Solo Exhibitions

2022
'History Painting +', Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
'HISTORYNOW', National Archaeological Museum, Venice
'Face to Face: Marc Quinn meets Franz Xavier Messserschmidt', Belvedere Museum, Vienna

2020
‘Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Memory)’, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon

2019
'Under the Skin', The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
'History & Chaos', The Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas

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

2007
'Marc Quinn', DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal
‘Marc Quinn (Scolacium Archaeological Park)’, Parco Internazionale della Scultura, Museo MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy
‘Sphinx’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2006
‘Paintings’, Emanuele Bonomi, Milan
‘Marc Quinn’, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
‘Recent Sculpture’, Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands
‘Marc Quinn’, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris
‘Chemical Life Support’, Millesgarden, Stockholm

2005
'Marc Quinn’, Galeria Guereta, Madrid
'Marc Quinn: Fourth Plinth, Alison Lapper Pregnant', Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London (2005 - 2007)
‘Chemical Life Support’, White Cube, London
‘Flesh: Meat Sculptures’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2004
‘The Incredible World of Desire’, IBM Building, New York
‘Marc Quinn’, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset, United Kingdom
‘Flesh’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
‘The Complete Marbles’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2003
‘Mirror’, Power House, Memphis
‘The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid)’, Goodwood Sculpture Park, United Kingdom and Tate Britain, London

2002
‘Behind the Mask – Portraits’, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
‘1+1=3 (Rainbow Sculpture)’, Cammell Laird Shipyard, Liverpool
‘Marc Quinn’, Tate Liverpool
‘Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000’, Terrace Gallery Harewood, Leeds

2001
‘A Genomic Portrait – Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn’, National Portrait Gallery, London
‘Italian Landscape’, Habitat, London
‘Marc Quinn – Garden’, Art of This Century, Paris

2000
‘Still Life’, White Cube, London
‘Marc Quinn’, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
‘Marc Quinn’, Fondazione Prada, Milan

1999
‘Marc Quinn’, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
‘Marc Quinn – Drawings’, Sala Amárica-Amarica Aretoa, Victoria, Spain

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’, White Cube, London
‘Emotional Detox – The Seven Deadly Sins - Art Now’, Tate Gallery, London

1994
‘Marc Quinn’, Art Hotel, Amsterdam

1993
‘Marc Quinn’, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens

1991
‘Out of Time’, Grob Gallery, London

1990
‘Bread Sculpture’, Galerie Marquardt, Paris and Middendorf Gallery, Washington

1988
‘Bronze Sculpture’, Otis Gallery, London



Group Exhibitions
2023
'Wasser, Wolken, Wind – Elementar- und Wetterphänome in den Werken der Sammlung Würth', Forum Würth Rorschach, Switzerland

2022
'Take Care: Art and Medicine', Kunsthaus Zurich
'Flowers in Art', Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken

2021
‘imPERFEKT’, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen
‘Corpus Domini’, Palazzo Reale, Milan
‘The Magic of Gold’, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’, Brooklyn Museum, New York

2020
Iconic Works, group exhibition, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and Ateneum, Helsinki
‘Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media,’ The Foundling Museum, London
‘Tides of the Century: 202 Ocean Flower Island International Exhibition, 2020

2019
‘Self-Conscious Gene’ in the Medicine Galleries, Science Museum, London
‘Phytopia’, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

2018
'Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now)', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
'The Classical Now', The Arcade at Bush House, London
'You are Faust: Goethe's Drama in the Arts', Kunsthalle Munchen, Munich
'Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything', Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

2017
'Hyper Real', National Gallery Australia, Canberra
'Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve', Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
'Winckelmann. Modern Antiquity', The Klassik Stiftung, Weimar
'Where we are and where we have been', Kallos Gallery, London

2016
'Identity Revisited', The Warehouse, Dallas
'Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick', Somerset House, London
'The World Meets Here', Custot Gallery, Dubai
'The Literati Within', S/2 Gallery, New York

2015
'The Würth Collection in Berlin, Museum Würth and Berliner Festspiele
'Face of Britain', National Portrait Gallery, London
'Beyond Limits 2015', Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK

2014
‘Art Everywhere’, 30,000 public sites across the UK
‘Open Air’, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
‘Bad Thoughts’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection’, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
‘Leaping the Fence’, Hestercombe House, UK
‘East Wing Biennial Exhibition’, Courtauld Institute, London

2013
‘Beyond Limits, 2013’, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
‘Louise Vuitton Timeless Muses’, Tokyo Station Hotel, Japan

2012
'FIAC 2012', Jardin des Tuilleries, Paris
'Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument', Institute of Contemporary Art, London
‘Marc Quinn & Darren Almond’ Patricia Low Contemporary, St Moritz

2011
‘Surreal versus Surrealism’ in Contemporary Art, IVAM, Valencia
‘Nothing in the World but Youth’ Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK
‘Penelope’s Labour – Weaving words and Images’, Venice, Italy
‘Beyond Limits, 2011’, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK

2010
‘The Visceral Body’, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia
‘Crucible’ Gloucester Cathedral, UK
‘Cream’ Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
‘The Foundation of Art, Sculpture and its Base since Auguste Rodin, Arp Museum, Germany
‘Beyond Limits, 2010’, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
‘Realismus: Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit (Realism: The Adventure of Reality)’, Kunsthalle Emden, Kuntshalle Rotterdam & Kunsthalle Hypo-Kulturstiftung München

2009
‘The World in the Body’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
‘A Tribute to Ron Warren’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Messiah’, Modem Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
‘No Visible Means of Escape’, Norwich Castle Museum, United Kingdom
‘Assembling Bodies – Art, Science and Imagination’, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
‘Fuentes – Non-European Influences on Contemporary Artists’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
‘Innovations in the Third Dimension – Sculpture of Our Time’, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut

2008
‘Love’, National Gallery, London
‘Out of Shape – Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art’, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
‘Genesis – Die Kunst der Schopfung’, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
‘Statuephilia – Contemporary Sculptors at the British Museum’, British Museum, London
‘Beyond Limits, 2008’, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
‘Nothing But Sculpture – 8th International Sculpture Biennale’, Carrara, Italy
‘Open XI International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations’, Venice Lido and San Servolo, Italy
‘Sphinxx’, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London


2007
‘Garden of Eden’, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
‘Skin’, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
‘Six Feet Under’, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
‘The Naked Portrait’, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh and Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
‘Timer 01 – Intimità’, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
‘Genesis – Life at the End of the Information Age’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
‘Passion for Art – 35th Anniversary of the Essl Collection’, Essl Museum of ‘Contemporary Art’, Klosterneuburg, Austria
‘Framed: The Art of the Portrait’, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario

2006
‘Aftershock – Contemporary British Art 1990-2006’, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China and Capital Museum, Beijing
‘Six Feet Under – Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead’, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
‘Diagnosis (Art) – Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine’, Kunstmuseum Ahlen and Museum im Kulturspeicher, Wurzburg, Germany
‘Light’, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, United Kingdom
‘Eretica’, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo, Sicily
‘EGOmania – Just When I Think I've Understood...’, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy

2005
‘Imagine a World’, Bargehouse, London
‘Wunderkammer – The Artificial Kingdom’, The Collection, Lincoln, United Kingdom
‘Art Out of Place’, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
‘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 of Arts, London
‘London Calling – Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed’, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
‘Blumenstück – Künstlers Glück’, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
‘The Body – Art & Science’, National Museum, Stockholm
‘Contemporary Photography and the Garden – Deceits & Fantasies’, The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont; The Parrish Art Museum, New York; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina and Tacoma Art Museum, Washington

2004
‘Slimvolume 2004’, Redux, London
'The Flower as Image – From Monet to Jeff Koons’, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
‘The Synaesthetics of Art and Public’, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
‘Lille Expo’, Lille, France
‘Garden of Eden’, Helsinki City Art Museum
‘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 and Manchester Art Gallery
‘Secrets of the ’90s’, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
‘Flowers’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Ideale e Realtà’, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy

2003
‘Fourth Plinth Proposal’, National Gallery, London
‘Fresh – Contemporary British Artists in Print’, Edinburgh Printmakers
‘Statements 7’, 50th Venice Biennale
‘Decembristerne’, Gallery Faurschou, Copenhagen
‘Independence’, South London Gallery, London
‘Genomic Issues’, Graduate Center Art Gallery, New York
‘Bull’s Eye – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection’, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
‘UnNaturally’, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa; H & R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, California and Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida

2002
‘Face Off’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
‘The Nude in Twentieth Century Art’, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
‘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 and Irish Art’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
‘Life is Beautiful’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
‘In the Freud Museum’, Freud Museum, London
‘Iconoclash – Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art’, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
‘Second Skin – Historical Life Casting and Contemporary Sculpture’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2001
‘Sacred and Profane’, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
‘Printers Inc.’, The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award, London
‘Summer Exhibition 2001’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
‘Ohne Zögern’, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
‘Metamorphosis and Cloning’, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal
‘/Arts’, The Lux, London
‘London Nomad’, Beit Zeinab Khatoun, Cairo Biennale
‘Mind the Gap’, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
‘Give & Take', Victoria and Albert Museum, London
‘Heads and Hands’, Decatur House Museum, Washington

2000
‘Contemporary Art Trail’, 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 Gallery, United Kingdom
‘Out There’, White Cube, London
‘Psycho’, Anne Faggionato, London

1999
‘Skin’, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
‘Something Warm and Fuzzy’, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
‘Into the Light – Photographic Printing out of the Darkroom’, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
‘Officina Europa’, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
‘Now It’s My Turn to Scream – Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection’, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
‘Presence’, Tate Liverpool
‘Spaced Out – Late 1990s Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection’, The CCA Institute, California
‘As Above, So Below – The Body’s Equal Parts’, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
‘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
‘UK Maximum Diversity’, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Austria
‘Sam Taylor-Wood, Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Marc Quinn’, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
‘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, United Kingdom and City Art Gallery, Leeds
‘Sensation’, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
‘The Body’, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Follow Me’, Kunstverein Kehdingen, Freiburg, Germany
‘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
‘Mäßig und gefräßig – Künstlerinstallationen’, MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
‘Works on Paper’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
‘Happy End’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

1995
‘Time Machine’, Musee Egizio, Turin
‘Faith, Hope, Charity’, Kunsthalle Wien, 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’, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
‘Sonsbeek 93’, Arnhem, The Netherlands
‘Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection’, Art Cologne
‘Real Real’, Vienna Secession
‘Restaurant’, Galerie Marc Jancou, Paris
‘Young British Artists II’, Saatchi Collection, London

1992
‘The Boundary Rider, 9th Sydney Biennale’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘London Portfolio’, Karsten Schubert, London
‘Strange Developments’, Anthony d’Offay, London
‘British Art’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1991
‘Modern Masters’, Grob Gallery, London

1990
‘Group Show’, Grob Gallery, London
‘Hands’, Grob Gallery, London