Exhibitions
Past
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
Gagosian Gallery, New York 8 May - 21 Jun 2014 New paintings and sculptures during Frieze Week NYC 2014 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 17 Sep - 26 Oct 2002 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 -
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 -
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 -
Glenn Brown
Patrick Painter, Los Angeles 2 - 30 May 1998 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris 1 - 2 Jan 1997 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Queen's Hall Art Centre, Hexham, Northumberland 1 - 2 Jan 1996 Read more -
Glenn Brown
Karsten Schubert, London 5 Jul - 5 Aug 1995 Read more -
MFA Degree Show
Goldsmith's, University of London, London 1 - 2 Jan 1992 Read more -
BFA degree show
Bath School of Art and Design 1 - 2 Jan 1988 Read more