Mark Mitchell is a fiber artist and ceramicist based in Tucson, Arizona. His practice investigates the intersection of art, place, and heritage through the lens of queer survival and domestic ritual. His work spans hand-sewn textiles, funeral garments, and high-fire ceramics.

Mitchell's solo exhibition Burial (Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2013) addressed AIDS, mourning, and gender through nine hand-sewn funeral ensembles. The work subsequently traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, where Mitchell collaborated with choreographer Ali Chahrour on a new work. A documentary about Burial screened at Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival in 2013. His ongoing textile series White Work confronts racism, mass incarceration, and white supremacy. His current ceramic work, Acid Witch Regency: My Homosexual Home, positions domestic objects as protection spells for queer survival.

Mitchell is a recipient of the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, part of the Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum. His work has appeared in the 2020 Arizona Biennial and has been written about by Pulitzer Prize-finalist critic Jen Graves in The Stranger and by Nate Lippens in Maggot Brain.

He lives and works in Tucson with his husband, writer and DJ Kurt B. Reighley, and their White German Shepherd rescue, Ghost.

Email: itsmarkmitchell@mac.com