1964
Born in London
Lives and works in London
Education
1985
Cambridge University
Solo Exhibition
2010
Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
2009
Iris, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Marc Quinn, Goss- Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas
Selfs 1991 – 2006, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Materialize Dematerialize, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg
Carbon Cycles, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
Marc Quinn, Casa Giuleta, Verona
2008
Marc Quinn: Evolution, White Cube, London
Alison Lapper Plinth, Forum, Rome
2007
DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Montréal
Marc Quinn, Scolacium Archaeological Park, 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, Victoria
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 Exhibition
2010
The Visceral Body, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2009
The World in The Body, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Messiah, Modem, Hungary
No Visible Means of Escape , Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich
Assembling Bodies, University of Cambridge
Fuentes. Non-European influences on contemporary artists, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris
Innovations In The Third Dimension: Sculpture Of Our Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich
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
Sphinxx, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
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; Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Diagnosis (Art): Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg
Timer.01: Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
Genesis. Life at the end of the Information Age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing
Passion for Art, 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
