Mark Loughney (he/him) served ten years in a Pennsylvania prison where he drew over 800 portraits of the men with whom he was imprisoned. He was released in July 2022. The portrait project, called Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study Of Mass Incarceration, debuted at MoMA PS1 in the award winning exhibition Marking Time: Art In The Age Of Mass Incarceration. Mark also made thousands of conceptual drawings and paintings during his imprisonment. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Forbes, ArtForum, The Paris Review, Hyperallergic, NPR, books, magazines, galleries, dive bars, and museums. Recent solo exhibitions include Pyrrhic Defeat, Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, NY (2022); Trophic Eggs, Arthaus Projects, Williamsport, PA (2018); Pyrrhic Defeat, Artworks Gallery, Scranton, PA (2018); and Letters from Desolation Row, Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA (2016). Group Exhibitions include No Justice Without Love at the Ford Foundation Gallery, NY (2023), Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020-2021) at MoMA PS1, NY, traveling to Abroms-Engle Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL (2021), National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH (2022), and the List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI (2022); Jam Fan (with Jay Blakesberg), Artworks Gallery, Scranton, PA (2019); Art as Resistance, ICJ, Philadelphia, PA (2019); Notes from the Underground, Arthaus Projects, Williamsport, PA (2019); L.A. Residency, Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA (2017); and Liberty and Justice, Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA (2017).