Marc Quinn  (British, 1964) 

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Marc Quinn (British, b.1964) is a sculptor associated with the Young British Artists and best known for his self-portraits made from unconventional materials, such as blood, marble, lead, and glass. After working as an assistant to sculptor Barry Flanagan and studying history and art history at Robinson College, Cambridge University, Quinn began exhibiting at the White Cube gallery. In 1993, his work was part of the group exhibition The Saatchi Collection: Young British Artists II, organized by patron Charles Saatchi. For his series Self, begun in 1991 and re-made every five years, Quinn makes casts of his head using his own blood, documenting his physical transformation and questioning the notion of portraiture as representation of an inner self. Quinn’s other self-portraits include The Origin of the Species (1993), a cast of his head made of coconut milk, and Shit Head (1997), a cast of his head made from his own excrement. For his Complete Marbles series (1999–2001), Quinn made life-size portraits of people born without limbs, sculpted these works in Carrara marble, and exhibited them alongside plaster casts of Classical sculptures that had lost limbs due to age. One of Quinn’s most controversial works, Alison Lapper Pregnant (2000), which was part of the 2004 Fourth Plinth program in Trafalgar Square in London, is a larger-than-life-size portrait of a pregnant woman born with shortened legs and no arms. Quinn’s recent series of Flower Paintings, started in 2007, depicts tropical flowers and skulls in vibrant colors, referencing traditional memento mori still-lifes, and noting that these exotic plants are readily available in the present day. Quinn has exhibited his work at many important venues, including the Venice Biennale in 2003, the Tate Gallery in London, the Fondazione Prada in Milan, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. He currently lives and works in London.

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Marc Quinn, Musk Oxen of the Zaire Flood Plane

 

Marc Quinn
Musk Oxen of the Zaire Flood Plane
2008

Auction: May 26, 2013
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Marc Quinn, Atmospheric Ozone

 

Marc Quinn
Atmospheric Ozone
2007

David Benrimon Fine Art, LLC
Marc Quinn, White Mist

 

Marc Quinn
White Mist
2007

David Benrimon Fine Art, LLC
Marc Quinn, Archaeology of Desire

 

Marc Quinn
Archaeology of Desire
2008

David Benrimon Fine Art, LLC
Marc Quinn, Iceburg on Lake Tanganika

 

Marc Quinn
Iceburg on Lake Tanganika
2008

David Benrimon Fine Art, LLC
Marc Quinn, Melting The Green Land Ice Sheet

 

Marc Quinn
Melting The Green Land Ice Sheet
2008

David Benrimon Fine Art, LLC
Marc Quinn, Maquette for Siren

 

Marc Quinn
Maquette for Siren
2008

David Benrimon Fine Art, LLC
Marc Quinn, Portraits of Landscapes: Plate 3

 

Marc Quinn
Portraits of Landscapes: Plate 3
2010

Galerie Maximillian
Marc Quinn, Portraits of Landscapes: Plate 7

 

Marc Quinn
Portraits of Landscapes: Plate 7
2010

Galerie Maximillian
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Marc Quinn, Italian Landscape (II)

 

Marc Quinn
Italian Landscape (II), 2000
permanent pigment on canvas

 

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Marc Quinn, Under the Volcano, Batur Lesser Sunda Island

 

Marc Quinn
Under the Volcano, Batur Lesser Sunda Island, 2011
oil on canvas

 

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Marc Quinn, Myth Venus

 

Marc Quinn
Myth Venus, 2006
painted bronze

 

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1964   Born: in London, England
1985   Graduated, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
1988   Had first solo show
1992   Selected for the Sydney Biennial
1993   Represented at the Saatchi Gallery in Young British Artists II
2001   Recipient, the Royal Academy’s Charles Wollaston prize
  Lives and works in London, England
2009   Iris Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
2009   Selfs 1991-2006, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2008   Marc Quinn, Before, Now and After, with Galerie Hopkins at FIAC Paris (solo)
2007   DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Montréal (solo)
2007   Marc Quinn, Scolacium Archaeological Park, Catanzaro (solo)
2007   Sphinx, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
2006   Hirst and his Contemporaries, Andipa Gallery, London
2006   Paintings, Emanuele Bonomi, Milan (solo)
2006   Marc Quinn, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (solo)
2006   Marc Quinn, Recent Sculptures, Groningen Museum, The Netherlands (solo)
2006   Marc Quinn, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris (solo)
2006   Chemical Life Support, Millesgarden, Stockholm (solo)
2005   Marc Quinn, Galeria Guereta, Madrid (solo)
2005   Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London (solo)
2005   Chemical Life Support, White Cube, London (solo)
2005   Flesh, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
2004   The Incredible World of Desire, IBM Building, New York (solo)
2004   Marc Quinn, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset (solo)
2004   The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), Tate Britain, London (solo)
2004   Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo)
2004   The Complete Marbles, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
2003   The Overwhelming World of Desire (Phragmipedium Sedenii), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (solo)
2003   Mirror, A Delta Axis Initiative, Power House, Memphis (solo)
2003   The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), Goodwood Sculpture Park, West Sussex (solo)
2002   Behind the Mask: Portraits, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (solo)
2002   1+1=3 (Rainbow Sculpture), Cammell Laird Ship Yard, Liverpool (solo)
2002   Italian Landscapes from Garden 2000, Terrace Gallery Harewood, Leeds (solo)
2002   Marc Quinn, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (solo)
2001   A Genomic Portrait. John Sulston by Marc Quinn, National Portrait Gallery, London (solo)
2001   Italian Landscape, Habitat, London (solo)
2000   Still Life, White Cube², London (solo)
2000   Marc Quinn, Groninger Museum, Groningen (solo)
2000   Marc Quinn, Fondazione Prada, Milan (solo)
1999   Marc Quinn, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (solo)
1999   Marc Quinn. Drawings, Sala Amárica-Amarica Aretoa, Victoria (solo)
1998   Incarnate, Gagosian Gallery, New York (solo)
1998   Marc Quinn, South London Gallery, London (solo)
1997   Infra-slim Spaces, Invisible Museum, SCCA, Kiev (solo)
1995   The Blind Leading the Blind, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London (solo)
1995   Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins. Art Now, Tate Gallery, London (solo)
1994   Marc Quinn, Jay Jopling/Art Hotel, Amsterdam (solo)
1993   Marc Quinn, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens (solo)
1991   Out of Time, Jay Jopling/Grob Gallery, London (solo)
1990   Bread Sculpture, Galerie Marquardt, Paris (solo)
1990   Bread Sculpture, Middendorf Gallery, Washington (solo)
1988   Bronze Sculpture, Jay Jopling/Otis Gallery, London (solo)