
Dinos Chapman
1962 Born in London
1981 BA, Ravensbourne College of Art
1990 MA, Royal College of Art
Currently lives and works in London
Jake Chapman
1966 Born in Cheltenham
1988 BA, North East London Polytechnic
1990 MA, Royal College of Art
Currently lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Museo Pino Pascali, Bari
Die Dada Die, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
The Sun Will Shine Brightly On Your Rotting Corpse Whilst Your Bones Glimmer In The Moonlight , Project B Contemporary Art, Milan
2009
Once Upon A Time In Hastings, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings
Shitrospective, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
My Giant Colouring Book, Touring to The Gallery - Petersfield, Queens Hall, Hexham and Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
2008
Memento Moronika, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth But NOT The Mineral Rights, Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge
My Giant Colouring Book, Touring to DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham, The Gallery at Ormeau Baths, Belfast, Qube Gallery, Oswestry, Cambellworks, London, Pontardawe Art Centre, Pontardawe and Artsdepot, London
If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
Little Death Machines, L&M Arts, New York
2007
Your Mind Is A Nightmare That Has Been Eating You: Now Eat Your Mind, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good, Paradise Row, London
When Humans Walked the Earth, Tate Britain, London
2006
Bad Art for Bad People, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Peculiar Culture: The Contemporary Baroque, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
2005
Like a dog returns to its vomit, White Cube, London
Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2004
The New and Improved Andrex Works, Thomas Olbricht Collection, Essen
Insult to Injury, Kunst Sammlungen der Veste, Coburg
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, CAC Malaga, Malaga / Dunkers Kulturhus, Sweden
2003
Jake & Dinos Chapman, The Saatchi Gallery, London
The Rape Of Creativity, Modern Art Oxford
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2002
Works from the Chapman Family Collection, White Cube, London
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Groninger Museum, Groninger
2001
Jackie & Denise Chapwoman. New Work, Modern Art, London
2000
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Kunst Werke, Berlin
GCSE Art Exam, The Art Ginza Space, Tokyo
1999
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Fig.1, London
Disasters of War ,White Cube, London
1998
Dinos & Jake Chapman, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1997
Six Feet Under, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1996
Solo Exhibition, P-House, Tokyo
Zero Principle, Giò Marconi, Milan
Chapmanworld, Institute of Contemporary Art, London / Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1995
Solo Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Zygotic acceleration, biogenetic, de-sublimated libidinal model (enlarged x 1000), Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Bring Me the Head of Franco Toselli!, Ridinghouse Editions, London
Five Easy Pissers, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm
1994
Great Deeds Against the Dead, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Mummy & Daddy, Galeria Franco Toselli, Milan
1993
The Disasters of War, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1992
We Are Artists, Hales Gallery, London; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Group Exhibitions
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
Straw Dogs, Spring Projects, London
Avant Il N’yavait Rien, Aprés On Va Pouvoir Faire Mieux, Circuit Gallery, Lausanne
Rude Britannia, Tate Britain
The Beauty of Distance, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Critical Fetishes: Residues of General Economy , Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
The Art of Chess , Dox Contemporary, Prague
Shoebox Art, Haunch of Venison, London
Magic Show , Quad Gallery, Derby
Crash, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St., London
Curious, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2009
Where Is The Wind, When It Doesn't Blow?, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Barock, MADRE, Naples
Magic Show, Hayward Touring, Quad Gallery, Derby
Play, Paradise Row, London
Il Faut Etre Absolument Moderne, Paradise Row, Istanbul
Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada.
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge
Medals of Dishonour, British Museum, London
Classified, Tate Britain, London
Mapping the Studio , Francois Pinault Collection,Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Drawing Room 2009 Biennial Fundraiser, Drawing Room Gallery, London
Inspired, City Museum, Glasgow
TURPS BANANA 2, Galleria Marabini, Bologna
Accrochage , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Gothic, Contemporary Art Society, London
The Art of Chess, Reykjavik Museum, Reykjavik
TURPS BANANA 1, Galleria Marabini, Milan
Desenhos: A a Z (Drawings A to Z), Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
Another Mythology, National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow
In Praise of Shadows , Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2008
Occupied Space 2008: Art For Palestine, The Mosaic Rooms, A. M. Qattan Foundation, London
Whole Lotta Love, CFA, Berlin
Lucifer’s Greatest Works of Art, FRED, Leipzig
Les Caprices de Goya, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille
Yours, Mine, Ours, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester
Ad Absurdum. Energies of the absurd from modernity to contemporary art, Marta Herford, Herford
You dig the tunnel – I’ll hide the soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
ICA 60th Anniversary Auction 7 Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
‘Traces du Sacré Spuren des Geistigen’, Haus der Kunst, Munich
In Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, London
2007
Summer Exhibition 2007, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Into Me/ Out of Me, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
'Meet the Artists: Jake, Paul, George and Dinos’, Deitch Projects, New York
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing
2006
Jake & Dinos Chapman and John Currin – etchings from the Collection of Magasin 3
Stockholm Konsthall, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Unholy Truths at Initial Access New Art from the Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton
PLAY, Bearspace, Deptford, London
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Works from the Frank Cohen Collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
With the Artists: New Paintings by Jake, Paul, George and Dinos, RS&A, London
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
The François Pinault Collection – A Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grazzi, Venice
Eretica, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo
People, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli, Naples
Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averrof-Tositsas Foundation, Athens
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London
INFINITE PAINTING: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano
2005
Biella Prize for Engraving 2006: Art in the Age of Anxiety, Museo del Territorio di Biellese, Biella
Little Private Governments, University of Essex, Essex
ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
The Artist With Two Brains, Saint Pauls Church, New Art Birmingham
The Wonderful Fund On Tour, Le Musee de Marrakech, Morocco
Family Affairs-Brothers and Sisters in Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Baroque and Neo Baroque, Domus Atrium, Salamanca
Video II: Allegory, NRW-Furum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
Vertigos, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
Bidibidobidiboo,Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Cavallerizza Chiablese e Salone delle Guardie, Turin.
Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Child’s Play, Rohkunstbau, Berlin
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2004
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press, Taipei Museum of Fine Art, Taipei; USM ABN AMRO Art and Culture Centre, Penang; National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Mixed-up Childhood. An Exhibition for Grown-ups, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Critic’s Choice, FACT, Liverpool
The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Paper Democracy. Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo
The Charged Image, Collection of Douglas Cramer, Joseloff Gallery, Conneticut
Deliver Us From Evil, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
After Images, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
At War, CCCB, Barcelona
2003
Lonely Planet, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Gewalt, Loushy Art & Editions, Tel Aviv
The Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
Reception 1, Reception, London
FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Did you hear about that frog who wanted to be a prince?, Egg, London
The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Mars. Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2002
Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon
Fran el Greco till Dali, Nationalmuseum, Sweden
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press , International Graphic Arts Centre, Ljubljana; Hakodate Museum, Hakodate; Marugame Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London
2001
SHOCK AND SHOW: Realities & Alternatives, Lipanje Puntin Arte Contemporanea, Trieste
In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade; Museum of Fine Arts,Yaroslavl; The Urals Museum of Youth,Yekaterinburg; Centre of Graphics and Printmaking and Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg; Fine Art Gallery, Novosibirsk; Musuem of Art, Tel-Aviv
Art Crazy Nation Show, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Utopien heute?, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen e.V., Ludwigshafen, Germany
Francisco Goya and Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of War, Musée desBeaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. Without Hesitation, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst & Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Eine Barocke Party, Kunsthalle Wien
2000
Paper Assets: Collecting Prints and Drawings 1996-2001, The British Museum, London
Under the Skin. Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year 2000, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (An Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.)
Disasters of War. Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger and Jake and Dinos Chapman, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
Jake & Dinos Chapman and Francisco Goya y Lucientes, The Power Plant, Toronto
Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
ManMoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer Fête, Fairfield, Manchester
The Pölstar Art Programme, Leicester Square, London
Ant Noises II, Saatchi Gallery, London
Gut aufgelegt, Griffelkunst, Hamburg
Sex and the British, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Nervous Kingdom, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1999
Out There, White Cube², London
Christian Gether, Stine Høholt, Mennesket, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst 2000Man-Body in Man- Art from 1950 to 2000, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst , Skovvej, Denmark
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
The Anagrammatical Body. The Body and Its Photographic Condition, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria; ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
1998
Sensation, Young British Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York
UK Maximum Diversity, Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien
Heaven:An Exhibition that will break your heart, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1997
Close Echoes. Public Body & Artificial Space, City Gallery, Prague and Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Wounds: between democracy and redemtion in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Minor Sensation, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (1998); Brooklyn Museum, New York (1999-2000)
Future, Present, Past, Venice Biennale, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice (curated by Germano Celant)
1996
Gothic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Full House, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Young British Artists, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney (curated by Glen Scott Wright)
Florence Biennale, Florence (curated by Germano Celant)
Life/Live, ARC, Paris (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist); Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Some Drawings from London, Kate Bernard, London
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporaneo, Turin (commissioned and curated by Francesco Bonami)
1995
Nach Weimar, KunstSammlungen zu Weimer, Germany (curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Little Boy Peep, Riding House Editions, London
The Cauldron, Dean Clough, Halifax (curated by Maureen Paley)
Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
1994
General Release: Young British Artists, Venice Biennale, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
London-Nu, Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (curated by Jeremy Miller)
Liar, Hoxton Square, London (curated by Gregor Miur)
Rien à Signaler, Galerie Ananlix, Geneva
Five British Artists, Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Great Deeds Against the Dead, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Curated Exhibitions Watt, Witte de With & Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Holland (curated by Chris Dercon)
Matter & Fact, Katherine Hamnett Building, London (curated by Neil Miller)
1996
Videos and Films
1997
Some of My Best Friends are Geniuses, Independent Art Space, London
1995
TV Sculpture, commissioned by UnionPictures, Channel 4 and Absolut Vodka
Awards
2003
Bring Me the Head of...Edition of 200, 7 mins, published by Ridinghouse Editions, London
Other Projects
2008
Jake Chapman in conversation with Tim Marlow at Foyles Bookshop, London, 12 Nov
Jake & Dinos Chapman In Conversation at the ICA, London, 18 Nov
Jake Chapman talk at Southbank Centre, London, 26 March
2005
Jake Chapman talk at Architectural Association, London, 4 March
2004
‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ music festival, Camber Sands, Sussex, 3-5 December
Jake Chapman in conversation with Nick Hackworth, The Hospital, London, 15 October
The Chapman House of Horrors talk, Tate Britain, 23 September
Dinos Chapman is a selector of Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Nominated for Turner Prize 2003
Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award (at the Summer Exhibition)
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