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Cecily Brown CECILY BROWN Born in 1969, London, UK Lives and works in New York, NY, USA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK 2010 Based On A True Story, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, Netherlands Based On A True Story, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin 2009 Cecily Brown, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg 2008 Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA 2006 Cecily Brown, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA New Paintings, Gagsosian Gallery, London 2005 Cecily Brown, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK Cecily Brown, Kunsthalle, Mannheim Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA 2004 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin Espacio 1, Reina Sofia, Madrid, SP Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Wien/ Vienna, AT 2003 Cecily brown, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA Cecily Brown, MACRO, Rome, IT 2002 Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA Cecily Brown, Hirshorn Museum, Washington DC, USA 2001 Days Of Heaven, Contemporary Fine Arts WWW.SAATCHIGALLERY.COM CECILY BROWN 2000 Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 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 Eagle gallery, London, UK GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Figures in a Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong Collection Platform 1: Circulation, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiew 2010 Exquisite Corpse Drawings, Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert, New York 2009 Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, Parasol unit, London, UK 2008 Insight, Gagosian Gallery, Moskau, RU 2007 Putting Pictures on Paper, Georgia Scherman projects, Toronto, CA Beneath The Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA Painting in the Noughties, Earagail Arts Festival, Letterkennny, IE Extremes and In-Betweens, Dorsky gallery, Long island City, USA 2006 Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, USA Once Upon a Time in the West, Contemporary Fine Arts, WWW.SAATCHIGALLERY.COM CECILY BROWN Berlin The Triumph of Painting 5, the Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Full House, Kunsthalle, Mannheim 2005 The Triumph Of Painting, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, GB The Early Show, White Columns, New York, USA Cecily Brown: Paintings, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB The Triumph Of Painting, part II, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2004 Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, Cooper Union, New York, USA 2001 Szenenwechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2000 Emotional Rescue:the Contemporary Art Project Collection, Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Centre, New York, USA Greater New York: New Art In New York Now, P.S.! Contemporary Art Centre, Long islnd City, USA 1999 At Century’s End: The John P Morrissey Collection of 90’s Art, The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, USA Facts and Fictions: La Nuova pittura internazionale tra immaginario e realtà: New York, Galleria in Arco, Turin, IT Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, USA Janice Guy Gallery, New York, USA Four Letter Heaven, David Zwirner Video Libary, New York, USA 1997 Janice Guy Gallery, New York, USA 1996 Taking Stock, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, USA 1994 WWW.SAATCHIGALLERY.COM CECILY BROWN The Fete Worse Than Death, Laurent Delaye, London, GB Contemporary View 1990, National Compeition for british Art Students, sponsored by Christie’s WWW.SAATCHIGALLERY.COM Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).
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