Mark Walhimer (1964) is a digital installation artist and museum designer with twenty years of experience creating interactive public spaces for learning, participation, and shared experience.

He is the managing partner of Museum Planning LLC and has served as the Executive Director of the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Macon, Georgia. His work includes design consultant for the Smithsonian Institution and project director for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. His institutional work spans three continents, with projects in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Walhimer is a Fulbright Specialist and the author of two books published by Bloomsbury Publishing: Museums 101 and Designing Museum Experiences. He has taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City.

His digital installation practice grows directly from this institutional work — a career spent designing spaces that respond to the people who inhabit them. Working in p5.js, WebGL, and GLSL shaders, he builds browser-based works that run live, generate in real time, and change with every viewing. The work explores emergence, translucency, co-creation, and the conditions under which shared space produces something no single author could make alone.

He began his career in the studio of Judy Pfaff in 1985 and Donald Lipski in 1987.

Async Museum — Bloom / Release — Four Walls
Immersive browser installation · Live
Objkt · June 2026 · curated by TanTan and 328Jesse
Sala Siroco, Madrid · 13 February 2026 · curated by @luzotxoa
Summer 2026 cohort · one-year artist residency · Studio index
Loop Art Critique / Institute of Contemporary Art
Cohort #21 · April 2026 · curated by Doreen Rios
Designing Museum Experiences
Mark Walhimer · Bloomsbury · 2021
Museums 101
Mark Walhimer · Bloomsbury · 2015
Managing Partner
2009–present · Museum Planning LLC
Executive Director
2024–2025 · Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Interim Director
2023–2024 · Frehner Museum of Natural History, Cedar City, Utah
Exhibits Project Manager
2008–2009 · Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Chief Operating Officer
2004–2008 · Academy Studios, Novato, California · Smithsonian and museum master planning
Industrial Design Studio & Exhibition Design
Georgia Institute of Technology · Tec de Monterrey · Ibero
Master of Industrial Design
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York · 1992
Bachelor of Science, Fine Arts
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York · 1985
Studio of Judy Pfaff
1985
Studio of Donald Lipski
1987
American Alliance of Museums (AAM)
Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)
Fulbright Specialist
Roster recipient