Mark Kerckhoff – Resume
Education
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo
Cal State University Long Beach,School of Fine Arts
Cal State University Fullerton, School of Fine Arts
Exhibitions and Awards
2025 Group Show
Best in Show, Palm Desert Plein Air Invitational
2024 Group Show
Best in Show, Landscape Competition
Borrego Art Institute, Borrego Springs, CA
2024 Group Show
“The Painted Desert” William N. Marks Center, College of the Desert
Palm Desert
2020 “22 Miles: Ojai Valley Landscapes”, group show
Ojai Valley Museum, Ojai, California
2015 Sunlight and Shadow: The Tradition of Plein Air Painting, Group Show
Irvine Museum, Irvine California
2015 Marcia Burtt Gallery, solo show
Santa Barbara, California
2014 Master instructor at the California Art Education Conference
2012 "State of the Art", group show
Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
2010 Group Show
Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
2010 Plein Air Landscape Competition
San Luis Obispo Art Museum, Best in Show
2010 Glenna Hartmann Invitational
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara, California- Artists Choice Award
2009 Abstract Realism, The Ray Graham Collection
The Dahl, Rapid City, South Dakota
2009 Borrego Desert Landscape Painters Invitional
Best of Show Award and Artist Choice Award
2008 Borrego Desert Landscape Painters Invitational
Artist Choice Award and Third Place
2007 Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational, La Jolla, California
2006 Casa de Paz, Tree of life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano.
2003 Summer Show 2003- Whitney Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2003 Plein Air 2003- Arizona- Sonora Desert Museum
Tucson, Arizona. Honorable Mention
2002 Faculty Exhibition- Irvine Valley College
Irvine, California
2002 National Juried Signature Membership Exhibition
Esther Wells Collection, Laguna Beach, CA
2001 Plein Air Painting Competition- Laguna Art Museum-
Bronze and Redfern Gallery Award
2000 Collectors Choice- Art Institute of Southern California
Laguna Beach, CA
1999 Plein Air Painting Competition- Laguna Art Museum
Silver Medal
1998 Focus VII Orange County Artists, John Wayne Airport
1984 Saddleback College Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
1981 Saddleback College Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
1980 Saddleback College Student Scholarship
1980 Laguna Beach Festival of Arts Student Scholarship
Collections
Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, CA
Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, CA
Steve Chase Associates, Rancho Mirage, CA
City of La Quinta, La Quinta , CA
Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, CA