Cecily Brown
Born in London, England, 1969
Lives and works in New York NY
Education
BA in Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London, England, 1993
Drawing and Printmaking, Morley College, London, England, 1989
B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England, 1987
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Forthcoming: Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations, Hoffman Galleries, Dallas TX
Nana and other stories, Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2023
Temptations, Torments, Trials and Tribulations, Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
A day! Help! Help! Another day!, Glenstone, Potomac MD [single painting presentation]
2022
Studio Pictures, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
The Spell, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Cecily Brown: Dream Spaces, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
The Triumph of Death, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
2021
The end is a new start, Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Pronkstilleven, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020
Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Art Foundation, Woodstock, England
Cecily Brown, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
2019
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2018
Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often and with Whom, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Triumph of the Vanities, The Metropolitan Opera House, New York NY
If Paradise Were Half as Nice, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil; [travelled to: Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; The Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil]
2017
Cecily Brown: Shipwreck Drawings, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
2016
Cecily Brown: Rehearsal, The Drawing Center, New York NY [travelled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA]
Madrepora, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2015
The Sleep Around and the Lost and Found, Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The English Garden, Maccarone Gallery, New York NY
2014
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Cecily Brown, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2013
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills CA
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York NY
2012
Cecily Brown, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2011
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
Cecily Brown, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2010
Based On A True Story, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany [travelled to: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (GEM), The Hague, The Netherlands]
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2009
Cecily Brown, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY
2006
Cecily Brown, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Cecily Brown: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England
Cecily Brown, curated by Jeff Fleming, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA [travelled to: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston MA]
2005
Cecily Brown: Paintings, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Cecily Brown: Paintings, curated by Suzanne Cotter, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
Cecily Brown: Recent Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York NY
2004
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Cecily Brown, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Renia 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 CA
2002
Directions: Cecily Brown, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York NY
2001
Days of Heaven, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2000
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, SoHo, New York NY
1999
Serenade, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
The Skin Game, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills CA
1998
High Society, Deitch Projects, New York NY
1997
Spectacle, Deitch Projects, New York NY
1995
Cecily Brown: Four Letter Heaven, Eagle Gallery, London, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
2024 Inaugural Exhibition, The Campus, Claverack NY
Wild: Women Abstractionists on Nature, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
Day for Night: New American Realism, Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome, Italy
2023
Good Luck Spot, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY
50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI
Making Their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Shah Garg Foundation, New York NY
Capturing the Moment: Painting after Photography, Tate Modern, London, England
Drawing as Practice, National Academy of Design, New York NY
Into Another World, Level & Co., New York NY
Seeing without a Seer, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Games, Gamblers and Cartomancers: The New Cardsharps, The Newport Foundation at The Vernon House, Newport RI
It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian, London, England
Rear View, LGDR, New York NY
Sangam/Confluence, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, India
Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2022
Passione Novecento: from Paul Klee to Damien Hirst; Works from Private Collections, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
What's Going On, Rubell Museum D.C., Washington D.C.
Sheila Hicks: Off Grid, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
The Pillars, National Museum, Oslo, Norway
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Seafaring, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, England
Shifting the Silence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles CA
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. [travelled to: The Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke VA]
Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, David Zwirner Gallery, New York NY
2021
Carte Blanche: A Changing Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach FL
A Drawing Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach FL
Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown. From the Collections of the Albertina Museum, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Tree and Leaf, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, England
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Heart of the Matter, curated by Mollie E Barnes, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, England
In Situ, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York NY [travelled to: Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen CO]
2020
Always More: Collecting in Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas NV
Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen, New York NY (online)
Bustes des Femmes, Gagosian, Paris, France
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York NY
“Der Goldene Reiter in Faustrecht der Freiheit aka Fox and His Friends”; A Tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
2019
sotto voce, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY
The Red Bean Grows in the South, Faurschou Foundation, New York NY
cart, horse, cart, curated by Michael Goodson and Anna Stothart, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY
Max Beckmann in Dialogue: Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Dana Schutz, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2018
Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London, The Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, Tate Britain, London, England
2017
Cecily Brown, Two Palms, New York NY
Arcadia, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
The Human Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
We Need to Talk..., Petzel Gallery, New York NY
2016
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York NY
The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look At Men, Cheim & Read, New York NY
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York NY
Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY
2015
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky, White Cube, London, England
Sleepless—The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2014
FIERCE CREATIVITY, curated by Chuck Close and Jessica Craig-Martin, Pace Gallery, New York NY
Paint New York, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England [travelled to: The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England]
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection, Yageo Foundation, Taiwan [travelled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan]
2013
FLAG’s 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY
Black Cake, curated by Alex Gateneld, Team Gallery, New York NY
CHICKEN OF BEEF? A Transcontinental Survey of Figurative Painting, The Hole Gallery, New York NY
Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York NY
DSM-V, curated by David Rimanelli, The Future Moynihan Station, New York NY
Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2012
Out of the Blue, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY
Micro Mania, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester MI
2011
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York NY
Collection Platform 1: Circulation, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Figures in a Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
The Art of Deceleration. Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Verschiebungsersatz, Kimmerich Gallery, New York NY
2010
Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY
2009
Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville TN; [travelled to: The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester NY]
Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, England
2008
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
2007
Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY
Hunky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Beneath the Underdog, curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY
Sex and Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton NY
Extremes and In-betweens, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City NY
2006
Heroines, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York NY
Survivor, curated by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York NY
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Once Upon a Time in the West, Part One, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
La donna oggetto: miti e metamorfosi al femminile 1900-2005, curated by Luca Beatrice, Castello di Vigevano, Pavia, Italy
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 AZ
Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills CA
Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT
2004
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
A Collector’s Vision, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Heddon Street, London, England
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville ME
2003
Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, Cooper Union, New York NY
Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
2001
Szenenwechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2000
OO: Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle WA
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York NY
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY
The Berardo Collection 1917-1999, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
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 NY
Four Letter Heaven, David Zwirner Video Library, New York NY
Fact & Fictions: New International Painting, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy
1998
More Fake, More Real, Yet Even Closer: Drawings by Some Younger Painters, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle NY
The New Neurotic Realism, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
1997
Cecily Rose Brown, Bonnie Collura and Anna Gaskell, Janice Guy Gallery, New York NY
New York, New Generation, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
Vertical Painting, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY
1996
Taking Stock, curated by Kenny Schacter, Benefit for City Harvest, New York NY
1994
The Fête Worse Than Death, Laurent Delaye, London, England
John Jones Open, The Gallery at John Jones, London, England
Films
1995
Four Letter Heaven, (short-animated film) Telluride Film Festival, Telluride CO, (premiere) travelled to: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI; Seattle Film Festival, Seattle WA; Pandemonium Festival of the Moving Image, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, England; Stuttgart Filmfest, Stuttgart, Germany; Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale IL; Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City NJ; (selected presentations listed)
Public collections
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica CA
Brooklyn Museum, New York NY
British Museum, London, England
Buffalo AKG Collection, Buffalo NY
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Glenstone Museum, Potomac MD
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Hiscox Art Collection, London, England
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas TX
Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL
The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Telfair Musuems, Savannah GA
Tate Collection, London, England
UBS Art Collection, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Wagner Foundation, Boston MA
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT
