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