| 1969 | Born in California, USA |
| | Lives and works Los Angeles, USA |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2000 | Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1994 | Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2009 | The Varieties of Experience, John Connelly Presents, New York |
| 2008 | Hammer Projects: Mungo Thomson, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| | Einstein #1, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2007 | Between Projects, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris |
| 2006 | |
| | Negative Space Variations, Eldorado Series, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy |
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| | Negative Space Variations, Art Kabinett, Margo Leavin Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach |
| | Art 37 Statements, John Connelly Presents, Basel, Switzerland |
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| | Freak Flag (White Flag), REC. (Esther Schipper Gallery Project Space), Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | New York, New York, New York, New York, John Connelly Presents, New York |
| | The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois |
| 2004 | Centric 65: Mungo Thomson, California State University Art Museum, Long Beach |
| | 2004 Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador |
| | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2002 | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2000 | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| TWO AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2003 | SNOWBLIND: Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Mungo Thomson, John Connelly Presents, New York |
| 2002 | ELEKTRA: Gabriel Orozco and Mungo Thomson, TRANSMISSION, Glasgow, Scotland |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2009 | BROKEN ENGLISH, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich |
| | Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Catalogue |
| | La nada y el ser (Nothingness and Being), Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City |
| | Beyond the Picturesque, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuelle Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium. Catalogue |
| | Hardware: Machine Aesthetics in the Digital Age, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Catalogue |
| | The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| | Changing Light Bulbs In Thin Air, Hessel Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| | SouthWestNET: Film & Video, Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scotsdale, Arizona |
| 2008 | 2008 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue |
| | Le Havre Biennial of Contemporary Art, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France |
| | 8th Bienal de Arte Panama: The Sweet Burnt Smell of History, Panama City, Panama |
| | The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part 2: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Catalogue |
| | The Possibility of an Island, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art at Goldman Warehouse, Miami |
| | Sudden White (After London), Royal Academy of Art, London |
| | The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
| | The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina. Catalogue |
| | Signals: A Video Showcase–California Scenarios, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
| | The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York |
| | Desertshore, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles |
| | Huis Clos, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico |
| | The Store, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| | You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle |
| | Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles |
| | Tapestry, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2007 | Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Catalogue |
| | Bill Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, Mungo Thomson, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| | REC.ollection, REC. (Esther Schipper Gallery Project Space), Berlin |
| | Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris |
| | Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Catalogue |
| | Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. Catalogue |
| | Noise: A Hole in the Silence, Poeziezomers vzw, Watou, Belgium / Spazio Oberdan, Province of Milan, Milan, Italy. Catalogue |
| 2006 | Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York. Catalogue |
| | Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York |
| | Five Rooms for Melancholy, Arts Center Kortrijk, Belgium |
| | Prophets of Deceit, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Catalogue |
| | Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. Catalogue |
| | Eigenheim, Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany |
| | Happiness, Gagosian Gallery, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| | When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine, The Breeder, Athens, Greece |
| | The Show Will Be Open When the Show Will Be Closed, STORE Gallery, London |
| | The Galleries Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium. Catalogue |
| 2005 | PERFORMA05: First Biennial Of Visual Art Performance, New York. Catalogue |
| | Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London |
| | The Early Show, White Columns, New York |
| | Down Time: Constructing Leisure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Catalogue |
| 2004 | 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach. Catalogue |
| | Treble, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY |
| | 100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York. Catalogue |
| | Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York |
| | Repeat Performance, Artists’ Space, New York. Catalogue |
| | Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco |
| | A level of trust. After Kurt Cobain, More Fools in Town, Torino, Italy |
| 2003 | Now Playing, D’amelio Terras Gallery, New York |
| | 17 Reasons, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. Catalogue |
| 2002 | Rock My World, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Catalogue |
| | Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
| | High Desert Test Sites, A-Z West, Joshua Tree. Catalogue |
| 2001 | Sound System: 9th Biennial of the Moving Image, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland. Catalogue |
| | Hemorrhaging of States, TENT.CBK, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| | [untitled] 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark. Catalogue |
| | I Want More…And More…, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES | |
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| 2010 | Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2003 | The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions |
| 2001 | Artist Residency, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 1999 | Hoyt |