Matthew Marks Gallery

Gary Hume

  • Born: Kent, United Kingdom, 1962

    Education: Goldsmiths College, London, 1988

    Currently lives and works in London and Accord, NY.

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2023

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2020

    Destroyed School Paintings, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (catalogue)
    Archipelago, Sprüth Magers, London

    2019

    Carvings
    , New Art Centre, Salisbury, United Kingdom
    Looking and Seeing, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul
    Destroyed School Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2018

    Sprüth Magers, Berlin

    2017

    RA: Prints Pictures
    , Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Mum, Sprüth Magers, London (catalogue)
    Mum, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2016

    Front of a Snowman
    , Aspen Art Museum, CO

    2014

    Lions and Unicorns,
    White Cube Gallery, São Paulo

    2013

    The Wonky Wheel
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Tate Britain, London (catalogue)
    White Cube, London

    2012

    2
    , Sprüth Magers, Berlin
    Anxiety and the Horse, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    The Indifferent Owl, White Cube, London (catalogue)
    Beauty, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
    Flashback, Leeds Art Gallery, United Kingdom. Traveled to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, United Kingdom; and Aberdeen Art Gallery, United Kingdom (catalogue)

    2010

    Bird in a Fishtank
    , Sprüth Magers, Berlin
    New Work, New Art Centre, Roche Court, East Winterslow, United Kingdom

    2009

    Yardwork
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2008

    Door Paintings
    , Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom (catalogue)
    Baby Birds and Things That Are Left Behind, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (catalogue)

    2007

    American Tan
    , White Cube, London (catalogue)
    Angels, Flowers and Icons, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom

    2006

    Cave Paintings
    , White Cube, London

    2005

    Carnival
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2004

    Karneval
    , Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (catalogue)
    The Bird had a Yellow Beak, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (catalogue)

    2003

    Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (catalogue)
    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2002

    Back of a Snowman
    , Art on the Plaza, The Ritz-Carlton, (installation sponsored by Creative Time), Battery Park, New York
    White Cube, London (catalogue)

    2001

    New Paintings,
    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2000

    Culturgest
    , Casa do Mundo, Lisbon. Traveled to Fundación “la Caixa,” Barcelona (catalogue)

    1999

    Whitechapel Gallery, London (catalogue)
    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
    British Pavilion, Venice Biennale (catalogue)
    New Work, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

    1998

    Night-Time Window Projections
    , London Electronics Art Gallery Sadler's Wells Theatre
    Turnaround: Inside Out at the Hayward, Hayward Gallery, London
    Small Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1997

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1996

    Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (catalogue)
    Galleria il Ponte, Rome
    Garden, Galerie Gebauer and Thumm, Berlin
    São Paulo Biennial (catalogue)

    1995

    White Cube/Jay Jopling, London
    Kunsthalle Bern. Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)
    Spacex, Exeter, United Kingdom
    My Aunt and I Agree, Habitat, Kings Road, London

    1994

    New Paintings
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1993

    New Works
    , Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

    1992

    Recent Paintings
    , Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Recent Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1991

    Tarpaulins
    , Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
    The Dolphin Paintings, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

    1989

    Recent Works
    , Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2023

    Vicolo della Penitenza 11/A, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

    2022

    Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
    Yves Saint Laurent in Museums, Centre Pompidou, Paris

    2021

    POP GOES THE PASTORAL, The Old Theatre, Framlingham, United Kingdom

    2020

    Georgie Hopton & Gary Hume: Hurricanes Hardly Ever Happen
    , Lyndsey Ingram, London

    2019

    Summer Exhibition 2019
    , Royal Academy of Arts, London
    New Order: Art, Product, Image 1976–1995, Sprüth Magers, London
    One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2018

    Line, Form and Colour - Works from the Berardo Collection
    , Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
    Profound Identities: Beauty and Subjugation from the Goss-Michael Collection, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
    English Sculptors in New England, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
    Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London. Traveled to Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais, Parisl; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
    The Explorers, Part One: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and James Richards, V-A-C Foundation, Venice

    2017

    A Certain Kind of Light
    , Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
    #LondonTrending, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
    Against Landscape, The Glasgow School of Art
    Occasional Geometries: Rana Begum Curates the Arts Council Collection,
    Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Longside Gallery, Wakefield, United Kingdom
    What’s in Store?, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
    Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom

    2016

    At Home
    , Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom
    Terrain: Land into Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, United Kingdom
    Seeing Around Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom

    2015

    After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists
    , Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
    Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
    Natures, Natural and Unnatural, Whitechapel Gallery, London
    Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
    10 Sculptures, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2014

    Traces of Modernism
    , Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Van Gogh Live!, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
    Form through Colour: Josef Albers, Anni Albers, and Gary Hume, Somerset House, London
    The Line (sculpture walk), East London
    Face to Face: British Portraits from the Clifford Chance Art Collection, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
    NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH

    2013

    British British Polish Polish
    , Centre for Contemporary Art, Uzjazdowski Castle, Poland
    FULL HOUSE, Schönewald Fine Arts GmbH, Düsseldorf
    Here, There and Somewhere In Between, Royal Academy at Hatfield House, London
    Forty Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

    2012

    Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren,
    Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    A House of Leaves: Second Movement, DRAF, London
    Freedom not Genius: Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanne e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
    AKA PEACE, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
    Encounter: The Royal Academy Exhibition in Asia/Middle East, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
    Cool Britannia, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

    2011

    Collection Platform 1: Circulation
    , Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Structure and Absence, White Cube, London
    Snap, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, United Kingdom

    2010


    Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action
    , White Cube, London

    Art, Galerie Haas und Fuchs, Berlin


    Highlights from the Collection, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
    Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, James Cohan Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2009


    Recent British Drawings,
    Trinity Contemporary, New York 

    Underwater,Western Bridge, Seattle

    Five Decades of Passion Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989–1991, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
    WE ARE THE WORLD: Figures & Portraits, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York

    2008

    Pretty Ugly
    , Gavin Brown's enterprise and Maccarone, New York

    2007

    Paper
    , Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
    Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

    2006

    Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now
    , The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    ‘Twas the Night Before…, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

    2005

    Translations: Creative Copying and Originality
    , Thomas Dane, London
    Art Now: Confronting Figures, Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
    Supernova, Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia
    London Calling: Y(oung) B(ritish) A(rtists) Criss-Crossed, Gallerie Kaare Bernsten, Oslo

    2004

    Art of the Garden
    , Tate Britain, London (catalogue)
    Edge of the Real: A Painting Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London

    2003

    Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection,
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
    Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
    Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Multiple!/Multiple!, Contemporary Collectors’ Gallery, Roslyn Harbor, NY
    British Contemporary, Arario Gallery, Chung Nam, Korea
    Edén: La Colección Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City

    2002

    Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop
    , Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
    Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,Royal Academy of Art, London
    Alchemy, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London

    2001

    Spy
    , Monika Sprüth Gallery, Cologne (catalogue)
    The Colony Room Club 2001, A Space Oddity, A22 Projects, London
    Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Surface, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Beautiful Productions: Art to Play, Art to Wear, Art to Own,Whitechapel Gallery, London
    Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Cameraworks: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
    Heads and Hands, Decatur House Museum, Washington, DC
    Century City, Tate Modern, London
    Happiness: Delia Brown, Gary Hume, Jack Pierson, Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal

    2000

    Seven Print Projects from The Paragon Press
    , Gimpel Fils, London
    Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000, National Portrait Gallery, London
    Suite Substitute IV: Beautiful Strangers,Hotel du Rhône, Geneva
    Sincerely Yours, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
    Out There, White Cube 2, London
    Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London

    1999

    The History of the Turner Prize,
    ArtSway, Hampshire, United Kingdom
    Fourth Wall: Turner on the Thames, Lyttleton Theatre, South Bank, London
    Trace and Art Lovers, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Compton House, United Kingdom
    45–99, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Traveled to City Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom
    Now It's My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
    Malerei, Kunsthalle Berlin
    Graphic! British Prints Now, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven
    Hirst, Fairhurst, Hume, Coventry, Quinn, Helly Nahmad Gallery, London
    Signature Press: Contemporary British Prints and Multiples, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (catalogue)
    Common People: Arte Inglese tra Fenomeno e Realtà, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo Guarene d’Alba, Turin, Italy
    Now It’s My Turn to Scream, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

    1998

    10 SupaStore Supastars,
    SupaStore at Tomato, London
    Distinctive Elements: Contemporary British Art Exhibition,National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon
    UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz, Austria. Traveled to Das Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Austria
    Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud, Arts Council of England National Touring Exhibition, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom; and Camden Arts Centre, London
    London Calling,The British School at Rome
    Hidden Desires and Images,Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo
    The Enchanted Garden,Victoria Pleasure Gardens, Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Turning Up, No. 5, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Real/Life: New British Art, British Council Touring Exhibition, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
    The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr, Apex Art, New York
    The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London

    1997

    Dimensions Variable,
    British Council Touring Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Arts and Ludwig Museum, Budapest. Traveled to Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; and Exhibition Hall, Bucharest
    Jerwood Painting Prize 1997, Lethaby Galleries, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
    Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Traveled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and Brooklyn Museum, New York
    SITE Santa Fe Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM
    Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, SITE Santa Fe, NM (catalogue)
    Display, Charlottenborg Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
    Package Holiday, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
    Renovate,Shoreditch Town Hall, London
    Multiple Choice: Obras impesad de jóvenes artistas británicos, British Council International Touring Exhibition, United Kingdom
    Treasure Island, Centro de Arte Moderna, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Young British Artists, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
    Such is Life, Serpentine Gallery Bookshop, London. Traveled to Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels

    1996

    Turner Prize 1996,
    Tate Britain, London
    São Paulo Biennial (catalogue)
    About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Full House: Young British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Other Men's Flowers, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne. Traveled to British School at Rome
    Intermission, Basilico Fine Art, New York
    A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
    Artisti Britannici a Roma, Festival of Contemporary British Arts, Magazzini d'Arte Moderna, Rome
    Ace! Arts Council Collection: New Purchases, Arts Council of England National Touring Exhibition. Traveled to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom; Oldham Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, United Kingdom; and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom

    1995

    General Release: Young British Artists at Scuola di San Pasquale,
    Venice Biennale (catalogue)
    Minky Manky, South London Gallery, London. Traveled to Anolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
    From Here, Waddington Galleries / Karsten Schubert Ltd., London (catalogue)
    Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
    Brill: Works on Paper by “Brilliant!” Artists, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis
    British Art Show 4, National Touring Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London. Traveled to Manchester; and Edinburgh
    Hardcore (Part II), Factual Nonsense, London
    Wild Walls, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
    The Hanging Picnic, Factual Nonsense, London
    Other Men's Flowers, Icebox, Athens
    Gary Hume, Udomsak Krisanamis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
    Summer 1995, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1994

    Unbound: Possibilities in Painting,
    Hayward Gallery, London
    The Magic Touch, New Works by Gary Hume, Mark Wigan & P.P.Q., Redchurch Street, London
    Not Self Portrait, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
    Football Karaoke, Portikus, Frankfurt (catalogue)

    1993

    The Rome Project,
    David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI (catalogue)
    Launch, Curtain Road Arts, London
    Spit in the Ocean: Gerard Hemsworth, Gary Hume, Mark Wallinger, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
    Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
    A Fête Worse Than Death, Charlotte Road and Rivington Street, London
    Lucky Kunst Part I, Silver Place, London Close Up, Times Square, New York
    New Voices, Musée national d'histoire d’art, Luxembourg

    1992

    Il Mistero dei 100 Dollari Scomparsi,
    Gio' Marconi Gallery, Milan
    Galerie Tanja Grünert, Cologne
    New Voices: New Works for the British Council Collection, British Council International Touring Exhibition
    Young British Group Show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Summer Group Show: Keith Coventry, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
    Etats spécifiques, Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

    1991

    Act-Up Benefit Exhibition,
    Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
    Confrontaciones: Arte último británico y español, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
    Broken English: Angela Bulloch, Ian Davenport, Anya Gallaccio, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Sarah Staton, Rachel Whiteread, Serpentine Gallery, London
    Paintings & Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Summer Group Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Artists' Sketchbooks, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Drawings: Hanne Darboven, Gary Hume, Bob Law, Julian Lethbridge, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

    1990

    East Country Yard Show,
    East Country Yard, London (catalogue)
    Supply: The Köln Show, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne
    The British Art Show 1990, Arts Council of England National Touring Exhibition. Traveled to McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery, United Kingdom; and Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
    A Painting Show: Michael Craig-Martin, Gary Hume, Christopher Wool, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London (catalogue)

    1989

    Angela Bulloch, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Esther Schipper, Steve DiBenedetto, Gary Hume, Julian Lethbridge, Nicholas Rule, Matthew Weinstein,
    The Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York

    1988

    Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy,
    Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
    Freeze. Part II, Surrey Docks, London

  • Awards and Honors

    2001

    Royal Academician, The Royal Academy of Arts, London

    1997

    Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Foundation, London

    1996

    Turner Prize Shortlist