Gary Hume, RA (British b. 1962)
Hume emerged with a generation of young British artists who graduated from Goldsmiths' School of Art, London, in the late 1980s. His output ranged from early rigorous geometrical abstracts, a highly acclaimed series of door-based images, and later exuberantly colourful figurative pictures.
In 1988, Hume took part in the seminar Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in a disused building in London's Docklands. Amongst other commendations, he is often labelled, as one of the most prominent YBA's to rise to fame in the early 1990's alongside Glenn Brown, Mat Collishaw, Julian Opie, Sam Taylor-Wood and most notoriously Damien Hirst.
In 1996 he was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize and therefore included in the Turner Prize exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, and in 1997 he was a winner of the Jerwood Prize.
Public collections include
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Arts Council of Great Britain
Astrup Fearnley Moderne Kunst, Olso, Norway
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
British Council
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Saatchi Collection, London
Tate Gallery, London
Paine Webber Art Collection, New York
Bibliography
Gary HUME, Jason BEARD, Gary Hume, Other Criteria, 2009
Solo Exhibitions
2010, Spruth Magers, Berlin; New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
2009, Matthew Marks, New York
2008, Modern Art Oxford
2004, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2002, White Cube 2, London
2001, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2000, Fondació 'la Caixa', Barcelona; Cultugest, UMA Casa de Munda, Lisbon
1999, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale of Art, Venice
1998, LEA Gallery, London; Sadler's Wells Theatre, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1997, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1996, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; XXIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Galleria il Ponte, Rome; Galerie Gebauer and Thumm, Berlin
1995, Jay Jopling / White Cube, London; Kunsthaller, Bern; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Spacex; Habitat, Kings Road, London
1994, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1993, Galerie Tanja Grünert, Cologne
1992, Daniel Weinburg Gallery, Santa Monica; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1991, Galerie Tanja Grünert, K; Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1989, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London