Mark Bell

Mark Bell (b. 1964, Toronto) is an Honours AOCA from the Ontario College of Art and Design (1984-1989) and received his Masters of Art from The Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, UK in 2009. He has exhibited his paintings across Canada in various artist-run centres and public galleries - including solo exhibitions at Cambridge Galleries (2023), The Art Gallery of Ontario (2003), and Mercer Union (1999) – as well as commercial galleries, with General Hardware Contemporary (2023, 2017, 2013, 2011, 2010), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007) and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (2007). In 2004 he received the Artist Grant Award from the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts.

Since 2006 Bell has taught painting in Art and Art History, a joint program between Sheridan College and the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Bell lives in Toronto and is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art.