Marc Quinn, born 1964 in London, is a contemporary master artist and founding figure in the 1990s British contemporary art movement. His work includes sculpture, installation and painting and explores “what it is to be human in the world today” through subjects that include the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. Quinn graduated from Cambridge University in 1984 and had his first solo show in 1988 at the Jay Jopling / Otis Gallery in London. Quinn was selected for the Sydney Biennale in 1992, and was represented in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Gallery in 1993, and Time Machine at the British Museum in 1994. He participated in Thinking Print at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1996 and Sensation at the Royal Academy, London in 1997. He had a solo show at the South London Gallery, Camberwell, London in 1998. Quinn gained international notoriety with Self (1991, Saatchi Collection, London), a three dimensional head made from his own frozen blood, and was first exhibited in 1991 at the Jay Jopling / Grob Gallery and later at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992. In 1995, the Tate Gallery showcased Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins, a group of seven lead casts of Quinn’s body parts which were made using the lost wax method. Quinn prefers to use his body as a primary source because it is free from the associations of implied relationships and gives one an opportunity to “see the self”. Through exploration of personal identity in contrast with the expansive universe that surrounds us, Quinn’s artworks evoke existentialism and optimism in a palette pleasing mixture of mediums including diamond dusted prints, paintings, and sculpture. Marc Quinn lives in London where he continues his commitment to explore what it means to be a contemporary master artist in the present day.

S E L E C T E X H I B I T I O N S

1991 . ‘SELF’ SAATCHI COLLECTION, LONDON, UK

1995 . ‘EMOTIONAL DETOX: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS’ TATE GALLERY,
LONDON, UK

2000 . ‘GARDEN’ FONDAZIONE PRADA, MILAN, ITALY

2002 . ‘SIR JOHN EDWARD SULSTON’ NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY,
LONDON, UK

2004 . ‘The Complete Marbles’ MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York, NY

2005 . ‘FLESH: MEAT SCULPTURES’ MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York, NY

. ‘CHEMICAL LIFE SUPPORT’ WHITE CUBE, LONDON

. ‘MARC QUINN: FOURTH PLINTH’, Trafalgar Square, LONDON

2006 . ‘SELFS’ MACRO, ROME, ITALY

. ‘MARC QUINN: RECENT SCULPTURE,’ THE GRONINGER MUSEUM, THE NETHERLANDS

. ‘MARC QUINN (MACRO),’ MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, ROME

2007 . ‘SPHINX’, MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York, NY

. ‘ MARC QUINN’, SCOLACIUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK, BORGIA

. ‘ MARC QUINN (DHC/ART), FONDATION PHI POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAIN

2008 . ‘EVOLUTION’, WHITE CUBE, LONDON

. ‘MARC QUINN’, GANA ART CENTRE, SEOUL

. ‘BEFORE, NOW, AFTER,’ GALERIE HOPKINS- CUSTOT, PARIS

2009 . ‘SELFS’ FOUNDATION BEYELER, BASEL

. ‘MARC QUINN’ GOSS-MICHAEL FOUNDATION, DALLAS, TX

. ‘MYTH’, CASA DI GIULIETTA, VERONA

. ‘MATERIALISE DEMATERIALISE,’ GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC, SALZBURG

. ‘CARBON CYCLES,’ GALERIE DANIEL BLAU, MUNICH

. ‘ SELFS’, BEYELER FOUNDATION, RIEHAN/ BASEL

. ‘IRIS’, MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York, NY

2010 . ‘ALLANAH, BUCK, CATMAN, CHELSEA, MICHAEL, PAMELA, & THOMAS’, WHITE CUBE, LONDON

2011 . ‘MARC QUINN: ALL OF NATURE FLOWS THROUGH US’, KISTEFOS- MUSEET, NORWAY

2012 . ‘THE LITTORAL ZONE’ MUSÉE OCÉANOGRAPHIQUE, MONACO

. ‘ MARC QUINN: ALL OF NATURE FLOWS THROUGH US’, KUNSTEN- MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AALBORG

. ‘BRAVE NEW WORLD,’ GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC, SALZBURG

. ‘ BIG WHEELS KEEP ON TURNING’ MULTIMEDIA ART MUSEUM, MOSCOW

2013 . ‘MARC QUINN’ FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI, VENICE, ITALY

. ‘ ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD’, MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York, NY

. ‘HELD BY DESIRE’, WHITE CUBE, Hong Kong

2014 . ‘FLESH PAINTING’ ARTER SPACE FOR ART, ISTANBUL

. ‘ THE SLEEP OF REASON’, ARTER SPACE FOR ART, ISTANBUL

. ‘VIOLENCE AND SERENITY’, CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO, MÁLAGA

2015 . ‘MARC QUINN: FROZEN WAVES, BROKEN SUBLIMES’ SOMERSET HOUSE,
LONDON, UK

. ‘ HISTORY PAINTING’, BOX, BERLIN, GERMANY

. ‘THE TOXIC SUBLIME’, WHITE CUBE, LONDON

. ‘MARC QUINN: FORZEN WAVES, BROKEN SUBLIMES’, SOMERSET HOUSE

2019 . ‘UNDER THE SKIN’, CAFA ART MUSEUM, BEIJING

. ‘ HISTORY & CHAOS’, THE GOSS- MICHAEL FOUNDATION, DALLAS