ABOUT

Marc Kundmann’s work has been widely exhibited across Cape Cod and collected internationally. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and is featured in the book Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea by Deborah Forman.  Along with his gallery representations, Kundmann has been featured in multiple museum shows including a two-person show at the Cape Cod Museum “Timeless: Explorations in Wax-based Media,” and PAAM’s “Teaching Traditions” and “Art of the Garden.”

His evolving style explores the people and environments of Outer Cape Cod and Mérida, Mexico. Originally a graphic designer, he shifted to painting after moving to Truro in the late 1990s. There, he studied with artists connected to the region’s rich artistic heritage, including Robert Henry and Jim Peters, developing an expressive approach that prioritizes emotion over realism.

Kundmann works primarily in either encaustic wax or oil, mediums that allow for both bold and subtle expression. The tactile nature of encaustic lets him build and scrape away layers, creating texture and immediacy. In contrast, oil offers a slower, more contemplative process. “Encaustic is a complete antidote to over-fussing with paint, while there’s a softness and patience to oil that makes me slow down—a different intimacy with the work.”

His subjects often include the people and wild beauty of the Outer Cape or the faces of friends and locals in Mérida. “No matter what I paint, I can see the work as self-portraits. I strive for the viewers to find their own stories in the work, a spark of recognition with their own experiences.” 

Kundmann has maintained a studio in Provincetown for over 15 years and has been a teaching-artist at the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Museum School at PAAM.

EXHIBITIONS
 

Marc Kundmann: Body Language

Curated by Robert Rindler

September 1–30, 2024

Great Pond Gallery, Wellfleet Adult Community Center

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Summer Collection

August 24, 2024

Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

 

Beyond Bohemia at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

August 24, 2023 

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA

 

Playing with Knives and Brushes:
Marc Kundmann and Andrea Petitto
August 19, 2023 
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

Marc Kundmann One Man Show

September 11, 2021

Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA 

 

Reflections On the Pandemic

September 2020

Truro Historical Society, Truro, MA

 

One Man Show

July 20, 2019

Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

 

Nudes Nudes Nudes

Septermber 2018

Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit MA

 

Member’s Juried Show, September 2017, Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM)
Curator: James Wagner, Exhibits Specialist, JFK Presidential Library and Museum

 

Member’s Juried Show, March 2016, PAAM
Curator: James Wagner, Exhibits Specialist, JFK Presidential Library and Museum

After Hopper

Cape Cod Museum of Art

August 29-November 22, 2015

Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

 

Solo Show: Illuminations
Reception, September 12, 2015 
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

Solo Show
Exhibition, July 2014
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

Teaching Traditions
Curator: Grace Ryder O’Malley
November 10-January 8, 2014
Provincetown Art Association & Museum

Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea

Exhibition of artists from Deborah Forman's Book

June 22 - July , 2013 

Tao Water Gallery, Barnstable, MA

 

Joyce Johnson & Marc Kundmann
September 2012, AddisonArtGallery, Orleans

Art of the Garden
Curator: Richard Lacasse
May 4–July 15, 2012
Provincetown Art Association & Museum

Mary Moquin and  Marc Kundmann
Timeless: Explorations in Wax-based Media
November 19, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis

Members Open: Small Works
November 10-January 8, 2011
Provincetown Art Association & Museum

Members Juried Show
September 23 - November 6, 2011
Provincetown Art Association & Museum
www.paam.org

Memories in Color, Exhibition and Artist Talk
August and September 2011 Addison Art Gallery, Orleans

Inspired by the Cape Cod National Seashore
Group Show

Summer 2011
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

Encaustic Artists @ Kennedy Gallery
June 2011, Provincetown, MA

Projected Image @ artSTRAND, group show
June, 2011, Provincetown, MA

Mary Moquin & Marc Kundmann
Exhibition and Artist Talk, July 2010
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

Solo Show
Exhibition and Artist Talk, July 2009
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA

Solo Show
July 2008, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Group Show 

Curated by Fine Arts Work Center Fellow Nathalie Miebach at FAWC January 2008, Provincetown, MA

Stephen Coyle and Marc Kundmann
July 2007, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Stephen Coyle and Marc Kundmann
July 2006, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Member’s Juried Show, March 2004, PAAM

Member’s Juried Show, February 2003, PAAM


INVITATIONS

 

Juror for “The National 2023

July 10 - August 12

Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable

Speaker: Contemporary Artists of Cape Cod

Curated by Robert Rindler, Fall 2018

Open University of Wellfleet

Preservation Hall, Wellfleet, MA

 

Work selected for the 2008 Gala Dinner at Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)

Work selected for Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) Monoprint Project 2005-2012

Castle Hill Summer Auction Artist Project in 2009, 2011 and 2012


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Graduated with Honors, 1985

Studied painting at the Provincetown International Art Institute with Jim Peters

Workshopped with Robert Henry, Bert Yarborough, Tom Knechtel, Richard Baker, and David Hilliard at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA.


REPRESENTATION + AFFILIATIONS

Represented by Addison Art Gallery
Orleans, MA

Past showings at Tristan Gallery and the Union Square Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, J&W Gallery in New Hope, Pennsylvania and The Farmhouse, Alpharetta, Georgia

Member of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum