Cecily Brown

Born 1969 in London, UK
Lives and works in New York, USA

Selected solo exhibitions

2025
Themes and Variations, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2024 
Themes and Variations, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

2023
Death and the Maid, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Temptations, Torments, Trials an Tribulations, Museo Novecento and Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy

2022
The Spell, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Cecily Brown, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
The Triumph of Death, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

2021
Cecily Brown. The end is a new start, Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Cecily Brown. Pronkstilleven, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2020
Cecily Brown, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK

2019
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy

2018
Where, When, How Often and with Whom, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Triumph of the Vanities II, The Metropolitan Opera House, New York NY
If Paradise Were Half as Nice, Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
Rehearsal, MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

2017
A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Shipwreck Drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

2016
Cecily Brown: Rehearsal, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Madrepora, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

2015
The Sleep Around the Lost and Found, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2014
Cecily Brown, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2012
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria

2010
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Based on a True Story, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany. Traveled to: GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, Netherlands

2009
Cecily Brown, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2006
Cecily Brown, curated by Jeff Fleming, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England

2005
Cecily Brown: Paintings, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Cecily Brown: Paintings, Curated by Suzanne Cotter, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

2004
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Cecily Brown, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2003
Cecily Brown, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

2002
Directions – Cecily Brown, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

2001
Days of Heaven, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

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, New York, USA

1995
Eagle Gallery, London, UK

Selected group exhibitions

2024
The Mother Position, curated by Isabelle Graw, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Abstract Perspectives, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Hovering on the Edge, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Day for Night: New American Realism, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica – Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
A Woman’s Right to Pleasure, Sotheby’s, Los Angeles, USA
Making their Mark, California’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Making their Mark, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Making their Mark, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA

2023 
Into Another World, Level & Co., New York, USA
Torments, Temptations, Trials, and Tribulations, Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
Ecstatic, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Nina Simone Childhood Home Auction & Exhibition, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
In New York, Thinking of You, Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA
Reaching for the Stars. Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Bathers, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2022
Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
A Collection without Boundaries, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Italy
Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Tree and Leaf, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK

2021
A Drawing Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Innovation and Imagination: The Global Dialogue in Mid to Late 20th Century Art, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, USA
A Journey Through Printmaking: International Printmaking Art Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Chaoyang, China
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Musuem of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, USA
Carte Blanche: A Changing Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, USA

2020
Espressioni: The Proposition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Bustes de Femmes, Gagosian, Paris, France

2019
Transitions and Transformations, LSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, USA
She Persists, A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion, New York, USA
Cart, Horse, Cart, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Max Beckmann in Dialogue Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Dana Schutz, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Major Contemporary Works, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2018
Bacon, Freud and the painting of the school of London, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
All Too Human, Tate Britain, London, UK
Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

2017
Salon des Fidèles, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
We Need to Talk…, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

2016           
Desire, curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso, presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel, Miami Beach
The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Before Sunrise, Karma, Amagansett, NY, USA
Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

2015
Tightrope walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky, White Cube, London, UK
Unrealism, presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel, Miami Beach, USA
Sleepless – The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

2014
Paint New York, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK

2013
FLAG’s 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Black Cake, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Chicken or Beef? A Transcontinental Survey of Figurative Painting, The Hole Gallery, New York, USA
Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
DSM-V, The Future Moynihan Station, New York, USA
Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2012
Out of the Blue, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, USA
Die Kunst der Entschleunigung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2011
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
Collection Platform 1: Circulation, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine 
Figures in a Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
The Art of Deceleration. Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Versichiebungsersatz, Kimmerich Gallery, New York, USA

2010
Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA

2009
Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK

2008
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA

2007
Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Hunky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Sex and Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, USA
Extremes and In-Betweens, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, USA

2006
Heroines, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gelley Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, USA
Survivor, organized by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York, USA
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Once Upon a Time in the West, Part One, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2005
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA90-Day loans: From the Broad Art Foundation and the Ovitz Family Collection, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, USA
Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA

2004
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
A Collector’s Vision, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Heddon Street, London, UK

2003
Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, Cooper Union, New York, USA

2001
Szenewechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2000
O O Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, USA
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA

1999
At Century’s End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of 90’s Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL, USA
Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, USA
Four Letter Heaven, David Zwirner Video Library, New York, USA

1998
More Fake, More Real, Yet Even Closer: Drawings by Some Younger Painters, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY, USA

1997
Cecily Rose Brown, Bonnie Collura and Anna Gaskell, Janice Guy Gallery, New York, USA
New York, New Generation, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
Vertical Painting, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA

1996
Taking Stock, Curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, USA

1994
The Fete Worse Than Death, Laurent Delaye, London, UK
John Jones Open, The Gallery at John Jones, London, UK

1990
Contemporary View, National Competition for British Art Students, Royal College of Art, London, UK