Marc Quinn
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| Born |
Marc Quinn 8 January 1964 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Robinson College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Contemporary Art |
| Notable work | "Self" (1991-), "Garden" (2000), "Peter Hull" (2000), "DNA portrait of Sir John Sulston" (2001), "1+1=3 (Rainbow Sculpture)" (2002), "Alison Lapper Pregnant" (2005), "Siren" (2005), "Evolution" (2005-2008), "Planet" (2008), "All of Nature Flows Through Us" (2008), "Mirage" (2009), "Iris (We share our chemistry with the stars)" (2009-) "Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela & Thomas" (2010), "Toxic Sublime" (2015) |
| Movement | Young British Artists |
| Awards |
2001 - The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award, London 2004 - 4th Plinth Commission for Trafalgar Square, London |
2001 - The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award, London
Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a contemporary visual artist. He is a member of the loose group known as the Young British Artists. He is better known for Alison Lapper Pregnant, a sculpture of Alison Lapper which has been installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, Self, a sculpture of his head made with his own frozen blood, and Garden (2000).
Quinn has used not only conventional sculpture material, but also blood, ice and faeces; his work sometimes refers to scientific developments. Quinn's oeuvre displays a preoccupation with the mutability of the body and the dualisms that define human life—spiritual and physical, surface and depth, cerebral and sexual.
Quinn was born in London in 1964. He studied history and the history of art at Robinson College, Cambridge. He worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barry Flanagan. Quinn began to exhibit in the early 1990s. He was the first artist represented by Jay Jopling, and his work was exhibited in Charles Saatchi's Sensation.
Quinn has exhibited exhibitions including Sonsbeek '93, Arnhem (1993), Give and Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2001), Statements 7, 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and Gwangju Biennale (2004).
Solo exhibitions include Tate Gallery, London (1995), Kunstverein Hannover (1999), Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000), Tate Liverpool (2002), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2004), Groninger Museum, Groningen (2006) and MACRO, Rome (2006), DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Montréal (2007) and Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2009).
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