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Marc Quinn
CV
1964 Born, London
1985 Graduated, Cambridge University
Currently lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Marc Quinn: Evolution, White Cube, London
Alison Lapper Plinth, Forum, Rome
2007 DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Montréal
Marc Quinn, Parco and Museo di Scolacium, Catanzaro
Sphinx, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2006 Paintings, Emanuele Bonomi, Milan
Marc Quinn, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Marc Quinn, Recent Sculptures, Groningen Museum, The Netherlands
Marc Quinn, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris
Chemical Life Support, Millesgarden, Stockholm
2005 Marc Quinn, Galeria Guereta, Madrid
Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
Chemical Life Support, White Cube, London
Meat Sculptures, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2004 The Incredible World of Desire, IBM Building, New York
Marc Quinn, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset
The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), Tate Britain, London
Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Complete Marbles, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2003 The Overwhelming World of Desire (Phragmipedium Sedenii), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Mirror, A Delta Axis Initiative, Power House, Memphis
The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), Goodwood Sculpture Park, West Sussex
2002 Behind the Mask: Portraits, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
1+1=3 (Rainbow Sculpture), Cammell Laird Ship Yard, Liverpool
Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000, Terrace Gallery Harewood, Leeds
Marc Quinn, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2001 A Genomic Portrait. John Sulston by Marc Quinn, National Portrait Gallery, London
Italian Landscape, Habitat, London
2000 Still Life, White Cube², London
Marc Quinn, Groninger Museum, Groningen
Marc Quinn, Fondazione Prada, Milan
1999 Marc Quinn, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Marc Quinn. Drawings, Sala Amárica-Amarica Aretoa, Vitoria
1998 Incarnate, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Marc Quinn, South London Gallery, London
1997 Infra-slim Spaces, Invisible Museum, SCCA, Kiev
1995 The Blind Leading the Blind, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins. Art Now, Tate Gallery, London
1994 Marc Quinn, Jay Jopling/Art Hotel, Amsterdam
1993 Marc Quinn, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
1991 Out of Time, Jay Jopling/Grob Gallery, London
1990 Bread Sculpture, Galerie Marquardt, Paris
Bread Sculpture, Middendorf Gallery, Washington
1988 Bronze Sculpture, Jay Jopling/Otis Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2008 Love, National Gallery, London
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Genesis – Die Kunst der Schopfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Statuephilia: Contemporary Sculptors at the British Museum, British Museum, London
Nothing but Sculpture, XIII International Sculpture Biennale, Carrara, Tuscany
Open XI. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice Lido and San Servolo, Venice
2007 Garden of Eden, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden
Skin, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Six Feet Under, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Diagnosis (Art): Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg
Timer.01: Intimacy, Triennale di Milano, Milan
Genesis. Life at the end of the Information Age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing
35th Anniverssary of the Essl Collection, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
FRAMED: The Art of the Portrait, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
2006 Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Diagnosis [Art]: Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen
Light, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester
Eretica, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo
Egomania, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modena
2005 Imagine A World, Bargehouse, London
Wunderkammer. The Artificial Kingdom, The Collection, Lincoln
Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich
Ripe for Picking Fruits and Flowers, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
'Bock mit Inhalt' - Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
Blumenstück Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Leverkusen
The Body. Art & Science, National Museum, Stockholm
Contemporary Photography and the Garden – Deceits & Fantasies, The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury / The Parrish Art Museum, New York
2004 Slimvolume 2004, Redux, London
The Flower As Image: From Monet to Jeff Koons, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk
Gwangju Biennale 13th Tallinn Print Triennial, Korea
Lille Expo, Lille
Garden of Eden, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
The Garden of Delights, Galería Guereta, Madrid
Flowers Observed. Flowers Transformed, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London / Ulster Museum, Belfast / Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Secrets of the ‘90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Ideale e Realtà, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
2003 Fourth Plinth Proposal, National Gallery, London
FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Statements 7, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Decembristerne, Gallery Faurschou, Copenhagen
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Genomic Issues, Graduate Centre Art Gallery, New York
Bull’s Eye; Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken
UnNaturally, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa / Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City / Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles / Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa / Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
2002 Face Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
The Nude In Twentieth Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London
Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st Century British Sculpture, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum on Modern Art, Dublin
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
Iconoclash. Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Second Skin. Historical Life Casting and Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2001 Sacred and Profane, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield
Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon
Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Ohne Zögern: Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. Without Hesitation, Gesellschartf für Aktuelle Kunst & Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Metamorphosis and Cloning, Musée d'art Contemporaine de Montréal, Quebec
/Arts, The Lux, London
London Nomad, Cairo Biennale, Cairo
Mind the Gap, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Give & Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Heads and Hands, Decatur House Museum, Washington
2000 Wellcome Wing, The Science Museum, London
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, Hayward Gallery, London
Conversation, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes
Out There, White Cube², London
Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London
1999 Skin, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
Something Warm and Fuzzy, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
Into the Light. Photographic Printing Out of the Darkroom, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath
Officina Europa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
Now It’s My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Presence, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Spaced Out: Late 1990s Works from Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, The CCA Institute, California
As Above, So Below : The Body’s Equal Parts, Fabric Workshop, Philidelphia
Physical Evidence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1998 Family, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Group exhibition, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
Hope (Sufferance), Sun and Doves Gallery, London
The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London
A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz
Sam Taylor-Wood, Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Marc Quinn, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag
Inner Self, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
1997 The Quick and the Dead : Artists and Anatomy, Royal College of Art, London / Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick / City Art Gallery, Leeds
Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin / Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
The Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Follow Me, Kunstverein Kehdingen, Freiburg
A Ilha do Tesouro, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1996 Thinking Print. Books to Billboards 1980-95, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hybrid, De Appel, Amsterdam
Feed and Greed, MAK, Vienna
Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Happy End, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1995 Time Machine, Musee Egizio, Turin
Faith, Hope, Charity, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Ripple Across the Water, Minato Prefecture and Shibuya Prefecture, Tokyo
1994 Life is too Much, Galerie des Archives, Paris
Time Machine, British Museum, London
1993 Prospect ‘93, Frankfurt
Sonsbeek ‘93, Arnhem
Art Cologne, (Saatchi Collection), Cologne
Real, Vienna Secession, Vienna
Restaurant, Marc Jancou, Paris
Young British Artists II, Saatchi Collection, London
1992 Sydney Biennial, Sydney
London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert, London
Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
British Art, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1991 Modern Masters, Grob Gallery, London
1990 Group Show, Grob Gallery, London
Hands, Grob Gallery, London
Other projects
2005 Screening of film ‘Marc Quinn’, The Prince’s Drawing School, London, 9 March
Artists On Film Screening: Marc Quinn South Bank Show 2000 followed by Q&A with Gerry Fox & Marc Quinn, National Portrait Gallery, London 27 October
Awards
2004 Fourth Plinth Commission for Trafalgar Square, London
2001 The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award
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