London, 1964
Degree:
1985, BA History of Art, University of Cambridge
Currently Lives and Works in London.
Marc Quinn belongs to the Young British Artists group, which became famous in 1997 through the legendary Sensation exhibition of works from Charles Saatchi’s collection. Quinn’s pioneering sculpture was Self, a frozen sculpture of his head, made with 4.5 litres of his own blood, extracted over five months. In 2005 his statue of Alison Lapper, a woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs, attracted much attention. The 15-ton marble statue, exhibited from 2005 until 2007 on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, was extremely controversial.
With his materials and techniques, Quinn – who studied history of art at Robinson College, Cambridge, in the early 1980s – challenges the boundaries between art and science. Besides using ice, glass, metal, marble and lead, he has experimented with flowers and plants frozen in silicon in order to conserve the beauty of their full bloom. Many of Quinn’s works are in the vanitas tradition, showing clear, concrete references to classic works of art history. (Source: Galleria Thaddaeus Ropac)
Website:
marcquinn.com
Artwork:
Upshot-Knothole Grable, 2012
Robot Made Sculpture ccn, White P Marble
180 x 150 x 150 cm
Press:
FPImages
Featured Exhibitions:
2017
‘ Drawn from Life‘, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
‘Thames River Water’, Ivorypress, Madrid
2016
‘Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Mass)’, Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
2015
‘Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes‘, Somerset House, London
‘The Toxic Sublime‘, White Cube, London
‘History Painting’, BOX, Berlin
2014
‘Violence and Serenity’, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC), Málaga
‘The Sleep of Reason (Aklın Uykusu)’, ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul
2013
‘Held by Desire’, White Cube, Hong Kong
‘Marc Quinn’, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio, Venice
‘Chelsea Flower Show’, London
‘All the Time in the World’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Planet’, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore (permanent installation)
2012
London, 2012 Paralympics, centre sculpture in the Opening Ceremony, “Breath”
‘Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us’, Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
‘Brave New World‘, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
‘Big Wheel Keeps on Turning (Марк Куинн «Большое колесо продолжает вращаться»)’, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
‘The Littoral Zone‘, Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco
2011
‘All of Nature Flows Through Us’, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
2010
’33°53’13’’N35°30’17’’E’, LAB Art, The Platinum Tower, Beirut
‘Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas’, White Cube, London
‘Marc Quinn’, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2009
‘Iris’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Marc Quinn’, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
‘Selfs‘, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
‘Materialise, Dematerialise’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
‘Carbon Cycle‘, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
‘Myth’, Casa Giuleta, Verona
2008
‘Marc Quinn: Evolution‘, White Cube, London
‘Before, Now and After’, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris
‘Marc Quinn’, Gana Art Centre, Seoul
‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’, The Forum, Rome