Darren Almond

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1971 Born in Wigan, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom


Education

1993 BFA, Winchester School of Art, United Kingdom


Solo Exhibitions

2010
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul

2009
Darren Almond, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Darren Almond, Max Hetzler, Berlin

2008
Darren Almond: Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London
Darren Almond: Fire Under Snow, Parasol Unit – Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
Darren Almond: Galleri K, Norway
Darren Almond: SCAI The Bathhouse and Eye and Gyre, Japan
Darren Almond - Nail to Nail, David Patton, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Darren Almond, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Day Return, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Night and Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond: In the Between, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

2006
Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Take Me Home, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca

2005
Darren Almond, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Only Sound needs Echo and Dreads its Lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Isolation, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf,

2004
Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
If I Had You, Galerie Max Hetzler, St. Johannes Evangelist Church, Berlin
Geisterbahn (1999), Passage du Désir BETC, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France

2003
If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragiona, Milan, Italy
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
11 Miles.....from Safety, White Cube, London, United Kingdom
Nightvision, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Darren Almond, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
A, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2002
A, National Theatre, Fourth Wall, South Bank, commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, London
At Speed, Darren Almond and Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2001
Night as Day, Tate Britain, London
Coming Up For Air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
Darren Almond, De Appel Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin

2000
Transport Medium, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Geisterbahn, The Approach, London
Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, London

1999
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago

1997
Darren Almond, Institute of Contemporary Arts, commissioned by Toshiba Art & Innovation, London
Darren Almond, White Cube, London

1995
KN120, Great Western Studios, London

1991
Darren Almond, Crawford Art College, Cork


Group Exhibitions

2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
Climax Redux, BAC Geneva

2009
Just With Your Eyes I Will See, Fonds D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London
Edition Copenhagen - Retrospective 1959 - 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
Los tiempos de un - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca

2008
Infinite Ice Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, Albertina, Vienna
Summer in the City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
WAR & ART - Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto,
Japan
Night: A Time Between, Sharples, Winterstoke, Stancomb Wills, Methuen and Milner Galleries, Royal West of England Academy, England
Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Climax, LOOP’08, International Festival and Fair for Video Art, Barcelona
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Collection as Aleph, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Implant, The Horticultural Society of New York Exhibition for UBS Art Gallery, New York
You Prison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom, and Space, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Imperial War Museum London, UK
a.b.c. (Art Berlin Contemporary), Postbahnhof am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany
Moving Horizon: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the Present Day, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Du Jardin au Cosmos, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France

2007
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
L’oeil écran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Light, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester
Going Staying: Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Acceleration, CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2006
Time 2 Kill, Darren Almond and Albert Oehlen, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter Rove, London
Full House – Geschichte einer Sammlung (Faces of a Collection), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: The Impossible Landscape, Horticultural Society of New York, New York
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Geisterbahn (1999), Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Caspar David Friedrich, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
The Black Show, David Patton, Los Angeles
37th Art Basel: Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland

2005
Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London
En Attente, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
20: Twenty: A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985–2005, Cornerhouse, Manchester
World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Sequences, Q Arts Gallery, Derby
Bidibidobidiboo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Cavallerizza Chiablese e Salone delle Guardie, Turin.
Darren Almond / Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
The Mind is a Horse Part II, Bloomberg Space, London
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Hayward Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

2004
Sequences, Peterborough Digital Art, Peterborough,
Geisterbahn (1999), 33rd Festival d’Automne, Passage du Désir – BETC, Paris
ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Die Neue Kunsthalle III: materiell – immateriell, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Biennial of Pontevedra, Pazo da Cultura, Facultade de Belas Artes / Escola de Restauración, Instituto Valie-Incián, Pontevedra
After Images: Kunst als Soziales Gedächnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Busan Biennale 2004, Busan Metropolitan City Hall and Art Museum, Busan
Open Secrets: Something Old, Something New, Redefining the Boundaries of the Art Collection, Imperial War Museum, London
Other Times: British Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Prague

2003
Heißkalt: Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
Video Time, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
The Spirit of White, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Imagination: Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Outlook: International Art Exhibition Technopolis, Benaki Museum, Factory, Athens
Game Over, Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich
3rd Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Stadtmuseum, Beckum
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Biennale di Venezia
Edén, La Colección Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
Witness, The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Zürich
The Guest, Schwebebahn, Hertzliya Museum, Tel-Aviv
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
In Light: Video Projections by Eight Contemporary Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Interludes, La Biennale di Venezia 50, Venice

2002
Video Acts – Single Channel Video Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London,; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Melodrama, Artim, Centre Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo; Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; Katowice City Gallery, Poland; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Video Zone – The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
At Speed, with Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2001
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna
Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California Collage of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Unreal Time Video, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2000
British Short Film Festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London
Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of the Arts, London
Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik, Sollentuna
Out There, White Cube2, London
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester

1999
Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Chronos and Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
So Far Away, So Close, Encore...Bruxelles, Espace Méridien, Brussels
Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin

1998
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz
View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo
Art Crash, Ĺrhus Kunstmuseum, Ĺrhus, Denmark
Ray Rapp, Tz’Art & Co., New York

1997
A Print Portfolio from London, (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions), Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
Delta, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

1996
Art & Innovation Prize, (winner), Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Something Else, Exmouth Market, London
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1993
Winchester Gallery, Winchester

1992
Southampton Quays, Southampton


Other Projects

2005
Set-design for Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Barbican Theatre, London

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Exhibitions
The Principle of Moments
3 Sep—2 Oct 2010
Moons of the Iapetus Ocean
18 Jan—23 Feb 2008
11 miles......from Safety
25 Apr—31 May 2003
Fan
7 Feb—8 Mar 1997

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