has been shown widely, including the exhibition “New Image Sculpture” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. His work is included in private and public collections, including the permanent collection of Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

Mark Schatz is currently an assistant Professor and the Foundations Program Coordinator for the School of Art at Kent State University.

In an increasingly mobile and fluid landscape, the lingering meanings that are embedded in physical spaces and places become even more interesting and precious. These meanings are still cultivated, claimed, and transformed by those who seek them out.

Frequently utilizing existing spaces, simple construction materials, and accumulations of castoff materials, I try to evoke something deeply familiar in surprising ways. I acknowledge and even relish the fragmentation, distortion, and reinvention of our remembered places.