Exhibitions
Current
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The Laughing Stock of the Heartless Stars
The Brown Collection, Marylebone, London 12 Sep 2024 - 2 Aug 2025 Marion Adnams (British, 1898–1995) Philip Akkerman (Dutch, 1957– ) Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921–2006) Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, 1940– ) Simon Bill (British, 1958– ) Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, circa 1564–1651) Glenn Brown... Read more -
Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom 26 Jun 2021 With work by artists from Augustus John, Vanessa Bell, Paul Nash, Sir Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton to new pieces by Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, John Akomfrah, Tacita Dean and... Read more -
Layered Portraits (after Rembrandt)
De Durgerdam Hotel, Amsterdam 15 Mar 2023 Within the Restaurant de Mark at the De Durgerdam Hotel in Amsterdam hang three etchings from the “Layered Portraits (after Rembrandt)” (2008) series. Read more -
Being There
No. 1 Royal Crescent, Bath, England 14 Sep 2024 - 23 Feb 2025 The desire to create images of ourselves and other people has been a powerful one for millennia. Portraiture is a fundamental cornerstone of art history and continues to play a... Read more -
Experimenteerdrift
Rembrandt House, Amsterdam 26 Oct 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 Inspired by Rembrandt (2 November to 5 January) After the enormous success of Schiffmacher & Veldhoen’s temporary tattoo studio in 2023, a new Amsterdam great will follow in Rembrandt’s footsteps... Read more
Forthcoming
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The Sight of Something: Glenn Brown and Mathew Weir
Freud Museum, London Forthcoming: 4 Jun - 19 Oct 2025 Taking their cue from Freud's observation that childhood terrors can be triggered by 'the sight of something,' British artists Glenn Brown and Mathew Weir explore the rich ambiguity of this... Read more -
Brown in Bath
Holburne Museum, No.1 Georgian, Beckford Tower Forthcoming: 15 May - 15 Sep 2026 Read more -
Glenn Brown at Gainsborough House
Gainsborough House, Suffolk, England Forthcoming: 15 Sep 2026 - 15 Apr 2027 Read more -
Glenn Brown: artist, curator, collector
Museo Novecento, Florence Forthcoming: 15 Oct 2026 - 15 Apr 2027 Over the many decades of his practice, Glenn enjoyment of other artists' works have fuelled his own creative adventures on canvas, panel, paper, vellum, scuptures and print. Glenn has curated... Read more
Past
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In the Altogether
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris 14 Oct - 18 Dec 2024 Over a career spanning more than three decades of painting, drawing and sculpture, Brown has explored concerns of a technical, aesthetic and spiritual nature. Drawing on art history as much... Read more -
(Re)Print
Jordan Schnitzer Gallery, Print Center New York 12 Sep - 14 Dec 2024 The ten etchings of First Flight (2015) by Lynette Yiadom Boakye are sepia colored portrait studies of Black men wearing the feathered ruff collars that are a staple of the... Read more -
Summer Contemporary
Snape Maltings, Suffolk 20 Jul - 1 Sep 2024 Read more -
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 11 May - 20 Oct 2024 The exhibition will shift from 17th-century ‘vanitas’ paintings to post-impressionism to abstraction and from pop to conceptual art. It will invite viewers to think about life’s challenges, such as love... Read more -
Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker
British Museum, London 25 Apr - 29 Sep 2024 Presenting around 100 highlights from this group, the exhibition demonstrates the range and diversity of the works acquired, which include prints by David Hockney, Michael Craig-Martin, Cornelia Parker and Yinka... Read more -
NGV Triennial 2023
The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 3 Dec 2023 - 7 Apr 2024 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Mark's Club, London 10 - 31 Oct 2023 Brown reimagines the masterpieces of titans ranging from Rembrandt to Renoir with tongue firmly in cheek as he takes reproductions of other artists’ works - including those by Old Masters... Read more -
Dix and the Present
Hall for Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 30 Sep 2023 - 1 Apr 2024 Starting out from his radical and provocative - and to this day popular - paintings of the 1920s, Otto Dix (1891-1969) went on to create an ostensibly apolitical body of... Read more -
The Leisure Centre
The Brown Collection, Marylebone, London 15 Sep 2023 - 3 Aug 2024 According to Brown, the title questions not so much what a leisure centre is but what might be the centre of our leisure. What is the point at which relaxation... Read more -
Michael Stubbs: studioshowflow curated by Glenn Brown
Crownlands Studio, Grimseys Lane, Sizewell, Suffolk IP16 4TR 5 Aug - 3 Sep 2023 Michael Stubbs has been a prominent and influential painter for over thirty years and currently teaches at the Glasgow School of Art where he is a Reader in Contemporary Painting.... Read more -
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags: Remembering, envisioning, sensing Landscape
Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3 Berlin 23 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 Despite Cézanne’s insistence that the world, with all its strangeness, only becomes present, comprehensible and recognisable in images, the onset of modernity initiated a disappearance of nature and landscape in... Read more -
Heads & Tails
Art Station, Suffolk, United Kingdom 10 Jun - 30 Sep 2023 Read more -
Drawn: 30 Portraits
Ordovas, London 6 Jun - 28 Jul 2023 In conjunction with the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery and a celebration of drawing, this exhibition brings together works by Frank Auerbach, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró and more. The... Read more -
Reaching for the Stars
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy 4 Mar - 18 Jun 2023 From 4 March until 18 June 2023 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo are coming together to celebrate some of the luminaries of contemporary art in... Read more -
The Real Thing part 2 (retrospective)
Landesmuseum, Hanover, Germany 24 Feb - 18 Jun 2023 British artist Glenn Brown hangs his work alongside the famous, the magnificent, the overlooked, the sublime, the peculiar works at the Landesmuseum, Hanover. Opens on 24 February 2023. Read more -
The Real Thing part 1 (retrospective)
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany 24 Feb - 18 Jun 2023 The exhibition at the Sprengel Museum will consist of two parts: a solo exhibition of works by Glenn Brown in the main room and thematic interventions in the permanent collection... Read more -
The Brown Collection
1 Bentinck Mews, Marylebone, London W1U 2AF 27 Jan - 26 Aug 2023 Read more -
UK vs USA: Post-War to Present
Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London 16 Jan - 7 Apr 2023 Read more -
Figuration through Abstraction
A.B.R Contemporary, Miami 28 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 Read more -
We'll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent
Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York 10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Glenn Brown art show at Gagosian Chelsea New York - paintings sculptures and drawings Read more -
The Brown Collection
OPEN Thursday-Friday-Saturday, 11am to 6pm 20 Oct - 22 Dec 2022 The exhibition shows the breadth of Brown’s body of work, including paintings, drawings and sculptures. They include the artist’s early painting appropriations of Frank Auerbach, Shallow Deaths (2000), and Jean-Honore... Read more -
Les Choses (Things: A history of still life)
Louvre Museum, Paris 12 Oct 2022 - 23 Jan 2023 Depictions of things, which date back to prehistoric times, are a wonderful window into history. Artists were the first to take things seriously by recognising their presence, imbuing them with... Read more -
The Brown Collection - Frieze Week 2022
The Brown Collection, London 11 - 16 Oct 2022 The inaugural exhibition shows the breadth of Brown’s body of work, including paintings, drawings and sculptures. They include the artist’s early painting appropriations of Frank Auerbach, Shallow Deaths (2000), and... Read more -
Glass Handel: The BBC Proms operatic spectacle featuring dance, art, film, and fashion
Printworks, London 3 Sep 2022 The artists involved include: Philip Glass who will present the world premiere of a new work, No More, You Pretty Spirits; Karen Kamensek who will conduct; Nature beatboxer Jason Singh,... Read more -
Haunted Realism
Gagosian: Grosvenor Hill, London 9 Jun - 26 Aug 2022 Gagosian is pleased to present Haunted Realism, a group exhibition featuring the work of more than thirty artists including Meleko Mokgosi, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, and Tatiana Trouvé. Haunted Realism... Read more -
Bucolia
Walpole, Suffolk, United Kingdom 6 - 20 Dec 2021 The artists: Renata Adela, Beezy Bailey, Paul Benney, Kate Boxer, Don Brown, Glenn Brown, Collings/Biggs, Matt Collishaw, Laurence Edwards, Stephane Graff, Gary Hume, Bill Jackson, Simon Linke, Sarah Lucas, Celia... Read more -
Arcimboldo Face to Face
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France 29 May - 22 Nov 2021 Read more -
100 Years of Collecting at the laing Art Gallery
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom 17 May 2021 - 1 Aug 2022 Unusually, when the Laing Art Gallery first opened in 1904, it didn’t have a collection. Alexander Laing, a successful beer, wine and spirit merchant, first offered to build an art... Read more -
Daydreams and Nightmares
gagosian.com; viewingroom.frieze.com; Gagosian Park Avenue, New York 5 - 22 May 2021 In the early years of the twentieth century, as technological progress gathered pace and global populations were devastated by World War I and the Spanish flu, the impulse to analyze... Read more -
And Thus We Existed (Part 1)
Bleibtreustraße 45, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 30 Oct 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 Glenn Brown 2020 solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin featuring sculptures, paintings and drawings. Read more -
And Thus We Existed (Part 2)
Bleibtreustraße 15-16, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 30 Oct 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 Glenn Brown 2020 solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin featuring sculptures, paintings and drawings. Read more -
00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000s
MO.CO. Collection hotel, Montpellier, France 24 Oct 2020 - 30 May 2021 EXHIBITION ARTISTS With Kai Althoff, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Monster Chetwynd, Phil Collins, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Edith Dekyndt, Tracey Emin, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton, Guyton / Walker... Read more -
Bustes de Femmes
Gagosian, Paris 10 Oct - 19 Dec 2020 Spanning a breadth of stylistic and conceptual approaches, the paintings, sculptures, and photographs on view demonstrate how the female figure has been reimagined and reconfigured by modern and contemporary artists... Read more -
“Dreamsongs” - From Medicine to Demons to Artificial Intelligence
Colnaghi, London 28 Sep - 27 Nov 2020 'Dreamsongs' explores the interpretation of dreams throughout art history with the display of pieces from antiquity to the present day, including works by Henry Fuseli, John Anster Fitzgerald, Max Ernst,... Read more -
Super Flatland
White Conduit Projects, London 16 Sep - 18 Oct 2020 There is a long history, both eastern and western, of artists being interested in flatness. The post-impressionists, most notably Gauguin, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, adopted the aesthetics of flatness from... Read more -
Painting is Painting's Favorite Food: Art History as Muse
South Etna Montauk, Montauk, New York 16 Jul - 27 Aug 2020 Asger Jorn, the great Danish artist and mastermind of the CoBrA movement, always had a zinger up his sleeve. He famously sent a mordant telegram to Harry F. Guggenheim, refusing... Read more -
Inspiration - Contemporary Art & Classics
Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki (second venue) 18 Jun - 20 Sep 2020 The exhibition explores what constitutes the visual DNA of Western art. Certain images are reproduced in our time in countless different forms, but do we know where they originally came... Read more -
(Re)Print: Five Projects
International Print Center, New York 30 Apr - 1 Oct 2020 MARK BRADFORD, CECILY BROWN, GLENN BROWN, ENRIQUE CHAGOYA, AND LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE Pairings of Contemporary Work and Printed Sources Highlight Cultural Revisions A dialogue between contemporary prints and the source material... Read more -
Alumni Exhibition Invitational
Sion Hill Gallery and the Michael Pennie Gallery, Locksbrook campus, Bath Spa University, Bath, England 4 - 25 Mar 2020 Read more -
(SELF) PORTRAITS
Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich 22 Feb - 18 Jul 2020 Parkett is pleased to announce (SELF) PORTRAITS, a survey exhibition of over ninety portraits and self-portraits made by artists especially for Parkett in the last three decades. On view at... Read more -
Inspiration - Iconic Works
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and Ateneum Art Museum 20 Feb - 20 Mar 2020 The building blocks of the visual DNA of Western art can be traced back to a number of iconic works, so-called signature pieces that have strong relevance in today’s world... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, Paris 10 Oct - 9 Dec 2019 The museum setting will feature works by Glenn Brown, in collaboration with Max Hetzler (Berlin, Paris, London). Born in 1966 in Hexham, Glenn Brown is one of Britain’s most revered... Read more -
Dark Lantern
Knust x Kunz, Munich 14 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 Paul Morrison is known for his use of appropriated images from other fields and genres including botany, still life, film and architecture. His wall works, drawings, sculptures and paintings are... Read more -
Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now
Prints and Drawings Room, British Museum, London. Travelling to Oriental Museum, Durham; Pier Arts Centre, Stromness; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; and Cooper Gallery, Barnsley 11 Sep 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 Read more -
Comeback. Art-Historical Renaissances
Kunsthalle Tubingen, Germany 20 Jul - 10 Nov 2019 Art history is also making a comeback in the visual arts. While in the 1980s the artists cited traditions of the 20th century as 'appropriation art', for some years now... Read more -
Inspired by Rembrandt: 100 Years of Collecting by The Rembrandt House Museum
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 7 Jun - 1 Sep 2019 The Rembrandt House is not just Rembrandt’s former home and workshop; for more than a century it has been a museum with its own collection. The collection consists primarily of... Read more -
Input / Output: Painting After Technology
Galerie Max Hetzler, Dover Street, Mayfair, London 16 Apr - 25 May 2019 Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce Input / Output: Painting After Technology, a group show bringing together artists currently using digital technology in their artistic process. The exhibition features... Read more -
Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now (In partnership with English Heritage)
Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, Mayfair, London 12 Apr - 18 May 2019 Rembrandt's legendary painting will be the centerpiece of an exhibition of self-portraits that will also include works by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as... Read more -
Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto
Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, Venice 20 Oct 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 The exhibition, curated by Ludovico Pratesi and hosted from October 20, 2018 to February 24, 2019, is focused on the dialogues between Tintoretto’s masterpieces preserved at Palazzo Ducale and Galleria... Read more -
Bacon, Freud and the School of London
Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 9 Oct 2018 - 30 Jan 2019 Presenting some ninety works, this exhibition focuses on a seminal trend in 20th-century figurative British painting, and especially the work of those artists who are often referred to in specialist... Read more -
The Flexible Plan: The Rococo in Contemporary Art
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany 23 Sep 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 Morsbroich Castle, whose walls are home to the Morsbroich Museum since its founding in 1951, was built during the Rococo period and extended in Neo-Rococo style. Rococo was the art... Read more -
Heads Roll: An Exhibition Curated by Paul Morrison
Graves Gallery, Sheffield 11 Aug - 24 Nov 2018 Discover work by Frank Auerbach, Glenn Brown, Patrick Caulfield, Michael Craig-Martin, Jessica Diamond, Machiko Edmondson, Jacob Epstein, William Etty, Klara Kristalova, L.S. Lowry, Ben Nicholson, Mary Obering, Julian Opie, Ruth... Read more -
COUNTERPOINT: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection
Southampton Art Center, New York 28 Jul - 23 Sep 2018 In 1978 architect Peter Marino acquired an artwork from his friend Andy Warhol. Since, The Peter Marino Collection has grown to thousands of paintings and mixed media pieces representing some... Read more -
Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 7 Jul - 14 Oct 2018 The exhibition brings together key works by Rembrandt which remain in British collections, including Belshazzar's Feast (c.1635) from the National Gallery London, and Girl at a Window (1645) from Dulwich... Read more -
Glenn Brown: Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom 16 Jun - 21 Oct 2018 Returning to his North East roots, Glenn Brown has reimagined the Laing permanent collection in this dramatic exhibition that highlights traditional subjects that are present in many public art collections.... Read more -
The Explorers (Part One)
V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice 25 May - 22 Oct 2018 Curated by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick, the exhibition revisits and expands four displays from the V-A-C collection, first seen at the Whitechapel Gallery from 2014 to 2015. The Explorers... Read more -
TRANSMUTATIONS: Glenn Brown/What’s Old is New Again
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon USA 18 May - 19 Aug 2018 Read more -
Historical Baggage: Glenn Brown and his sources
British Museum, London 15 May - 22 Jul 2018 Brown's early series of layered portraits based on prints by Rembrandt (1606-1669) and Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is contrasted with his new series Half-Life (2016), a fresh engagement with Rembrandt's graphic... Read more -
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking
Attercliffe™, Sheffield, England 24 Mar - 5 May 2018 Read more -
Glenn Brown: Come to Dust
Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London 24 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 Gagosian is pleased to present 'Come to Dust,' Glenn Brown's first major exhibition in London since 2009. For Brown, one of Britain's most renowned contemporary artists, the past and present... Read more -
True Faith
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom 30 Jun - 3 Sep 2017 Curated by Matthew Higgs, Director of White Columns, New York and author and film-maker Jon Savage with archivist Johan Kugelberg, True Faith is centred on four decades’ worth of extraordinary... Read more -
The Immediacy of Paint: Surface
Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk, England 23 Jun - 20 Jul 2017 There are many internationally recognised artists living in the East of England and those with links to the region whose main practice is painting. It has been the intention of... Read more -
Glenn Brown: Piaceri Sconosciuti
Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence 10 Jun - 23 Oct 2017 The Stefano Bardini Museum is thrilled to announce a major exhibition by Glenn Brown, from 12th June to 26th October. Mining art history and popular culture, Glenn Brown has created... Read more -
Matière Grise
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris 10 Jun - 20 Jul 2017 Matière Grise presents works in a variety of materials exploring various shades of grey that demonstrate the strong potential of this achromatic colour. Changeable and mysterious, grey can express both... Read more -
Reportrait
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery 27 May - 10 Sep 2017 Annie Kevans, Antony Micallef, Glenn Brown, Jake Wood-Evans, James E Smith, Jasleen Kaur, Julie Cockburn, Maisie Broadhead, Matthieu Leger, Samin Ahmadzadeh, Sasha Bowles, Philip Gurrey, Paul Stephenson. Curated by Tristam... Read more -
Glenn Brown - Rembrandt: After Life
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam 27 Jan - 23 Apr 2017 The Rembrandt House Museum presents Glenn Brown – Rembrandt: After Life, an exhibition devoted to Rembrandt’s considerable presence in Glenn Brown’s work. Already in the 1990s, Brown appropriated paintings linked... Read more -
I Lost My Heart to Starship Trooper
Griffin Gallery, London 12 Jan - 24 Feb 2017 The exhibition title comes from the 1978 Hot Gossip song of the same name, and also refers to the artist Glenn Brown who used the title for one of his... Read more -
Glenn Brown Event: Donation of New Work
Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London 15 Nov 2016 The internationally acclaimed artist Glenn Brown has produced a major new work, specifically for the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, making it the first donation made through the Contemporary Art... Read more -
One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People: A Selection by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts Council Collection
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom 15 Oct 2016 - 8 Jan 2017 A new Arts Council Collection exhibition of paintings of the figure Read more -
Renaissances, Un hommage contemporain à Florence
Hotel de la Salle, Paris 14 Oct - 18 Dec 2016 Florence, today silent and somewhat hieratic witness of its glorious artistic past, was by the mid-14th century the central cultural battleground between Medieval theology-inspired art and philosophy and the man-centered... Read more -
Nude: From Modigliani to Currin
Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York 20 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 “Nude: From Modigliani to Currin” presents depictions of the human body from the eve of modernism to the present day. From Paul Cézanne’s Baigneurs (c. 1890–95) and Baigneurs Debout (1876),... Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 9 Sep 2016 - 15 Jan 2017 This is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States to survey the work of renowned London-based artist Glenn Brown (b.1966). Painting steadily for the last three decades, Brown... Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa 21 May - 21 Aug 2016 Read more -
Glenn Brown: Suffer Well
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France 14 May - 11 Sep 2016 Among contemporary British artists, Glenn Brown is one of the most unusual and most unique. Yet the last retrospective of his oeuvre in France dates back to 2000. Largely unknown... Read more -
Collateral Drawing
UCS Waterfront Building, Ipswich, Suffolk 4 Jan - 19 Feb 2016 There’s more to an artwork than its finished state, but exhibitions concentrate on that, along perhaps with preparatory studies which act as preliminary versions of that state. Yet there may... Read more -
Unrealism: Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian
Moore Building, Miami 1 - 6 Dec 2015 Former Competitors Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian Team Up for Miami Show artnet news Sarah Cascone , Friday, October 16, 2015 There's no shortage of art in Miami during Art... Read more -
The Figure in Process: From de Kooning to Kapoor, 1955 – 2015
Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle 1 Dec 2015 - 28 Feb 2016 The human figure is one of the chief foundations of art. Even in those cultures or epochs that have prohibited representation, the figure remains, ironically, conspicuous by its absence. Throughout... Read more -
Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary: Invitational Exhibition, 1995-2015
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles 30 Oct - 19 Dec 2015 To mark the twentieth anniversary of Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills on North Camden Drive, founder Larry Gagosian has selected a special exhibition of works by more than thirty artists spanning... Read more -
Glenn Brown Drawings at Frieze
Gagosian Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London 13 - 18 Oct 2015 Known for his elaborately worked paintings and sculptures, Brown now takes up the medium of drawing to further intensify his engagement with the texture of surfaces and mark making. Over... Read more -
Glenn Brown: Dessins
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris 5 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 For a very long time in the history of art, drawings have been primarily considered as preliminary studies or sketches for painting. In the case of Glenn Brown, the drawings... Read more -
Glenn Brown Etchings
Paino Room, Brown's Hotel, Mayfair, London 1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 In a special display curated by Gagosian Gallery, works by three leading British artists were show in the hotel’s newly renovated English Tea Room. Works by Michael Craig-Martin will be... Read more -
Homeland
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong 22 May - 27 Jun 2015 Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present “HOMELAND”, a display of paintings by a group of British artists whose motifs and strategies may be seen as contemporary takes on History... Read more -
Fobofilia
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin 12 Feb - 12 Apr 2015 La Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, dal 12 febbraio al 12 aprile, presenta Fobofilia, una mostra sull’immagine della paura, sul modo in cui gli artisti danno forma a uno dei sentimenti... Read more -
Post Pop: East Meets West
Saatchi Gallery, London 26 Nov 2014 - 23 Feb 2015 Three paintings included in the large-scale group show Read more -
Carte blanche à Christian Lacroix
Cognacq-Jay Museum, Paris 19 Nov 2014 - 19 Apr 2015 One oval painting in a group exhibition curated by Christian Lacroix Read more -
SHE: Picturing women at the turn of the 21st century
Bell Gallery and Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center Providence, Rhode Island, USA 25 Oct - 21 Dec 2014 One painting included in the exhibition at Brown University, Providence USA Read more -
COOL PLACE: Collection Scharpff
Contemporary Art Museum in Stuttgart, Germany 26 Jul - 16 Nov 2014 Four paintings and a sculpture exhibited in COOL PLACE: Collection Scharpff, Contemporary Art Museum in Stuttgart, Germany Read more -
Somos Libres II: The Mario Testino Collection
The Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin 17 May - 14 Sep 2014 A photographic print features in the tour of the Mario Testino Collection Read more -
Glenn Brown
Gagosian Gallery, New York 8 May - 21 Jun 2014 New paintings and sculptures during Frieze Week NYC 2014 Read more -
Stanze/Rooms. Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection
ME Collectors Room / Olbricht Foundation Berlin, Germany 2 May - 21 Sep 2014 One painting exhibited as part of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection Read more -
Centre Pompidou Collection Rehang
Centre Pompidou, Paris 17 Feb - 17 Jun 2014 A painting owned by the Pompidou has be reinstalled in the galleries. Read more -
Remember Everything: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 10 Nov - 21 Dec 2013 A new painting and new sculpture exhibited at Galerie Max Hetzler Read more -
Glenn Brown and the Old Masters: Conversation Piece V
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands 1 Nov 2013 - 16 Feb 2014 Seven paintings converse with old master works at the exquisite Frans Hals Museum Read more -
Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren: Collected Works
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia 26 Oct 2013 - 29 Mar 2014 Paintings, a print and a sculpture, with works from Rebecca Warren from the Rennie Collection Read more -
Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán
Guggenheim Bilbao 18 Jun - 6 Oct 2013 Three paintings and a sculpture exhibited in a show curated by Bice Curiger Read more -
SNAP Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk, England 8 - 30 Jun 2013 SNAP 2013 artists Glenn Brown, May Cornet, Benedict Drew, Roger Eno, Mark Fuller, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Scott King, Abigail Lane, Simon Liddiment, Sarah Lucas, Emily Richardson, Julian Simmons, Cally... Read more -
Beyond Reality
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic 10 Oct - 30 Dec 2012 In general, reflecting on reality by way of depicting it is the essential premise of painting. The form, method, content of and motivation for any one rendering come one step,... Read more -
Glenn Brown at Upton House
Upton House, Oxfordshire, England 2 Sep 2012 - 6 Jan 2013 Solo show at the National Trust property in Oxfordshire, curated and organised by Meadow Arts. Read more -
Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present
L&M Arts, Los Angeles 10 Jul - 31 Aug 2012 One contribution from Paul McCarthy is Carpet (D), 2009-2011, a work constructed from a section of industrial flooring, functions as both art object and relic. It is composed of a... Read more -
Portrait of the Artist As…
The Courtauld Gallery, London 26 Jun - 22 Jul 2012 Inspired by the unique pairing of two powerful masterpieces, Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), and Francis Bacon’sStudy for a Portrait of Van Gogh VI (1957), it uses... Read more -
SNAP: Art at the Aldeburgh Festival
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, United Kingdom 9 - 24 Jun 2012 Read more -
À rebours
Venus over Manhattan, New York 9 May - 30 Jun 2012 Including several dozen works of art spanning the 19th century to the present, this show will remain on view through June 30th. The exhibition takes its title from Joris-Karl Huysmans’... Read more -
The Space Between
Karsten Schubert London 28 Apr - 18 May 2012 Karsten Schubert is pleased to present The Space Between, an exhibition curated by Michael Bracewell on the occasion of the publication of Bracewell’s collected writings on art. Throughout The Space... Read more -
The Mechanical Hand
King's Place Gallery, King's Place, London 27 Apr - 22 Jun 2012 Hand crafted yet mechanically made, the printed image is often both central to many artists practice, while percieved to be outside of mainstream artistic discourse because of its reproductive, multiple... Read more -
John Martin: Apocalypse
Tate Britain, London 21 Sep 2011 - 15 Jan 2012 Hugely popular in his time, Martin was derided by the Victorian Art establishment as a 'people's painter', for although he excited mass audiences with his astounding scenes of judgement and... Read more -
Dali: Le Surrealisme c'est moi
Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna 22 Jun - 23 Oct 2011 Eccentric, madman, or genius – Salvador Dalí, with his oeuvre and provocative manner, did away with the boundaries between art and life, originality and commercialism as nearly no other twentieth-century... Read more -
Glenn Brown: Etchings and Sculpture
Gagosian Gallery, Geneva 9 Jun - 23 Jul 2011 As time has gone on, I have increasingly detached myself from contemporary art. I still look at a lot, but I am far more drawn to the preceding five hundred... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 8 Apr - 28 May 2011 New paintings and sculptures at Galerie Max Hetzler Read more -
Figures in a Landscape
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong 1 Apr - 14 May 2011 Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s painting of 1985, “Figures in a Landscape” explores the classical artistic theme that remains of persistent interest to contemporary artists the world over. Here, three generations... Read more -
Gagosian Gallery: Women
FIAC Art Fair, Paris 21 - 24 Oct 2010 Read more -
The Eighth Gwangju Biennale: 10,000 Lives
Biennale Hall, Gwangju City Museum, Folk Museum Gwangju, South Korea 3 Sep - 7 Nov 2010 The exhibition’s title is borrowed from Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), the 30-volume epic poem by Korean author Ko Un, which was completed this year after nearly thirty years of work.... Read more -
CRASH: Homage to JG Ballard
Gagosian Gallery, London 11 Feb - 1 Apr 2010 I have used the car not only as a sexual image, but as a total metaphor for man’s life in today’s society. – JG Ballard Ballard’s novels stand among the... Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary 6 Feb - 11 Apr 2010 Brown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals. Size, colour, surface texture and brushwork are elements by which original works are transformed from the... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Gagosian Gallery, London 15 Oct - 27 Nov 2009 In Brown's work images come and go without ever becoming completely fixed. Borrowing images is but the first step. These borrowings are then subjected to a slow and intuitive process... Read more -
Art Now: Beating the Bounds
Tate Britain, London 5 Sep - 13 Dec 2009 Read more -
Summer Show
Royal Academy , London 10 Jun - 16 Aug 2009 Read more -
Mapping the Studio
Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice 6 Jun 2009 - 4 Oct 2011 THE EXHIBITION 'MAPPING THE STUDIO: ARTISTS FROM THE FRANÇOIS PINAULT COLLECTION' IS CURATED BY ALISON GINGERAS AND FRANCESCO BONAMI, AND INCLUDES TWO HUNDRED WORKS BY SIXTY ARTISTS, WHICH FILL THE... Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy 28 May - 4 Oct 2009 Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how... Read more -
Glenn Brown: Etchings (Portraits)
Karsten Schubert, London 24 Feb - 8 May 2009 Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom 20 Feb - 10 May 2009 Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how... Read more -
Glenn Brown: Editions and A Unique Sculpture
Patrick painter, Los Angeles 22 Nov 2008 - 10 Jan 2009 Throughout his career, Brown has blended references from the history of painting with his characteristic technique. Using titles derived from pop-culture, usually from rock and roll songs, Brown’s current works... Read more -
Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 26 Sep 2008 - 4 Jan 2009 Read more -
Jekyll Island
Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles 12 Jul - 28 Aug 2008 The social fabric of the day is one where fiction is reality and reality is an illusion; a post-cultural dystopia surrounds us, history is revised as it occurs. In an... Read more -
Pretty Ugly
Gavin Brown's Enterprise & Maccarone, New York 10 Jul - 29 Aug 2008 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 22 Apr - 1 Jun 2008 With the exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Glenn Brown takes his works back to an artistic universe from which they might have sprung. For Brown’s painting is deeply rooted in... Read more -
INSIGHT?
Gagosian Gallery, Moscow 19 - 28 Oct 2007 International contemporary art in Russia is a recent phenomenon, but interest in it is growing apace. The first Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art was held in 2005 and the World... Read more -
Old School
Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London 11 May - 9 Jun 2007 Old School celebrates a re-engagement with Old Master modes of representation, which might be said to be a recent phenomenon in contemporary art. Beyond ironic appropriation, a new school of... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Gagosian Gallery, New York 3 May - 9 Jun 2007 Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Glenn Brown. In Brown's work, images come and go without ever becoming completely fixed. Although borrowing images is... Read more -
How to Improve the World: 60 years of British Art, Arts Council Collection
Hayward Gallery, London 7 Sep - 19 Nov 2006 Artists include: Francis Bacon, Glenn Brown, Patrick Caulfield, Jeremy Deller, Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George, Liam Gillick, Mona Hartoum, Barbara Hepworth, Susan Hiller, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Richard Long, Sarah... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 3 Feb - 11 Mar 2006 In his third solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Brown shows his latest six paintings which subjects are mainly portraits. Figures are shown on a nearly one-coloured background, with the... Read more -
Passion for Paint
National Gallery, London 21 Jan - 17 Sep 2006 A touring exhibition celebrates the qualities of paint. by Gareth Hargreaves http://www.50connect.co.uk/articles/passion-for-paint Transparent glazes, glowing colours, washy stains, creamy swirls and thick impasto - Passion for Paint is a... Read more -
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 9 Oct 2005 - 20 Feb 2006 Read more -
Return to Space
Galerie der Gegenwart at Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany 23 Sep 2005 - 12 Feb 2006 A rediscovery and reevaluation of the theme of outer space began in the 1990s, when artists simultaneously alluded to and distanced themselves from their historical predecessors, who had been active... Read more -
Translations - Creative Copying and Originality
Thomas Dane, London 14 Jul - 9 Sep 2005 'They said that when I began in Paris I copied Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen; possible, but never was a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec or Steinlen taken for mine. It is better to... Read more -
STRATA - Difference and Repetition
Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan 26 May - 2 Jul 2005 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles 2 Apr - 7 May 2005 The exhibition features 7 new paintings, in which the artist continues his practice of appropriating figures and subjects from historic and current visual sources from fine art to popular culture.... Read more -
Grotesque
Centre Pompidou, Paris 1 - 2 Feb 2005 Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Serpentine Gallery, London 14 Sep - 7 Nov 2004 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Gagosian Gallery, New York 24 Feb - 10 Apr 2004 'Color and its myriad of combinations always amazes me. To paint the expression of a face and to change that expression, from happy to sad by one miniscule change in... Read more -
Breaking God’s Heart: Curated by Glenn Brown
38 Langham Street, London 14 Nov - 20 Dec 2003 Read more -
Venice Biennial 50th International Art Exhibition: Dreams and Conflicts - The Dictatorship of the Viewer
Italian Pavillion, Venice Biennale 15 Jun - 2 Nov 2003 Together with the official presentations by countries and institutions as well as numerous special exhibitions and projects, they are to be perceived as 'islands' of a complex 'archipelago', which the... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 17 Sep - 26 Oct 2002 Read more -
Dear Painter... (Cher Peintre...) (Leiber Maler...) Peintures figuratives depuis l'ultime Picabia
Centre Pompidou, France; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany 12 Jun 2002 - 6 Apr 2003 Kai Althoff, Carole Benzaken, Glenn Brown, Bernard Buffet Brian Calvin, John Currin, Peter Doig. Sophie von Hellermann, Alex Katz. Kurt Kauper, Martin Kippenberger, Bruno Perramant, Elizabeth Peyton, Francis Picabia, Sigmar... Read more -
(The World May Be) Fantastic: 2002 Biennale of Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 15 May - 14 Jul 2002 Read more -
Melodrama: The Excessive in Post-Modern Imagination
Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte-Contemporaneo, Spain 26 Apr - 22 Sep 2002 At the time of the French Revolution and, when the Industrial Revolution in England was beginning to emerge, end of the 18th century, melodrama attained its characteristic features. French Monarchy... Read more -
Landscape
Saatchi Gallery, Underwood Street, London 2 Feb - 17 May 2002 Read more -
Hypermental. Rampant Reality 1950 - 2000 by Salvador Dalí to Jeff Koons
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany 17 Nov - 6 May 2001 A power of the imaginary binds the pictures and objects, the videos and installations of this exhibition. It is the contemporary art and the cultural debates of the past decades... Read more -
Glenn Brown
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles 20 Oct - 17 Nov 2001 Along with two themes particular to Glenn Brown: re-presented ultra-thin brush marks, and the history of painting from the 17th century to the present, portraiture is at the heart of... Read more -
AZERTY: A primer around the Limousin FRAC collections
Centre George Pompidou, Paris 18 Mar - 14 May 2001 Focusing on different practices related to performance, the 'dematerialization of the art object,' as the language games, the Regional Contemporary Art Fund (FRAC) Limousin has been important sets of works... Read more -
Turner Prize
Tate Gallery, London 25 Oct 2000 - 14 Jan 2001 The artists are: Glenn Brown for his exhibitions at Jerwood Space London, and at Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, and Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles in which he showed the rich... Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Domain de Kerguenec, Bignan, France 1 Jul - 1 Oct 2000 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 15 Apr - 3 Jun 2000 Read more -
British Art Show 5
Museums in Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham 7 Apr 2000 - 28 Jan 2001 Organised by the Hayward Gallery as part of its National Touring Exhibitions programe, The British Art Show is the most ambitious exhibition in that programme, and, on a consistent basis,... Read more -
Suite Substitute IV: Beautiful Stangers
Hotel du Rhone, Geneva, Switzerland 1 - 2 Jan 2000 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles 19 Jun - 17 Jul 1999 The paintings will include new adaptations of work by Frank Auerbach, often a source for Brown’s work. These paintings are re-created in Brown’s perversely accomplished technique, however, the figures are... Read more -
Glenn Brown (survey)
Jerwood Gallery, London 14 Apr - 23 May 1999 Read more -
It’s a Curse, It’s a Burden: Curated by Glenn Brown
The Approach Gallery, London 3 Dec 1998 - 24 Jan 1999 Read more -
Group Show: Painter Editions
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles 9 Jul - 8 Aug 1998 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles 2 - 30 May 1998 Read more -
Christie's New Contemporaries
The Royal College of Art, London 1 Jan 1998 - 2 Jan 1999 Read more -
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection
Royal Academy of Arts, London 18 Sep - 28 Dec 1997 Read more -
Treasure Island/A ilha do tesouro
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, José de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon 7 Feb - 7 May 1997 Read more -
Group show
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin 1 - 31 Jan 1997 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris 1 - 2 Jan 1997 Read more -
Remote Control (Fernbedienung) - Does television inform the way art is made?
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria 21 Sep - 27 Oct 1996 Read more -
ACE: Arts Council Collection New Purchases
various locations in the United Kingdom 2 Mar 1996 - 30 Aug 1997 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Queen's Hall Art Centre, Hexham, Northumberland 1 - 2 Jan 1996 Read more -
Strange Days
The Agency, Shoreditch, London 1 - 2 Jan 1996 Read more -
Brilliant! New Art from London
Walker Art Center, Minnesota 22 Oct 1995 - 7 Jan 1996 In 1965, the Walker Art Center presented the work of 13 young British artists in the exhibition London: The New Scene. In recent years, international art magazines have been attempting... Read more -
Obsession
The Tannery, Bermondsey, London 5 Oct - 12 Nov 1995 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Karsten Schubert, London 5 Jul - 5 Aug 1995 Read more -
Saatchi Young British Artists V
Saatchi Gallery, London 1 Jan 1995 Read more -
Here and Now: British Painters at the Serpentine Gallery from 1970 to the present
Serpentine Gallery, London 11 Jun - 10 Jul 1994 Read more -
Every Now & Then
Rear Window, Richard Salmon Limited, London 11 Apr - 21 May 1994 Every Now & Then is housed in Edwardes Square Studios, six large spaces built specifically for artists in 1886. Three of them are now used by the gallerist and private... Read more -
Barclays Young Artist Award
Serpentine Gallery, London 27 Jan - 28 Feb 1993 The exhibition not only gave emerging artists an opportunity to exhibit, but the public the opportunity to see the kinds of work being produced by the emerging generations. Throughout the... Read more -
Surface Values
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England 18 Jan - 1 Mar 1992 Read more -
MFA Degree Show
Goldsmith's, University of London, London 1 - 2 Jan 1992 Read more -
Group Show
Todd Gallery, London 1 - 2 Jan 1991 Read more -
BFA degree show
Bath School of Art and Design 1 - 2 Jan 1988 Read more