SHORT BIO:
For years, Francis’photographs have been nationally exhibited. His photography has been displayed throughout the country in art museums, universities, college fine-art centers, outdoor mural projects, history museums, and cultural centers. His subjects depict eclectic festivals, environmental portraits, transportation, and the most recent project "Moonlight Garden" that creatively renders images from the natural landscape.
EXHIBITIONS:
* “Moonlight Garden”, Carrollton Center for the Arts, (Solo Show) 9/4/2025 – 10/20/2025 Carrollton, GA
* “Behind the Veil: IPHF International Photo Competition, 2024 (Online Exhibition)
* “Landscape: Serine and Savage”, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, 9/2024 – 10/2024 Bethlehem, PA
* “Lightvisions”, Photo Artfolio, 08/29/23-10/29/23 Boston, MA (Online Exhibition)
* “Autumn Landscapes”, The Hummingbird & Dragonfly Art Gallery, 09/08/23-10/12/23
Riverside, CA, (Online Exhibition)
* “Inspired By Place”, (Curator) Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts,
Pensacola State College, 8/2023 – 12/2023 Pensacola, FL
* “Legends and Lore of the Valley of the Sun”, Fountain Hills Public Art, 3/2023 - 3/2024
Fountain Hills, AZ
* “Rituals”, Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 6/23/17 - 7/30/17
Boulder, CO
* “Rituals”, Hardee Center for the Arts, NFCC, (solo show) 9/2016
Madison, FL
* “Photo Mural Project”, King Co. Metro/Photo Center NW, 2016
Seattle, WA
* “Connect”, Woody Gaddis Photo Arts Gallery, UCO, Dept. of Mass Communication, 8/2016, Edmond, OK
* “America's Parks: A Centennial Celebration”, Sangre de Cristo Arts &
Conference Center, 6/2016 - 8/2016, Pueblo, CO
* “Art of Adoption”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, PSC, 8/2014 – 9/2014
Pensacola, FL
* “The Perimeter of the World”, Rayko Photo Center, 8/2014 – 9/2014
San Francisco, CA
* “Moving Past The Camera”, Texas Photographic Society, 2014
Johnson City, TX
* “Photo Mural Project”, King Co. Metro/Photo Center NW, 2014 -2015
Seattle, WA
* “Shoot & Tell”, (cell phone photography) Stone Crop Gallery, 5/2014 – 8/2014
York, ME
* “Spirit of Flight Photography Exhibition”, The Museum of Flight, 6/2014 – 12/2014
Seattle, WA
* “Rituals”, Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, (solo show) 4/2014 – 5/2014
Costa Mesa, CA
* “Rituals”, Valdosta State University, Fine Arts Gallery, (solo show) 2/2014 – 3/2014
Valdosta, GA
* “Rituals”, Abbeville Cultural & Historical Alliance Center, (solo show) 10/2013 – 12/2013 Abbeville, LA
* “Multiples”, Pensacola Museum of Art, (solo show) 9/2013 – 10/2013
Pensacola, FL
* “Rituals”, Old Alabama Town, History Museum, (solo show) 8/2013 – 9/2013
Montgomery, AL
* “Rituals”, Eastern Shore Art Center, (solo show) 7/2013
Fairhope, AL
* “Rituals”, University Of Mississippi, Center for the Study of Southern Culture,
(solo Show) 4/2013 –6/2013 Oxford, MS
* “Valdosta National 2013” Valdosta State University, Fine Arts Gallery, 1/2013 – 2/2013
Valdosta, GA
* “Rituals”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, (solo show) 8/2012 – 10/2012 Pensacola, FL
* Beyond Pixeltorialism: “Digital Imaging in the 21st Century”, College of Lake County
2/2010 – 4/2010, Grayslake, IL
* “Above Ground Level”, Minnesota State University, (solo show) 04/2009
Moorhead, MN
* Cinco Banderas Juried Show, Artel Gallery 10/2004 - 12/2004
Pensacola, FL
* “Us, Featuring the PJC Art Faculty”, The Steamboat House Gallery,
7/2003, Pensacola, FL
* "Visible Spectrum", A Selection of Florida A&M Photographers,
22nd Floor Capitol Gallery, 1/24/2002 - 2/11/2002, Tallahassee, FL
* “Sex and Nature”, Invitational, Featuring Mark Alan Francis, Mariposa
Gallery, (solo show) 6/22/2001 - 7/28/2001, Pensacola, FL
* “Go Figure”, The figurative work of Mark Alan Francis & Scott Mueller, Cultural Center
7/02/2001 - 7/28/2001, Pensacola, FL
* "Red Hot Art", Invitational/Juried group exhibition, Red Gallery
2/14/2001 - 5/28/2001, Savannah, GA
* “Vista Cruise”, WUWF, Gallery 88 - University of West Florida (solo show)
7/2000 - 8/2000, Pensacola, FL
* “A Couple Favorites”, Right Angles Gallery (solo show)
11/1999 - 12/1999, Pensacola, FL
* "If It Ain’t Baroque, Don’t Fix It", Right Angles Gallery (Juried Show)
8/1999, Pensacola, FL
* Capitol Complex Exhibition, Supreme Court Building (solo show) 11/1998 - 1/1999
Tallahassee, FL
* "Pensacola Today", A Collaborative Photo Essay, Pensacola Museum of Art,
10/1998 - 1/1999, Pensacola, FL
* Tricentennial, A Photo Essay, A Collaborative Photo Essay, PJC Art Gallery,
10/1998 - 11/1998, Pensacola, FL
* "Laying Hands: Expressions of Religion", Artel Gallery, 8/1998 - 12/1998
Pensacola, FL
* Pensacola Museum of Art (Annual Members Show 1998)
Pensacola, FL
* PMA 100 Mile Radius Juried Art Show 4/1997 - 5/1997
Pensacola, FL
* "Cinco Banderas Juried Show", Artel Gallery 10/1996 - 11/1996
Pensacola, FL
* 1996 Juried 35th Bay Annual, Visual Art Center of NW FL 8/1996 - 10/1996
Panama City, FL
* 1996 Juried Wiregrass Biennial Art Competition 1/1996 - 2/1996
Dothan, AL
* “Left Handed”, Mobile Townhouse Gallery (solo show) 9/1995
Mobile, AL
* “Left Handed”, Savannah College of Art & Design (solo show) 4/1995
Savannah, GA