Born in 1950 in Leon, Iowa, Mark Todd received his BFA, MA and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. Since 1978 he has taught drawing and design at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. Todd has exhibited his work widely, in over thirty solo exhibitions and 200 group exhibitions throughout the United States as well as in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. An accomplished poet, five books of his poetry have been published since the 1970s. He is also involved in the music industry, having produced albums, written song lyrics, and designed several album covers. Works of art by Mark Todd are in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art, among numerous other institutions.
1969 - 73 BFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City
1973 - 75 MA, University of lowa, Iowa City
1975 - 76 WA, University of lowa, lowa City

1973 - 76 University of lowa, Graduate Assistant
1976 - 78 Columbia College
1978- Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos
Gehaltene Kurse an der Southwest Texas State University:
Art 2331 Advanced Drawing
Art 2310 Introduction to Figure Drawing
Art 1314 Basic Design
Art 4363 Special Problems

Ninth Annual Governor’s Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Texas, Juror: Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York, September, Honorable Mention Award, Touring: Texas 2000

2000 Ninth Annual Governor’s Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Texas, Juror: Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York, September, Honorable Mention Award, Touring: Texas 2000
2000 "the acapulco motel", Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main
1998 Cindy Sherman / Mark Todd, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
1997 Galerie Thomas Gehrke, Hamburg
1996 Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996 Galerie Thomas Gehrke, Hamburg
1996 East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
1995 „New Paintings,“ Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
1994 „Killers,“ Foster Goldstrom, New York
1994 „New Works,“ Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas (reproduction included in catalogue)
1992 „Dragging the River: Derek Besant/Mark Todd,“ Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas (catalogue)
1992 „Dragging the River: Derek Besant/Mark Todd,“ San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio (catalogue)
1992 Galerie Thomas Gehrke, Hamburg, Germany
1992 Foster Goldstrom, New York
1991 „Big Poems,“ Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
1990 Foster Goldstrom, New York
1990 Vera Van Laer Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (catalogue)
1989 Ghent Art Fair, Vera Van Laer Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
1989 Art P. Gallery, Munich, West Gerrnany
1989 Foster Goldstrom, New York
1989 „Forum,“ Kunstmesse, Hamburg, West Germany (reproduction included in catalogue)
1988 „Lessons in Life,“ Foster Goldstrom, New York
1988 „Kent Matricardi and Mark Todd,“ University Club Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1986 with Robert McGehee, The Heights Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
1985 Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, with Neil Wilson
1983 The Heights Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
1982 with Susan Todd, Toni Jones Gallery, Houston, Texas
1981 Toni Jones Gallery, Houston, Texas
1980 with Tom Allen The One Seguin Art Center, Seguin, Texas
1978 Stephens College Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
1977 „Hands to Yourself,“ Columbia College Art Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
1977 University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
1976 Columbia College Art Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
1976 Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
1976 Eve Drewlowe Gallery, lowa City, lowa
1976 University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Califomia
1976 Denver University, Denver, Colorado

1972 University of lowa Student Space, Iowa City, Iowa

James Michener Collection, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana
One Seguin Art Center, Seguin, Texas lowa
Print Group, University of lowa, lowa City, Iowa
Metropolitan National Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas
Atkins Insurance Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas
ICON Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Frost Brothers, San Antonio, Texas
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Southwestern Writers Collection, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany
The Tate Gallery, London, England
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modem Art, New York
The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi, Texas
Austin College, Sherman, Texas