
Dinos Chapman
1962 Born London
1981 Ravensbourne College of Art (BA)
1990 Royal College of Art (MA)
Currently lives and works in London
Jake Chapman
1966 Born Cheltenham
1988 North East London Polytechnic (BA)
1990 Royal College of Art (MA)
Currently lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Jake and Dinos Chapman: Little Death Machines, L&M Arts, New York
If Hitler had been a hippy how happy would we be, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
2007 Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good, Paradise Row, London
When Humans Walked the Earth, Tate Britain, London
Your Mind Is A Nightmare That Has Been Eating You: Now Eat Your Mind, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2006 Bad Art for Bad People, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
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
Jake & Dinos Chapman. GCSE Art Exam, The Art Ginza Space, Tokyo
1999 Jake & Dinos Chapman, Fig.1, London
Disasters of War, Jay Jopling/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
2008 Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, London
You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Ad Absurdum. Energies of the absurd from modernity to contemporary art, Marta Herford, Herford
Les Caprices de Goya, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille
Traces du Sacré (Traces of the spiritual in 20th century art), Haus der Kunst, Munich
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
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
2006 Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Eretica, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo
People, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli, Naples
Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averrof-Tositsas Foundation, Athens
Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London
INFINITE PAINTING: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano
Little Private Governments, University of Essex, Essex
ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2005 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. La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 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
Mixed-up Childhood. An Exhibition for Grown-ups, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Critic’s Choice, FACT, Liverpool
2004 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
At War, CCCB, Barcelona
Lonely Planet, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Gewalt, Loushy Art & Editions, Tel Aviv
2003 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
Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon
Fran el Greco till Dali, Nationalmuseum, Sweden
2002 Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London
Art Crazy Nation Show, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
2001 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
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
Under the Skin. Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
2000 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
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
1999 The Anagrammatical Body. The Body and Its Photographic Condition, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria; ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
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
1998 Close Echoes. Public Body & Artificial Space, City Gallery, Prague and Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Wounds: between democracy and redemtion in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1997 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)
Gothic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Full House, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
1996 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)
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)
1995 Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
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)
1994 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
Watt, Witte de With & Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Holland (curated by Chris Dercon)
Matter & Fact, Katherine Hamnett Building, London (curated by Neil Miller)
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