Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores “what it is to be human in the world today” through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada and South London Gallery. The artist was a notable member of the Young British Artists movement.

Quinn is internationally celebrated and was awarded the commission for the first edition of the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2004, for which he exhibited Alison Lapper Pregnant. Quinn’s notorious frozen self-portrait series made of his own blood, Self (1991–present) was subject to a retrospective at Fondation Beyeler in 2009.

Quinn lives and works in London.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
  • Marc Quinn: Drawn from Life, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK
  • Marc Quinn: Thames River Water, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2015
  • Marc Quinn: Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes, Somerset House, London, UK
  • Marc Quinn: The Toxic Sublime, White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street), London, UK
  • Marc Quinn: Frozen Garden, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
2014
  • Marc Quinn, CAC Málaga, Malaga, Spain
  • Marc Quinn: The Sleep of Reason, ARTER, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
2013
  • Marc Quinn: Held by Desire, White Cube, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Marc Quinn: Portraits of Landscapes, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
2012
  • Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
2011
  • Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2010
  • Marc Quinn: Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas, White Cube, London (Hoxton Square), London, UK
  • Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
2009
  • Marc Quinn: Planet (Microcosmos), Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
  • Marc Quinn Iris, Mary Boone Gallery, 5th Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Marc Quinn, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Marc Quinn: Materialize Dematerialize New Sculptures and Paintings, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
2008
  • Marc Quinn: Evolution, Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2003
  • Mirror, Delta Axis/Power House Memphis Contemporary Art & Film, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Charity Licht Ins Dunkel, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
  • Corpus Domini. Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell’anima, Palazzo Reale Milano, Milan, Italy
  • Flowers in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  • ONLINE: Sculpture For The Senses: Outdoor Sculpture, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Palm Desert, California, USA
  • At The End Of The Day, Odunpazari Modern Museum, Eskisehir, Turkey
  • English Sculpture in Vermont, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
  • At The End Of The Rainbow, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  • Le Cinquième Printemps, Custot Gallery Dubai, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2020
  • Winter Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Tales From The Colony Rooms: Art And Bohemia, Dellasposa, London, UK
  • ONLINE: Blossoms & Awakenings, David Benrimon Fine Art, Midtown, New York, USA
  • ONLINE: Cool Britannia: The Young British Artists, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Palm Desert, California, USA
2019
  • Fall Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Co-thinkers, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
  • Bye, Bye And Hello: 40 Years Deweer Gallery, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • The Union, Odunpazari Modern Museum, Eskisehir, Turkey
  • Collectibles, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
  • Summer Contemporary L.A., Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Summer Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London (Westbourne Grove), London, UK
  • Spring Break, Custot Gallery Dubai, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Spring Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London (Editions), London, UK
2018
  • Best of British, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Winter Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London (Editions), London, UK
  • Best of British, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • It Comes in Waves, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Pantin), Paris, France
  • It comes in waves, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Pantin), Paris, France
  • Autumn Contemporary – Gstaad, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan), Osaka, Japan
  • After Eden, Herrick Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Art & Jewelry, Custot Gallery Dubai, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • The Classical Now, The Cultural Institute at King’s College, London, UK
2017
  • Selected Works, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Beyond Limits, Sotheby’s London, UK
  • Summer. Come Rain Come Shine, Beaux Arts London, London, UK
  • Black, White…, Custot Gallery Dubai, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Whitworth Young Contemporaries: And Now We Are Plastic, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2016
  • Monochromaniac, Opera Gallery, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • limited edition | édition limitée, Fabrik Contemporary Arts, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
  • Love: Contemporary Art Meets Amour, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
  • ProjectB10, Project B Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
  • Shades of Blue, Opera Gallery, Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
  • Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK
  • Body & Soul, Essl Museum (Sammlung Essl), Klosterneuburg, Austria
  • The Literati Within, Sotheby’s New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Post Revolution meets Post War Contemporary, Yan Gallery, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • The Andipa Collection 2016, The Andipa Gallery, London, UK
2015
  • Cool Britannia, Opera Gallery, Seoul, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
  • Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
  • Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015, Sotheby’s London, UK
  • Beyond Limits Sculpture Exhibition in the Garden, Chatsworth, Bakewell, UK
  • From Hockney to Holbein, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
  • Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan), Kyoto, Japan
  • British Contemporary, Opera Gallery, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • Not your average flower show, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, UK
  • DE-FORMATIONS: A group show featuring Andre Kertesz’s Distortions series, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • A Secret Affair: Selections From The Fuhrman Family Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA
2014
  • Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • A Retrospective Journey, Opera Gallery, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • Pop Sculpture – Pop Culture, Leila Heller Gallery, 57th Street, 57th Street, New York, USA
  • The Shock Of The New, Mead Carney, Porto Montenegro, Montenegro
  • Organic, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, Paris, France
  • Collection Platform, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Chelsea, New York, USA
2013
  • Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • The Anatomy Lesson, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
  • Flowers & Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
  • Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Capita Selecta Groninger Museum, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Disaster, The End of Days, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Marais), 3e, Paris, France
2012
  • Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, St. James’s, London, UK
  • On the Edge of the World, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, UK
  • Printed Matter, Eleven Fine Art, London, UK
  • Collection Platform 2: Circulation, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2011
  • Darren Almond & Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Zwei Sammler – Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2010
  • 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • Afterlife, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
  • Idea and Object, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
  • Cream, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2009
  • A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Intense, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Design High, Louise T. Blouin Institute, London, UK
  • The Garden at 4AM, Curated by Paul Laster and Renée Riccardo, Gana Art, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
2008
  • Fresh out of the Box, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
  • Statue Philia, The British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, UK
  • Love at the Laing, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
  • Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

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