Our Blood
Solo exhibition

Our Blood will be a major public artwork by Marc Quinn. It is a not-for-profit sculpture and video installation, made with refugees and non-refugees. More information about to project will be announced soon. ...

Flowers in Art 4 September—9 January, 2022
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken
Group exhibition

This autumn’s major exhibition at ARKEN tells the story of humankind’s fascination with the world of flowers. It examines how flowers in art reflect changing worldviews, outlooks on nature and social conditions – from the sensuous flower paintings...

History Paintings + 20 May—16 October, 2022
Solo exhibition

History Painting + 20 May – 16 October 2022 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven The exhibition Marc Quinn: History Painting + presents six works displayed among the historical collections of the Yale Centre for...

HISTORYNOW 20 April—20 October, 2022
National Archaeological Museum, Venice
Solo exhibition

HISTORYNOW 21 April – 23 October 2022 National Archaeological Museum of Venice Marc Quinn’s HISTORYNOW (2020 – present) series is presented for the first time at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia. Curated by Aindrea Emelife and...

Take Care: Art and Medicine 8 April—17 July, 2022
Group exhibition

The exhibition Take Care: Art and medicine explores health as a timeless human preoccupation. Concern with physical well-being in art is as old as art itself. The sensitive body is at once a working tool...

Face to Face: Marc Quinn meets Franz Xavier Messserschmidt 23 February—3 July, 2022
Belvedere Museum
Solo exhibition

For the first time, the Belvedere in Vienna will present Marc Quinn’s eight-part sculpture series Emotional Detox together with the iconic “Character Heads“ by Baroque sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The exhibition at the Upper Belvedere...

Christian Dior, Designer of Dreams 10 September, 2021 —20 February, 2022
Brooklyn Museum
Group exhibition

The New York premiere of the exhibition Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams traces the groundbreaking history and legacy of the House of Dior. The exhibition brings to life Dior's many sources of inspiration—from the splendor...

Gold and Magic 22 April—8 August, 2021
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken
Group exhibition

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art presents the special exhibition Gold and Magic in which golden treasures from The National Museum of Denmark enter into dialogue with works by some of the greatest contemporary artists. The...

History & Chaos 17 March—16 August, 2019
The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Solo exhibition

Premiering for the first time at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas are Quinn's Chaos Paintings. Created as an evolution of the artist's History Painting series, in which he appropriate images from the never-ending news cycles...

Under the Skin 8 March—1 May, 2019
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
Solo exhibition

In March 2019 CAFA Art Museum will present Quinn's first solo museum exhibition in China. Curated by Wang Chunchen, 'Under the Skin' presents a selection of works that touch upon recurring themes of art and...

Hyper Real 20 October, 2017 —18 February, 2018
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Group exhibition

Featuring uncanny figures with painted silicon skin, glass eyes, human hair and cutting-edge digital art, Hyper Real provokes reflection, fascination, fear and joy. From eerily lifelike sculptures to out-of-this-world virtual reality, this major exhibition charts...

Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve 5 July, 2017 —7 January, 2018
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Group exhibition

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the creation of the House of Dior from 5 July 2017 to 7 January 2018. This lavish and comprehensive exhibition invites visitors on a...

LOVE: L’arte Contemporanea Incontra L’Amore 28 September, 2016 —19 February, 2017
Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
Group exhibition

Bringing together icons of contemporary art, including Marc Quinn, Yayoi Kusama, Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Gilbert & George, Francesco Vezzoli, Tracey Emin, Francesco Clemente, Joana Vasconcelos. The exhibition addresses one of the most...

Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick 6 July—24 August, 2016
Somerset House
Group exhibition

An exhibition of art inspired by the master film maker. Conceived by musician and curator James Lavelle and planned in conjunction working alongside curator James Putnam. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin / Carl Craig /...

The World Meets Here 14 March—30 June, 2016
Group exhibition

Inaugural group show of Custot Gallery Dubai....

The Literati Within 10—20 March, 2016
Sotheby's (USA)
Group exhibition

Sotheby’s New York S/2 Gallery. Fifteen artists from Asia, Europe and the United States express in ink paintings, drawings, sculpture and  photography  the spirit of the literati scholar.  A stimulating conversation between past and present and...

Identity Revisited 1 February—2 December, 2016
The Warehouse, Dallas
Group exhibition

Draws works from The Rachofsky Collection, Amy and Vernon Faulconer, Dallas Museum of Art, Goss-Michael Collection, The Pinnell Collection, the Collection of Marguerite and Robert Hoffman, The Rose Collection, and Sharon and Michael Young. Identity Revisited...

Marc Quinn: Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes 17 September—21 October, 2015
Somerset House
Solo exhibition

Four monumental sculptures by Marc Quinn will be presented in Somerset House’s historic Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court this September and October. Forming two bodies of work entitled Frozen Wave and Broken Sublime (2015), the...

Face of Britain 16 September, 2015 —4 January, 2016
National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG)
Group exhibition

Marc Quinn’s Self (2006) is included in this substantial survey by the historian Simon Schama of British portraiture at London’s National Portrait Gallery, accompanied by a five-part BBC2 television series and a book. The...

Beyond Limits 2015, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 14 September—25 October, 2015
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

This year celebrates the 10th anniversary of Beyond Limits. The exhibition focuses on the fascinating world of post-war and contemporary sculpture. The Duke of Devonshire commented that "it is always a delight to see fresh works...

From Hockney to Holbein, The Würth Collection in Berlin 11 September, 2015 —10 January, 2016
Museum Würth and Berliner Festspiele / Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Group exhibition

The Würth Collection is one of the largest private collections in Europe, containing more than 16,800 works of art. The most important of the classic modern artists are represented, as well as masterpieces from the...

The Toxic Sublime 15 July—13 September, 2015
White Cube, London
Solo exhibition

White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Marc Quinn. This exhibition, Quinn’s first at White Cube London since 2010, includes two new bodies of work and is the culmination of...

History Painting 1 May—17 June, 2015
BOX, Berlin
Solo exhibition

This exhibition marks Quinn’s first solo show in Berlin and brings together tapestries, sculpture and new paintings. Each body of work is concerned with conflict and its representation in the mass media, questioning the way imagery has the...

Violence and Serenity 12 September—30 November, 2014
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga (CAC)
Solo exhibition

This exhibition at CAC Málaga includes a selection of new and recent works that continue Quinn's investigation into some of the key concerns of our age. The exhibition will centre around a new body of...

Beyond Limits 2014, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 8 September—26 October, 2014
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

The ninth incarnation of ‘Beyond Limits’ at Chatsworth House opened today with Marc Quinn making a return appearance for the fifth year. 'Bermuda Triangle' is a monumental bronze shell, reproduced from a seashell, using a high-tech...

Bad Thoughts - Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders 20 July, 2014 —11 January, 2015
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Group exhibition

Marc Quinn's ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ (1994) are on display in ‘Bad Thoughts’, a large-scale survey of the collection of Amsterdam collectors Martijn and Jeannette Sanders. During their 42 years of collecting art, the Sanders...

Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection 20 June—24 August, 2014
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Group exhibition

This exhibition features selected works from a contemporary art collection collected over the past 25 years by Pierre Tie Min Chen, CEO of the YAGEO Corporation. The artworks are categorised into ten sections, including ‘Muse’,...

The Sleep of Reason (Aklın Uykusu) 8 February—27 April, 2014
ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul
Solo exhibition

‘The Sleep of Reason’ brings together more than 30 works Marc Quinn has produced since 2000. Presenting the wide range of media and materials used by Quinn, the exhibition features a number of his seminal...

Held by Desire 8 November, 2013 —4 January, 2014
White Cube, Hong Kong
Solo exhibition

White Cube Hong Kong present an exhibition by Marc Quinn in which he explores how desire shapes our universe and affects man's relationship with nature. Investigating the boundaries between art, nature and the 'man-made', Quinn...

Beyond Limits 2013, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 9 September—27 October, 2013
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

Now in its eighth year, the Sotheby’s annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture, ‘Beyond Limits’, takes up residence once again in the gardens of Chatsworth House. This six-week showcase is a unique opportunity to see...

Louis Vuitton ‘Timeless Muses’ 31 August—23 September, 2013
Tokyo Station Hotel, Tokyo
Group exhibition

The French fashion house Louis Vuitton pays homage to six of its ‘timeless muses’ in a new interactive exhibition in the recently renovated Tokyo Station Hotel. Featuring photography and artefacts from iconic figures including Kate...

Marc Quinn (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) 29 May—29 September, 2013
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Solo exhibition

A major solo exhibition opened at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice on 29 May 2013. Entitled 'Marc Quinn' and curated by Germano Celant, this anthology was one of the...

All the Time in the World 4 May—29 June, 2013
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition

‘All the Time in the World’ presents four new large-scale bronze sculptures and one oil-on-canvas work. Part of Quinn’s 'The Archaeology of Art' series, the sculptures take the form of finely detailed seashells that highlight...

Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument 4 December, 2012 —20 January, 2013
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Group exhibition

Since 1999, the ‘empty’ Northwest plinth in Trafalgar Square, London has been home to some of the world’s best contemporary art. This exhibition brings together a wide range of historical material including a display of...

Big Wheel Keeps on Turning (Марк Куинн «Большое колесо продолжает вращаться») 25 October—16 December, 2012
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Solo exhibition

"The Big Wheel Keeps on Turning’ is the story of the planet and everything that lives on it. It is our lives in time. Like the spiral of a shell, the world is in constant...

The Littoral Zone 12 May—15 October, 2012
Musée Océanographique de Monaco
Solo exhibition

‘The Littoral Zone’ exhibition includes sculptures, paintings and installations by the artist which will be shown throughout the museum, alongside its collection of marine specimens and underwater fauna, setting up a fascinating dialogue between art...

Brave New World 28 March—19 May, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Solo exhibition

For this exhibition, Marc Quinn has created his first outsize, 3m-high realistic shell, as well as several smaller works on the same subject, all of them bronzes. The pale, shimmering patination of the bronze and...

Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us 21 January—29 April, 2012
Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn’s first solo show in Denmark, 'All of Nature Flows Through Us' presents large-scale sculptures and paintings from the period 2000 to 2011. In this show Quinn uses a startling array of materials, ranging from...

Beyond Limits 2011, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 16 September—30 October, 2011
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

Sotheby's annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture returned to Chatsworth for its sixth installment in 2011, with an extraordinary line up of artists, many of whom have never been shown at this magnificent location in...

Penelope's Labour - Weaving Words and Images 31 May—15 September, 2011
Group exhibition

Quinn understands that "tapestry is a medium which joins two worlds - the medieval world and ours” but through a renewed interest in formal reproduction. For Quinn, the woven “knots are like pixels”, where tapestry...

Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us 22 May—9 October, 2011
Kistefos-Museet, Norway
Solo exhibition

The Kistefos Museum is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia of the work of British artist Marc Quinn. ‘All of Nature Flows Through Us’ reflects the artist’s further investigation into themes of...

Cream 10 September—28 November, 2010
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art / Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Group exhibition

‘Cream’, Kiasma's main exhibition in 2010, will present contemporary art mainly from private Finnish collections. Private art collectors play an important role in this exhibition. Collecting contemporary art is increasingly common in Finland, and the exhibition...

Beyond Limits 2010, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 6 September—23 December, 2010
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

Marc Quinn's monumental work The Engine of Evolution is a naturalistic portrayal of a Phalaenopsis, a genus of the orchid family, paired with an Anthurium, a genus of the arum family. Rendered in exquisite detail,...

Crucible 1 September—1 October, 2010
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
Group exhibition

An exhibition of 20th and 21st century sculpture held in, around and even underneath Gloucester Cathedral. ...

Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela & Thomas 6 May—2 July, 2010
White Cube, London
Solo exhibition

White Cube Hoxton Square presents a new body of work by British artist Marc Quinn. Entitled 'Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas', the exhibition brings together new sculptures executed in marble, bronze and...

Iris 30 October—19 December, 2009
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition

An exhibition of new paintings by Marc Quinn shows round canvases each depicting in gigantic scale the iris of a human eye – turbulently streaked and spotted, suffused with bright colours, and highly individual. Although...

Marc Quinn (Goss-Michael Foundation) 24 September, 2009 —23 January, 2010
The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Solo exhibition

The Goss-Michael Foundation has partnered with The Rachofsky Collection, one of the world’s foremost private collections, to produce an exceptional survey of Marc Quinn’s sculptural works throughout the last decade. The exhibition brings together...

Selfs 8 June—19 July, 2009
Beyeler Foundation, Riehen / Basel
Solo exhibition

For the first time all of Marc Quinn's ‘blood head’ self-portraits will be exhibited together. Each portrait is a documentation of the artist’s head, as it ages every five years, and so represents a portrait...

Carbon Cycles 29 May—31 July, 2009
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
Solo exhibition

This exhibition is a presention of the series of unique bronze sculptures entitled 'Carbon Cycles'. The subjects of the series are self-portrait casts and skulls surrounded with various fruits and blossoms. “Our time isn’t the...

Materialise Dematerialise 29 May—11 July, 2009
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Solo exhibition

This exhibition comprises a substantial body of new works, shown publicly for the first time. What unites the works in the exhibition is that they all deal with notions of abstractions, in the sense that...

Myth 23 May—27 September, 2009
Casa di Giulietta (Juliet's House), Verona
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn presents a comprehensive selection of works in an exhibition in Verona that gives the city a prestigious international importance. In the mythological home of Juliet Capulet, his famous works will be displayed alongside...

Before, Now and After 27 October—29 November, 2008
Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris
Solo exhibition

Quinn is interested in how different works communicate with each other. He often juxtaposes his work with others but says that not all the works on show in this exhibition are necessarily inspired by the...

Statuephilia: Contemporary Sculptors at The British Museum 4 October, 2008 —25 January, 2009
The British Museum, London
Group exhibition

‘Statuephilia’ encourages us to look afresh at both modern and ancient art, to explore the similarities as well as differences between eras and cultures, and to remind ourselves of the perennial power of sculpture. The British...

Beyond Limits 2008, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 9 September—2 November, 2008
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

‘Beyond Limits’, an exhibition of sculpture in the gardens of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, brings together the work of 20 modern artists including Marc Quinn and Salvador Dali. The annual exhibition is organised in association...

Marc Quinn (Gana Art Centre) 11 July—3 August, 2008
Gana Art Centre, Seoul
Solo exhibition

This exhibition presents 20 of Quinn’s works including new paintings and bronze sculptures. The large-scale sculptures using different materials and powerfully coloured paintings of hyper-realistic manner insist dualism between visuality and materiality. There are three main...

Evolution 25 January—23 February, 2008
White Cube, London
Solo exhibition

White Cube Mason’s Yard present ‘Evolution’, a major new installation featuring a series of nine monumental sculptures, in fleshy pink marble, that represent the growth of the human embryo and foetus during its gestation. Quinn...

Marc Quinn (DHC/ART) 5 October, 2007 —6 January, 2008
Solo exhibition

Gathering over forty recent works, DHC/ART’s inaugural exhibition by conceptual artist Marc Quinn is the largest ever mounted in North America and the artist’s first solo show in Canada. Quinn is a central figure within...

Skin 2 October—2 December, 2007
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Group exhibition

These artists focus on the delicacy of the “skin” and the nature of human existence through our relationship with the world, while also reexamining the problem of “surface” in art. In this exhibition, we present works...

Beyond Limits 2007, Sotheby's at Chatsworth 8 September—4 November, 2007
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Group exhibition

The majestic gardens at the heart of Derbyshire's Peak District National Park provides a spectacular backdrop to this exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture. The show extends the boundaries of the traditional art exhibition by...

Marc Quinn (Scolacium Archaeological Park) 14 July—14 October, 2007
Scolacium Archaeological Park, Borgia
Solo exhibition

Quinn's ‘Totem’ was inspired by the mysterious Moai (statues) of Easter Island and the Sphinx in Gizah. The production process for the sculpture involved water-jet cutting the head in slices of expanded polystyrene using digital scan...

Sphinx 3 May—30 June, 2007
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition

''In a world without Gods and Goddesses, celebrity has replaced divinity. Do we create images or do images form us? What is interesting to me about Kate Moss is that she is someone whose image...

Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006 15 December, 2006 —4 February, 2007
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Group exhibition

Spanning more than a decade, from 1990 to the present, Aftershock puts the spotlight on the period which saw British art re-emerge as a dominant force on the international contemporary art stage. It features the...

Marc Quinn (MACRO) 22 June—30 September, 2006
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Solo exhibition

A major solo exhibition of Marc Quinn's work to date curated by Danilo Ecchera and Achille Bonito Oliva. The art of Marc Quinn shows that language is not an instrument of representation, but is representation itself....

Marc Quinn: Recent Sculpture 29 April—27 August, 2006
The Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Solo exhibition

This is the first large-scale museum exhibition of the work of Marc Quinn in the Netherlands. The exhibition will display a selection of new and recent work such as ‘The Complete Marbles’, ‘The Big Bang’,...

Marc Quinn: Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square 15 September, 2005 —5 October, 2007
Trafalgar Square, London
Solo exhibition

‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ is a portrait of disabled artist Alison Lapper when she was eight months pregnant. It has been carved from white marble, weighs 13 tonnes and stands 3.55 metres high. Ken Livingstone, Mayor of...

Chemical Life Support 4 March—8 April, 2005
White Cube, London
Solo exhibition

Quinn presents a body of work at White Cube, Hoxton Square exploring our distanced relationship with our physical selves through the culturally constructed notion of the 'natural' and its hold on the contemporary psyche. ‘Chemical Life...

Flesh: Meat Sculptures 8 January—26 February, 2005
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition

‘Marc Quinn: Flesh’ presents 14 new sculptures cast from the meat of various animals. In this new medium, Quinn's recurring themes of life and death, heroism and suffering and Man's physical and psychological boundaries persist...

The Flower As Image: From Monet to Jeff Koons 10 September, 2004 —16 January, 2005
Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek
Group exhibition

The Flower as Image, with about 150 works by some of the world’s greatest artists, reveals the flower as a surprisingly diverse and rich motif. The point of departure for Louisiana’s exhibition is twofold: the observation...

Flesh 1 July—26 September, 2004
Solo exhibition

Quinn's recurring themes - of life and death, heroism and suffering and man's physical and psychological boundaries - persist to powerful effect. Moulded from cuts of meat and cast in bronze and black patina, the...

The Complete Marbles 10 January—28 February, 2004
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition

With these marbles Quinn has taken an inert material, laden with tradition and used it to represent vibrantly living real people. They appear to be fragments, but are in fact portraits of whole people. By...

Statements 7, 50th Venice Biennale 15 June—2 November, 2003
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Palazzo Venier dei Leoni), Venice
Group exhibition

The exhibition in Venice marked a highlight of the Statements series. Three new works by Steven Gontarski, Thomas Rentmeister and Marc Quinn were shown. Quinn's work, 'The Overwhelming World of Desire (Phragmipedium Sedenii)' is a work...

The Nude In Twentieth Century Art 26 October, 2002 —26 February, 2003
Kunsthalle Emden
Group exhibition

The nude is one of the oldest and most fascinating subjects in fine art. The portrait of the naked body, removed from its everyday appearance, offers nearly inexhaustible possibilities to show the human view of...

1 + 1 = 3 (Rainbow Sculpture), Liverpool Biennial 2002 14 September—24 November, 2002
Cammell Laird Shipyard, Liverpool
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn's use of the awesome Camell Laird Shipyard across the Mersey in Birkenhead as a site for his latest work seems typical of the Biennial's regeneration of urban spaces through art and culture. His projection...

Second Skin - Historical Life Casting & Contemporary Sculpture 16 February—10 May, 2002
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Group exhibition

Second Skin explores the connections between the process of life casting and figurative sculpture. The exhibition also provides an opportunity to compare how casting was used by nineteenth-century sculptors and how it is used today....

Marc Quinn (Tate Liverpool) 1 February—28 April, 2002
Tate Liverpool
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn first gained recognition in 1991 for his sculpture ‘Self’, a life-size cast of his head made from his own frozen blood. His work takes a wide range of forms including painting, drawing, photography...

A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn 19 September, 2001 —10 February, 2002
National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG)
Solo exhibition

'A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston’ by Marc Quinn is the result of a remarkable collaboration between the artist and the sitter, scientist Sir John Sulston in which Sulston contributed a sample of his DNA...

Give and Take 30 January—1 April, 2001
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Group exhibition

‘Give and Take’ was an unprecedented partnership between the Serpentine, the acclaimed public gallery for modern and contemporary art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. This innovative exhibition, presented concurrently at both institutions, provided a...

Still Life 1 December, 2000 —6 January, 2001
White Cube, London
Solo exhibition

The works Quinn displays as part of his Still Life exhibition at White Cube, Hoxton Square, show a preoccupation with the mutable physical states of the human body: the spiritual and the physical, the inner...

Marc Quinn (Groninger Museum) 24 June—31 October, 2000
The Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn (Fondazione Prada) 5 May—10 June, 2000
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn’s solo show at Fondazione Prada includes three works displayed for the first time: the sculptures ‘Continuous Present’ (2000), a kind of time machine consisting of a reflecting stainless steel cylinder, round which revolves...

Marc Quinn (Kunstverein Hannover) 27 June—22 August, 1999
Kunstverein, Hannover
Solo exhibition

The theme of this exhibition is the metamorphosis of one's own body as a metaphor for the balancing act between life and death; the transformation of solid to liquid and vice versa; and the sculptural...

A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to The Logan Collection 28 September—10 January, 1998
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Group exhibition

This exhibition highlights twenty-seven works by nearly as many artists from the collection of more than 250 works given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1997 by Vicki and Kent Logan. It...

Incarnate 30 May—4 July, 1998
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition

‘Incarnate’ displays Quinn's continuing fascination with the exploration of the self, and his talent for creating complex dialogues between material, medium and subject. ‘Incarnate’ is a beguiling statement of the ideas and preoccupations that have...

Marc Quinn (South London Gallery) 28 January—8 March, 1998
South London Gallery, London
Solo exhibition

Marc Quinn’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery will be his first in the UK since his Art Now exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1995. It is the first ever comprehensive display of...

Sensation 18 September—28 December, 1997
Group exhibition

The achievements of a generation of young British artists whose original and challenging work has received international acclaim are the focus of this major exhibition. Entitled ‘Sensation’, the show presents work by artists selected from...

Blind Leading the Blind 7 July—9 September, 1995
White Cube, London
Solo exhibition

Quinn exhibited ‘Blind Leading the Blind’ at The White Cube, Duke Street in 1995, a life-size three-quarter cast of his own body. This sculpture is one of a series of pieces based on the seven...

Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins (Art Now) 4 July—20 August, 1995
Tate Britain, London
Solo exhibition

‘Emotional Detox’ is a series of sculptures made of lead and cast from the artist's own body. Detoxification is shown both as an overpowering physical convulsion to rid the body of poisons, and as a...

Time Machine - Ancient Egypt and Contemporary Art 1 December, 1994 —26 February, 1995
The British Museum, London
Group exhibition

Contemporary artists respond to the ancient art and artefacts in the Egyptian Galleries. Quinn creates a transparent head that sits amongst the Gods of Resurrection and contains a hibernating frozen frog. The exhibition demonstrates that the...

Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Art Cologne 11—17 November, 1993
(Saatchi Collection), Cologne
Group exhibition

The Saatchi collection of contemporary art is the focus of a special show at Art Cologne. Visitors encounter works that are at times macabre, cynical, ironic, funny, strange, repulsive, pungent and sometimes ruthless. Artists include Rose...

Sonsbeek '93, Arnhem 5 June—26 September, 1993
Group exhibition

The Sonsbeek exhibition is not about escaping into a fictional aesthetic world, a world of pretty illusions, but the artists’ projects have to deal with the real issues that face the interior self, the body...

The Boundary Rider, 9th Sydney Biennial 15 December, 1992 —14 March, 1993
Group exhibition

The 9th Biennale introduces the work of over 100 artists from 37 different countries. It is Australia's largest and most prestigious contemporary arts event. Most of the artists in this Biennale are involved in an international...

British Art 19 September—31 October, 1992
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Group exhibition

Quinn exhibited his work "You Take My Breath Away" in this exhibition in 1992. Artists include Lea Andrews, Keith Coventry, Anya Gallaccio, Damien Hirrst, Gary Hume, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Steven Pippin, Marc Quinn, Marcus Taylor,...

Strange Developments 10 September—16 October, 1992
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Group exhibition

Strange Developments presents the work of ten artists, four working in London and six working in America, who have turned their attention to the strangeness inherent in everyday life. The routine behavior and the unremarkable fantasy...

Out of Time 11 October—16 November, 1991
Grob Gallery, London
Solo exhibition

‘Out of Time’ is Quinn's first major solo show in London. The two main works are ‘May – September, 1991’ and ‘Self’. ‘May – September, 1991’ consists of several hundred bread hands. Each dough hand is etched...

Bread Sculpture 13 January—10 February, 1990
Galerie Marquardt, Paris and Middendorf Gallery, Washington
Solo exhibition

Bronze Sculpture 6 May—9 June, 1988
Otis Gallery (in association with Jay Jopling Fine Art), London
Solo exhibition

This exhibition is Marc Quinn’s first in London. Quinn’s work does not fall easily into any prescribed category. Through using the very traditional techniques of lost-wax casting he has found the space necessary to develop...