Marc Quinn

Biography

Born in London, England, 1964.


EDUCATION
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1985.


Lives in London, England.


SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

1988
Bronze Sculpture, Jay Jopling/Otis Gallery, London, England.

1990
Bread Sculpture, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France.

1991
Out of Time, Grob Gallery, London, England.
Out of Time, Jay Jopling, London, England.

1993
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece.

1995
Art Now. Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England.
Blind Leading the Blind, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, England.

1998
South London Gallery, London, England.
Marc Quinn - Incarnate, Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY.

1999
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

2000
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy.
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Still Life, White Cube, London, England.

2001
Italian Landscape, Habitat, London, England.
Marc Quinn: Garden, Art of This Century, Paris, France.
A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn, National Portrait Gallery, London, England

2002
Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000, Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds, England.
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England.

2003
The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), Goodwood Sculpture Park, Chichester, West Sussex, England.
The Overwhelming World of Desire (Phragmipedium Sedenii), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.

2004
The Complete Marbles, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.

2005
Flesh, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Chemical Life Support, White Cube, London, England.
Alison Lapper Pregnant, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, England.

2006
Marc Quinn: Recent Sculptures, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy.

2007
Sphinx, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Montréal, Canada.

2008
Evolution, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, England.  
Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

2009
Marc Quinn: Bloodheads, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland.
Il Mito, Casa di Giulietta, Verona, Italy.

2010
Allanah, Buck, Cat, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas, White Cube Hoxton Square, London, England.

2011
Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland. 2012
Marc Quinn: The Littoral Zone, Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco.

2013
All the Time in the World, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.
Held by Desire, White Cube, Hong Kong, China.

2014
The Sleep of Reason, ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey.
Violence and Serenity, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

2015
Marc Quinn – ‘Frozen Garden’, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany.
History Painting, BOX Freiraum, Berlin, Germany.
The Toxic Sublime, White Cube, London, England.

Marc Quinn: Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes, Somerset House, London, England.  


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

1991
Modern Masters, Grob Gallery, London, England.

1992
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia.

1993
Young British Artists II, Saatchi Gallery, London, England.
Prospect '93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
Sonsbeek '93, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Real, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria.

1994
Life is Too Much, Galerie des Archives, Paris, France.
Time Machine, The British Museum, London, England.

1995
Ripple Across the Water, Watari-um, Tokyo, Japan.
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Tod, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.

1996
Hybrid, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.

1997
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.

1998
Physical Evidence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England.

1999
Spaced Out: Late 1990s Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California.
Presence, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York.
Skin, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece.

2000
Out There, White Cube, London, England.
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, Hayward Gallery, London, England.

2001
Give & Take, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.
London Nomad, Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt.
Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.
Metamorphosis and Cloning, Musée d'Art Contemporaine de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

2002
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London, England.
Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st Century British Sculpture, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.

2003
UnNaturally, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
Statements 7, La 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

2004
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sculpture Installation, IBM Building atrium, NYC, NY.
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, England.

2007
Pleasures of Collecting, Part III: Contemporary and Cutting Edge, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Reflection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2008
Statuephilia: Contemporary Sculptors at the British Museum, British Museum, London, England.

2009
A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
The World in The Body, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

2010
The Visceral Body, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.

2013
Disaster, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.

2014
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Open Air, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England.
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas.

2015
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC, NY.

2016
The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, England.  


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hall, James, A Head of the Game, THE GUARDIAN (London), 24 September 1993.

Craddock, Sacha, Cast Into Darkness, THE TIMES (London), 1 July 1995.

Kent, Sarah, Severed States, TIME OUT (London), 19 July 1995, p. 47.

Buck, Louisa, Quinn Chills Out, THE ART NEWSPAPER, February 1998.

Whitford, Frank, Raw Flesh that Looks Pretty in Pink, THE SUNDAY TIMES (London), 8 February 1998, pp. 8-9.

Feaver, William, It Will Never Take Off, THE OBSERVER REVIEW (London), 22 February 1998.

Hall, James, Marc Quinn, South London Gallery, ARTFORUM, May 1998.

Griffin, Tim, Marc Quinn, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 18 June 1998.

Smith, Roberta, Marc Quinn, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 June 1998.

Reilly, Maura, Marc Quinn at Gagosian, ART IN AMERICA, November 1998.

Lüdeking, Karlheinz, Marc Quinn: Klären was es heist, ein lebendiges, materielles Wesen zu sein, KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL, Number 148, December 1999, pp. 182-193.

Poli, Francesco, Marc Quinn: Fondazione Prada, Milan, TEMA CELESTE, July/September 2000, p. 82.

Preece, Robert, Shock: An Interview with Marc Quinn, SCULPTURE, October 2000, pp. 15-19.

Verzotti, Giorgio, Marc Quinn: Fondazione Prada, ARTFORUM, October 2000, p. 151.

Buck, Louisa, Away from his body, THE ART NEWSPAPER, November 2000, p. 28.

Januszczak, Waldemar, Matter of Life and Death, THE SUNDAY TIMES (London), 10 December 2000, p. 6.

Brooks, Richard, Gallery unveils portrait of the scientist as a piece of DNA, THE SUNDAY TIMES (London), 16 September 2001, p. 7.

Aidin, Rose, The Mighty Quinn, THE TIMES MAGAZINE (London), 19 January 2002, pp. 24-27.

Mullins, Charlotte, Marc Quinn at the Tate Liverpool, ART IN AMERICA, October 2002.

Sawyer, Miranda, Flower Show, THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE (London), 25 May 2003, pp. 18-24.

Levin, Kim, Lost and Found, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 21 January 2004, p. 79.

Johnson, Ken, Marc Quinn: 'The Complete Marbles', THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23 January 2004, p. E31.

Kramer, Hilton, Marc Quinn Sculpture Meets Shock Standard For Limbless Nudes, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, 26 January 2004, pp. 1, 18.

Stern, Steven, Marc Quinn, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 12 February 2004, p. 65.

Cohen, David, Gallery-Going: Marc Quinn, THE NEW YORK SUN, 26 February 2004, p. 21.

Herbert, Martin, Preview: Marc Quinn, Irish Museum of Modern Art, ARTFORUM, May 2004, p. 101.

Thomas, Mary, Orchid sprouts today on North Shore, PITTSBURGH POST- GAZETTE, 22 June 2004, p. B-3.

Shaw, Kurt, Art blossoms on North Shore, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 23 June 2004, pp. E1-E2.

Dunne, Aiden, Art that you can get your teeth into, THE IRISH TIMES, 5 July 2004, pp. 3-4.

Ebony, David, Marc Quinn at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, September 2004, pp. 123-124.

Nadelman, Cynthia, Middle-Aged Gods and Giant Babies, ART NEWS, December 2004, pp. 116-121.

Clancy, Luke, Marc Quinn: Flesh, MODERN PAINTERS, December 2004, p. 113.

Cohen, David, Gallery-Going: Marc Quinn, THE NEW YORK SUN, 27 January 2005, p. 18.

Harris, Jane, One man's meat: Marc Quinn plunders the butcher shop, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 9 February 2005, p. 78.

Mc Clister, Nell, Marc Quinn, ARTFORUM, April 2005, pp. 187-188.

Nadelman, Cynthia, Marc Quinn, ART NEWS, May 2005, p. 141.

Garratt, Sheryl, Body of Work, TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE (London), 13 August 2005, pp. 22-27. (illus: Alison Lapper Pregnant, Cover, C).

Castro, Jan Garden, New York: Marc Quinn, SCULPTURE, September 2005, p. 72.

Darwent, Charles, Battle of Trafalgar, ABC/THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (London), 4 September 2005, pp, 4-6. (illus: Self, Cover, C).

Van Gelder, Lawrence, Nude and Pregnant in London's Heart, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15 September 2005, p. E2.

Lyall, Sarah, In Trafalgar Square, Much Ado About Statuary, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10 October 2005, pp. E1, E7.

Farouky, Jumana, Rubbing Shoulders With Lord Nelson, TIME, 31 October 2005, p. 59.

Rosenblum, Robert, Best of 2005, ARTFORUM, December 2005, p. 254-255. (illus: Alison Lapper Pregnant, Cover, C).

Ebony, David, Quinn Marble for Trafalgar Square, ART IN AMERICA, December 2005, p. 37.

Van Gelder, Lawrence, Kate Moss, Big as Life, in Bronze, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 7 February 2006, p. E2.

Herbert, Martin, Marc Quinn, Groninger Museum, ARTFORUM, May 2006, p. 162.

Turner, Jonathan, Moss Appeal, ART NEWS, October 2006, p. 42.

Gayford, Martin, ’I’m Quite Perverse’, ART NEWS, December 2006, pp. 124-127. ; (illus: Sphinx (Venus), Cover, C).

Goodbody, Bridget L., Marc Quinn: Sphinx, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1 June 2007, p. E29.

Falconer, Morgan, Marc Quinn, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 28 June 2007, p. 77.

Platon, Alexander, The Great Outdoors, SOTHEBY’S PREVIEW, September 2007, pp. 80-83.

Bailey, Martin, Museum needs £200,000 for Marc Quinn’s blood portrait, THE ART NEWSPAPER, October 2008, p. 3.

Itzkoff, Dave, Bloody Self-Portrait Is Headed for Museum, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11 September 2009, p. C5.

Panicelli, Ida,Marc Quinn/Mary Boone Gallery, ARTFORUM, January 2010, p. 202.

Nichols, Matthew Guy, Marc Quinn/Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, February 2010, pp. 110-111.

Pascucci, Marisa J., Profiles: Marc Quinn, THE ART ECONOMIST, November 2011, p. 37.

Johnson, Ken, Marc Quinn: ‘All the Time in the World’, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24 May 2013, p. C24.

Slenske, Michael, Marc Quinn: Subverting Sunsets, MODERN PAINTERS, July/August 2015, Cover, pp. 82-87.

Smith, Saphora, The Sea as Cast by an Artistic Provocateur and Social Observer, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17 August 2015, p. C2.

Brown, Laura, Marc Quinn's Eye on Fashion, HARPER'S BAZAAR, September 2015.

For a full biography please contact the gallery.