Mark Gonzales (b. 1968, South Gate, CA), also known as "The Gonz," is a professional skateboarder and artist. Gonzales’ influential and unique skateboarding style, which popularized the exploitation of public sites and quotidian architectural features like handrails and curbs, altered the scope of modern street skateboarding; to this day, many attribute prevailing skateboarding styles and attitudes toward the ingenuity of use of public spaces to Gonzales, “the Godfather of modern street skateboarding”. Gonzales’ artworks reflect his interest in the multiplicities of humanity, language, athleticism, and syncopation, and his often deeply personal imagery is rendered with biting wit. Gonzales has been a prolific art-maker and writer-poet for decades, and first began showing his work in the early 1990s, most notably at Aaron Rose’s legendary Alleged Gallery.

Mark Gonzales has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at museums and galleries internationally, including Backworlds For Words at Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, DE), Weapons and Armor at Museum Het Domein (Sittard, NL), Invitation at Last Gallery (Tokyo, JP), Flower Power at HVW8 (Los Angeles, CA), and many more. Gonzales has also participated in such group exhibitions as Art in the Streets at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), White Trash at Luhring Augustine (Brooklyn, NY) and Freezer Burn at Hauser & Wirth (New York, NY), and traveling group exhibitions Beautiful Losers and Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, among others. Franklin Parrasch Gallery presented Gonzales’ storied “circle board” at NADA Hudson in July 2011. In December 2011, Mark Gonzales was named the "Most Influential Skateboarder of All Time" by Transworld Skateboarding magazine. In 2020, Rizzoli published “Mark Gonzales,” the first book comprising skate photographer Sem Rubio’s images of Mark Gonzales and specially-commissioned interviews by Spike Jonze, KAWS, Ed Templeton, Tony Hawk, Gus Van Sant, Franklin Parrasch Gallery Director Katharine Overgaard, and many more.