Mark Greenwold was born in Cleveland Ohio. He attended Carnegie Mellon University & received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art & his MFA from Indiana University. He has shown widely in the United States & abroad, having had his first show at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in NYC, who represented him for 23 years. He subsequently was represented by the DC Moore Gallery in NYC for 12 years, & had a one-person show at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in 2013. He is currently represented by Garth Greenan Gallery in NYC.. He has received many awards too numerous to mention & is in many private & museum collections. Mr Greenwold taught early in his teaching career at both the University of Washington in Seattle & at UCLA, before moving East & settling in Albany NY, to teach at the State University of NY at Albany, until he recently retired. He currently lives & works in NYC.