Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown, Untitled, 2015, Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 31.8 cm
b. 1969 in London, UK
Lives and works in New York, NY, US
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Cecily Brown. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England
2019
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea. Thomas Dane Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often, and with Whom. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Triumph of the Vanities II. Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
If Paradise Were Half as Nice. Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil; traveled to Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; The Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Cecily Brown: Rehearsal. MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2017
Cecily Brown: Shipwreck Drawings. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England.
A Day! Help! Help! Another Day! Paula Cooper, West 21st Street, New York, NY
2016
Cecily Brown: Rehearsal. The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Madrepora. Thomas Dane Gallery, New York, NY
2015
The Sleep Around and the Lost and Found. Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The English Garden. Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Cecily Brown. Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2013
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave, New York, NY
2012
Cecily Brown. Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2011
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England
Cecily Brown. Kukje Gallery, South Korea
2010
Based On A True Story. GEM. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Cecily Brown. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2009
Cecily Brown. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2008
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Cecily Brown. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cecily Brown: New Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England
Cecily Brown. Curated by Jeff Fleming. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
2005
Cecily Brown: Paintings. Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany.
Cecily Brown: Paintings. Curated by Suzanne Cotter. Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.
Cecily Brown: Recent Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY
2004
Cecily Brown. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Cecily Brown. Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Cecily Brown. Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
2003
Cecily Brown. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
2002
Directions—Cecily Brown. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Cecily Brown. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY.
2001
Days of Heaven. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
2000
Cecily Brown. 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
Cecily Brown. Eagle Gallery, London, England
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium. Whitechapel Gallery, London, England.
2019
sotto voce. Bortolami, New York, NY.
The Red Bean Grows in the South. Faurschou Foundation, New York, NY.
Cart, Horse, Cart. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY.
Max Beckmann in Dialogue: Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Dana Schutz.
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2018
Bacon, Freud and the painting of the school of London. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
All Too Human. Tate Britain, London, England.
2017
Cecily Brown. Two Palms, New York, NY.
Arcadia. Gagosian, Hong Kong.
Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France.
Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
The Human Form. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
We Need to Talk… Petzel Gallery, New York, NY.
2016
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. David Zwirner, New York NY.
The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men. Cheim & Read, New York, NY.
Nice Weather (curated by David Salle). Skarstedt, New York, NY.
Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray. The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY.
2015
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction. White Cube, London, England.
Sleepless – The Bed in History and Contemporary Art. 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria.
2014
FIERCE CREATIVITY. Pace Gallery, New York, NY.
Paint New York. Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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.
Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.
2012
Out of the Blue. Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY.
Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting. Oakland University Art Museum, Rochester, MI.
2011
A Painting Show. Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY.
White Columns 2011 Benefit Exhibition and Auction. New York, NY.
Collection Platform I: 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; traveled to The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real. Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, London, England.
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, Long Island City, NY.
Honky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow.
Beneath the Underdog. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY.
Sex and Sexuality. 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 Gallery 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, Germany.
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 Art Museum, Tempe.
Works on Paper. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. 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
Szenenwechsel XIX. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.
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.
1996
Taking Stock. Curated by Kenny Schacter. New York, NY.
1994
The Fete Worse Than Death. Laurent Delaye, London, England.
John Jones Open. The Gallery at John Jones, London, England.
1990
Contemporary View. National Competition for British Art Students, Royal College of Art, London, England.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA.
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Salzburg, Austria.
Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL.
The Saatchi Gallery, London, England.
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
Tate Gallery, London, England.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY