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Marc Quinn

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Marc Quinn

About

One of the key players in the British art boom of the 1990s, Quinn made his name with Self, a frozen sculpture of his own head, made with ten pints of his blood and exhibited in Saatchi’s renowned 1997 exhibition, Sensation (he now recasts his head at five-year intervals). His fourth plinth marble sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant was hailed as 'one of the most important art works of our time'. He continues to use his own body as a starting point, creating limp, latex versions, bronzes and photographs.

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Did you know?

Self allegedly melted when builders creating a kitchen extension for Nigella Lawson (then partner to Saatchi) unplugged its refrigeration unit.

Country of Birth

UK

Auction Record

£789,443

Christies NYC, 'Myth Venus', 2014

Notable Collections

Tate Modern, London, UK

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

MoMA, New York, US

Science Museum, London, UK

Royal Academy, London, UK

Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, CA

Notable Exhibitions

Our Blood, New York Public Library, New York, US, 2021

Marc Quinn: Drawn from Life, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK, 2017

Marc Quinn: Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes, Somerset House, London, UK, 2015

The Toxic Sublime, White Cube, Lonodn, UK, 2015

55th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, IT, 2013

Marc Quinn, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, IT, 2006

Marc Quinn, Tate, Liverpool, UK, 2002

Alison Lapper Pregnant, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 2000

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