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Rebecca Warren  (British, 1965) 

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Rebecca Warren Biography
1965   Born in London, United Kingdom
1989 - 1992   BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, University of London
1992 - 1993   MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
1993 - 1994   Artist in residence, Ruskin School, Oxford University, Oxford
  Currently lives and works in London
  Awards
  2008 Vincent Award nominee, Stedelijk Museum, Holland
  2006 Turner Prize nominee, Tate Britain, London
  1998 Artists Production Awards, London Arts Board
  1997 Artists First-time Publication Award, Arts Council of England
  1994 Artists Production Awards (with Fergal Stapleton) London Arts Board Contemporaries, The Mall Gallery, London
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo)
2012   Museum Dhondt – Dhaenens, Ghent (solo)
2011   Maureen Paley, London (solo)
2009   Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
2009   Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
2008   The Vincent Award 2008, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
2008   Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2008   Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2008   Origins, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, New York
2007   Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2007   No Room for the Groom, Herald St, London, curated by Gregorio Magnani
2007   Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo)
2007   Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
2007   The Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007   Unmonumental, The New Museum, New York
2007   Five Works in Bronze, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
2006   Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London
2006   Anne Chu, Gary Hill, Martin Puryear, Rebecca Warren, James Welling, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2006   flutter, The approach, London
2006   If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2006   The Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2006   Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
2006   Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London
2006   China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
2005   Drunk & Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
2005   Body: New art from the UK, Vancouver art gallery (1995), The Ottawa art gallery (2006), Oakville galleries (2006), Edmonton art gallery (2006)
2005   Trumpets of Justice, Counter Gallery, London, UK
2005   The British Art Show 6, Haywad Gallery Touring exhibition
2005   Translations, Thomas Dane, Karsten Schubert – Curator, London
2005   Pas de Deux, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
2005   Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (solo)
2004   Dark Passage, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2004   Family Badge, Antiquariat Buchholz, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (solo)
2004   Sculpture, Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical, Kunsthalle Vienna, until February 2005
2004   Strange, I’ve seen that face before, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2004   Collage, Bloomberg Space, London
2003   Frass, 153-155 Grays Inn Road, London
2003   Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (solo)
2003   The Boiler Room, The Saatchi Gallery, London (solo)
2003   SHE, Maureen Paley, London (solo)
2003   Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2003   Still Life, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, Museo Alejandro Otero, caracas, Venezuela, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro Cultural, Parque de Espana, Rosario, Argentina, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
2003   4 Old Works, 56a Clerkenwell Road, London
2002   The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002   Summer Exhibition 2002, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002   Fleischvater, Modern Art, London (solo)
2001   Neon Gallery, London
2001   Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
2001   New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, London
2000   The Agony and the Ecstasy, Maureen Paley, London (solo)
1999   Limitless, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, curated by Matthew Higgs
1999   Day of the Donkey Day, Transmission, Glasgow
1999   It’s a Curse it’s a Burden, The Approach, London, curated by Glenn Brown
1998   Root, Chisenhale Gallery,
1998   The Kindness of Strangers, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam
1998   Craft, Richard Salmon, London (travelled to Kettles Yard, Cambridge)
1998   BANK, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1997   Martin, Commercial Gallery and 146 Brick Lane, London
1997   Class Vegas, The Embassy, London
1997   Material Culture; Sculpture from the 80s and 90s, Hayward Gallery, London
1997   Fergal Stapleton and Rebecca Warren, The Showroom, London
1996   Rebecca Warren and Fergal Stapleton, Cleveland, London
1996   Light, Richard Salmon, London (travelled to Spacex Gallery, Exeter)
1996   Happy Shopper, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London
1996   Dog U Mental VIII, BANK, London
1996   Berlin Art Fair, Berlin
1996   NIS Project at world PC Expo, Tokyo
1996   On Camp/Off Base: Pimple Life, Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Tokyo
1996   Out of Space, Cole and Cole, Oxford
1996   Fuck Off, BANK, London
1996   Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1996   I Beg to Differ, Milch, London
1995   Happy Squirrels Club, BANK, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1995   Model Home, PS1, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, USA
1995   Rebecca Warren, Fergal Stapleton and Graham Gussin, Laure Genillard, London
1995   Manliness without ostentation.., the Agency, London (solo)
1995   The Meaning of Life.., Art Node Foundation, Sweden
1995   The Meaning of Life.., parts 1 & 2, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
1995   Cocaine Orgasm, BANK, London
1995   Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
1995   Insignificance, the Agency, London
1995   Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
1994   Miniatures, the Agency, London
1994   Destroy All Monsters, The Tannery, London
1994   MIND THE GAP.., Acud Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1994   MIND THE GAP.., Hardcopys und technologische Bilder, Galerie/Edition, Voges & Deisen, Frankfurt, Germany
1994   Retrospective: Your Mother, with Fergal Stapleton, 152c Brick Lane, London
1993   I Have Every Vice in the World, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford (solo)
1993   Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester
Literature
2008   Carey-Kent, Paul, Cubes, Art World, February 2008, pp.49-51
2008   Gallois, Christophe, The Third Mind, Metropolis M, February 2008, pp.80-81
2008   Holzworth, Hans Werner, Rebecca Warren, Art Now Volume 3, Taschen, 2008, pp.496-499
2008   Lack, Jessica, In The Studio: Rebecca Warren, Rad Girl, Art World, April 2008, pp.44-49
2008   Roos, Robbert, The Vincent – nominaties: Rebecca Warren, Kunstbeeld,nl, Nr 6 2008, pp. 36-39
2008   The Vincent Award 2008, Stedelijk Museum CS Prospect / retrospect, Stedelijk Museum, 2008. pp. 55-56
2008   Stern, Steven, Unmonumental, Frieze, April 2008, pp.169-170.Sonnenborn, Katie, Makers and Modellers, Frieze, March 2008, p.182
2008   Tate Triennials: Remembering The Other Three?, Art World, December 2008, p.13
2007   Hastings, Chris, Questions raised over Turner judge’s links to artists, The Sunday Telegraph, 18 February 2007
2007   Hunt, Andrew, The Third Mind, Art Monthly, December 2007, pp.34-36
2007   Hunt, Ian, No Room for the Groom: an exhibition with Douglas Sirk, Art Monthly, September 2007, pp.33-34
2007   Morris, Jane, Maureen Paley: Gallery Profile, Art World, December 2007, pp.52-55
2007   Market Positions: Rebecca Warren, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22 December 2007, p.27
2007   News, Flash Art, March 2007, p.66
2007   The glittering prizes, Art Newspaper, January 2007
2007   Schwabsky, Barry, Rebecca Warren, Artforum, November 2007, p.380
2007   Smith, Roberta, It’s Just Clay, but How About a Little Respect?, The New York Times, 7 September 2007
2007   Rebecca Warren, Monopol, July 2007, p. 126
2006   Aspden, Peter, Fresh takes on popular culture, Financial Times, 17 May 2006, p13
2006   Barrett, David, Tate Triennial, Art Monthly, May 2006
2006   Born, Matt, Look away now!, Daily Mail, 17 May 2006, p34
2006   Brown, Mark, Not so shocking – and there’s even a painter, The Guardian, 17 May 2006, p9
2006   Brown, Neal, Herbert, Martin, Lampert, Catherine, Parkett, No. 78, 2006, pp. 30-71
2006   Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, Dubious, tedious, specious - you’ll want to scream, The Times, 17 May 2006, p27
2006   Cumming, Laura, Tate Triennial 2006, Observer, 05 March 2006
2006   Darwent, Charles, Let’s pretend the Turner Price actually has something to say…, The Independent ABC, 6 October 2006.
2006   Dorment, Richard, Haunted by concepts of the past, Telegraph, 07 March 2006
2006   Evans, Jonathan, Artist’s Turner entry is rubbish, The Independent, 3 October 2006
2006   Fox, Dan, Tate Triennial, Frieze, May 2006, p164-165
2006   Guner, Fisun, Art Review: The Turner Prize, Metro, 05 October 2006, p29
2006   Hull, Stephen, Art we can appreciate, Metro, 17 May 2006, p8
2006   Hunt, Andrew and Mulholland, Neil, British Art (does it) Show? Frieze, Issue 96, January - February 2006, p132-137
2006   Producers: Auerbach, Jake & Lampert, Catherine, Rodin: The Sculptures’ View, The Henry Moore Foundation & The Royal Academy, produced by Jake Auerbach Films Ltd, 2006, 55 minutes, DVD
2006   J, W, Who’s up for the Turner?, The Sunday Times, 28 May 2006
2006   Jones, Jonathan, Art & Architecture, www.blogs.guardian.co.ukculturevulure/archives/2006, 03 October 2006
2006   Kent, Sarah, Turner for the worse?, Time Out, 11 October 2006
2006   Le Plot, Toulouse, Show us your arts, The Sun, 17 May 2006, p12
2006   Lubbock, Tom, Giacometti meets the Elephant Man as the Turner Prize puts controversy before quality, The Independent, 17 May 2006, p15
2006   Keeling, Julian, Shapes of Things to Come, Harper’s Bazaar, November 2006, pp198-201
2006   Maine, Stephen, Rebecca Warren at Matthew Marks, Art in America, May 2006, p183-184
2006   Malvern, Jack, Clay genitalia? It must be the Turner, The Times, 17 May 2006, p27
2006   Morton, Tom, Flutter, Frieze, October 2006, p.258
2006   O’Riley, Sally, Consider This: The Turner Price, Art Review, November 2006, p.25
2006   Pettifor, Tom, Turner Prize favourite: My art has no meaning, Daily Mirror, 17 May 2006, p12
2006   Reynolds, Nigel, Turner Prize judges nominate another ‘pervy potter’, The Daily Telegraph, 17 May 2006, p12
2006   Searle, Adrian, Guff and Nonsense, The Guardian, 28 February 2006
2006   Searle, Adrian, Car batteries, clay nipples, reality TV and a glimpse of the future, The Guardian G2, 18 October 2006, p18-20
2006   Somerstein, Rachel, Rebecca Warren, ART News, March 2006, p134
2006   Thomas-Corr, Johanna & Forrest, Emma E, What to see and do, City AM, 04 October 2006, p20
2006   Warren, Rebecca, Woman to Woman, The Daily Telegraph: Stella, 24 September 2006, p38-42
2006   Warren, Rebecca, Life in Film: Rebbeca Warren, Frieze, November–December 2006, p41&42.
2006   Warren, Rebecca, Another Thing I wanted To Tell You, Another Magazine, September 2006, p.96
2006   Warren, Rebecca, The Artists’ Artists, Artforum, December 2006, p. 111
2006   Williams, Eliza, Tate Triennial 2006, Flash Art, May 2006, p63&64
2006   Wullschlager, Jackie, Turner prompts fresh attack on female body, Financial Times, 04 October 2006, p13
2006   Booby prize for art, Daily Star, 17 May 2006, p2
2006   Dust Sculptor Makes Turner Prize Shortlist, New York Times.com, 17 May
2006   News: Prizes, Flash Art, No. 249, July – September 2006, p50
2006   Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, Tate, February - March 2006, p6
2006   Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, Tate, April - May 2006
2006   Turner Shortlist Announced, New York Times, 17 May 2006
2006   Depth Charge, Art Monthly, June 2006
2005   Bennett, Oliver, Modern masterpiece, The Guardian, Weekend, 3 December 2005, p130-135
2005   Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, Brit Art: the next generation, The Times, 1 September 2005
2005   Dorment, Richard, When Beauty shocks you into silence, Telegraph, 27 September 2005
2005   Gessell, Paul, A body of art in your face, Ottawa Citizen, 28 November 2005, pD1-D2
2005   Smith, Roberta, Rebecca Warren, Pas de Deux, The New York Times, 16 December 2005
2005   Listings, Time Out New York, 03 November 2005
2005   Rebecca Warren, The New Yorker, 5 December 2005, p19
2004   Charlesworth, JJ, Twisted Sister, ArtReview, June 2004
2004   Charlesworth, JJ. The Maker’s Mark, Spike Art Quarterly, December 2004
2004   GM, Rebecca Warren: Dark Passage, NZZ am Sontag, 11 April 2004
2004   Jones, Jonathan, If I had a hammer..., 1 April 2004.
2004   kng, Kunsthalle Zurich: Rebecca Warren, Basler Zeitung, 10 April 2004
2004   kwu, Selbstbewusste, wuchtige Frauenfiguren, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, 8 April 2004
2004   Hilty, Greg. Rebecca Warren: SHE, Parkett, No.70, 2004
2004   ISW, Rebecca Warrens monstrose Weiber, Schweizer Illustriete, 10 May 2004
2004   La Placa, Joe, New London Sun, artnet, 21 October 2005
2004   O’Grady, Carrie, What’s Up With Modern Art?, Rebecca Warren. The Guide (Frieze Art Fair), October 2004
2004   Rogger, Andre, Frivole Damen in glasiertem Ton, Tagas Anzeiger, 13 April 2004
2004   Steiner, Urs, Frankensteins Tochler - Rebecca Warren in der Kunsthalle, NZZ, 07 April 2004
2004   Wust (SFD), Karl, Selbstbewusste Frauenmonster, Zurichsee-Zeitungen, 6 April 2004
2004   The Independant, 3 January 2004
2004   Rebecca Warren: Dark Passage, Praxis. Schweiz. Rundschau fur Medizin, 14 April 2004
2004   Rebecca Warren, Cream, April 2004
2003   Renton, Andrew, Shopping with Saatchi, The Evening Standard, 10 June 2003. p39&41
2003   Smith, Roberta, A Grand Finale of Group Show Fireworks, The New York Times, 18 July 2003
2003   Somaiya, Ravi, Frass, Dazed & Confused, Issue Nº 6 October 2003, p70
2003   Rebecca Warren, kultureflash, Nº 52, 15 July 2003
2003   Don’t Miss..., Time Out New York, Nº 407, July 17-24 2003, p79
2003   Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Times, 18 July 2003
2003   Group Show, The New Yorker, 4 August 2003
2003   New Acquisitions in the Boiler Room - Rebecca Warren, Time Out London, 1-8 October 2003
2003   Anderson, Hephzibah. Clay pride, Metro Life, 2 September-26 October 2003
2003   Artner, Alan G. Warren's rough, eloquent art, Chicago Tribune, 10 October 2003
2003   Brooks, Libby, Top Girls, 50 women to watch, Guardian G2, 30 September 2003
2003   Burton, Johanna, "Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith, Rebecca Warren" , Time Out New York, 7-14 August 2003
2003   Coomer, Martin, New acquisitions in the Boiler Room, Time Out Saatchi Gallery Guide, 1-8 October 2003
2003   Hawkins, Margaret, The surreal world, Chicago Sunday Times, 24 October 2003
2003   Higgie, Jennifer, Under the Influence, Frieze, January February, 2003
2003   JH, Rebecca Warren, artspace version 2 September 2003
2003   Kent, Sarah, Rebecca Warren, Time Out, 18-25 June 2003
2003   Pethick, Emily, Rebecca Warren, Artforum.com, June 2003
2002   Charlesworth, JJ. Neon Gallery, contemporary, March 2002
2002   Coomer, Martin. Vogue's galleries, Time Out, Nº1675 Sept 25 - October 2002
2002   Dorment, Richard. Academy of Cool; The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2002
2002   Gleeson, David, britart.com, November 2002
2002   Güner, Fisun, Glad to be clay, Metro UK, 9 December 2002
2001   Aidin, Rose & Williamson, Charlotte. Move over Damien, meet the new talent, The Evening Standard ES Magazine, 12 September 2001
2001   Cork, Richard. What’s hot in the year of our Trace, The Times, 02 May 2001
2001   Cumming, Laura. New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, The Observer Review, 29 April 2001
2001   Darwent, Charles. Handmade tales of pots and porn, The Independent on Sunday, Culture, 29 April 2001
2001   Dorment, Richard. Art for the eyes, not the brain, The Daily Telegraph, 02 May 2001
2001   Ellis, Patricia. New Labour @ Saatchi, Flash Art, Vol. XXXIV Nº 218, May-June 2001
2001   Gellatly, Andrew. Rebecca Warren, frieze, Issue 56, January February 2001
2001   Gilbertson, Alice, A Stitch Up, Art Review, July 2001
2001   Hawes, Robert, Labour Pains, The Weekly Post, 25 May 2001
2001   Januszczak, Waldemar. At the Saatchi Gallery, you’ll find proof that New Labour really is working, The Sunday Times, Culture section, 29 April 2001
2001   Kent, Sarah. Labour intensive: Object lessons from New Labour at the Saatchi, Time Out, Nº1603, 9-16 May 2001
2001   Kent, Sarah. The Tattoo Show, Modern Art, Time Out, Nº1613, July 18-25 2001
2001   Packer, William, ‘New Labour’ but the same old pretensions, Financial Times, 29 May 2001
2001   Sewell, Brian. A touch of smut with a hand from Saatchi, The Evening Standard, 18 May 2001
2001   Wilsher, Mark. Craftwork, What’s On, 9-16 May 2001
2001   Rebecca Warren, I-D, April 2001, p.84
2000   Archer, Michael. Going for Bronze, Art Monthly, Nº 240 October 2000
2000   Coomer, Martin. Rebecca Warren (Critic’s Choice) Time Out, Nº1571, 27 September-04 October 2000
2000   Gleeson, David, The Raw and the Cooked, britart.com, November 2000
1999   Herbert, Martin. It’s a curse, it’s a burden, Time Out, Nº 1482, 13-20 January 1999
1999   Musgrave, David. It’s a curse, it’s a burden, Art Monthly, Nº223 February 1999





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