Mark has won many of the top artistic awards in the Northwest and Canada, including "Best of Show Awards": Wilson Hurley, one of the greatest living landscape artists in America, judged Mark's work Best of Show at the Kalispell Art Show & Auction in 1979. He won the same award again in 1982 from show judges Betty Harvey, a nationally known art editor and critic, and Mary Hunter, owner of the Hunter Gallery in San Francisco. In 1981 he won Best of Show at the Stockmans Federation show in Calgary, Alberta. In 1982 Mark was the first recipient of the Ace Powell Memorial Award. From 1987 thru 1998 Mark was placed four times in the Top 100 of the prestigious Arts for the Parks competition. This competition is sponsored by the National Parks Academy of the Arts and is a national competition. Mark is among only a handful of American artists to receive this award four times! The New Horizons competition in Las Vegas awarded Mark Best of Show in 1999.