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Marko Stout is an American contemporary artist known for his gritty industrial pop style with a focus on New York City and modern urban life. Stout produces work in a variety of media including print, painting, sculpture, film, video, photography and new media.

New York art and fashion icon Marko Stout is renowned for his cutting-edge, aspirational industrial pop style that’s accessible and cool- a signature aesthetic that combines the downtown New York City DNA with a modern, rock-chic edge!

Marko Stout’s most recent sold out solo exhibition at New York's famed Gallery MC brought a huge number of young fans, celebrities, art dealers and international collectors eager to meet the artist and buy the latest and somewhat controversial works from this pop art master, who many in the art-world are comparing to fellow New York pop artists; Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol.

Marko Stout is an American contemporary artist known for his gritty industrial pop style with a focus on New York City and modern urban life. Stout produces work in a variety of media including print, painting, sculpture, film, video, photography and new media. Marko Stout has been called by many in the media and art world the successor to Andy Warhol. Much like Warhol’s silk screen process Stout’s use photographs of this models to base his paintings upon. Stout integrates modern digital technology into his work to alter and paint the picture- thus achieving the perfect desired artistic effect... every work a masterpiece! The painting is then impregnated into aerospace grade aluminum producing Stout’s trademark vibrant, luminous color and depth with high resolution detail... very modern and very cool!! Stout's long but interesting journey into the high end modern art market and artistic fame began with him living on a houseboat floating in San Francisco Bay and hangout drinking wine and smoking weed with boat neighbor, a retired Greatful Dead roadie, Art Institute of Chicago trained painter and art gallery owner. The painter passed his artistic knowledge to his new friend and drinking buddy Marko, eventually selling the young artist's early works in his gallery just prior to the roadie-painter being found dead from a morphine overdose among the California's Muir Park redwoods. The body was unearthed by a local boy scout troop preparing the campsite for their evening's stay- the poor traumatized kids! Stout took his friend's mysterious demise as a omen to split the West Coast, and a few more wild twists in life placed Marko Stout in New York City and that’s when things really started to happen for him!!

2016 was the year Marko Stout established himself as a true art world celebrity with a fanatical cult following. The artist exhibited 4 colossal vibrant female sculpture at the Grand Entrance of the famed ArtExpo Show in New York City- where they caught the eye of a Berlin nightclub owner and art collector who snapped up the sculptures with the largest purchase in the history of the show. Represented by Art Nation Stout also sold a full collection of his aluminum based paintings during the course of the show. Also, in 2016 the artist hugely successful solo exhibitions at New York's Rivington Gallery and Jason Samuels Gallery in Miami.

2017 brought the artist from local cult status to New York icon with two the city's most successful sold out solo shows that year- at the Sepia Gallery and Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Stout garnered the attention of the mainstream art word early that year with solo exhibitions at Miami Art Basel and Weinworth Gallery in South Beach Miami.

2018 is already an amazing year for New York's hottest artist!! In addition to this upcoming fall 2018 solo exhibition at New York's famed Cealum Gallery, his successful summer's solo exhibition at Gallery MC, Marko Stout kicked-off New York's Armory Show week with a solo exhibition and VIP party in SoHo's popular Artifact Gallery attended by thousands of enthusiastic fans and collectors eager to meet the artist, his models and view Marko's latest works! Earlier this year Stout unofficially launched "Urban Tribe", the artist's line of cool, causal urban fashion. The collection will officially launch this September with a VIP runway show during New York's Fashion Week.

Images of Stout’s works have gone viral on social media in the past year- especially after making news with the record breaking sale of his colossal figurative sculptures at the ArtExpo Show in New York City to a Berlin art collector and nightclub owner last spring- the largest sale at the show and one of the biggest in the history of the ArtExpo. The artist’s works were also featured last April at New York’s Caelum Gallery to large crowds and much critical acclaim.

Aside from his sold out solo exhibitions and sculpture sales, Stout also produced the popular New York independent art film festival: LIPS Film Festival, a celebration of the best in experimental art films and short. This year’s festival will be hosted by Stout next April at various theaters thought-out New York City with paid live streaming online. Marko Stout’s LIPS festival will be a celebration of the very best in local and international shorts and experimental cinema, along with independent feature length avant-garde productions.

As Marko Stout’s popularity in the mainstream art community and film world have grown collectors and dealers have also taken note of the artist’s rising value, making collection of his works a very valuable commodity!! Recent Solo Exhibitions : Emmanuel Fremin Gallery (New York), Gallery MC (New York), Sepia Gallery (New York), Artifact Gallery (New York), Jason Samuel Gallery (Miami), Warhol Gallery (Brussels), Das Brücheimer (Berlin), Art Nation Wynwood (Miami), Rivington Street Gallery (New York).

International Art Fairs:  Art Basel (Miami), ArtExpo (New York), Armory Show ( New York), Art Hamptons (New York), Spectrum (New York, Miami), Art Paris, Art Wynwood (Miami), Pulse (Miami), Art Cologne (Germany), Expo Chicago, Dallas Art Fair, Art Toronto, LA Art Show, Palm Beach Modern & Contemporary, Seattle Art Fair.

Previous Group Exhibitions: Weiss-North Gallery (Los Angeles), Pheonix Gallery (New York City), Caelum Gallery (New York City), Gallery Margo (Jersey City), Madatart (New York City), Art Nation Gallery (New York/ Miami), Judith Cohen Gallery (East Hampton, NY), Rivington Gallery (New York City)

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