BS, Mechanical Engineering 1993, The Florida State University
Visiting Professor, “Science & Art Workshop”, Eugene Lang College | The New School, NYC
Artist in Residence, The Marble House Project, Dorset VT, 2018
Visiting Artist | Lectures
Guest Lecture, LeMoyne Arts, Tallahassee, FL, 2023
Workshop / Guest Lecture, Florida State University of Art, 2023
Guest Lecture, Liceo artistico G. Aspron, Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, 2022
Guest Lecture, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 2015
Visiting Artist, The Florida State University, 2014
Visiting Artist, Montclair State University, Fall 2013
Guest Lecture, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas 2013
Guest Lecture, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Live Video Perfomance Art, 2013
Guest Lecture, New York University | Columbia University ADI, 2013
Talk, TEDx NYU Poly, 2012
Guest Lecture, Montclair State University, New Jersey, 2012
Talk, Digital Summit 2.0, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York, 2012
Visiting Artist, Eugene Lang College | The New School, NYC, Fall 2011
Selected Exhibitions
2023. “The All Mighty Individual”, 68 Jay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 “To the People of Cagliari”, Public Art Wall Mural, Piazzetta Fernando Pilia, Sardinia, Italy
Platforms Project Independent Art Fair, Athen’s Greece
The October Show, International Fine Arts Consortium, Athen’s Greece
2016 Geometry of Ordinary Experience, Public art installation, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Gratitude, Two-person exhibition with Sarah Walko, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sojourner (solo), IFP Media Gallery, NYC
Point Cloud, Temporary Public Light Sculpture Installation, Washington DC
2015 Form and Substance, Projection / Light exhibition, Miami FL
You, Me – And Everything Between, Aurora Festival of Light, Dallas TX
Depth of Field, Public Art Projections, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
Coalescence, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Initiations, New York Festival of Light, Brooklyn, NY
The Diamond Sky, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Making Now, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2013 Blueprints and Perspectives, Public Art Video Mapping Projection, Aurora, Dallas, TX
Event Mechanics, Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Form & Substance, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY
The Bronx Revolution And The Birth Of Hip Hop, live audio/visual event. Commissioned by Dancing in the Streets and Casita Maria Center for the Arts and Education.
2012 Codex Dynamic, Public Art Video Mapping Projection on the Manhattan Bridge, New York City
fLUX, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
The Von Show, Von, New York, NY
hopes and dreams with no between, The Dumbo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Artifix Mori, Skybridge Art & Sound Space, Eugene Lang College, New York, NY
As Above – So Below, Public Art Video Mapping Projection on the Manhattan Bridge, New York, NY
It’s Hot In A Disco, Brooklyn, curated by Adler A.F.
B-B-B-BAD, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
Let Us Eat Cake, The New Museum, New York, NY
Writings on the Wall, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 10th Annual Group Show, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
Sweet Crude, video installation, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn ,NY
Flow Rate, The Endless Bridge, Public Art Video Projection, Brooklyn, NY
Flow Rate, The Endless Bridge, Public Art Video Projection, Berlin, Germany
2009 Substance & Form, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Fundamental Principles, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Free-Body Diagrams, National High Field Magnetic Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL (solo)
Equilibrium of Peace, SEED Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2007 Subtle Matter, Pluto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Breath of Light, Seed Gallery Brooklyn, NY
2006 The Nature of Energy, Johnson-Peterson, Tallahassee, FL (solo)
The VUE of the Arts, City-Arts Factory, Orlando, FL
Sommerwende Micro, Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Summer Annual Exhibition, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Gotta Represent My Nation – Even If It Don’t Represent Me, Gallery Twenty-Four, Paris, France (solo)
International Directions, LeMoyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, FL
2005 Steady State, Johnson-Peterson, Tallahassee, FL
University Group Show, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
It Happened One Summer, Dotfiftyone Art Space, Miami, FL
Sommerwende International Arts Festival, Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin, Germany
The Power of Three, The Explorers Club, Tallahassee, FL
Curating
Co-Founder/Curator, Light Year, monthly single-channel video exhibitions on the Manhattan Bridge, NYC 2015-present
Form and Substance, Public art projection and video exhibition, InterContinental Hotel, Miami, FL
Initiations, New York Festival of Light, site specific projection mapping exhibition, NYC
An Inquiring Age, site specific projection mapping exhibition, NYC
As Above – So Below, site specific projection mapping, Manhattan Bridge, NYC
To the People of Orlando, outdoor site specific installation, Orlando, Florida
Co-curator, Crest & Trough public video art exhibition, curated with Sarah Walko, NYC 2013
Associate Art Director, Saks Fifth Avenue, An Enchanted Experience, NYC 2014
Associate Producer / Advisor, New York Festival of Light, New York City 2014
Production Designer / Project Manager, Evolition2 for Dom Perignon & Martha Stewart 2014
Co-curator, Codex Dynamic video exhibition, Brooklyn, New York 2013
Press
Art, Science and the Bastardization of Nature, Hyperallergic, 2012
Artifix Mori: Interactive Light & Sound, Core77, 2012
Third Floor Skybridge Installation Merges Art and Science, The New School Free Press, 2012
Event Mechanics: A Truth Process, Toad Literary Journal, 2011
Can Art Really Give Reality to Oil Spill Size, On Earth Magazine, October 2010
“John Milton Ensor Parker – A Conversation”, Joy Quarterly, Spring 2009
Book Design, Kierkegaard’s Instant on Beginnings, David J. Kangas, Indiana University Press, 2007
NASA/USRA Research Grant Recipient, 1993, Presented Lunar Lander Umbilical Design Research at Johnson Space Center.
New York City | Cagliari, Italy
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john.ensor.parker at gmail.com
In addition to creating artworks, John is a mechanical engineer, architect and curator.