GLENN BROWN


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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Publications


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

€ 50.00

Glenn Brown: And Thus We Existed

Exhibition Poster
Created by the artist
2020

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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

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Wall Street Journal October 2022

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Widewalls November 2020

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Master Drawings September 2019

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Master Drawing September 2019

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The Guardian January 2018

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Artlyst January 2018

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Frieze December 2017

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The Art Newspaper May 2016

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Huffpost April 2016

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M le magazine du Monde May 2016

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randian September 2015

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artpress 2015

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The Art Newspaper October 2012

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Frog 2011

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Die Welt May 2011

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Neues Deutschland May 2011

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Art Monthly April 2009

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Frieze June 2009

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Financial Times February 2009

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Art in America April 2009

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Parkett 2005

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The Guardian September 2004

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Frieze October 1993

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