Born 1969 in London, England
Lives and works in New York
Education
1989-93 BA in Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London, England
1987-89 Drawing and Printmaking Classes, Morley College, London, England
1985-87 B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England
Grants and Awards
- 1995
- Four Letter Heaven, a short animated film- Awards at Ann Arbor, MI; the Big Muddy Film Festvial, Carbondale, IL; and the Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ
- 1990
- Contemporary View, National Competition for British Art Students, sponsored by Christie’s. First Prize.
One-person Exhibitions
- 2020
- Cecily Brown, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK
- Cecily Brown, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
- 2019
- Cecily Brown: We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
- 2018
- Cecily Brown, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
- Cecily Brown: If Paradise Were Half as Nice, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Travels to: Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2019)
- Cecily Brown: Rehearsal, MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
- Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often, and With Whom, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
- Cecily Brown: Triumph of the Vanities, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY
- 2017
- Cecily Brown: A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
- Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
- 2016
- Madrepora, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
- Cecily Brown: Rehearsal, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
- 2015
- The English Garden, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
- The Sleep Around and the Lost and Found, Contemporary fine Arts, Berlin
- 2014
- Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
- Cecily Brown, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderne e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
- 2013
- Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
- Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave, New York, NY
- 2011
- Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England
- Kukje Gallery, Korea
- 2010
- Based On A True Story, Kestener Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany. Traveled to: GEM. Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
- 2009
- Cecily Brown, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
- 2008
- Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006
- Cecily Brown, Curated by Jeff Fleming. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Traveled to: Museum of fine Arts, Boston, MA
- New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England
- 2005
- Cecily Brown: Paintings, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
- Cecily Brown: Paintings, Curated by Suzanne Cotter. Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
- Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY
- 2004
- Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
- Cecily Brown, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
- Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
- 2003
- Cecily Brown, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
- Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
- 2002
- Directions—Cecily Brown, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
- Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
- 2001
- Days of Heaven, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
- 2000
- Gagosian Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
- 1999
- Serenade, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
- The Skin Game, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
- 1998
- High Society, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
- 1997
- Spectacle, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
- 1995
- Eagle Gallery, London, England
Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- In Situ, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, (1/7 - 2/6/21) and Aspen, CO (1/22 - 2/28/21)
- 2020
- The Kitchen’s Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York, NY (10/15/2020 – 01/31/2021) – Online
- Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2/6 – 5/10/20)
- 2019
- Transitions and Transformations, LSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (10/2020 – 01/2021)
- She Persists, A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion, New York, NY
- Cart, Horse, Cart, curated by Michael Goodson and Anna Stothart, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (6/20—8/16/19)
- Max Beckmann Im Dialogue Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Dana Protection, Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Major Contemporary Works, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2018
- SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
- All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting, Tate Britain, London, UK (2/28—8/27/18)
- Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
- 2017
- Salon Des Fidèdeles, CFA Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Social Surfaces, Artists Space, New York, NY
- 2016
- Desire, curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso, presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel, Miami Beach
- The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- Before Sunrise, Karma, Amagansett, NY
- Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, The Flag Art Foundation, NY
- 2015
- Tightrope walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky, White Cube, London
- Unrealism, presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel, Miami Beach
- Sleepless—The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
- 2014
- Paint New York, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen
- Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
- 2013
- FLAG’s 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY.
- Black Cake, Team Gallery, New York, NY.
- Chicken or Beef? A Transcontinental Survey of Figurative Painting, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY
- Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
- DSM-V, New York, NY, The Future Moynihan Station, New York, NY
- Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- 2012
- Out of the Blue, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
- Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
- 2011
- A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
- Collection Platform 1: Circulation, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
- Figures in a Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
- The Art of Deceleration. Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
- Verschiebungsersatz, Kimmerich Gallery, New York, NY
- 2010
- Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY
- 2009
- Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
- Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
- 2008
- Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- 2007
- Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY, (2/11 – 4/30/16)
- Hunky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
- Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
- Sex and Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY
- Extremes and In-Betweens, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, NY
- 2006
- Heroines, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gellery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York through 2007
- Survivor, organized by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY
- The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
- Once Upon a Time in the West, Part One, Contemporary fine Art Berlin, Berlin
- 2005
- Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
- 90-Day loans: From the Broad Art Foundation and the Ovitz Family Collection, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe
- Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
- Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
- 2004
- Whitney Biennial 2004. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- A Collector’s Vision, Museum der Modern Salzberg, Austria
- Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
- Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Heddon Street, London, England
- 2003
- Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (through 2004)
- Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, Cooper Union, New York, NY
- 2001
- Szenewechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
- 2000
- OO Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
- Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
- The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY
- Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
- 1999
- At Century’s End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of 90’s Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
- Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, NY
- Four Letter Heaven, David Zwirner Video Library, New York, NY
- 1998
- More Fake, More Real, Yet Even Closer: Drawings by Some Younger Painters, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY
- 1997
- Cecily Rose Brown, Bonnie Collura and Anna Gaskell, Janice Guy Gallery, New York, NY
- New York, New Generation, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
- Vertical Painting, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long island City, NY (Long term installation, Staircase B)
- 1996
- Taking Stock, Curated by Kenny Schachter, New York, NY
- 1994
- The Fete Worse Than Death, Laurent Delaye, London, England
- John Jones Open, The Gallery at John Jones
- 1990
- Contemporary View, National Competition for British Art Students, Royal College of Art, London, England
Films
- 1995
- Four Letter Heaven, a short animated film- Premiered at Telluride Film Festival. Traveled to: Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Seattle Film Festival, WA; Pandemonium Festival of the Moving Image, Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Stuttgart Filmfest, Germany; Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL; Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ; and others in Europe and the US
Updated: January 13, 2021