Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Mark Leysen has traveled over 10,000 miles throughout
Western Europe and England. Leysen’s art has been exhibited in California and
Mexico in various group and one-person exhibitions, including:
• the UCLA Hammer Museum
• the San Bernardino Museum
• the Laguna Art Museum
• Orange County Museum of Art
• the Irvine Fine Arts Center
• Chapman University
• Museo de Arte in Queretaro, Mexico
• California State University at Fullerton
• UC Irvine
• the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ARS Gallery
• Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana
• the Long Beach Museum of Art
• the Fontana Art Depot.

Leysen was also a past recipient of an artist-in-residence grant at the UCI
Storefront Gallery in Irvine. He was First PlaceWinner in the 2017 Studio Islands
Art Center Annual Exhibition.

Mark Leysen has been represented by Art Soup LA for 7 years and Studio Gallery,
Irvine, for over 20 years.