Mark Strodl is a multidisciplinary artist in activism, who works in 3 mediums: Mural Watercolors, Digital Surrealism & Video Storytelling. He has collections in Europe, France, at the Diderot Museum, and a Fellowship in Paris, has had over 9 one-man shows in his brief career, as well as being a Curator at the head Birdsong Galleries, and helping other Artists by showing them from marginalized areas.

Mark Strodl studied at the School of Visual Arts, 4 years, was an illustrator at Harpers magazine, a photographer at Vogue & Glamour, a producer at the Incredible Slidemakers with clients of De Beers, Sikorsky Helicopters, 5 billion dollar contract to the Pentagon, El Al airlines, Grumman, F/14, Space Shuttle, top secret aircraft. At BBD&O with Pepsi, Apple, DuPont, Revlon, R.J. Reynolds, 4 Olympics, CBS & ABC television station IDs. Operation Sail, represented at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 520 West 20th Street, NYC, Fellowship to France at the Château d'Orquevaux, in many international collections, including in London, & the Diderot museum, France, and over 9 solo Shows, one NYS grant.

Shows :  Was Represented @ the Denise Bibro Fine Art NYC

2025 Designing and creating International Arts Tours to far off destinations. 

2025 Created the "Noteriously Bad Fairtail Club", to help children for 3 - 8 years learn how to read through CC captioning. 

2025 Created a new Series called Native Americans, 15 watercolors.

2024: Won Fellowship this summer to paint at the Château d'Orquevaux Artists & Writers in Champagne-Ardenne, France.

2024 Started a 9-piece watercolor set called the " 9  Virtues",  a series that is in the d'Orquevaux, France. July

2024 Part of the Diderot Gallery permanent collection.

2021: Islip Arts Museum, Forever Young, 3 pieces, Westfield Mall.

2024 Oneman show at the Birdsong Gallery, September.  

2024: Won Fellowship this summer to paint at the Château d'Orquevaux Artists & Writers in Champagne-Ardenne, France.

2024: Sidney Library, One-man show of watercolors and animations in June.

2024: Stage Coach Run: Treadwell, NY. One retrospective Digital & mural Watercolors side by side. July 6-7th.

2024: Head Curator at Birdsong Galleries, Hamden NY, Narrating, coordinating, helping other artists.

2024: Bushell Collective, Delhi, NY "Mediation2" animation I created in 2020. a projection. Feb 3rd - March 10th.

2024: Head Curator at Birdsong Gallery, Hamden, NY.

2024: Sidney Library, NY, Multi-Displinary one-person show June. 

2023: Stage Coach Run: Treadwell NY. One retrospective where I was able to show Digital & mural Watercolors side by side.

2023: Islip Arts Council, NYS Grant for projection in the Westfield mall for the Tuskegee Airmen.

2022: Islip Arts Council, one-man show, multi-disciplinary pieces in 3 mediums.

2022: Islip Arts Council, Facing our Futures. https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5Czaem8luLuA6m2cs5G8WWYdG7YAxLDX

2021: Islip Arts Museum, Forever Young, 3 pieces, Westfield Mall.

2020: Patchogue Arts Museum, New Visions, John Cino Curator.

2019: Farmingdale College, 3 Shadow Boxes, Emerging Artists.

2019: One Person Watercolor Show: Islip Arts Museum, large watercolors, Rotunda.

2018: Mills Pond Gallery: St. James NY: Curated, “Glimpses of Surrealism,” 14 pieces in both watercolors & digital prints.

2017: Studio 5404 Political Fundraiser.

2017: Patchogue Arts Council, Dystopia exhibition.

2017: Cheryl McGinnis Projects smART stART: The Natural World, The Industrial World, The Artists’ World

2017: Mc Arther Airport, one person show, Islip NY.

2017: Art Space: 20 Terry St. Patchogue.

2017: Islip Art Museum: Slide Slam at the Long Island Museum.

2016: Sculpture: “Pandora’s Box”, Islip Art Museum. For Your Eyes Only.

2017: Studio 5404:  New Light, A Spring Awakening

2014: Won a competition out of 750 Artists, Painters, & Sculptors at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery in NYC.

2015: What Lies Beneath the Spirit of the Art. 

2015: Newsday article on me. Suburban Art, 5404 Art Space, Massapequa, NY.

2015: Huntington Arts Merit Award, Digital Art.

One Person Shows

Stagecoach : Treadwell NY 2024

Birdsong : 10 year Retrospective, Hamden NY, 2024

Sidney Library : 2024

Stagecoach : Treadwell NY 2023 

Islip Arts Museum : 2020

Mills Pond Gallery : Smithtown NY & Curated 2015

Islip Arts Museum, The Rotunda 2014

Islip Arts Museum : Mc Arthur Airport 2013

Denise Bibro Fine Art 529 West 20th, NYC 2013 Represented

Head Curator at Birdsong Gallery”

“Escape” Leaving NYC. May 2024.

“What is Intuition”, June 2024.  

"Facades”, July 2024. 

“The Windows to our Souls”.  August 2024

"Spaces, Who do we design for"? , August 2024. 

“Who are We ? ” 10-Year Retrospection Mark Strodl, September, 2024

ARTIST’S LECTURES & PRESS

2025 Radio WROX : One-hour interview on the Arts 

2022 Facing our Futures. Islip Arts Council 

2024 Radio WROX : One-hour interview on the Arts 

2020 Conversation with the Curator, Heckscher Museum. Huntington NY

2018 IAM Slide Slam 2, Patchogue, NY

2017 IAM Slide Slam 3, Long Island Museum. Stony Brook, NY

2016 IAM Slide Slam 1, Long Island Museum. Stony Brook, NY

SELF PUBLISHED BOOKS WRITTEN

2020  Carly, a children’s book on growing up, 44 pages.

2018   Ransom Notes from Mommy, A sarcastic parody on growing up with all of our idealism being shot down. 68 pages.

2017   Blue, a children’s book on bigotry, to unteach their parents when they read it

2014   Itch, Often, we go through life with these tremendous urges to act out. 46 pages, spiral-bound, limited editions.

2013  Time, How a seemingly invisible thing can control us all. 68 pages, spiral-bound, limited editions.

1980  Designed a City: Theoretical Architecture, when the price per square foot isn’t your first priority, what happens? Design & Function. 52 pages

SOCIAL MEDIA

Saatchi: https://www.saatchiart.com/all?query=mark%20strodl

You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@2digitaldesign

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markstrodl/?hl=en

NON PROFITS

I have been part of a certain well-known anonymous organization for over 30 years, working in the regional service office in NYC for over 12 years.

Today, I am working against the tide of Fentanyl killing our young so indiscriminately that, ironically, many of our problems are mental ones or where we are treating the symptoms of, rather than the obvious root causes. 

• Sweetbriar Conservatory is raising awareness for all of these injured birds. Helping them raise funds.

• Islip Arts Council get back on there feet after losing there home at Brockwood Hall during Covid.

• Tuskegee Airmen, educating the public during Black History Month.

• Taking care of a couple with Dementia 7 days a week, nine hours a day, for 2 years at quite a sacrifice to my well-being.

Education : 4 years School Of Visual Arts : 1972 – 78: Keith Haring was a classmate.

Incredible Slidemakers 73 East 73rd Street NYC, Clairol, Siskorsky, Pentagon, El All Airlines 1978 - 1984

JC Penny : Hired gun, Independent. 1st video catalogue ever. 1985

BBD&O : 15 years, ABC & CBS Station Ids, RJ Reynolds, Operation Sail, 4 Olympics, Pepsi.  1985 -1995

NA Regional Service Representative : Board, Non Profit, representing 18 Areas in New York State. 1995 - 2015

Office manager  at a Demolition Company : 1995 - 2021

Missionary : El Salvador 2008, inoculating the population from malaria. 

Media & Articles : 

The Reporter : 2 page spread.  2024

St. James Press :  August 2016

Newsday 2015: Newsday article on me. Suburban Art, 5404 Art Space, Massapequa, NY.

Islip Arts Museum: Video interview.