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

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

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...

Drawn from Life 28 March—23 September, 2017
Sir John Soane's Museum

In March 2017 Sir John Soane’s Museum will debut Quinn’s ‘All About Love’ sculptures in an exhibition entitled ‘Drawn from Life’.   The twelve sculptures portray Quinn and his muse embracing one another and are life-size casts...

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

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...

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

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

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)

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...

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

‘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

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...

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

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

‘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...

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

"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

‘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

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, Denmark

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

''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...

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

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

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

‘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

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

‘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...

Flesh 1 July—26 September, 2004

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

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...

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

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...

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

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)

'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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

‘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

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...

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

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

‘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...

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

‘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

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

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...