BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1969, London.
Lives and works in New York.


EDUCATIONS
1989-1993
BA in Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London.

1987-1989
Drawing and Printmaking classes, Morley College, London.

1985-1987
B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Cecily Brown, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria

2011
Cecily Brown, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

2010
Based On A True Story, GEM; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, Netherlands; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2009
Cecily Brown, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

2008
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA

2006
Cecily Brown, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Cecily Brown: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Cecily Brown (curated by Jeff Fleming), Des Moines Art Center, IA, USA

2005
Cecily Brown (curated by Suzanne Cotter), Modern Art Oxford, UK
Cecily Brown: Paintings, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Cecily Brown: Recent Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA

2004
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Espacio 1, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Cecily Brown, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria

2003
Cecily Brown, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA

2002
Directions—Cecily Brown, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,D.C., USA
Cecily Brown, traveling to Gagosian Gallery, New York; Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA

2001
Days of Heaven, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2000
Cecily Brown , Gagosian Gallery, New York(SoHo), USA
Deitch Projects, New York, USA

1999
Serenade, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
The Skin Game, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA

1998
High Society, Deitch Projects, New York, USA

1997
Spectacle, Deitch Projects(Storefront Gallery), New York, USA

1995
Cecily Brown, Eagle Gallery, London, UK


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
White Columns 2011 Benefit Exhibition + Auction, New York

2010
Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York

2009
Bad Habits, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

2007
Honky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow.

2006
Heroines (curated by Dodie Kazanjian), The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met
at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (through 2007).
Survivor (organized by David Rimanelli), Bortolami Dayan, New York.
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York.

2005
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
90-Day Loans: From the Broad Art Foundation and the Ovitz Family Collection,
Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe.
Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield,CT.

2004
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
A Collector’s Vision, Museum der Modern Salzberg, Austria.
Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany.
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London (Heddon Street).

2003
Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (through 2004).
Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, Cooper Union, New York.

2001
Szenenwechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.

2000
OO Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on
Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York.
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long
Island City, NY.

1999
At Century’s End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of 90’s Art, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL.
Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York.
Four Letter Heaven, David Zwirner Video Library, New York.
Vertical Painting, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1999-present).

1998
More Fake, More Real, Yet Even Closer: Drawings by Some Younger Painters, Castle
Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY.

1997
Cecily Rose Brown, Bonnie Collura and Anna Gaskell, Janice Guy Gallery, New York.

1996
Taking Stock (curated by Kenny Schacter), New York.

1994
The Fete Worse Than Death, Laurent Delaye, London.

1990
Contemporary View, National Competition for British Art Students, Royal College of Art, London.


FILMS
1995
Four Letter Heaven, a short animated film- Premiered at Telluride Film Festival.
Traveled to: Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Seattle Film Festival, WA;
Pandemonium Festival of the Moving Image, Institute for Contemporary
Art, London; Stuttgart Filmfest, Germany; Big Muddy Film Festival,
Carbondale, IL; Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ; and others in
Europe and the US.


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Des Moines Art Center, IA.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Museo di Sintra, Portugal.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA.
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA.
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami.
The Saatchi Gallery, London.
Sammlung Essl
The Tate Gallery, London.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.


HONORS AND AWARDS
1995
“Four Letter Heaven,” a short animated film- Awards at Ann Arbor, MI; the Big
Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL; and the Black Maria Film Festival,Jersey City, NJ.
1990
“Contemporary View,” National Competition for British Art Students, sponsored by Christie’s. Winner of First Prize.


EXHIBITIONS

Cecily Brown
May 27, 2011 - Jun 24, 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Cecily Brown


MEDIA COVERAGE

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