GLENN BROWN
Glenn Brown’s (b. 1966) practice is one in which concerns of a technical, aesthetic and spiritual nature are explored through an eclectic mix of influences. Spanning painting, drawing and sculpture, the artist reflects upon the history of art without confining himself to a specific period. The sources for his works can be found in the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Adolph von Menzel, Surrealists – especially Salvador Dalí – or artists including Karel Appel, Frank Auerbach and Georg Baselitz, as well as sci-fi painters such as Chris Foss. Deliberately drawing from reproductions, Brown manipulates this imagery, often beyond recognition, before transposing them into works of an unparalleled uncanniness, where colours and forms undergo further re-assessment.
Brown could be perceived as the ultimate Mannerist painter, perplexing the viewer with distorted, exaggerated and sometimes grotesque forms. His technical virtuosity is captivating. Executed in the traditional medium of oil paint, his paintings act as trompe-l'oeil, showing swirls of colour which at first glance seem to form a thick impasto, until surfaces reveal themselves to be actually smooth. Both alluring and unsettling, ranging from monstrous to melancholic, Brown’s paintings – like his drawings and sculptures – broadcast a pronounced indifference to common distinctions between good and bad taste, or beauty and abjection. In 2022, Brown established The Brown Collection in London, an art museum showcasing his artwork alongside his choice of works by contemporary and historical artists.
‘Everything oozes majestically. The paintings and sculptures of Glenn Brown are deliquescent in the physical sense of the term, the property possessed by certain solid substances of slow liquefaction by gradual absorption of atmospheric humidity. Description of this now jubilant, now morbid magma gives rise to an unending, indeed unbearable succession of sugarcoated adjectives, adverbs and nouns. One can come at these paintings only tentatively, by narratives and descriptions, by impressions, by repetitions and sonorities and by the contradictions in which they are so rich. Any language that can encompass the work of Brown must necessarily be vague, full of double-talk and ambiguity, for this is the way in which the artist treats images.’
J.M. Gallais, ‘Exquisite Deliquescence’ in Glenn Brown, exh. cat., Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2011
Image: N***** of the World, 2011, oil on panel, 172 x 138 cm.; 67 3/4 x 54 3/8 in.
Artist Talk
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1966
Born in Hexham, Northumberland, UK
1985–1988
Bath College of Higher Education, Bath (B.A. Fine Art)
1990–1992
Goldsmiths College, University of London, London (M.A. Fine Art)
2000
Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2005
Shortlisted for the South Bank Show Award
2019
Awarded CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
Lives and works in London, UK
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
Arts Council Collection, London
British Museum, London
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Delfina Foundation, London
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
FRAC – Limousin, Limoges
Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Tate, London
The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
V-A-C Collection, Moscow
Zabludowicz Collection, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
In the Altogether
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2023
The Leisure Centre
The Brown Collection, London
The Real Thing Part 1 and 2 (Retrospective)
Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum, Hanover (catalogue)
2022
We’ll Keep on Dancing Till We Pay the Rent
Gagosian, Chelsea, New York
2020
And Thus We Existed
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
2019
Carte Blanche à Glenn Brown – FIAC Hors les Murs 2019
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris
2018
Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Transmutations: What’s Old is New Again
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene
Historical Baggage: Glenn Brown and his sources
Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum, London
Come to Dust
Gagosian Gallery, London
2017
Glenn Brown: Piaceri Sconosciuti
Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence (catalogue)
Rembrandt – After Life
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
2016
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (catalogue)
Suffer Well
Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles (catalogue)
2015
Dessins
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (catalogue)
2014
Gagosian Gallery, New York
2013
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren: Collected Works
Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver
2012
Upton House, Oxfordshire
2011
Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary (catalogue)
Glenn Brown: Etchings and Sculpture
Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
2009
Gagosian Gallery, London (catalogue)
Etchings (Portraits)
Karsten Schubert, London (catalogue)
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, travelled to:
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin;
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (catalogue)
2008
Editions and a Unique Sculpture
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (catalogue)
2007
Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2006
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
2005
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
2004
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2002
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2001
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
2000
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
1999
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
Jerwood Gallery, London (catalogue)
1998
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
1997
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
1996
Queen's Hall Arts Center, Hexham (catalogue)
1995
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London (catalogue)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Being There
No. 1 Royal Crescent, Bath
The Laughing Stock of The Heartless Stars
The Brown Collection, London
Summer Contemporary
Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Contemporary Collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker
British Museum, London
2023
NGV Triennial 2023
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
DIX AND THE PRESENT
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Heads & Tails
Art Station, Suffolk
Drawn: 30 Portraits
Ordovas, London
Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
UK VS USA: Post-War to Present
Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London
2022
Les Choses (Things)
Louvre Museum, Paris
100 Years of Collecting at the Laing Art Gallery
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2021
Arcimboldo Face to Face
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (catalogue)
Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2020
Alumni Exhibition Invitational
Sion Hill Gallery and The Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa Universty
00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000s
MO.CO., Montpellier
Dreamsongs: From Medicine to Demons to Artificial Intelligence
Colnaghi, London
Bustes de Femmes
Gagosian, Paris
Distorted Portrait
Space K Gallery, Seoul
Super Flatland
White Conduit Projects, London
Painting is Painting's Favorite Food: Art History as Muse
South Etna Montauk, Montauk
(Re)Print: Five Projects
International Print Center, New York
(self)portraits
Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich
Inspiration – Contemporary Art & Classics
Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, travelled from:
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Inspiration – Iconic Works
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
2019
Dark Lantern
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now
Prints and Drawing Room, British Museum, London
Inspired by Rembrandt. 100 Years of Collecting by The Rembrandt House Museum
The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
Comeback. Art-Historical Renaissances
Kunsthalle Tübingen
Input / Output: Painting After Technology
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Visions of Self: Rembrandt and Now
Gagosian Gallery, London
2018
Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Der Flexible Plan. Das Rokoko in der Gegenwartskunst
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
COUNTERPOINT: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection
Southampton Art Center, New York
Heads Roll: An Exhibition Curated by Paul Morrison
Graves Gallery, Sheffield
Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
The Explorers (Part One)
V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking
Attercliffe™, Sheffield
2017
True Faith
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
The Immediacy of Paint: Surface
Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich
Matière Grise
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
I lost my art to a Starship Trooper
Griffin Gallery, London
Damage Control
Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles
2016
Collateral Drawing
UCS Waterfront Building, Ipswich, Suffolk
2015
The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor 1955–2015
Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle
Unrealism: Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian
Moore Building, Miami
Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Homeland
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Collection Centre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou, Malaga
One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People
Arts Council Collection at Leeds Art Gallery, London, traveling to:
Nottingham, Drogheda, Southport and Eastbourne
Fobofilia. Opere dalla Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2014
POST POP: EAST MEETS WEST
Saatchi Gallery, London
Carte blanche à Christian Lacroix
Cognacq-Jay Museum, Museum of 18th Century Art, Paris
SHE: Picturing women at the turn of the 21st century
Bell Gallery and Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Cool Place. Sammlung Scharpff
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Somos Libres II: The Mario Testino Collection
The Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin
Stanze / Rooms
me Collectors Room Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin
Visage: Picasso, Magritte, Warhol...
Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (catalogue)
2013
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Riotous Baroque
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (catalogue)
SNAP
Paul Stolper Gallery, London
Große Gefühle. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Kunsthalle Krems
Le Grand Tout – 30 ans de FRAC - Limousin
FRAC Limousin, Limoges
2012
SNAP
Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Beyond Reality: British Painting Today
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present
L&M Arts, Lose Angeles
Portrait of the Artist As...
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The Mechanical Hand: Pauper Press 25 Years
King's Place Gallery, London, travelled to:
Newcastle, England (catalogue)
The Space Between
Karsten Schubert, London
À Rebours
Venus over Manhattan, New York
2011
Memories of the Future. The Olbricht Collection
La Maison Rouge, Paris
Le Surréalisme, c'est moi!
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Figures in a Landscape
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Nothing in the World But Youth
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Dystopia
Liljevalchs Kunsthalle, Stockholm, travelled to:
Borås Konstmuseum
Unscharf- Nach Gerhard Richter/Blurred- After Gerhard Richter
Hamburger Kunstalle
John Martin: Apocalypse
Tate Britain, London
2010
A GROUP PAINTING SHOW
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
Art: curated by Michael Craig-Martin
Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin (catalogue)
Crash
Gagosian Gallery, London (catalogue)
Behind the Mask
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
Grand National
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
Head
Approach Gallery, London
Seconde Main/Second Hand
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Summer Exhibition
room curated by Fiona Rae
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Vanité: Mort, Que Me Veuy-Tu?
curated by Alain Tapié
Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, Paris (catalogue)
10,000 Lives
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Gwangui Biennale, Korea
2009
Art Now: Beating The Bounds
Tate Britain, London
Just what is it …, curated by Götz Adriani
ZKM / Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Mapping the Studio: Artists form the François Pinault Collection
Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice (catalogue)
Surface Reality
Laing Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne
2008
Beyond the Lens
Dominique Fiat Galerie, Paris
Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection
Frances Leham Loeb Center, Vassar College, New York
Arcadia: Painters' Paradise
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, travelled to:
Taipei Fine Art Museum;
as Arcadie: Dans les collections du Centreu Pompidou
Pretty Ugly
curated by Alison Gingeras
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Maccarone, New York
Jekyll Island
curated by Erik Parker and Max Henry
Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
2007
Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close
The Flag Art Foundation, New York
Photopeintries
FRAC Limosin, Limoges
Insight?
Gagosian Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Zurück zur Figur: Malerei der Gegenwart
Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna; Kunsthal, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Old School
Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London
Kunst im Dialog. 100 Jahre Kunsthalle
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Accidental Painting
Perry Rubinstein Gallery, New York
Timer 01 – Intimitá / Intimacy
Triennale Bovisa, Milan
2006
Jean-Honore Fragonard: Origenes e Influences
CaixaForum, Centro Social y Cultural, Barcelona
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art. Arts Council Collection
Hayward Gallery, London
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Zurück zur Figur: Malerei der Gegenwart
Kunsthalle der Hypo–Kulturstiftung, Munich (catalogue)
British Art
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism
Villa Manin - Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (catalogue)
Passion For Paint
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol;
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
The National Gallery, London
Full House: Geschichte einer Sammlung
Kunsthalle Mannheim
POW! (Pictures of Women)
Quality Pictures Contemporary Art, Portland
Chers amis
Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan
2005
Direkte Malerei/Direct Painting
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Ecstasy: In And About Altered States
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Rückkehr ins All
Hamburger Kunsthalle (catalogue)
Closing Down
Bortolami Dayan, New York
Big Bang
Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Translations: Creative Copying and Originality
Thomas Dane, London
STRATA: Difference and Repetition
Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan
The Nature of Things
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham
Bidibidobidiboo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin;
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba, Cuena;
Cavallerizza Chiablese e il Salone delle Guardie, Turin (catalogue)
2004
Must I Paint You A Picture?
Haunch of Venison, London
PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
She’s Come Undone
Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Painter Editions
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
Heißkalt: Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (catalogue)
2003
Heißkalt: Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff
Kunsthalle Hamburg (catalogue)
Breaking God’s Heart
38 Langham Street, London (curated by Glenn Brown)
Dreams and Conflicts: Dictatorship of the Viewer. Delays and Revolutions
50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)
Pittura / Paintings: From Rauschenberg To Murakami 1964 - 2003
Museo Correr, Venice
Une Collection de "Chefs-d’oeuvre"
Fonds Regionel d’Art Contemporain, Limousin
M_ARS: Kunst und Krieg
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (catalogue)
2002
Cher Peintre, peins-moi / Lieber Maler, male mir / Dear Painter, Paint Me
Centre Pompidou, Paris;
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna;
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M. (catalogue)
Melodrama
Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz;
Centro José Guerro, Granada;
Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (catalogue)
Landscape
The Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
13th Biennale of Sydney 2002: The World May Be (Fantastic)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (catalogue)
Metropolitan Iconographies
25th Biennal de São Paulo, Pavilhâo Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo (catalogue)
Painting as a Foreign Language
Edifico Cultura Inglesa, Centro Brasileiro Britanico, Sao Paulo
From the Saatchi Gift
Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2001
Passion
Galerie Ascan Crone, Berlin/Hamburg
Azerty: Un abécédaire autour des collections du FRAC Limousin
Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Glenn Brown und Arnold Böcklin, curated by Katharina Fritsch
Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Secret Victorians
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (catalogue)
2000
Salon
Delfina Project Space, London
Hypermental: Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000. From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons
Kunsthaus Zürich, travelled to:
Hamburger Kunsthalle;
Rudolfinum, Prague (catalogue)
Turner Prize 2000
Tate Britain, London
with Wolfgang Tillmans, Tomoko Takahashi, Michael Raedecker (catalogue)
Little Angels
Houldsworth Fine Art, London
Suite Substitute IV: Beautiful Strangers
Hôtel du Rhône, Geneva
Futuro: Decadent Art and Architecture
Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff
The British Art Show 5
Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh;
Johns Hansard Gallery, The Southampton Art Gallery, Millais Gallery, all Southampton;
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff;
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham (catalogue)
Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky
The Project, New York
The Wreck of Hope
The Nunnery Gallery, London
Blue
New Art Gallery, Walsall (catalogue)
Examining Painting
Armand Hammer, University of California, Los Angeles
Sausages and Frankfurters. Recent British and German paintings from the Ophiuchus Collection
The Hydra Workshop, Hydra (catalogue)
1999
Disaster
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
Day of the Donkey Day
Transmission, Glasgow
John Moores 21
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (catalogue)
Fresh Paint: Recent Acquisitions from the Frank Cohan Collection
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Holding Court
Entwistle, London
1998
Secret Victorians
Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; (catalogue)
Abstract Painting, Once Removed
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston;
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (catalogue)
It's a Curse, It's a Burden
The Approach, London
(curated by Glenn Brown)
Cluster Bomb
Morrison Judd, London
New Works
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
1997
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection
Royal Academy of Arts, London;
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin;
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
Pure Fantasy
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
Treasure Island
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigao, Lisbon (catalogue)
Belladonna
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Glenn Brown, Alex Katz, Katherine Yass
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
1996
Glenn Brown, Peter Doig, Jim Hodges, Adriana Varejao
Galerie Ghilaine Hussenot, Paris
21 Days of Darkness
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Ace: Arts Council Collection New Purchases
Hatton Gallery, New Castle upon Tyne;
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston;
Oldham Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, London;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield;
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham;
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Out of Space
Cole and Cole, Oxford
Strange Days
The Agency, London
The Jerwood Painting Prize
Lethaby Galleries, Central Saint Martin's College, London
Fernbedienung: Does Television Inform the Way Art is Made?
Kunstverein Graz (catalogue)
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990's
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (catalogue)
1995
Brilliant: New Art from London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
From Here
Waddington Galleries, London;
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London (catalogue)
Summer Group Show
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
Young British Artists V.
Saatchi Collection, London (catalogue)
Obsession
The Tannery, London
Painters' Opinion
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
That's Not The Way To Do It
Project Space, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
1994
Here and Now
Serpentine Gallery, London
Every Now and Then
Rear Window at Richard Salmon Gallery, London
1993
Painting Invitational
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Re-Present
Todd Gallery, London
Launch
Curtain Road Arts, London
Barclay's Young Artist Award
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
Mandy Loves Declan 100%
Mark Boote Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1992
Surface Values
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
How Did These Children Come To Be Like That
Goldsmiths' Gallery, London
With Attitude
Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels
And What Do You Represent?
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1991
Group Show
Todd Gallery, London 1990 British Telecom New Contemporaries
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol:
ohn Hansard Gallery, Southampton;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; e.d. (catalogue)
1989
Christie's New Contemporaries
Royal College of Art, London
British Telecom New Contemporaries
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; e.d. (catalogue)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
Museo Bardini (Ed.): Glenn Brown: Piaceri Sconosciuti, Florence, 2017
W Books / Rembrandt House Museum (Eds.): Glenn Brown - Rembrandt - After Life, Amsterdam, 2017
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (Ed.): Glenn Brown. Suffer Well, Arles, 2016
Des Moines Art Center (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Des Moines, 2016
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications: Glenn Brown: Dessins, Berlin, 2015
Rennie Collection (Ed.): Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren, Vancouver, 2015
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Glenn Brown, New York, 2015
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Berlin, 2011
Gagosian Gallery / Rizzoli (Eds.): Glenn Brown. Three Exhibitions, London, 2011
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Glenn Brown, London, 2009
Tate (Ed.): Glenn Brown, London, 2009
Ridinghouse (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Etchings (Portraits), London, 2009
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Berlin, 2006
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Glenn Brown, New York, 2005
Stefania Bortolami (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2004
Serpentine Gallery (Ed.) : Glenn Brown, London, 2004
Stephen Hepworth, Terry Myers, Frédéric Paul (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Domain de Kerguéhennec - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, 2000
Jerwood Gallery (Ed.): Glenn Brown, London, 1999
Phil King, Marcelo Spinelli (Ed.): Glenn Brown, Hexham/London, 1996
Others
Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2023, in collaboration with Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover (Eds.): Glenn Brown: The Real Thing, 2023
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): REMEMBER EVERYTHING : 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2014
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Sammlung im Wandel. Die Sammlung Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, Berlin, 2014
Hans Werner Holzwarth(Ed.): Art Now Vol. 4., Cologne, 2013
Black Dog Publishing (Ed.): Artworld Series: Contemporary Art in the United Kingdom, London, 2012
Galerie Rudolfinum (Ed.): Beyond Reality: British Painting Today, Prague, 2012
Desserre, Jean-François (Ed.): L’Image peinte. Enjeux et perspectives de la peinture figurative des années 90 à nos jours, Chatou, 2012
Liljevalchs Kunsthalle (Ed.): Helvete/Hell, Stockholm, 2012
Manchester University Press (Ed.): Simulating the Marvellous, Manchester, 2012
Black Dog Publishing (Ed.): The Mechanical Hand: Artists’ Projects at Pauper Press, London, 2012
Grenier, Catherine (Ed.): Dali, l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011
Luxembourg & Dayan (Ed.): Grisaille. New York, 2011
John Martin / Tate Gallery (Eds.): Apocalypse, London, 2011
Fage and La maison rouge (Eds.): Mémoires du futur: la collection Olbricht, Paris, 2011
Kunsthalle Wien / Gerald A. Matt (Eds.): Le Surréalisme, c’est moi, Vienna, 2011
Whitechapel Gallery and Cambridge (Eds.): Painting: Documents of Contemporary Art, The MIT Press, London, 2011
Haunch of Venison (Ed.): The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations Between Ten British Post-War Painters. London, 2011
Doro Globus / Ridinghouse (Ed.): The Space Between: Michael Bracewell Collected Writings, London, 2011
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Crash, London, 2010
Bonami, Francesco (Ed.): dal partenone al panettone: incontri inaspettati nella storia dell’arte, Mondadori Electa spa, Milano, 2010
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Ed.): Grand National: Art from Britain, Vestfossen, 2010
Stephen Chambers (Ed.): Royal Academy Illustrated 2010, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010
Rizzoli International Publications (Ed.): Tadao Ando Venice: The Pinault Collection at the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, New York, 2010
Ortrud Westheider, Michael Philipp (Ed.): Täuschend echt. Die Kunst des Trompe-l’oeil, Albert Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2010
Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent (Ed.): Vanité: Mort, Que Me Veux-tu?, Paris, 2010
Judy Ditner and Massimiliano Gioni / Gwangju Biennale Foundation (Eds.): 10,000 Lives: Gwangju Biennale 2010. Korea, 2010
Bärbel Hedinger (Ed.): Täuschend echt. Illusion und Wirklichkeit in der Kunst, Das Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 2010
Didier Ottinger (Ed.): Arcadie. Dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2009
ZKM/Center for Art and Media (Ed.): Just what is it…., Karlsruhe, 2009
Francesco Bonami and Alison M. Gingeras (Ed.): Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Electa, Milan, 2009
Tony Godfrey (Ed.): Painting Today, Phaidon Press, London, 2009
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): 100 Contemporary Artists, Taschen, Cologne, 2009
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Art Now, Volume III, Taschen, Cologne, 2008
Cranford Collection (Ed.): Cranford Collection 01, London, 2008
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College (Ed.): Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection, Poughkeepsie, 2008
GNC Media, Seoul Museum of Art (Ed.): Exhibition of Musée National de l’Arte Moderne du Centre Pompidou, Korea, 2008
Heiser, Jörg / Sternberg Press (Ed.): All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2008
Button, Virginia (Ed.): The Turner Prize: Revised Edition, Tate Gallery, London, 2007
Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon (Ed.): Fragonard, regards croisés, Mengès et la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 2007
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Insight?, New York, 2007
Hauser and Wirth Colnaghi (Ed.): Old School, London, 2007
Von der Heydt-Museum (Ed.): Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart (The Game of Multiple Meaning: Symbolism and the Art of the Present), Wuppertal, 2007
Triennale Bovisa / Gianni Mercurio e Demetrio Paparoni (Eds.): Intimità/Intimacy, L’arte contemporanea dopo l’undici settembre/Contemporary Art After Nine Eleven, Milan, 2007
Kunsthalle Mannheim (Ed.): Full House. Gesichter einer Sammlung, Mannheim, 2006
Villa Manin – Centro d’Arte Contemporanea (Ed.): Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Udine, 2006
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Ed.): Zurück zur Figur. Malerei der Gegenwart, Munich, 2006
The National Gallery (Ed.): Passion for Paint, London, 2006
Charlotte Mullins: Painting People. The State of the Art, London, 2006
Uta Grosenick (Ed.): Art Now. Vol. 2, Cologne, 2005
Lisa Mark, Paul Schimmel (Ed.): Ecstasy. In And About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Cambridge, 2005
Markus Heinzelmann, Christoph Heinrich (Ed.): Rückkehr ins All. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2005
Francesco Bonami (Ed.): Bidibidobidiboo. Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Milan, 2005
Catherine Grenier (Ed.): Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005
Parkett: Kai Althoff, Glenn Brown, Dana Schutz, Vol. 75, 2005
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Berlin 1994 – 2003, Berlin, 2004
Christoph Heinrich, Nina Zimmer (Ed.): Heißkalt. Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Kunsthalle Hamburg; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003
Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa (Ed.): Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia, Milan, 2003
Peter Weibel, Günther Holler-Schuster (Ed.) : M_ARS. Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Osterfildern-Ruit, 2003
Virginia Button: The Turner Prize. Twenty Years, Tate Britain, London, 2003
Barry Schwabsky: Vitamin P. New Perspectives in Painting, London, 2003
Richard Cork: Breaking Down the Barriers: Art in the 1990s, New Haven, 2003
(The World May Be) Fantastic. 2002 Biennale of Sydney, 2002
Doreet Levitte Harlen (Ed.): Melodrama. Darren Almond et al., Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo; Centre José Guerrero; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Luxembourg, 2002
Alison M. Gingeras: Cher Peintre..., Lieber Maler..., Dear Painter..., Paris/Wien/Frankfurt/M., 2002
Centre Pompidou (Ed.): Azerty. Un abécédaire autour des collections du FRAC Limousin, Paris, 2001
Bice Curiger, Christoph Heinrich (Ed.): Hypermental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000. Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff Koons, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Kunsthaus Zürich, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001
Pippa Coles, Matthew Higgs et al. (Ed.): The British Art Show 5, London, 2000
John Gage, Mike Tobey (Ed.): Blue, The New Art Gallery Walsall, England, 2000
Mary Horlock: The Turner Prize 2000, Tate Britain, London, 2000
Hayward Gallery (Ed.): The Saatchi Gift, London, 2000
Matthew Collings: This is Modern Art, London, 1999
Julian Stalladrass: High Art Lite, London, 1999
Cathrine Lampert (Ed.): Examining Pictures, Whitechapel; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, London, 1999
Hayward Gallery (Ed.): Secret Victorians, London, 1998
Dana Friis-Hansen (Ed.): Abstract Painting, One Removed, Houston, 1998
Norman Rosenthal (Ed.): Sensation. Young Brtish Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1997
Matthew Collings: Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop, Cambridge, 1997
Rui Sanches, Jorge Molder (Ed.): Treasure Island, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigao, Lisbon, 1997
David Elliot: About Vision. New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern 'Art, Oxford, 1996
Eva Stadler, Thomas Trummer et al. (Ed.): Fernbedienung. Does Television Inform the Way Art is Made, Grazer Kunstverein, Vienna, 1996
Sarah Kent: Young British Artists V. The Saatchi Gallery, London, 1995
Richard Flood et al. (Ed.): Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1995
Andrew Wilson: From Here, Karsten Schubert Gallery/Waddington Galleries, London, 1995
Stuart Morgan: Mandy Loves Declan 100%, Mark Boote Gallery, New York, 1993
Sarah Kent: Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1993
Marianne Brouwer, Franz Kaiser, Alistair McLennan (Ed.): British Telecom New Contemporaries, London, 1991
Sascha Craddock (Ed.): British Telecom New Contemporaries, London, 1989
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Glenn Brown: The Real Thing
Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2023, in collaboration with Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover
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Glenn Brown: And Thus We Existed
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2021
With a text by Dawn Ades and an interview with the artist
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Glenn Brown: Dessins
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2015
With a text by Andreas Schalhorn
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REMEMBER EVERYTHING
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
€ 45.00
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2011
With a text by Jean-Marie Gallais
€ 35.00
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2006
With a text by Tom Morton
€ 35.00
Selected Press
Artnet News November 2022
Wall Street Journal October 2022
Widewalls November 2020
Master Drawings September 2019
Master Drawing September 2019
The Guardian January 2018
Artlyst January 2018
Frieze December 2017
The Art Newspaper May 2016
Huffpost April 2016
M le magazine du Monde May 2016
randian September 2015
artpress 2015
The Art Newspaper October 2012
Frog 2011
Die Welt May 2011
Neues Deutschland May 2011
Art Monthly April 2009
Frieze June 2009
Financial Times February 2009
Art in America April 2009
Parkett 2005
The Guardian September 2004
Frieze October 1993