Mark Newport was born on February 8, 1964 in Amsterdam, NY. He earned his BFA in 1986 from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA in 1991 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Newport’s work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
    Solo exhibitions:The Cranbrook Art Museum; the Arizona State University Art Museum; the Chicago Cultural Center; the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; the Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas; here gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom; and the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
    Group exhibitions: Pricked (the Museum of Arts and Design, New York).The 2019 Rijswijk Textile Biennial (Rijswijk, Netherlands).The International Fiber Art Fair (Seoul, South Korea,2019).From Lausanne to Beijing: The 9th International Fiberart Biennial(Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, China). Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories (the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.).Dissolving Views-Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2009 (Cheongju, South Korea). The Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit; form and concept of Santa Fe; Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis; and the Greg Kucera Gallery of Seattle represent his work.
    Recent awards include grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Newport’s work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Arizona State University Art Museum, the Cranbrook Art Museum, and The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Newport is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He lives in Oak Park, Michigan.