Born in 1964 in London, UK
Lives and works in London

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2019 – Under the Skin, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2019 – History & Chaos, The Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
2017 – Drawn from Life, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK
2017 – Thames River Water, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2016 – Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Mass), Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
2015 – Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes, Somerset House, London, UK
2015 – The Toxic Sublime, White Cube, London, UK
2015 – History Painting, BOX, Berlin, Germany
2014 – Violence and Serenity, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC), Málaga, Spain
2014 – The Sleep of Reason (Aklın Uykusu), ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 – Held by Desire, White Cube, Hong Kong
2013 – Marc Quinn, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio, Venice, Italy
2013 – Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK
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, Lebanon
2010 – Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas’, White Cube, London, UK
2010 – Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2009 – Iris, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2009 – Marc Quinn, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
2009 – Selfs, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2009 – Materialise, Dematerialise, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2009 – Carbon Cycle, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
2008 – Marc Quinn: Evolution, White Cube, London, UK
2008 – Before, Now and After, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France
2008 – Alison Lapper Pregnant, The Forum, Rome, Italy
2007 – Marc Quinn (Scolacium Archaeological Park), Parco Internazionale della Scultura, Museo MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy
2007 – Sphinx, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2006 – Paintings, Emanuele Bonomi, Milan, Italy
2006 – Marc Quinn, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006 – Recent Sculpture, Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands
2006 – Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2005 – Winter Garden, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2005 – Marc Quinn, Galeria Guereta, Madrid, Spain
2005 – Marc Quinn: Fourth Plinth, Alison Lapper Pregnant, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
2005 – Chemical Life Support, White Cube, London, UK
2005 – Flesh: Meat Sculptures, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2004 – The Incredible World of Desire, IBM Building, New York, USA
2004 – Marc Quinn, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset, UK
2004 – Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2003 – The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), Goodwood Sculpture Park and Tate Britain, London, UK
2002 – Behind the Mask – Portraits, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2002 – 1+1=3 (Rainbow Sculpture), Cammell Laird Shipyard, Liverpool, UK
2002 – Marc Quinn, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2002 – Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000’, Terrace Gallery Harewood, Leeds, UK
2001 – A Genomic Portrait – Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK 2000 – Still Life, White Cube, London, UK
2000 – Marc Quinn, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2000 – Marc Quinn, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
1999 – Marc Quinn, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
1998 – Incarnate, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
1998 – Marc Quinn, South London Gallery, London, UK
1995 – The Blind Leading the Blind, White Cube, London, UK
1995 – Emotional Detox – The Seven Deadly Sins – Art Now, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1993 – Marc Quinn, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
1991 – Out of Time’, Grob Gallery, London, UK
1990 – Bread Sculpture, Galerie Marquardt, Paris and Middendorf Gallery, Washington, USA
1988 – Bronze Sculpture, Otis Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2009 – A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2009 – Fuentes. Non-European influences on contemporary artists, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008 – Love, National Gallery, London, UK
2008 – Genesis – Die Kunst der Schopfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2008 – Limited Editions, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2008 – Mental Drawings, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2007 – Skin, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2006 – Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2005 – Imagine A World, Bargehouse, London, UK
2005 – Royal Academy, London, UK
2005 – The Body. Art & Science, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 – Redux, London, UK
2004 – Ideale e Realtà, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2003 – Fourth Plinth Proposal, National Gallery, London, UK
2003 – Statements 7, 50. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2003 – Genomic Issues, Graduate Centre Art Gallery, New York, USA
2002 – In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, UK
2001 – London Nomad, Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
2001 – Mind the Gap, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 – Give & Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2001 – Heads and Hands, Decatur House Museum, Washington, USA
2000 – Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London, UK
1999 – Skin, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
1999 – Officina Europa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
1999 – Presence, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
1998 – A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1997 – A Ilha do Tesouro, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 – Feed and Greed, MAK, Vienna, Austria
1996 – Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1993 – Real, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
1993 – Young British Artists II, Saatchi Collection, London, UK
1992 – Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
1990 – Group Show, Grob Gallery, London, UK

EDUCATION

1985 – BA History of Art, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK