Mark Booth

Mark Booth is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), specializing in interdisciplinary art, sound art, and creative writing. He holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from SAIC. His work explores the intersections of language, performance, and visual art, particularly focusing on the materiality of language, dyslexic perception, and the tensions between observation and invention.

Teaching focuses on audible poetics, language-based sound art, and text art. Courses include Graduate Projects: Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program. His artistic practice spans drawings, installations, performances, and texts, with recent works such as VOWEL REDUCTION A/E DIAGONAL (2024) and exhibitions in the U.S., Scandinavia, Australia, and Germany.

Current projects include AN ISLET, AN INLET, AN ISTHMUS, AN IBEX and THIS IS THE SOUND OF THE MILKY WAY. His work interrogates language’s role in shaping experience and meaning, informed by his navigation of dyslexia.