MARTIN MULL

 BORN            America

EDUCATION

             1967    Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A.

            1965    Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010    Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003        Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002        Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001        Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

2000        Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999        David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998        Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC., traveled to Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997        Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1996    Works on Paper, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH

Exurbia, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

            Martin Mull: Recent Watercolors, David Betizel Gallery, New York, NY

            Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1995    Martin Mull: Selected Paintings, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

            A Walk In the Park, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

            Project Room, New York, NY

1994    Childhood Dreams, Adult Dilemmas, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1993    Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

1992    Barbara Singer Gallery, Boston, MA

            Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest, NC

            Helander Gallery, New York, NY

1991    Helander Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL

1984    Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1982    Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1980    Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

            2003    Martin Mull and Jim Dine, The Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

            2002    Pasted On: A Survey of Collage Strategies, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

            2000    Carl Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998        Knowing Children, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Precious, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Eclectic Collaborative, FACT Art Exhibition Space, Laguna Beach, CA

1996    Referencing Innocence/Not, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College,        Los Angeles, CA

            A Selection of Classics,  Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            The Horse Show, curated by Sylvia White, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

1995    Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

            Collage in the 20^th Century, curated by Peter Frank, Louis Stern Fine Arts,    Los Angeles, CA

1994    Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1993        Fourth Newport Biennial “Southern California 1993”, Newport Beach, CA

            Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

            Michael Dune Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Ten Artists from the West Cost, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1993    Laughing Matters, LA Municipal Art Gallery/Barnsdall Art Park Los Angeles, CA

Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Museum of Art, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

            Humor and Art, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

1992    Group Show, Helander Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida

1990    Group Show, Helander Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida

1983    Group Show, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

            Toys, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

1973    Eat Art, Cincinnati Institute of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH

            Smart Ducky, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

            Umbrella of Fitchburg, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA

1972    Flush with the Walls, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

AWARDS AND GRANTS

1965    European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

            Schwendener, Martha, “Reviews”, Artforum, April, 2001

            Amy, Michael, “Reviews”, Art in America, March 2000

            Brunetti, John, “Interview: Martin Mull”, New Art Examiner, May 2000

Clarkron, David, “Reviews”, Flash Art, March/April, 1996

Alperstein, Ellen, “The Art of Martin Mull”, Ambassador, January, 1996

Paintings, Drawings and Words, forward by Bruce Guenther, published by

Journey Editions, 1995

Utter, Douglas Max, “Mulling Things Over at the Center”, The Cleveland Free

Times, June, 1995

Gimelson, Deborah, “Martin Mulls Over art”, Art & Antiques, June, 1995

Litt, Steven, “Mulling Martin’s art”, The Plain Dealer, Monday, June 12, 1995

Beller, Miles, “In the Slip of the Exalted”, Art Week Magazine, November, 1994

Morgan, Robert C., “Surface-Depth Matters”, Cover Magazine, March 1994

Smith, Roberta, “Martin Mull at David Beitzel Gallery”, The New York Times,

January 28, 1994

Gimelson, Deborah, “Art Review”, The New York Observer, January 24, 1994

Long, Marion, “Secret Passion”, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Volume 60, November

1990, pp. 276-277, illustrated.

Muchnic, Suzanne, “Art Review”, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, 1984

Gannon, Dr. Frank, “Saturday Review Gallery”, Saturday Review,

January/February 1985, pp. 45-49, illustrated

Malone, David, “Martin Mull”, Airbrush Action, November/December 1985,

pp.  26-33, illustrated

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

          The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

The Columbus Museum of Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio

The Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

Fine Art Museum of the University of Arizona

Newport Harbor Art Museum

Gund Collection, Boston, MA

Gramercy Taverne, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

Total Contemporary Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Martin Mull

Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own television sitcom and acted in prominent films. He is also a comedian, painter, and recording artist. He is a satirist and incorporates his comedic sense into all of his work.

Early years and education

Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in North Ridgeville, Ohio, from age 2 to 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he attended and graduated from public high school.^[1] He studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting.

 Career

Following a period of stand-up comedy performances and humorous song recordings including opening for Frank Zappa at Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters in 1973 and for Bruce Springsteen at the Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in October 1974, his first famous role was as twins Garth Gimble and Barth Gimble in the television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976), which led to spin-off comedy talk shows Fernwood 2-Night (1977) and America 2-Night (1978), in which he played Barth Gimble as talk show host, opposite Fred Willard as sidekick Jerry Hubbard. In one episode of The Golden Girls, he played a hippie who was afraid of the outside world. In the 1970s, he appeared in a series of Pizza Hut commercials dealing with various ways to eat a pizza.^{[citation needed]} During 1984, Mull starred in a CBS sitcom, Domestic Life, with Megan Follows playing his teenaged daughter. He had a long-running role playing the boss of lead character Roseanne Conner on the TV series Roseanne. He has appeared as a guest on the game show Hollywood Squares, appearing as the center square in the show's final season. During 2008 and 2009, Mull guest starred in two episodes of the television series Gary Unmarried as Allison's father.^[2]

A caricature of Martin Mull in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

He has acted in feature films, including:

• FM (1978) as Eric Swan
• Serial (1980) as Harvey Holroyd
• My Bodyguard (1980) as Mr. Peache
• Take This Job and Shove It (1981) as Dick Ebersol
• Mr. Mom (1983) as Ron
• Clue (1985) as Colonel Mustard
• O.C. and Stiggs (1985) as Pat Coletti
• Far Out Man (1990) as Dr. Leddledick
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) as Justin Gregory
• How the West Was Fun (1994) as Bart Gifooley
• Jingle All the Way (1996) as D.J.
• Relative Strangers (2006) as Jeffry Morton
• Killers (2010) as Holbrook

Recurring roles followed on several television series:

• It's Garry Shandling's Show
• Roseanne (as Leon Carp; 1991–1997)
• Family Dog
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (as Willard Kraft; 1997–2000)
• The Ellen Show
• Reba (2003) as a counselor
• Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'" (as Mr. Harris)
• American Dad! (as Father Donovan)
• The War at Home
• Danny Phantom (as Vlad Plasmius/Vlad Masters)
• Two and a Half Men (as the pharmacist) 2008
• The Larry Sanders Show (as himself)
• 'Til Death

During the 1980s, Mull starred in a series of television commercials for Michelob and in a series of television and radio commercials for Red Roof Inn (a chain of budget-oriented hotels owned at the time by Accor) during the mid-1990s. Mull voiced a lazy robot on one episode of the cartoon series Dexter's Laboratory, in which he has a rather clueless partner, voiced by Fred Willard. Mull voiced the role of The Evil Cad on Freakazoid! He has recently (2003–2007) done the voice of Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom.

In 1990, he guest starred in an episode of The Golden Girls.

In 1998, he guest starred in an episode of The Simpsons.

In late 2004, he portrayed "Gene Parmesan," a private investigator who was better at showing up in strange places in strange disguises than in actually finding anything out, on the Fox TV series Arrested Development. The episode was called "¡Amigos!".

Despite devoting himself full time to painting, Martin added many acting credits in 2008, including shows such as Family Man, Two and a Half Men, Law and Order: SVU, Gary Unmarried, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Bonnie Hunt Show, and, in 2009, in the viral advert That's Not Fake.^[3], In the animated series Family Guy, the name of the elementary school is Martin Mull Elementary.

Personal life

Twice divorced, Mull is married to singer Wendy Mull.

 Discography

• Martin Mull (1972)
• Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture In Your Living Room! (1973)
• Normal (1974)
• In The Soop With Martin Mull (1974)
• Days Of Wine And Neuroses (1975)
• I'm Everyone I've Ever Loved (1977)
• No Hits, Four Errors- The Best Of Martin Mull (1977)
• Sex and Violins (1978)
• Near Perfect/Perfect (1979)
• Mulling it Over- A Musical Ouvre-View of Martin Mull (1998)

 Artworks

• at Beitzel Gallery in New York City
• at Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco
• Martin Mull on Artnet
• at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago
• at Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles