Mark Geil, Chair

Email: mark.geil@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.1524
Location: Johnson Hall 210

Research Interests:
History of Photography
Fine Art Photography
Documentary Photography
Experimental Film and Video
Utopian Studies
Museum Studies
American History

Courses Taught:
ART 335 Introduction to Photography
ART 336 Intermediate Photography
ART 339 Studio Lighting for Photography
ART 420 Photography
ART 421 Advanced Problems in Photography
ART 454 Portfolio Development

Professional Memberships:
Society for Photographic Education

• Creative Works:
  Gordon Parks Exhibition: From Morgan State to Jackson State, Johnson Hall Gallery, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, 2017
• The Bared Sound: A Symphony of Artists from Taiwan and Mississippi, Mississippi Center for the Arts, Jackson, MS, 2017
• Jackson State University Faculty Show, JSU 1 Gallery, Jackson, MS, 2017
• Jackson State University Faculty Show, Arts Center of Mississippi, Jackson MS, 2016
• Nurture//Nature, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA, 2015
• National Photo Contest: State of Being Human, Woody Gaddis Gallery, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, Jurors: Jesse L. Miller, Associate Professor UCO; Mark Zimmerman, Assistant Professor UCO; and Angela Cejda, Photo Labs Manager UCO, 2015
• Motion, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, Juror: Zsolt Batori, Visiting Professor University of Buenos Aires, Associate Professor Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Research Fellow Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 2015
• Analog v. Digital, Pop-up Show, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, Curator: Julian Rankin, Director of Marketing Mississippi Museum of Art, 2015
• International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition, Leeds College of Music, Leeds, United Kingdom (screening of “Drawing Noise”, 2015)
• City of Jackson’s Sky Through My Eye Photography Competition, Arts Center of Mississippi, Jackson, MS (Honorable Mention, Professional Category), 2015
• Jackson State University Faculty Show, Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, Jackson, MS, 2014
• 25 Miles and 50 Years: The Freedom Summer Photographs of Tracy Sugarman, Gallery1, Jackson, MS, artist and curator, 2014
• Midwest Multiples, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN, Juror: Hesse McGraw, Vice-President for Exhibitions and Public Programs Administration, San Francisco Art Institute, 2014
• Next Kite, Next Weather, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, two-person, 2014
• Natural World, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror: Susan Spiritus, 2014
• PhotoSpiva 2014, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, Juror: Dornith Doherty, Professor of Photography, University of North Texas, 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, 2014
• Who We Aren’t: National Juried Exhibit, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, Jurors: Paul Klein, SupporTED mentor, former owner of Klein Art Works; and Patrick Earl Hammie, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
• Jackson State University Faculty Show, Mississippi Center for the Arts, Jackson, MS, 2013
• WinterTide, The Fine Art Center of Hot Springs, Hot Springs, AR, 2012
• Society for Photographic Education South Central Member’s Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, Curators: MSU Photography Faculty, 2012
• Coup d’Espace: Palimpsest, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, Curators: Steven H. Silberg and Neil C. Jones, 21012
• The Surrealist Influence on Contemporary Photography, The Hideout Theatre, Austin, TX, Curator: Lanie McCormick, Art Educator, 2012
• Mississippi Art Faculty Juried Exhibition, The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS, Juror: Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2012
• Right Here Over There, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, Juror: Becky Alley, Exhibitions and Programs Director Lexington Art League, 2012