Born: Kent, United Kingdom, 1962

Education: Goldsmiths College, London, 1988

Currently lives and works in London and Accord, NY.

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

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

2001

Royal Academician, The Royal Academy of Arts, London

1997

Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Foundation, London

1996

Turner Prize Shortlist