Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) is one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. Brown draws from the compositional structure, historical motifs, and virtuosic brushwork of master painters across a diverse range of genres. Using a palette ranging from bright hues to deep blacks, her works obscure singular readings as their compositions break down into restless, anfractuous, and elusive activity.

In 2026, Cecily Brown: Picturing Making will be on display at the Serpentine Gallery in London, Brown’s first major one-person exhibition at a UK institution in over twenty years. Recent notable exhibitions include Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations, Dallas Museum of Art, which traveled to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2025); Cecily Brown: The 5 Senses, Paula Cooper Gallery (2024); Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2023); Cecily Brown, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2022); The Triumph of Death, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples (2022); Cecily Brown, at Blenheim Palace, UK (2020–2021); Where, When, How Often and with Whom, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2018); If Paradise Were Half as Nice, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018), and Rehearsal, The Drawing Center, New York (2016). Her work is included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; the National Gallery of Norway, Oslo; the Tate Collection, UK; and Glenstone, Potomac, MD.